Many Afghans Shrug at 'This Event Foreigners Call 9/11'

[LeighAnn]

Source: Wall Street Journal (Asia)

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"Never heard of it," he shrugged as he lined up for water at the camp's well, which serves thousands of fellow refugees. "I have no idea why the Americans are in my country."

In a nearby tent that is the camp's school, his teacher, 22-year-old Mullah Said Nabi Agha, didn't fare much better. He said he has never seen the iconic image of the Twin Towers burning. He was vaguely aware that some kind of explosion had occurred in America.

"I was a child when it happened, and now I am an adult, and the Americans are still here," Mr. Agha said. "I think the Americans did it themselves, so they could invade Afghanistan."

The teacher's view is by no means rare here. The events of Sept. 11, 2001, of course, are known to educated Afghans, and to many residents of big cities. But that isn't always the case elsewhere in a predominantly rural country where 42% of the population is under the age of 14, and 72% of adults are illiterate. With few villages reached by television or electricity, news here is largely spread by word of mouth.‬

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[MisterP]

1. like THAT'll stop us from burning off their skin while saying we're the real victims, or bringing

them the Enlightenment, or boosting Obama's poll numbers so the REAL warmongers don't get into power...

[patrick t. cakes]

2. Most Americans don't even know where Afghanistan is...

Nor anything about it's long history.

Afghanistan had nothing to do with 911

[Canuckistanian]

3. Why should they know or even care?

Afghanistan has had over 40,000 victims of this "war on terror".

Why should they care about America losing about 3,000 in one day? Their losses go on DAILY.

[Nihil]

4. Not just Afghans. (n/t)

[Marrah_G]

5. This is what happens

When you have an uneducated population that is living in very primitive conditions. They know only what others tell them or what is going on within their immediate lives.