In many muslim households hard sciences are hugely respected. I doubt you will find many arts grads being drawn to terrorism. They also are mostly living in societies that that even pity the arts and humanities. They are told from a very young age professions like engineering or medicine or law are the only respectable jobs, also their logical brains could probably be drawn more to this idea of Jihad.
Fellow bitcoin enthusiasts and binary thinkers.
Could you too be easy prey to radical thinking ?
Could this explain why you/we are here in the first place (our propensity to radical thought that is) - afterall, the bitcoin project itself is seen by some as pretty leftfield/subversive ?
Is the line between "Us" and "Them" thinner than we might like to think ?
"What kind of person becomes a jihadi terrorist? Specifically, what kind of educated person? The overwhelming majority of graduates recruited into Islamist terrorism studied engineering, science and medicine. Almost none are social science or arts graduates, according to research. The insight could have important implications.
Almost half (48.5%) of jihadis recruited in the Middle East and north Africa had a higher education of some sort, according to a 2007 analysis by Diego Gambetta that is cited in Immunising the Mind, a new paper published by the British Council; of these 44% had degrees in engineering. Among western-recruited jihadis that figure rose to 59%.
A study of terrorists in Tunisia – where an electrical engineer went on a murderous rampage in June – showed similar proportions. And a study of 18 British Muslims implicated in terrorist attacks found that eight had studied engineering or IT, and four more science, pharmacy and maths; only one had studied humanities."
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/03/scientists-easy-prey-jihadis-terrorists-engineering-mindset
Whilst they have undoubtedly forfeited their right to life, lets be honest - they aren't idiots are they ?
Even the attack closer to (my particular) home was perpetrated by, well, intelligent people (and, for better or worse, we generally measure intelligence almost exclusively in relation to academic performance). The 2007 Glasgow Airport attack was perpetrated by ".... two men - Bilal Abdullah, a British-born, Muslim doctor of Iraqi descent working at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, and Kafeel Ahmed, also known as Khalid Ahmed, an engineer and the driver".
I reckon they must be in possession of information that we are not - or perhaps experiences. Otherwise, perhaps we too might be likewise radicalised - just going on probabilities alone.
What is this information ? What are these experiences ?
Are we potential terrorists ? And if we are, under what circumstances ?
If not, why not ?
Could you too be easy prey to radical thinking ?
Could this explain why you/we are here in the first place (our propensity to radical thought that is) - afterall, the bitcoin project itself is seen by some as pretty leftfield/subversive ?
Is the line between "Us" and "Them" thinner than we might like to think ?
"What kind of person becomes a jihadi terrorist? Specifically, what kind of educated person? The overwhelming majority of graduates recruited into Islamist terrorism studied engineering, science and medicine. Almost none are social science or arts graduates, according to research. The insight could have important implications.
Almost half (48.5%) of jihadis recruited in the Middle East and north Africa had a higher education of some sort, according to a 2007 analysis by Diego Gambetta that is cited in Immunising the Mind, a new paper published by the British Council; of these 44% had degrees in engineering. Among western-recruited jihadis that figure rose to 59%.
A study of terrorists in Tunisia – where an electrical engineer went on a murderous rampage in June – showed similar proportions. And a study of 18 British Muslims implicated in terrorist attacks found that eight had studied engineering or IT, and four more science, pharmacy and maths; only one had studied humanities."
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/03/scientists-easy-prey-jihadis-terrorists-engineering-mindset
Whilst they have undoubtedly forfeited their right to life, lets be honest - they aren't idiots are they ?
Even the attack closer to (my particular) home was perpetrated by, well, intelligent people (and, for better or worse, we generally measure intelligence almost exclusively in relation to academic performance). The 2007 Glasgow Airport attack was perpetrated by ".... two men - Bilal Abdullah, a British-born, Muslim doctor of Iraqi descent working at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, and Kafeel Ahmed, also known as Khalid Ahmed, an engineer and the driver".
I reckon they must be in possession of information that we are not - or perhaps experiences. Otherwise, perhaps we too might be likewise radicalised - just going on probabilities alone.
What is this information ? What are these experiences ?
Are we potential terrorists ? And if we are, under what circumstances ?
If not, why not ?
