“The chair of the British International Doctors’ Association called the involvement of doctors ‘beyond belief.’

But is it? Walter Laqueur, perhaps the foremost scholar of the darkest crimes of the 20th century and the rise of terrorism, first observed that doctors were disproportionately represented among the ranks of terrorists. George Habash, the founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the man behind the aircraft hijackings of Black September, was a doctor. Mohammed al-Hindi received his medical degree in Cairo in 1980, returning to his native Gaza the following year to form Islamic Jihad. Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al Qaeda’s number-two leader and ‘spokesman,’ is a surgeon…

But Muslim doctors are certainly not the only ones who have become involved in terrorism…” (New England Journal of Medicine)