Engineers of Jihad

Hello Red, Wow! I haven't even gotten to the study, yet I'm not at all surprised to read the egocentric, defensive responses of those members of the Engineering field who have been quoted in the article. For 'minds of science', I would think that more engineers would be objectively inquisitive about this correlative link. 44% of those studied is a significant percentage. While I agree that the sampling was rather small, I also acknowlege that finding terrorists, who are willing to discuss their personal backgrounds, may not be a cakewalk of a task. Lest we forget that terrorists, by nature, must maintain anonymity, else be identified and 'dealt with'. I will say that although it comes as no surprise that it is as it is, I do find it remarkable, and shocking that those who have pursued medical training would later take up terrorist actions. What ever happened to the Hypocratic Oath? "... certain cognitive traits common to engineers, combined with the difficulties they face in Islamic countries--is the most likely explanation of the phenomenon of engineering overrepresentation, Hertog said." The above quote makes sense to me. Engineering is a long and challenging academic pursuit. It also demands a level of intellect and capacity for reason that is not required of many other disciplines. It seems reasonable to me that Engineering students, who give it their all during school, then get out into the working world to find that their employment opportunities are limited -- would result in Engineering Grads who commit themselves, albeit angrily, to an effort to re-structure the basic structure of society. Hmmm, I just had an interesting thought: Civil and electrical engineering are the most frequent areas of study; which makes me wonder how many of those civil and electrical engineers take part in the civil restoration, after they blow up particular elements of the infrastructure??? From what I've read thus far, it would seem to me that the subjects of study aren't necessarily anarchists. Rather, it seems that perhaps their ultimate (albeit unconscious) goal may be to punish the backward society that provides them with little opportunity. It also seems reasonable that they may believe that they can continue to embrace their desire to seek monistic/ simplistic solutions to problems, while also believing that they are better equipped than their predecessors to shape society in such a way as to provide better opportunities for their engineering brethren, and maintain a commitment to Islam. If there's any truth to this observation, then I would add that over-inflated ego is playing far to much of a role in their cognitive thought processes. It sounds as though the underlying fuel may be anger at not being better rewarded for their attributes and adacemic efforts. Which, sounds to me like none other than inappropriate infantile temper tantrums. So, perhaps the next correlative link to study is: under-developed emotional health, and mathematical/scientific pre-dispositions.

As someone who has a degree in engineering technologies & works in a company where the overpaid engineering staffs education consists of ( get this ) music , business, accounting & a G.E.D. You spend all that time , training & money & get nowhere while others who have no training ( or clue )are doing the job you trained for, I can perfectly understand the desire to blow something up. It makes perfect sense. Now where'd I put that timmer?

Saying all muslim engineers have a propensity to be violent or even terrorists would be an over statement-but havng engineering skills plays neatly into the evil schemes of those terrorists who indoctrinate and use young moslims. They know these engineers can manipulate their ways much easily in this highly technologized world-that is why, in some instances, they go ahead to train them-remember the pilots who were used for the September 11 terror attack? I think, the real issue is, these terrorist do their selection criteria, and engineers seem to be the best candidate much sought after by the likes of osama.

Any military leader would tell you that engineers are hugh part of there success. Maybe Islamic terrorist groups understand the need to have trained engineers in there groups. Here is an interesting thought I came up with: Rich Islamic countries that reinvest their oil profits like the United Arab Emirates, or better know Dubai. You never hear of terrorist coming out of U.A.E.

By and large muslims around the world are docile and kind hearted people . The testament to this is the fact that the majority of the dictatorship rule is in islamic countries . But the downside of this the fact that they can be persuated to do anything in the name God . They manupilate the common muslim in the name of God for their own mean needs . They dont let the masses reason out their ideas .Certainly ALLAH didn't mean to hurt others in the name of faith . These educated engineers are no exception . These Extermist have a clever way to harvest these talented youths too . As every muslim is a devoted one, unlike inother religions, they put the credibility of these people in question with respect to their faith towards ALLAH, by playing this card any muslim can be subdued irrespective to his broad mindedness . with regards http://www.chocolatesavy.com