Assuming this is true, it is very bizarre. There is a very large and fundamental difference between fundamentalist Islam groups and pretty much everybody else on the planet. It doesn't even really have to do with the religious beliefs per se. The issue is that portions of Islamic culture did not go through the Enlightenment that produced most of the thinking that undergirds pretty much the whole planet except for a few pockets, with a few primarily Islamic societies prominent among them.
Most of us living in post-Industrialized nations can't even conceive of how a person in a pre-Enlightenment situation would think about the world. For instance, when you drop an object, it falls because of gravity, right? A pre-Enlightenment person would not see it that way. They would see the falling object as primarily an expression of the will of a god. Not a "supernatural" god. "Supernatural" suggests a separation from the natural. That separation comes from the Enlightenment. Without the Enlightenment, it doesn't exist. There is no 'physical world' here and a 'supernatural world' over there. There is only one world. The physical world, in all its operation, is an expression of a very real, very immediately present deity. This is a deity that punishes the wicked with sickness. It's why when it is time to plant crops, you ask the church, not an agriculturalist. It's why eternity is within arms reach. And it's why things like tolerance can not even be considered.
That being said, I wonder if these engineers are perhaps of post-Enlightenment beliefs, but swayed by less ideological factors, dominated by charismatic leaders and the like? I have a real hard time imagining that such pre-Enlightenment thinking can survive very long beyond contact with post-Enlightenment thinking. Then again, I might just be totally wrong on that. Post-enlightenment thinking doesn't promise you grand eternal wars between good and evil that every person is a soldier in with eternal life hanging in the balance.