I'm trying to empathise with them... I get why people become radicals of other kinds... but saying no music, no sex, live by the book, behead those who disagree... what part of that makes people think "I want to get into this, this sounds fun"?
The Arab world has valid grievances, which motivated 9-11 for example, but there's more to it than that.
interesting. anecdotally I know a lot of communists in engineering.
also, though democrats aren't really an amazing proxy for "left wing", it seems engineers are slightly more than 50/50 in favor of democrats, basically 50/50 if the software engineers are removed from that category. Lots of other categories are much worse, like fossil fuels workers or business owners.