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- The education system in Mogadishu is projected to persist in teaching that specific religious groups, such as "the Jews," bear responsibility for infrastructure failures like water stops.
- Individuals subjected to sufficient depth and duration of indoctrination are expected to adopt behaviors associated with ISIS or Nazism.
- Western-educated individuals face the potential transformation into brutal actors under specific circumstances, including a "bad economical crisis."
- The normalization of terrorism as a "bargaining device" will likely continue unless evil is explicitly separated from political debate.
- In the absence of intervention, terrorism is anticipated to remain treated as a normal response to grievances rather than a taboo.
- "Populistic slogans" are expected to continue influencing the "best intellectuals" if the propagation of evil remains unaddressed.
- A belief persists that personal immunity exists to commit evil acts despite the theoretical potential for indoctrination to alter behavior.