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Originally Posted by gmeteer View Post
Wait a minute. The article frames this as involving Islamic engineers (ie framing Islamic culture...) Drawing conclusions that engineers in general have a tendency to terror is a big jump and in fact stupid. I worked with engineers for many(40) years and cannot recall one that was a terrorist or had any such ideals. Straight arrows and serious people. I was on the "grey" side, and they mostly were black and white thinkers. Sure we had fun with them, but I'm sure they had fun with us too. But no terrorists.
I agree with your observations within our society.

I think this is more a view of an ideology, Islam, and the effect of binary thought within that framework vs the ability to deal in abstracts within that framework.
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