Word: distrustful
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...history, starting with the Mughal Renaissance in the 16th century, continuing with the birth of Islamic fundamentalism in Asia in northern India in the 1860s (the same creed followed by the Taliban) and enduring even today in India's national symbol, the Mughal mausoleum of the Taj Mahal. This distrust of Islam has only increased since independence in 1947: modern India was founded in the Muslim-Hindu bloodletting of Partition from Pakistan, in which a million people died, and since then three wars against Islamic neighbor Pakistan have killed millions more...
...dilemmas of the "war on terror." The Saudis - like the Pakistanis, the Yemenis, the Sudanese and so many "dark side" states allied with the United States in the battle - had a way of often disappointing America. Beneath the warm handshakes and affectionate words, there was always that nugget of distrust. Were our interests truly aligned? What were they telling us; what were they withholding? All were ruled by dictators, who, necessarily, view power and their own self-preservation in ways that differ from a democracy...
...United States started to discover proof of thousands of militants, sympathetic to al-Qaeda and maybe bent on violence, operating inside Saudi Arabia. Since the warning delivered to Prince Bandar the year before, cooperation between the CIA and Saudi intelligence had broadened. There was still a kernel of distrust - the United States would not show the Saudis its sigint cables - and actionable intelligence it passed along often vanished when it reached the salons of the royal family, whose interests were often inscrutably complex...
...have a legacy of trust that allows us to be who we are. How do you take a group that has the history of struggle and distrust of its institutions? We try every day--by our actions, by the quality of the company we create, by our innovation--to address that learned helplessness and learned dependency and say, Wait a minute. Just because we're a black-owned bank doesn't mean we're an inferior bank. Then they think, Wait a minute. Maybe I can use other indigenous corporations. And that's where the whole phenomenon of recycling dollars...
...court system compounds the public's distrust. Criminal-court judges in New Orleans are significantly less likely than judges elsewhere to send people--even violent felons--to prison, according to a 2005 study by the city's Metropolitan Crime Commission. Of all the people arrested by the N.O.P.D. during a 12-month period from 2003 to 2004, only 7% were eventually sentenced to prison...