Thursday, August 28, 2008

This Poll Accurately Reveals The Problems That Pakistan Has

Pakistani police inspected the site of a suicide bombing that killed 48 people at a mosque in northwestern Pakistan

15% In Karachi Back Suicide Bombers: Study -- Daily Times

KARACHI: Two studies conducted by faculty and students at the Aga Khan University into the attitudes toward suicide bombing among educated people in Karachi and in the tribal areas showed surprisingly divergent results.

Fifteen percent of participants in the Karachi-based study supported suicide bombing and said that Islam and other religions supported it. This raised a heated debate among the participants of a concurrent session during the 12th National Health Sciences Research Symposium at the Aga Khan University on Wednesday, some of whom, with backgrounds in Psychiatry, felt that those who become suicide bombers almost invariably suffer from psychiatric disturbances.

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My Comment: This poll was taken among Pakistan's educated and most knowledgeable. I can only imagine what the results would have been if they were taken in the local mosque.

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