{"id":117,"date":"2007-08-29T18:42:07","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T22:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=117"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:38:04","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:38:04","slug":"air-dropped-soccer-balls-offend-afghanis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/29\/air-dropped-soccer-balls-offend-afghanis\/","title":{"rendered":"Air-Dropped Soccer Balls Offend Afghanis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Best Intentions&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2007\/08\/28\/asia\/AS-GEN-Afghan-Blasphemous-Ball.php\">International Herald Tribune<\/a>, the US military apologized for offending Afghani Muslims when it gave them soccer balls that had the Saudi flag on it.\u00a0 The Saudi flag has the words <em>Allah<\/em> and <em>Muhammad<\/em> on it; those names in any form are considered sacred to Muslims.\u00a0 The thought of kicking those sacred names was apparently offensive.<\/p>\n<p>Soccer (or football, outside the US), is wildly popular in most other parts of the world, and has even been a source of national pride in an otherwise sometimes fractious Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Best Intentions&#8230;\u00a0 According to the International Herald Tribune, the US military apologized for offending Afghani Muslims when it gave them soccer balls that had the Saudi flag on it.\u00a0 The Saudi flag has the words Allah and Muhammad on it; those names in any form are considered sacred to Muslims.\u00a0 The thought of kicking those sacred names was apparently [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3],"tags":[44,2,10],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","category-culture","tag-islam","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}