And now, years on, the DEC curse has even reached out and poisoned the one part of the company that managed to escape and adopt the ways of the infidel.

FORBES: DEC's Final Demise

Mr. HANSON: That was a very innovative method that the Ottomans used, say, after the 1600's, where they actually used Christian and infidel children who had been brought up into the royal court for key military and diplomatic and bureaucratic posts, on the idea that they were not beholden to a particular clan within Turkey that might threaten the authority of the sultan.

NPR: The History of Political Succession

Joseph (of Egypt) took charge in an infidel nation, and he wasn't able to rule by all of the rulings of Islam.

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