{"id":9136,"date":"2026-01-15T15:40:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=9136"},"modified":"2026-01-15T16:29:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T16:29:59","slug":"taliban-nets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2026\/01\/15\/taliban-nets\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Net(s)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Exemplary BBC report:  &#8220;The Taliban&#8217;s supreme leader [Hibatullah Akhundzada] is a man with a deep distrust of the internet; he believes its content to be against Islamic teachings, and is so dedicated to his belief that an aide reads out the latest news or social media posts to him each morning instead, his spokesman once explained to the BBC.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mchb4xjp3k2t\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreigaxjfeong7zurobikuvst4svesdj3c4knjeom7gr5hirpdwhjygy\" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode=\"system\"><p lang=\"en\">An important and detailed BBC long-read on the Taliban, with internet issues as the centre of the discussion.  #Afghanistan<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3mchb4xjp3k2t?ref_src=embed\">[image or embed]<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Gary R. Bunt (<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5?ref_src=embed\">@garyrbunt.bsky.social<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3mchb4xjp3k2t?ref_src=embed\">15 January 2026 at 09:23<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exemplary BBC report: &#8220;The Taliban&#8217;s supreme leader [Hibatullah Akhundzada] is a man with a deep distrust of the internet; he believes its content to be against Islamic teachings, and is so dedicated to his belief that an aide reads out the latest news or social media posts to him each morning instead, his spokesman once&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[352,168,167],"tags":[178,1101,179],"class_list":["post-9136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-afghanistan-internet","category-taliban","tag-afghanistan","tag-hibatullah-akhundzada","tag-taliban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9136"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9150,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9136\/revisions\/9150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}