{"id":8231,"date":"2010-11-24T00:25:25","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T05:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8231"},"modified":"2011-03-23T22:50:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T03:50:01","slug":"report-most-afghans-dont-know-about-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/24\/report-most-afghans-dont-know-about-911\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Most Afghans Don&#8217;t Know about 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the frequent memes about associations of the Christian religion with the US military has been the &#8220;propaganda&#8221; value it supplies to those who would try to turn Afghans against the allied forces.<\/p>\n<p>A recent report, however, shows that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/40273302\/ns\/world_news-south_and_central_asia\/\">92% of Afghans in two volatile provinces<\/a> don&#8217;t even know about the events of 11 September 2001.\u00a0 They have no idea why foreign forces are in their country, despite the fact the war is 10 years on.\u00a0 (Perhaps the silver lining <!--more-->is they don&#8217;t think the US staged the attacks as an excuse for imperialistic crusading, as some conspiracy theorists seem to believe.)<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, most Afghans aren&#8217;t aware of what is probably the single most publicized act in modern history, yet they were driven to the Taliban in droves because there were <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/27\/jesus-rifles-and-the-trijicon-sword-drill\/\">Biblical references to &#8220;light&#8221; on military rifle scopes<\/a> that even most Americans didn&#8217;t know about.<\/p>\n<p>In actuality, it is likely\u00a0that the well-informed <em>American<\/em> public, not the Afghan public, is the target of &#8220;propaganda&#8221; by both the Taliban and American conspiracy theorists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the frequent memes about associations of the Christian religion with the US military has been the &#8220;propaganda&#8221; value it supplies to those who would try to turn Afghans against the allied forces. A recent report, however, shows that 92% of Afghans in two volatile provinces don&#8217;t even know about the events of 11 September 2001.\u00a0 They have no [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[106,58,1424,2],"class_list":["post-8231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-106","tag-afghanistan","tag-conspiracy","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231","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=8231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}