War pushes the Islamic theocracy toward Shia eschatology and martyrdom, imagining a messianic war against Israel and the United States.
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War pushes the Islamic theocracy toward Shia eschatology and martyrdom, imagining a messianic war against Israel and the United States.
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The lecture argues that torture radicalized prisoners rather than pacifying them, connecting US-controlled prisons and torture to ISIS recruitment and extremism.
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"presidential election, and as you can see, it's a pretty divided country, where people in the middle voted for Jalali, but people in the..."
"Where they think that this war is about having a twelfth iman, massacres, and so on. And the Shia, who is basically the messiah,..."
"Okay? All right. So that's a theory. And it's a great theory. And this is what most people believe. The problem though is it..."
"is currently combating in the Middle East deepened extremism during the time in prisons controlled by the United States. So it's really strange. The..."
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