Burning people to death. Didn't Christians do that a few years back?

[nichomachus]

118. It actually goes back 100 years

When the western powers meddled in the Middle East and put the Saud family in charge of territory that had been ruled by the Hussein family. They were pissed off at Hussein and wanted to teach him a lesson -- plus the Saud family made promises. To cement their claim to the land, the family later renamed it Saudi Arabia.

One problem for the Saudis was that the rather large tribe contained a significant factkion Islamic fundamentalists -- Wahabbists -- who were unhappy about the westerners being around. They wanted to kill people and blow things up. The Saudi rulers -- to keep peace in the kingdom -- allowed and encouraged them and even supported them financially -- as long as they kept their activities outside the kingdom. They were free to disrupt things anywhere else they wanted.

We just tapped into that 30 years ago and basically poured gasoline on the fire.