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  • Engineers of Jihad

    Here's an interesting paper, http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/users/gambe...of%20Jihad.pdf.

    Abstract. We find that graduates from subjects such as science, engineering, and medicine are strongly overrepresented among Islamist movements in the Muslim world, though not among the extremist Islamic groups which have emerged in Western countries more recently. We also find that engineers alone are strongly over-represented among graduates in violent groups in both realms. This is all the more puzzling for engineers are virtually absent from left-wing violent extremists and only present rather than over-represented among right-wing extremists. We consider four hypotheses that could explain this pattern. Is the engineers’ prominence among violent Islamists an accident of history amplified through network links, or do their technical skills make them attractive recruits? Do engineers have a ‘mindset’ that makes them a particularly good match for Islamism, or is their vigorous radicalization explained by the social conditions they endured in Islamic countries? We argue that the interaction between the last two causes is the most plausible explanation of our findings, casting a new light on the sources of Islamic extremism and grounding macro theories of radicalization in a micro-level perspective.
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    "So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand." Thucydides 1.20.3

  • #2
    The answer is simple.

    Islam requires engineers to further terrorism.

    Graduates in Arts can write revolutionary poetry but it is of no avail.

    A building down, and an IED activated indicates the bottomline!

    And Islam is an excellent religion where indoctrination is complete and dissension not permitted.

    Something like the Communist of the Cold War.


    "Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination."

    I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.

    HAKUNA MATATA

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    • #3
      Engineers, doctors and lawyers were similarily over-represented in the Nazi movement. That makes the paper a potentially interesting and fruitful study.
      All those who are merciful with the cruel will come to be cruel to the merciful.
      -Talmud Kohelet Rabbah, 7:16.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Ray View Post
        Graduates in Arts can write revolutionary poetry but it is of no avail.

        A building down, and an IED activated indicates the bottomline!
        Actually sir, an electrician, a machinist, an ex-serviceman, or a ham-radio enthusiast would be more readily valuable than an engineer for building an IED. Even for complex systems, a senior NCO or a WO is often more knowledgeable than a junior engineer nominally in charge of it. I can design pretty much whatever control-logic you want, but I haven't touched a soldering iron in 6 years, so yeah... it is true.

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