Dead on. When I was in flight school in the early 90’s (Army UH-60s) we had many foreign students mixed in our classes. The candidates from Germany and Isreal were top notch. I hate to say it, but matched or surpassed many of the US officers. The Saudis were atrocious. Flat-out hazardous and incompetent. I could tell stories for days. Suffice to say one of my instructor pilots told me they were under pressure to pass them on check-rides. If they failed a Saudi guy on a check ride it became too much of a hassle for them to justify it. Awful situation.
That experience plus my time in Iraq and Kuwait have permanently turned me against all Muslim. Bunch of boobs, all of them with the Saudis being the worst.
“Bunch of boobs, all of them with the Saudis being the worst.”
with inbreeding as the cause, the “Abdul factor” is actually a thing.
There is a term called "social trust". Some societies have more than others.
In the West, when you walk past a person on the street, you do not expect them to stab you. When your daughter gets married, you are pretty sure her new husband is not going to beat her savagely on a regular basis.
Why? Because we have (or had, really) a high level of social trust in our society.
Muslimes do not have a high level of social trust. On the contrary, they are tribal and clan based. Everyone outside their group is their mortal enemy. When they walk down the street and sombody stabs them, well, that is not a shocker.
A universal human trait is the love of a child (even an inferior girl) by the parents. However, the muslim father has no way of preventing his daughter's new husband from beating her every day, or even murdering her. It is simply our of his purview after the marriage ceremony, since females are property solely.
One way he exerts influence and assures her safety is by marrying her off to someone that he knows in his tiny, insular world who he has some sort of influence over: His cousin's son.
Crazy, I know, but those people are purely tribal.
Everybody here should read "The Haj" by Leon Uris. The lack of social trust is pretty much spelled out.
I had the pleasure of managing the Pax terminal in Basra in 2010-11. One of my Iraqi staff needed time off to take his mute, deaf wife to the doctor, again. The dude looks like a softer image of the guys in post 15. Anyway, he shows me a picture of her and gives me this sly look and says; “My uncle, he give to me!” He was so proud. The layers of inbreeding there is incredible to ponder. Their baby had even more problems.
“That experience plus my time in Iraq and Kuwait have permanently turned me against all Muslim. Bunch of boobs, all of them with the Saudis being the worst.”
In the early 80s I was trying to teach a bunch of Iraqi students about down-hole logging equipment. I powered up the computer but it did not come on. I looked down and saw that there was a very loose knot in the power cable. I jokingly said, “Oh, look. There is a knot in the cable. That is why the computer will not power up!” They all rushed to undo the knot! ROFL
In the late 1970s, my college profs were instructed to pass the Iranians no matter what. With bell curve grading, that sure did a number on the rest of us.
I thought the Saudis hired mercenaries to be pilots.