Tuesday, August 30, 2005

More Of The Studies We've Come To Know And Love...

Charles beat me to this, so he get's the link:

lgf: The Stress of Our Regard

The people most stressed out by the July 7 mass murder attacks in Britain? Muslim Londoners.
The stress caused by the terrorist bombings in London on 7 July 2005 was far more keenly felt by Muslim residents compared with other inhabitants, a psychological study reveals.

Sixty-one per cent of Muslim commuters surveyed suffered substantial stress in the days following the first terrorist attacks on the city’s transport system – almost double the proportion of stressed Londoners from other faiths.

“One can speculate it could be fear of reprisals and being upset about the misusing of their religion [to justify] terrorism,” says Neil Greenberg, at the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London, and one of the study team.

Overall, Londoners coped reasonably well, the researchers found, although one-third of commuters still felt substantially stressed 12 days after the attacks.

Damn right they felt more stress, duh. Listening for that knock on the door as they awaited justice must have been unnerving indeed. Memo to moslems who'd wish to be less stressed: DON'T BLOW PEOPLE UP, BEHEAD THEM, OR FINANCE THE ONE'S THAT DO...REGARDLESS OF WHAT DEAD-OL-MO SAID.

Now "Study" That.

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