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Why hasnt this happened? Meritocratic societies are immune. Anyone capable of participating is not disenfranchised in society as they would need to have high IQ

• smacktoward 8y ago
  > The mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Mohamed Atta, was an architectural engineer. Khalid Sheikh Mohamed got his degree in mechanical engineering. Two of the three founders of Lashkar-e-Taibi, the group believed to be behind the Mumbai attacks, were professors at the University of Engineering and Technology in Lahore... > A paper (PDF) released this summer by two sociologists, Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog, adds empirical evidence to this observation. The pair looked at more than 400 radical Islamic terrorists from more than 30 nations in the Middle East and Africa born mostly between the 1950s and 1970s. Earlier studies had shown that terrorists tend to be wealthier and better-educated than their countrymen, but Gambetta and Hertog found that engineers, in particular, were three to four times more likely to become violent terrorists than their peers in finance, medicine or the sciences. The next most radicalizing graduate degree, in a distant second, was Islamic Studies. (Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2009/12/buildabomber.html http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/200...)
  • chopin 8y ago
    This may be related to the countries where these people come from. This was on HN a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16411227 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16411227. On a broader scale less privileged people may pursue a career in STEM in these countries.