{"id":175,"date":"2001-10-10T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2001-10-10T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=175"},"modified":"2001-10-10T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2001-10-10T20:27:00","slug":"wahhabism-primer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2001\/10\/10\/16\/27\/wahhabism-primer\/","title":{"rendered":"Wahhabism Primer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/tariq3.html\">article<\/a> is really excellent &#8212; a kind of FAQ about the factional background and links between Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/tariq3.html\">&#8220;2. What is specific about the Islamism of the Taliban?<\/p>\n<p>It is a virulent, sectarian, ultra-puritanical strain heavily influenced by Wahhabism&#8212;the official state religion of Saudi Arabia. It was Saudi religious instructors who trained the Taliban.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is really excellent &#8212; a kind of FAQ about the factional background and links between Afghanistan and Pakistan. &#8220;2. What is specific about the Islamism of the Taliban? It is a virulent,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}