{"id":31057,"date":"2012-02-27T02:27:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T02:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/andrew_mccarthy_on_afghanistan-have_we_officially_lost_our_minds\/"},"modified":"2012-02-27T02:27:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T02:27:30","slug":"andrew_mccarthy_on_afghanistan-have_we_officially_lost_our_minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31057","title":{"rendered":"Andrew McCarthy on Afghanistan&#8211;Have we Officially lost our Minds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The facts are that the Korans were seized at a jail because jihadists imprisoned there were using them not for prayer but to communicate incendiary messages. The soldiers dispatched to burn refuse from the jail were not the officials who had seized the books, had no idea they were burning Korans, and tried desperately to retrieve the books when the situation was brought to their attention.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, these facts may not become widely known, because no one is supposed to mention the main significance of what has happened here. First, as usual, Muslims \u201d\u201d not al-Qaeda terrorists, but ordinary, mainstream Muslims \u201d\u201d are rioting and murdering over the burning (indeed, the inadvertent burning) of a book&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/291925\/why-apologize-afghanistan-andrew-c-mccarthy\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The facts are that the Korans were seized at a jail because jihadists imprisoned there were using them not for prayer but to communicate incendiary messages. The soldiers dispatched to burn refuse from the jail were not the officials who<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31057\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,503,209,201,92,143,144,426,616,155,151,667,108,124,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-afghanistan","category-americau-s-a","category-asia","category-books","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-islam","category-office-of-the-president","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture","category-violence","category-war-in-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}