h/t Jerry Pournelle
New analysis from the British Council, based on British intelligence dossiers and academic research, finds that college degrees in technical areas like engineering create the perfect Islamic terrorist, "intelligent and curious, but unquestioning of authority" since they require "precisely the passive acceptance of right and wrong, and the faithful reproduction of knowledge learned by rote that jihadism seems also to require," versus the critical examination and debate liberal arts degrees that could stop the creation of future jihadis.
Analysis from Oxford University also shows a large number of Islamic terrorists are highly educated professionals, and do not come from the ranks of the uneducated poor, as analysts and Administration officials, including Secretary of State John Kerry, have asserted. "Many Islamic radicals are not economically dispossessed, are often better educated than their peers, and quite a few went to university," Oxford says. |