Monday, November 22, 2010

When The State Controls The Media

Or when illiteracy controls the people.

Or when the people are technologically behind.

From Jihad Watch:
Fewer than one in 10 Afghans are aware of the 9/11 attacks and their precipitation of the war in Afghanistan, says a study from an international think tank.

[...]

To be sure, the survey can't claim to be definitive: It only canvassed men, and relied primarily on respondents from Helmand and Kandahar, the two most war-torn provinces in the country. But the results nonetheless show that Western forces fighting insurgents in Afghanistan have largely failed to connect with the local population.

3 comments:

revereridesagain said...

Wow, AOW, I just found one of IQ al Rassooli's guest shots on The Roth Show. He is indeed the Real Thing and I loved the precision with which he dealt with Roth's trying to claim there were different "interpretations" of Islam.

I look forward to hearing him on The Gathering Storm this Friday. Does he have insights into why 99.99% of these so-called "loyal American muslims" won't even open their mouths to defend this country from the jihadists?

Anonymous said...

AoW, there is also the case of "intentional ignorance of technology". My hairdresser, a confident well educated businesswoman who runs two very successful home based businesses refuses to touch a computer. She asked me how I voted in the last election. Based on our conversations, I felt fairly confident she was as conservative as I. After revealing my votes, I asked her about how she voted. She revealed that she voted for the Working Families Party, thinking they were looking out for her interests -- She clearly had no idea she voted for the social justice, 'entitlements-for-all' Communist candidate.

Always On Watch said...

RRA,
You can phone in to ask IQ.

This Friday, he's going to contrast the Islamic concept of thanksgiving with the Western concept.