{"id":28949,"date":"2012-03-01T20:07:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T00:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28949"},"modified":"2012-03-01T20:07:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T00:07:37","slug":"other-afghan-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28949","title":{"rendered":"Other Afghan voices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Kuz of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/for-afghans-who-didn-t-protest-a-feeling-of-helplessness-1.170359\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> takes a look at the Afghans who didn&#8217;t take part in the overblown protests about the burned Korans;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPeople are upset about what happened because it is our holy book,\u201d [Rustam Ali] said. \u201cBut I believe most of the protests were being caused by people from Pakistan, Iran. They are using this opportunity to take advantage of Afghans who are not educated and telling them to cause this violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ali fears that the fallout over the desecrated Qurans offered a preview of the turmoil that awaits after coalition forces leave Afghanistan. He does not know if his shop will survive for another generation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe still need help with everything,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen the Americans leave, I am worried there will be a civil war.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;d like to think that Rustam Ali is in the majority in Afghanistan, but somehow I believe that the loud voices and rock throwers will rule the future of Afghanistan. Rustam Ali and his like-minded denizens should pull together and keep those outside influences from controlling his fellow less educated Afghans. But the people in that area of the world aren&#8217;t known for having much influence over the more irrational voices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Kuz of Stars &#038; Stripes takes a look at the Afghans who didn&#8217;t take part &hellip; <a title=\"Other Afghan voices\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28949\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Other Afghan voices<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}