My wife wrote this in response to all of the stupid terror-inducing anti-Muslim emails going around. We want it to go viral like all of the anti-Muslim Emails do, so if you're sick and tired of being terrorized by right-wing nutjobs sending around Emails about how Shari'ah law is going to take over the country, etc, copy this and send it to everyone you know. Post it everywhere you can. Alternately, just link to the website version: VastNewThreat (http://vastnewthreat.weebly.com). Help us help the world to see just how silly it all really is. 
America Faces a New Threat!!!
There has been little acknowledgement given by the media to a new terrorist threat to our country’s security. In fact, federal and state governments are even hiring these people by the hundreds to perform critical functions like building our nation’s infrastructure and schools! These terrorists are actually government-sanctioned to be around our children!!
I don’t even see how President Obama can allow this to happen right under his nose. There is even a website dedicated to allowing these terrorists to get hired by our GOVERNMENT!!
http://tinyurl.com/terroristsgather These new terrorists claim to believe in freedom and American values, but they are lying! According to Henry Farrell, a political scientist at George Washington University, they are a “group that is notoriously associated with terrorist violence and fundamentalist political beliefs.” Who are these people?
Engineers.
Don’t believe those ignorants who claim that engineering is an occupation that does no harm. It’s a FACT that engineers compose the most common occupation among terrorists.
Sociologist Diego Gambetta and the political scientist Steffen Hertog are composing a database to keep track of terrorist attacks or attempted attacks carried out by engineers.
See for yourself!
-Last December, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to blow up an airliner over Detroit, Michigan.
-In February, Joseph Andrew Stack, a software engineer, crashed his plane into I.R.S. offices in Austin, Tex.
-In March, John Patrick Bedell, an engineering grad student, opened fire at an entrance to the Pentagon.
-In early May, Faisal Shahzad was arrested at Kennedy Airport for a failed attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square.
-Also in May, Faiz Mohammad, a civil engineer, was caught at Karachi’s airport with batteries and an electrical circuit hidden in his shoes.
-Yasir Arafat, the founder and leader of the Palestinian terrorist group, al-Fatah, and later Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and President of the Palestinian Authority, was employed by the Kuwaiti Public Works Department as an engineer when he founded al-Fatah, having graduated from Cairo’s Fouad the First University (now Cairo University).
-Richard Girnt Butler was an American aerospace engineer for Lockheed who became the neo-Nazi leader of the Christian Identity white supremacist group Aryan Nations.
You can see from this list that this is a wider problem than just Islam. Stack was a white Catholic. Bedell was a white American Libertarian. Butler was Presbyterian.
In fact, engineers make up one fifth of all militant terrorists around the world! Despite what their profession claims to accomplish (building amazing structures for the future of society), engineers are almost exclusively involved in extremist groups that want to go BACKWARDS. And we let these people build our roads and bridges!!
But WHY??!!
Psychological research has shown that engineering – as both an area of study and career – has a tendency to attract people who are looking for certainty. These people subscribe to the notion that the world and its processes are mechanically determined and explicable according to the laws of chemistry and physics.
That means that engineers are far more likely to have an intolerance for uncertainty and unpredictability – just like both religious and secular extremists! On top of that, engineers want society to run “like clockwork,” which is a sneaky way of saying that they want absolute control. They don’t like democracy because it requires compromise.
This isn’t news, though! The media has been suppressing this information for YEARS! In fact, the phenomenon of engineers showing overt extremist tendencies was first observed by Bruce Salem nearly five years ago. He noticed that engineers tended to campaign for the theory of Creationism and against Evolution. In fact, in the UK, engineers have largely been the force behind the undermining of the school system with anti-evolutionist propaganda that has no reference or backing in science. So these people are building our schools, then undermining the learning process! How can the government be paying people to do this? What do we send our children to school for?
The evidence is there that this trend toward “minor” extremism can be extended to fundamentalism and terrorism. These people are taking our hard-earned money and using it to fund their extremist agenda to erode this country from the inside out. The next time you drive over a bumpy pothole-filled road or experience a power outage, just remember that it was ENGINEERS who built the system that failed!
References Used:
http://tinyurl.com/engineeringterror http://wikipedia.org (Joseph Andrew Stack, John Patrick Bedell, Richard Girnt Butler)
http://tinyurl.com/whyengineers http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mechanism http://tinyurl.com/anti-evolution http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Salem_hypothesis ---
After seeing the New York Times article in the first link of the references section, I saw a golden opportunity. Using many of the same tactics seen in a large proportion of the hysteria-promoting articles that float from eMail to blog to news story (lack of context, misquotes, fear-mongering, hyperbole, etc), I wrote this to demonstrate how idiotic and polarizing the media and internet can be.
You are, of course, an engineer. One of thousands. And while it may or may not be true that engineers are more likely to be terrorists, extrapolating that to encompass all engineers is so utterly retarded that you're probably inclined to ditch this eMail before you get to the end.
And that's the point.
People - of all colors, shapes, and sizes - do bad stuff. At this point in time in our history, more than ever we need to stop letting fear rule our actions and accept that assholes are assholes. It's not about Muslims being assholes, or Republicans, or the President, or whomever. A = A and it's as simple as that.
It's time that people see that the Emperor is, in fact, naked.
