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Engineers Make Good Terrorists?
An anonymous reader writes "Engineers' focus and attention to details, along with their perceived lack of social skills, make them ideal targets to be recruited as terrorists, according to EETimes. Planning skills make engineers good 'field operatives' was written up by Raphael Perl, who heads the Action against Terrorism Unit of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. He offers that 'Engineers ideally make excellent strategic planners, and they make excellent field operatives. They think differently from how other people think.' That may sound like a stereotype, but Perl claims that 'because of those traits, terrorist groups actively recruit engineers.' He says that Al-Qaeda has widely acknowledged that a significant number of the group's top leadership had engineering backgrounds." This is the second time in just a few months that engineers have been likened to terrorists.
A real engineer would not be an asset to a terror-seeking team. If it is terror driven by religion, I can guarantee you that the engineer will always be the odd man out that won't want to stick to the rules, be it scheduling of prayers or that pork rinds are not acceptable, etc.
You *really* don't understand the difference between Christianity and islam, now do you. The reward for terrorists is indeed "72 virgins in the afterlife" HOWEVER, read chapter 9 of the quran "war booty".
Whatever you capture, including women (who become mere property, slaves), is yours to keep and do with as you please (as long as you let your "imam" (which means MILITARY leader, just as "mosque" means fortress, "masjid" means "prayer house", most mosques are both, but primarily military structures) have first choice, and he gets to take 20%). Even raping women kidnapped for ransom is perfectly halal (even encouraged, don't ask me why).
So why don't you think a little bit, the reward for terrorists is
-> pay, payed by "islamic charities" (think about this next time a mosque wants subsidies, 20% of those subsidies are meant for buying bullets to pump into american soldiers and innocents in general, this is not a discussion, and not the choice of any muslim, this is written black and white in the hadith)
-> whatever he can steal, depending on how extreme they are (specifically whether they practice takfir, now if they are terrorists, you can bet they do this) from muslims and non-muslims alike. A small portion has to be given up for "the cause" to be decided by the imam. Again this is not just "stealing", but this is a case in sharia where stealing is EXPLICITLY PERMITTED and the stolen stuff is "legally" the property of the thief. AND THIS INCLUDES WOMEN.
-> admiration, imams in mosques constantly praise terrorists and "martyrs". The prophet himself was a terrorist ("I have won with terror" is a quote of his). Islam does not expect people to "submit" (that's the meaning of islam) willingly, they expect you, and born muslims alike to submit out of mortal fear. Terrorists are not something muslims are ashamed of, but proud of
-> a free pass to commit any and all sins you want, ratified by the imams. Even if your parents go out to the imam and ask why you have a playboy collection, the imam will push them back if he knows you are to be a mujahid (which is a honorary title), mujahid is specified in the quran to be the highest form of honor in islam. You know, like a nobel prize for a scientist, there is nothing higher that can be accomplished.
-> certainty, and singularity of purpose, religiously sanctified (even by the UN's "anti-discrimination" laws)
-> death and destruction (again, as the prophet said to a messenger of the persians "you worship life, and we worship death, that's why we will win". Death, especially causing the death of unbelievers, even at the cost of muslim lives, is not negatively viewed)
-> guaranteed entry to heaven, and 72 virgins, whatever other sins you commit
So please don't stare blindly at the "stupidity" of sacrificing yourself for these 72 virgins. The worldly benefits of becoming a terrorist are quite substantial.
The pay is good, and the "respect" is even better. And you get a free pass to hurt others, muslims and non-muslims alike. I'm sure you can appreciate what a pull this sort of deal must have on people living desperate lives, cut away from any instruction but memorizing a single book, and forbidden of doing ANYTHING at all involving women, TV, computers or sports. Strictly speaking, all the former are "haram", only allowed for "mujahids" in the process of hurting infidels, or to gain their trust.
What you want is a sleeper. You find the right kind of young recruit that will make a good engineering student. Indoctrinate first, engineering education later. If you try to indoctrinate an engineer you will probably end up losing your own religion over the ordeal.
Yes you want large numbers of sleepers, but they a