Peter Naffsinger wrote that Arab trainees commonly dismissed blame with the phrase "min allah" ("It is from God") and responded to warnings against future misconduct with "inshallah" ("If God wills it").
Notes on verification
Directly corroborated by the original CIA declassified document (Naffsinger, 'Face Among the Arabs', Studies in Intelligence, 1964) and independently quoted verbatim in academic and journalistic sources. [tier=gold indep_score=0.867 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- (W)Archives: CIA and the “Arab Mind” - War on the Rocks (seed:military_and_intelligence)
- https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/static/Face-Among-the-Arabs.pdf (corroboration)
- https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/57747/2/Article%20for%20intelligence%20and%20National%20Security.pdf (corroboration)
- https://www.andrewbostom.org/2017/07/echoing-clarke-from-1871-a-1964-cia-report-described-islams-all-is-from-allah-fatalism-and-its-anti-christian-amoral-consequences/ (corroboration)