Egyptian Media Figure: "Pakistani terrorist Afia Siddiqui, a neuroscientist by profession, could have used her knowledge to help humanity instead of serving terror organizations"

In his column on Ahram Online, in English, journalist and political scientist Ahmed Al-Moslemany, president of the Cairo Center for Strategic Studies and former advisor to Egyptian president, 'Adly Mansour, draws a comparison between two women neuroscientists: the Pakistani Afia Siddiqui and the Norwegian May-Britt Moser.

"Siddiqui had a precious opportunity to serve humanity and serve her country. She was very fortunate to study that impactful science in the world's major universities. Her duty could have been to return to Karachi to establish a modern institute of neurosciences, to benefit her country with that with which she had been blessed, and to return to her homeland what she had been given. "Siddiqui chose a different path, however. She started working with terrorist groups on engineering a lethal recipe: science in the service of murder.

"Siddiqui's story represents the exact opposite of that of Norwegian neuroscientist and Nobel prize winner, May-Britt Moser. Siddiqui was trying to develop neuroscience for the sake of death, and May was trying to develop neuroscience for the sake of life.