{"id":74532,"date":"2017-09-06T09:24:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T13:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74532"},"modified":"2017-09-06T09:24:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T13:24:22","slug":"leaflets-offensive-to-afghans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74532","title":{"rendered":"Leaflets offensive to Afghans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=35870\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35870\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Beard-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Beard-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Beard.jpg 409w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/middle-east\/us-apologizes-for-afghanistan-leaflets-that-offended-muslims-1.486246#.Wa_0xNGQyUk\">Associated Press<\/a>, a US commander in Afghanistan has apologized for propaganda leaflets which offended locals &#8211; usually a difficult group to offend, since they tolerate mass executions, public bombings and torture, but a graphic rendering of a dog carrying a Taliban flag is really just too far;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The leaflets dropped Monday night, which encouraged Afghans to cooperate with security forces, included an image of a dog carrying the Taliban flag, said Shah Wali Shahid, the deputy governor of Parwan province, north of Kabul. The flag has Islamic verses inscribed on it, and dogs are seen as unclean in much of the Muslim world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Local people are very upset with this incident, and they want the perpetrators brought to justice,&#8221; Shahid said, adding that demonstrations were expected across the province.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess the leaflet is much more offensive than the two civilians who were killed by a Taliban roadside bomb last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Associated Press, a US commander in Afghanistan has apologized for propaganda leaflets which &hellip; <a title=\"Leaflets offensive to Afghans\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74532\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Leaflets offensive to Afghans<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74532","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=74532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}