SERAPHIC SECRET: Saudi Arabia Hands Out 1,000 Lashes for Insulting Islam

The massacre of the Charlie Hebdo journalists and two policemen yesterday was, ostensibly, revenge because the satiric magazine insulted Mohammed and Islam.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia has blasphemy laws with which they punish those who also insult Mohammed and Islam.

Thus, the IslamoNazis of Paris and the IslamoNazis of Saudia Arabia are working off the same playbook, which, you’ll be shocked to learn is, the Koran.

Those who are far more enlightened about Islam than we — scholars like Barack Obama, John Kerry, and Shepard Smith — have lectured us that the blood-thirsty Muslims who torture, kidnap, murder, rape, plunder, behead, and oppress in the name of Islam are not really Islamic.

Now all these liberal Islamic scholars have to do is head on over to Saudia Arabia (or Iran or Pakistan or Turkey or Malaysia) and let them know that their Islamic states are not practicing true Islam.

Yes, we’d love to see that conversation  — which, no doubt, would end with the enlightened liberals being lashed to bloody ribbons by the, ahem, unIslamic Muslims.

A Saudi blogger who was sentenced last May to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes will be publicly flogged for the first time after Friday prayers outside a mosque in the Red Sea coastal city of Jiddah, a person close to his case said Thursday.

Raif Baddawi was sentenced on charges related to accusations that he insulted Islam on a liberal online forum he had created. He was also ordered by the Jiddah Criminal Court to pay a fine of 1 million Saudi riyals, or about $266,000.

Rights groups and activists say his case is part of a wider clampdown on dissent throughout the kingdom. Officials have increasingly blunted calls for reforms since the region’s 2011 Arab Spring upheaval.

He called from prison and informed his family of the flogging, due Friday, said a person close to the case. The person, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity for fear of government reprisal, said Badawi was “being used as an example for others to see.”

By ROBERT J. AVRECH | JULY 22, 2014 Hamas Dead Baby Strategy

The Christian community in Mosul have been given the choice to pay an exorbitant tax, convert to Islam — or die.

In response, thousands of Christians are fleeing Mosul with little more than the clothes on their backs. Their valuables are being systematically looted by the IslamoNazis, who are establishing a caliphate in lands that were once parts of Iraq and Syria.

You would think that a purge against this two-millennia-old Christian community would elicit storms of protest across the civilized world. You would expect that hundreds of Islamic scholars would publicly denounce this mass atrocity and that there would be million-man marches from all the moderate Muslims we keep hearing about.

But of course, there is a black hole of silence.

The Islamic world and its leftist Western enablers are focused on Israel’s defensive war against Hamas — genocidal terrorists whose charter calls for the destruction of the Jewish state and the murder of every Jew on the face of the earth.

There have been Jew-hating incidents, attacks and riots in Paris, Germany, The Netherlands, Morocco, and London, charging Israel with massacres that never happened and war crimes that do not exist. In fact, these charges are projections of what Hamas does on a daily basis.

We are drenched by Jew-hating propaganda and violence that mirrors the Nazi program and pogroms against Jews in the years preceding World War II.

Make no mistake about it: the savages of ISIS who are creating the world’s third terrorist state — Iran and Gaza were the first two — are the same IslamoNazis against whom Israel is fighting, Hamas and Fatah.

Michael Oren believes that Hamas has no military strategy, but only a media strategy. Which is pretty much what Seraphic Secret said here.

The displacement, injury, and death of civilians in war is always tragic, and the current fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza is no exception. But unlike the vast majority of conflicts in history, Operation Protective Edge, as Israel calls it, is one in which images of civilian suffering play a central—and potentially decisive—role in the outcome.

And the reason is simple: More than a military strategy, Hamas has a media strategy. Calculatingly, Hamas employs primitive military tactics to mount a sophisticated media campaign that can threaten Israel’s basic security. And in conducting that offensive, Hamas can count on one of the world’s most powerful weapons: the international media.

Hamas fires hundreds of rockets at Israeli cities and towns and tries to attack Israeli farms via the sea and through tunnels. Thanks to Israeli technology and vigilance, few of these actions have inflicted extensive damage. Still, they disrupt Israeli life, impair the economy, and leave cumulative psychological scars.

As a sovereign nation, Israel must respond robustly to such attacks. And as a state committed to Jewish and democratic values, Israel provides water, humanitarian aid, and electricity to the residents of Gaza even as their government murders Israelis.

Throughout, Israel strives tirelessly to minimize Palestinian civilian casualties. Yet in spite of the hundreds of thousands of leaflets Israel dropped, the countless text messages and personal phone calls it made warning Palestinian civilians to leave targeted areas, tragedies still occur. Israel deeply regrets these losses and continuously hones its operations to make them more surgical still.

In a war with Hamas, though, Israel’s strength and morality can become vulnerability and guilt. By investing nothing in air raid sirens and bomb shelters, by hiding deep beneath neighborhoods and shooting near hospitals and mosques, Hamas ensures that Israel will invariably wound and kill civilians.

IDF soldiers mourn their fallen heroes.

Hamas gunmen carry out attacks disguised as women and old men, fight from UN and Red Cross vehicles, store rockets in schools, and physically prevent Palestinian civilians from fleeing combat zones. This context, though, is rarely mentioned by the media when covering the civilian cost of the fighting.

Unlike Israel, which respects the privacy and dignity of its fallen, Hamas has no difficulty in displaying these casualties to foreign cameras. And the media broadcasts them, obsessively.

The sources of that obsession are many. They include genuine empathy for the Palestinians, objection to Israeli policies, and even animus toward the Jewish state. Still, many journalists would be appalled by the suggestion that they are aiding a terrorist group indistinguishable from ISIS and al-Qaeda. Most, rather, are just doing their job by providing their audiences with the most up-to-date pictures and stories.

But whether visceral or professional, the correspondents’ motives are, in fact, irrelevant to Hamas. It merely has to know that dozens of Palestinian victims of Israeli fire capture more headlines and airtime than tens of thousands of Syrian victims of Syrians or Iraqi victims of Iraqis.

Hamas knows that the construction of a world-leading civil defense system in Israel, and the utter absence of one in Gaza, will ensure a growing gap between Israeli and Palestinian casualties. And that disparity, Hamas knows, will become the focus of media attention and accusations that Israel uses force disproportionally.

Above all, Hamas knows that shocking images—some of them taken from the carnage in Syria and Iraq and even from Hollywood horror movies—inflame public opinion. Under mounting pressure, governments will endorse UN condemnations of Israel for war crimes. Hamas missiles cannot destroy Israel, but international sanctions can tie its hands from deflecting them.

Unwittingly or not, the international media is complicit in Hamas’s plan. While some may think they help the Palestinians by highlighting their plight, in reality, the journalists only worsen it. They effectively absolve Hamas of culpability for using Gaza’s population as a human shield, of stealing its aid money to buy munitions and dig fortified tunnels with the sole purpose of killing Israelis, and of contributing nothing to Gaza’s welfare.

Who’s who in Hamas

Israel, by contrast, is expected to apologize for protecting its citizens and for not suffering as many civilian losses as the Palestinians. Rather than depicting a complex reality in which both Israelis and Palestinians are victims of Hamas, the media prefers facile narratives of West versus East, colonialists versus natives, Goliath versus David.

Yet the most helpful role that the media plays for Hamas—and the worst disservice for Palestinians—is in demoralizing Israelis. They are willing to pay a high operational price, even to endanger their own soldiers, to avoid hurting Palestinian civilians.

Yet, in spite of these unprecedented efforts, the Jewish State is often depicted by the media as indiscriminate and callous. By calling them killers even when they take risks to save lives, the media discourages Israelis from showing restraint in the face of ceaseless Hamas attacks. And Hamas, which wants to drag Israel into a ground war in which even more civilians are killed, welcomes the media’s role in convincing Israelis that image-wise they have nothing to lose by escalating.

Former President Bill Clinton recently told Indian television that Hamas “has a strategy designed to force Israel to kill their own [Palestinian] civilians so that the rest of the world will condemn them.” A crucial means through which Hamas accomplishes this is the international media.

Just as Israel must relentlessly scrutinize its military actions in Gaza and their consequences, so, too, must journalists take a hard look at the way they cover this conflict. They must not allow themselves to act as accessories to Hamas’s murderous strategy that delegitimizes Israel and prolongs the Palestinians’ suffering.

Source: CNN

11th Annual Ariel Avrech Memorial Lecture with Michael Medved

SERAPHIC SECRET: Memo to President Obama: Ten Facts Underlying the Arab Muslim War Against Israel

Russia, as Sarah Palin predicted they would in 2008, is invading Ukraine.

China hungrily eyes the Japanese Senkaku/Diaoyu islands. Iran races toward the nuclear red line. In Syria, Bashar Assad, allied with Russia, slaughters thousands of own people — daily. The North Korean gulag starves millions and continues to build and test long-range missiles. Egypt is in a perpetual state of turmoil with each sideaccusing the other of being, get this, Jews. Iraq is ground zero for homicide bombers. Afghanistan is becoming a Taliban state… again. Lebanon slides closer to the abyss of sectarian civil war. And Fatah is on the verge of open civil war—when are they not?—as exiled terrorist leader Mohammed Dahlan, moves to depose terrorist leader Mahmoud Abbas.

And, oh yes, for all you feminists out there who agitate for the right to murder babies in the womb—of whom 84% are black—how about those honor hysterectomies,the latest atrocity authored by the Palestinians.

Protests on campus?

Of course not. The left are busy demonizing the Jewish State.

With such bloody global turmoil, President Obama moves decisively, and comes down hard on — Israel.

Yes, the community agitator with a history of Jew-hating BFFs, has chosen, once again, to hammer the Jewish State. The pretext? Apartment buildings. In the world according to Obama, Jews must be confined to a manageable ghetto. It’s not enough that the Arab and Muslim world is functionally Judenrein, for Obama and the genocidal Jew-haters of the left, the Jewish State does not even have the right to live in the Jewish State, which includes the ancient Jewish land of Judea and Samaria.

As far as Seraphic Secret is concerned, Jews have the right to live anywhere.

Not that Obama cares, but Ambassador Alan Baker details ten underlying facts of which he and John Kerry should be aware.

1. There is no such thing as the “Palestinian territories.” Such an entity has never been determined as such in any binding international document, agreement, or resolution. The final status of the West Bank is still an agreed-upon negotiating issue and should not be prejudged by any political declaration or statement.

2. The territories are “disputed,” not “occupied.” International law relates to occupation of foreign territory from a prior legitimate sovereign. The area of the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) is not foreign, and has, from time immemorial, since at least 1500 BCE, been part of the indigenous Jewish presence in the area, which has been internationally acknowledged historically and recognized in international documents.

3. Any Christian believer cannot deny the fact that Jesus was a Jew who lived as part of the historic Jewish existence in the area, a presence which is borne out by historic and archeological evidence.

4. Israel and the Jewish People have very well-based and long-standing inalienable, indigenous, historic, legal, and international rights in the area including in the West Bank. These rights are being denied and overlooked by the international community. Israel has agreed to negotiate the final status of this area. The outcome of these negotiations should not be prejudged.

5. Claims by Palestinian spokesmen to indigenous or historic status or presence are patently false and misleading. The Arab presence in geographic Palestine commenced in 630 CE and comprises Bedouin tribes and families that generated from the Arabian Peninsula to the area of geographic Palestine in search of employment and economic benefit.

6. The allegation that Israel’s settlements are “illegitimate” is a misreading of international law and in itself prejudges an agreed-upon negotiating issue. The prohibition of forced transfer of population into “occupied territory” was drafted into the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention to prevent a repeat of the mass, forced population transfers carried out by the Nazis. It was not intended, and cannot be interpreted, to apply to Israel’s communities in the West Bank.

7. In accordance with international norms regarding administration of territory, construction of and within these Israeli communities is strictly on land that is not privately owned, and is under the legal supervision of Israel’s Supreme Court.

8. Reliance on the term “1967 borders” or “lines” has no basis in law or fact and cannot and should not constitute any point of reference in the negotiations. The 1949 Armistice Demarcation Line was distinctly determined not to constitute a border. The term “1967 borders” or “lines” was not referred to in the Oslo Accords. All parties have accepted the call by the UN Security Council in Resolution 242 (1967) for “secure and recognized boundaries.” This resolution makes no reference to “1967 lines.”

9. The ongoing Palestinian incitement against Israel, sponsorship and support of the campaign to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel, threats to prosecute Israeli leaders in international tribunals, and threats to appeal to UN and international bodies are all totally incompatible with any bona fide negotiation for peace in the area. These phenomena violate Palestinian commitments. Clear and definitive action must be taken by the Palestinian leadership to bring these phenomena to an immediate end.

10. Any attempt to prohibit or deny the presence of Jews in any area is anathema to all accepted civilized and humanitarian norms and should be totally and utterly rejected.

Amb. Alan Baker, Director of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, participated in the negotiation and drafting of the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, as well as agreements and peace treaties with Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon. He served as legal adviser and deputy director-general of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as Israel’s ambassador to Canada.

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SERAPHIC SECRET: Hasidic Chic

The new hot Hasidic look.

The business of fashion rests upon the notion that with every season there is a look that is new and exciting. Of course, there is nothing new under the sun. There are only old ideas dressed up to look new.

Thus, it was inevitable that at some point a designer would look at traditional Hasidic clothing, and decide that this was fashion.

Korean-born Gunhyo Kim, a graduate of Antwerp’s Royal Academy of Arts, and an assistant to designer super-star Dries Van Noten, was inspired by Antwerp’s Hasidic Jews community. He takes a traditional arba kanfot, an article of clothing mandated by the Torah, (Num. xv. 37-41 and Deut. xxii. 12) and turns religious garb into, um, something else.

Is it time to give up Levi jeans, Brooks Bros. pink shorts, and LL Bean flannels in favor of Hasidic chic?

Have a look and decide for yourselves.

No self-respecting Hasid would wear a tight, sharkskin gray suit and, horror of horrors, white shoes with an ill-fitting Borsalino. But that’s the whole point of this loony look, mixing the traditional with the avante garde.

 

The arba kanfot are turned into an item of fashion, and the hat is a witty take on a Hasidicspodek, most notably worn by Gerer Hasidim.

 

Seraphic Secret confesses to a weakness for the Hasidic shtreimel, a round hat made of fur that can be enormously expensive. We hope that PETA members take one look at this article of clothing and feel their heads explode.

H/T Rachel Lipson

SERAPHIC SECRET: Operation Pillar of Defense, Day Five: Hey, I’ve Seen This Movie Before

Israeli soldiers in a tank unit with a Torah scroll and religious prayer books at a tank staging area on the Gaza Strip border, in southern Israel, 16 November 2012.  EPA/JIM HOLLANDER

Eight years ago, in conversation with a wild-eyed Israeli-American member of Peace Now who was forcefully advocating for the expulsion of some 8,000 Jews from Gaza, I argued that:

1. Jews have the right to live anywhere, Brooklyn, London, Paris, Cairo, Damascus, Oslo, and yes, Gaza. Once you agree that, for the sake of, ahem, peace, Area X must be cleansed of Jews, you are conceding that Jews have no rights anywhere. This is nothing less than national suicide.

2. Thus, the Jews of Gaza were defending the the Jews of Jerusalem and the Jews of Tel Aviv, together with the rights of Jews who live anywhere and everywhere in the world.

3. Finally, the conflict with the so-called Palestinians was not about land, not about national boundaries, not about so-called refugees, and most certainly not about so-called occupation. This is an existential conflict where one side, the Arab Muslims, has vowed to annihilate the Jewish state, and then finish the job that Hitler started. In short, the Jews seek peace, while the Muslim Arabs seek genocide.

The Israeli-American leftie scoffed at my thesis, stating:

1. The cost of defending the Jews of Gaza was too high, in blood and treasury.

2. Israel’s standing in the world community was besmirched by the “occupation” of Gaza.

3. Regarding genocide: My leftie friend smirked, called me an alarmist, and explained: “They just use that language to whip up their base. When push comes to shove and Israel gets serious about peace, they will be quite reasonable.”

I countered that if the Jews of Gaza were expelled, the Jihadists would claim another victory over the Zionist invaders and Gaza would become a front-line terrorist state.

The leftie assured me that once the Jews of Gaza were gone, things might not be great, but they would be — and this is a direct quote — “much better.”

Well, a year later, the Israeli government, in a secret deal with the U.S., expelled the 8,000 Jews of Gaza. The Arab Muslims immediately turned Gaza into a notorious terrorist state, ruled with an iron fist by Hamas, an Islamist gang whose charter calls for the annihilation of the Zionist entity and the liquidation of all Jews everywhere. Rockets and mortars flew into Israel from Jew-free Gaza.

The expulsion was a resounding victory for jihadists.

Since then, Israel has gone into Gaza every few years, cleaned out a few bunkers and killed a few jihadist leaders — and has been viciously condemned on the world stage for the crime of self-defense and disproportionate use of power.

Of course, disproportionate use of power is the definition of fighting and winning a war.

But at some point, Israel decided that winning was not an option. So Israel’s disproportionate use of power was not so much.

Winning is too — well, mean.

Israel, left and right, settled on a doctrine of containment. Hold the line untilsomething happens. And then unicorns and rainbows will flourish in the Middle East.

Of course, the exact opposite happened.

The Arab Muslims attack with homicide bombers, rockets, mortars and missiles. Israel exercises restraint and then gets fed up, decides to act. Air campaign. Boom! Boom! Boom! Ground incursion. The Arabs dig up dead babies and display their broken corpses for the jackal journalists. The UN condemns Israel. Ceasefire.

Israel buries her dead, mourns and moves on, hoping that this time the Arabs have learned their lesson.

The Arabs have, indeed, learned their lesson as they ululate their victory over the Jewish usurpers. They have learned to build better bunkers, more accurate rockets, and set up more effective chains of command to their field operatives — for the next round.

Most important, the Arabs have learned that the Jews don’t really mean to win the war. They understand all too clearly that the Jews’ only strategy is to survive and to be loved by the Jew-hating world community.

Like kabuki, the conflict plays out in the same ritualized manner every few years. And Operation Pillar of Defense will, I’m afraid, be no different.

And in a few years, the missiles of Islam will be even more numerous, far more accurate, and impervious to Iron Dome.

The Jews of Gaza were expelled by the Jews of Tel Aviv.

In the not-so-distant future, the Jews of Tel Aviv will pay the price. So will the Jews of Berlin, Paris, London, Oslo, Los Angeles, and Hong Kong.

Finally: The very great Jeane Kirkpatrick, a life-long Democrat, was invited by Ronald Reagan to join his administration. Kirkpatrick, by that time deeply disillusioned by her party’s lurch to the left, asked Reagan to explain his Cold War strategy towards the Soviet Union.

Said Reagan: “We win. They lose.”

Unless Israel faces reality and decides to win, the Jewish state will lose.

My friend Jameel of the Muqata is live-blogging the war.

SERAPHIC SECRET: And Now A Few Words to Rioting Muslims

So cute! A pint-sized jihadist in Sydney Australia exercising his right of free speech to call for the beheading of those who also exercise the right of free speech. Tiger parenting, Islamic style.

Obama and his State Department grovel and apologize to a bunch of murderous barbarians. But Seraphic Secret and most sane people—this excludes Western progressives who enable jihadists everywhere—understand that the Muslim world is dysfunctional, intolerant, anti-Jewish, anti-Christian, anti-American and anti-Modern.

President Bush believed that democracy and free elections would cure the ills of the Muslim world.

He was wrong.

President Obama believes that endless apologies for perceived American crimes will bring unicorns of peace and understanding to the Muslim world.

He too is wrong.

Seraphic Secret believes that we should disengage from the Muslim world, except for an occasional bombing run to kill active jihadists and to keep their fingers off a nuclear trigger. Further, America should cut off all foreign aid to these ungrateful, ignorant tribes and allow them to sink back into the sludge from whence they have come. Believe me, their absence will never be noticed.

SERAPHIC SECRET: Sexual Perversity in Libya

At Front Page magazine, my friend Mark Tapson, writes about the murder and sexual degradation of Ambassador Stevens. The ghastly details of Christopher Stevens’s torture, murder, and the defilement of his corpse, are being deliberately ignored by the liberal media for several reasons:

1. Liberals insist that Arab Muslims who cling to their AK-47s and death-cult religion are really peaceful.

2. Barack Hussein Obama’s Mideast reset is such a grotesque failure that the liberal media have no choice but to suppress the details of Ambassador Stevens’s horrific death or Obama and his State Department will be revealed as craven, groveling fools.

3. The media, AKA Obama’s campaign staff, have invested everything in the delusional narrative that some dopey trailer for a movie that no one has seen is the root cause for the anti-American riots that grip the Arab Muslim world.

Yesterday, Seraphic Secret wrote that the Arab Muslim world is, for the foreseeable future, beyond redemption, beyond the pale of civilized behavior. We in the West, in the Judeo-Christian world, have no choice but to cut off all financial aid to these barbarians. Our contacts with the Muslim world should be confined to bombing runs in order to keep the savages in line and away from our shores. This people who contribute nothing in the way of knowledge or progress can sink back into the desert sands and no one will notice or care.

Soon after the terrorist attack that left four Americans dead in Libya, reports began coming in that U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens was not only murdered by the Muslim mob, but also sodomized both before and after his death, and his corpse dragged through the streets. This grotesque defilement was willfully suppressed by the mainstream media, who were focused like a laser on a much more horrific story: presidential candidate Mitt Romney talking like a conservative at a fundraiser. Thank goodness that in these difficult times we can count on the media to cover the news we really need to know.

As FrontPage Shillman Journalism Fellow Raymond Ibrahim writes,

Sexual abuse and degradation is a common tactic used against non-Muslims, especially women, as the repeatedly raped Lara Logan found… Nor are men immune from such rapes. In fact, the photos of Ambassador Stevens—stripped of clothes, bloodied and tortured right before he was killed—very much resemble the photos of Gaddafi right before he was killed. One U.S.-supported “freedom-fighter,” for example, can be seen sodomizing Gadaffi with a rod as others dragged him along.

Ibrahim finishes by noting that “the al-Qaeda affiliated men who sexually abused and killed Gaddafi are the same men who sexually abused and killed America’s ambassador.”

Go to Front Page to read Mark’s complete article.

SERAPHIC SECRET: Iranian Anti-Semitic Movie Depicts Jews as Cultists Who Massacre Muslims

The latest pretext for Muslim riots, rape, pillage and murder is some dopey trailer on YouTube that doesn’t bow and scrape to Islam.

Only a deeply insecure faith system gets insulted so easily and with such frequency. Those who have a healthy grounding in their faith shrug off insults and get on with their lives. But the adherents of Islam seem clinically paranoid, a confederacy of dysfunctional tribes who feed on conspiracy theories and perpetual outrage.

The Obama administration, in full appeasement mode, has had the filmmaker arrested, thereby putting us all on notice that sharia supersedes the First Amendment. Not surprisingly, the Hollywood elite are silent in the face of Obama’s assault on free speech and artistic expression.

What happens when the movie Killing Bin Laden is released — right before the election — and Muslims riot, murder, rape and pillage because Usama Bin Laden’s death is being celebrated?

Meanwhile, the Iranian government bankrolls and broadcasts on state television “Saturday Hunter,” a loathsome piece of anti-Semitic propaganda in which Jews are portrayed as satanic cultists who murder innocent Muslims in order to achieve God-like power.

Of course, the Iranians are not anti-Semitic, just anti-Zionist.

I’m glancing out the window of Casa Avrech, looking for all the rioting Jews who object to this poisonous movie that has been seen by  millions of Muslims.

Nope, no riots.

No ringing statements from Hillary Clinton about respecting all religions.

No editorials from the New York Times expressing moral outrage that a great religion has been maligned.

No FBI agents sent over to Iran to investigate this hate crime.

No special sessions called in the UN to pass a resolution condemning this official Iranian blood libel against Jews and Judaism.

Nothing from Barack Hussein Obama about all the nifty contributions Islam has made to Western civilization.

SERAPHIC SECRET: Saudi Cleric Slaman Al-Odeh: Jews Use Human Blood for Passover Matzos

Just another day in the Muslim world where Holocaust denial and theblood libel are taken for granted. But of course these people are merely anti-Zionist, not a bunch of ignorant, genocidal-yearning, frothing-at-the-mouth Jew-haters.

SERAPHIC SECRET: Joan Juliet Buck’s Blood-Soaked Sole

Joan Juliet Buck, the post-modern Unity Mitford.

You will recall that on February 25, 2011, the  ultra-chic, ultra-liberal Vogue magazine, led by high-profile Obama supporter Anna Wintour, published a fawning profile of Syrian first lady Asma al-Assad by Joan Juliet Buck.

So outrageous was Buck’s story that Seraphic Secret saved the article in the sure knowledge that Vogue would, sooner or later, be called to account for celebrating a mass murderer and his wife.

Of course, we were proven correct. So clueless and disgusting was Buck’s story about the al-Assads that Vogue flushed the story down the memory hole with nary an explanation.

Now, Joan Juliet Buck, the liberal author of the infamous piece, has penned an apology: My Vogue Interview: Mrs. Assad Duped Me, a self-serving kvetch.

Buck would have us believe that a) she was a reluctant participant in the story, and b) she didn’t know that Assad was and is a totalitarian butcher.

Here’s a sample:

I didn’t know I was going to meet a murderer.

There was no way of knowing that Assad, the meek ophthalmologist and computer-loving nerd, would kill more of his own people than his father had and torture tens of thousands more, many of them children.

In December 2010, there was no way of knowing that the Arab Spring was about to begin, and that it would take down the dictators of Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt.

If you have the stomach, you can read the entire piece here.

Buck claims that the so-called “Arab Spring” finally revealed the evil that is the heart of the Assad regime.

Only the naive or the stupid or the willfully ignorant can claim ignorance of Assad’s murderous reign prior to the Syrian civil war.

Buck’s self-pitying whine is filled with new details on meeting Asma Assad. Now, Buck makes disparaging remarks about Bashar’s long neck. Now, Buck paints Asma as a manipulative liar. Now, Buck reveals the sinister state repression she encountered. Now, she tells us that she glimpsed the true monstrous Assads.

Not surprisingly, like a good liberal, Buck paints herself as the victim. Buck is glued to Al Jazeera —Joan, sweetheart, it’s a Jew-hating channel, or didn’t you notice—and coverage of the Islamist uprisings, aka the Arab Spring.

I asked Vogue’s managing editor if we could meet to discuss how to handle the Assad piece. A meeting was held, without me. I was asked not to speak to the press.

And finally:

I didn’t want to write this piece. But I always finished what I started.

Including, we might add, doing PR for an evil tyrant and his “extremely thin and very well-dressed” wife.

Like Lady Macbeth, Joan Juliet Buck can scrub all she wants, but the red soles of her Louboutin heels are soaked not with dye, but with the blood of the dead.

SERAPHIC SECRET: The New, Improved Jew-Hatred: Jerusalem Denial

Obama's White House: A.) Doesn't Know What the Capital Of Israel Is? B.) Doesn't Care? C.) Will Figure Out What It Is Closer To The Election? Answer: All Of The Above! 

Maybe if it was an Islamic state, Obama and his administration might know what the capital was.

There are no guarantees in life, but this I can guarantee you ... America and the Middle East will look a hell of a lot worse, if Barack Obama gets a second term! After a two day barrage by Obama's mainstream press trying to pass off that Mitt Romney somehow made a major gaffe after correctly pointing out that the UK might not have enough security at the Olympics, only to have the UK call up 18,000 extra troops for additional security,http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/feedarticle/10351843 Obama's press seems to be silent once again, when it comes to Obama's bad track record with our only major ally in the middle east, Israel, who happens to be surrounded by 52 Arab/Islamic states! 

And Obama's spokes hack and propagandist; Jay Carney and the Obama administration, refuses to acknowledge that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel or even explain what out middle east policy is towards the Jewish state. Question: When is the last time Obama has traveled to Israel? Answer, 2008! But he didn't miss multiple apology trips to 6 Arab / Islamic countries, over the past 4 years. But good news, one of Obama's aides also annouced Friday, that Obama will be going back to Israel... in his second term! Wow, what Chutzpah! No time like next year or the year after. Then again, after all that golf and fundraising, he hasn't even had the time to meet with is jobs council or have a cabinet meeting in 6 months! Get in line Israel, the man's busy! http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/239467-obama-aide-president-...

Question, Why do the Jewish people in America continue to vote for Democrats or for Obama when we know that he clearly doesn't like Israel and never misses an opportunity to throw them under the Islamic bus? Answer: Because he's very confident that no matter what he does or how much he abuses them, they will continue to support him out of guilt. Let's face it, if he actually did give a damn about Israel and the Jewish people, he would never act the way that he does. His foreign policy is a joke and is not beneficial to the state of Israel in any way, and it's safe to say that Obama's complacency ... is very dangerous for Israel, America and the world.

Thursday, Jay Carney was asked about the administration's position on whether Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. The best response he had was, "Our position hasn't changed and after a minute of squirming, he said that he hasn't gotten that question in a while.." Just Brilliant! Now, would someone in the White House take a few minutes from playing golf and fundraising to explain just what that policy is? Israel is now completely surrounded by hostile Islamic nuts, who have made it no secret how badly that would like to drive the Jews into the sea because they believe that tiny strip of land (the size of New Jersey) that no one wanted until the Jews returned to their homeland after WW 2, suddenly now belongs to Arab -Islamic world. 

Obama: Why he's going where he's going... (Charles Krauthammer)http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-why-hes-going-wher...

Obama Will Finally Visit Israel... In His Second Term, Aide Sayshttp://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/239467-obama-aide-president-...

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Let us stipulate that Jerusalem is the eternal, undivided capital of Israel.

If you give up Jerusalem you surrender Zion.

Game. Set. Match.

The Arab Muslims understand this all too well. Why do you think their propaganda is an unrelenting assault on Jewish history?

But liberal Jews do not get it. Or if they do, they do not care. Or they care the way a wife-beater cares about the wife he beats to death for her own good.

Let us further stipulate that anyone who denies that Jerusalem is the capital of the Jewish State is either geographically challenged, a Jew-hater or an enabler of Jew-haters.

Barack Hussein Obama’s policy toward the Jewish State seems to have been crafted by Hamas, The PLO, Islamic Jihad, the Ayatollahs, Obama’s spiritual mentor Jeremiah Wright or Obama’s good friend, terrorist spokesman Rashid Khalidi.

Holocaust denial. Temple denial. And now Jerusalem denial. It all boils down to the same thing: a denial of Jewish history that is, ipso facto, a repudiation of Jewish sovereignty over the land of Israel.

Obama vowed to “fundamentally transform the United States of America.”

This is one promise he has fulfilled.