Länk - Islamistiska terrorister har ofta en ingenjörsbakgrund

One of the biggest puzzles of Islamic terrorism is why so many of its participants are engineers. Perhaps the most famous one is Mohammad Atta, the 9/11 mastermind (pictured above); but when you read news reports of suicide bombing incidents, you realize he's not alone. It's engineer after engineer after engineer. Why? Because in the Middle East, the mindset of engineers mixes with religiosity -- and a lack of professional opportunity -- to produce a toxic, combustive psychology. That's the conclusion of "Engineers of Jihad", a paper by sociologists Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog of the University of Oxford -- the link is directly to the full PDF.

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