On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 10:21 +0530, shiv sastry wrote: > If it is NOT true that engineers have a jihadist mindset despite there being > a > preponderance of engineers among jihadists, it is ALSO not true that Muslims > have a jihadist mindset despite there being a preponderance of Muslims among > jihadists. It is pure Islamobhobia to link a jihadist mentality with Muslims.
as you provide this as an example of the "great difficulties" of reason faced with rhetoric, are you suggesting that muslims have a jihadist mindset? (whatever a "jihadist mindset" may be... i wonder whether engineers were overrepresented in non-muslim, and presumably non-"jihadist" terrorist groups such as the LTTE which invented modern suicide bombing) -rishab
