They were no “Great Satan”—there was no such thing. The potential for corruption, for dishonor of soul and self was something that no single nation had primacy over. To lay the blame for such things at the feet of just one people was naïve, a choice made by men of narrow mind. Any society, even those who declared themselves the most pious, could be rotting within. Khadir knew that from first-hand experience. The color of a man’s skin, the flag he revered, and the god he prayed to … None of that mattered. They were all convenient hooks upon which one could hang an ideology that would fit the
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