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To: sam_paine
Article from Gizmodo:
The underpants bomber was an engineer. So were eight of the 25 terrorists involved in 9/11. In fact, half of all known "violent jihadists" reach higher education, and 44 percent of them are engineers. Uh, that looks like a pattern.

Even though engineers are obviously highly prized by terrorist recruiters for their skills, the reason, according to Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog writing in New Scientist is that they tend to have a more rigid, conservative mindset, and at least in Middle Eastern countries, there've been fewer jobs for them, so more of them have gone radical.

All of the engineers I know are just alcoholics


109 posted on 02/18/2010 11:20:49 AM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Moonman62

lol!


114 posted on 02/18/2010 11:23:19 AM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: Moonman62
The underpants bomber was an engineer. So were eight... All of the engineers I know are just alcoholics

Sigh. As soon as anyone from any group does something spectacularly wrong, idiots begin to pile on that particular group. It's nonsense.

I am an engineer, have been for 22 years, and am a fine upstanding patriotic American. And so are dozens of other engineers I know.

143 posted on 02/18/2010 11:53:46 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (No more RINOS; I will vote my conscience, even if I have to write "Sarah Palin" on the ballot!)
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