{"id":432,"date":"2001-10-08T13:48:19","date_gmt":"2001-10-08T18:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/2001\/10\/08\/are-taliban-hypocrites\/"},"modified":"2007-11-07T22:58:26","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T03:58:26","slug":"are-taliban-hypocrites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/2001\/10\/08\/are-taliban-hypocrites\/","title":{"rendered":"are taliban hypocrites?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>~ if photographs are considered idolatry by the taliban, why is osama bin laden allowed to have his face printed on the t-shirts peddled by taliban supporters? for that matter, since teaching english is also forbidden, why are the t-shirt slogans written in english? maybe the assumption is that only infidels will be looking at the shirts. since afghanistan has a literacy rate of 30%, it is safe to assume that 2\/3 of the taliban cops will not realize this. or, perhaps the t-shirt hawkers are secretly thankful they live in the liberal state of pakistan, because the guys they are praising would bust their chops if they caught them breaking the rules.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/logdot.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n~ are americans supposed to be offended by a burning u.s. flag? we can do that here if we want to, for pete&#8217;s sake. let&#8217;s see some &#8216;militants&#8217; with the balls to burn their own flag.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/logdot.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n~ sigh&#8230;when do we get back to the class war?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~ if photographs are considered idolatry by the taliban, why is osama bin laden allowed to have his face printed on the t-shirts peddled by taliban supporters? for that matter, since teaching english is also forbidden, why are the t-shirt slogans written in english? maybe the assumption is that only infidels will be looking at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,20],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-assholes","tag-hypocrisy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angryredplanet.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}