{"id":174,"date":"2001-10-10T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2001-10-10T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=174"},"modified":"2001-10-10T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2001-10-10T20:21:00","slug":"taliban-versus-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2001\/10\/10\/16\/21\/taliban-versus-soccer\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Versus Soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not enough that they wage a terror war against infidels… now it appears the Taliban have taken on the forces of International Soccer. Their defeat is surely now assured…<\/p>\n

Last year, in an effort to cement Pak-Afghan friendship, Pakistan dispatched a football team to play a friendly against Afghanistan. As the two teams faced each other in the stadium at Kabul with the referee about to blow the opening whistle, bearded security forces entered and announced that the Pakistani footballers were indecently attired. They were wearing normal football shorts, whereas the Afghans were dressed in surreal long shorts which came down well below the knees. Perhaps it was felt that the rippling thighs of the Pakistanis might cause upheavals in the all-male audience. Who knows? The Pakistani players were arrested, their heads were shaved and they were all flogged in public while the stadium audience was forced to chant verses from the Koran.<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not enough that they wage a terror war against infidels… now it appears the Taliban have taken on the forces of International Soccer. Their defeat is surely now assured… Last year, in an...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t