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#278 - The Man Who Will Be King

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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Reprogramming Jihadists as Office Drones

This chapter explores the Saudi Arabian prison's unconventional approach to deprogramming jihadists by giving them executive MBA courses and teaching them marketable skills. The jihadists were placed in a corporation where they held titles like CEO and CFO, occupying them with tasks unrelated to jihadism. Some expressed a preference for this new approach and replaced their jihadist vision with a nationalist one.

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