{"id":5667,"date":"2011-03-26T20:59:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T20:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=5667"},"modified":"2011-03-26T20:59:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T20:59:15","slug":"the-rush-for-judgment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-rush-for-judgment-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rush for Judgment (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Tokyo-June-05-AS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Tokyo-June-05-AS-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Tokyo June 05 (AS)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5668\" \/><\/a>Via FailedMessiah.com (for some background on that site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/09\/us\/09religion.html\">here\u2019s<\/a> a <em>New York Times <\/em>piece from last year), <a href=\"http:\/\/failedmessiah.typepad.com\/failed_messiahcom\/2011\/03\/hasidic-rebbe-blames-japan-earthquake-and-tsunami-on-japans-prosecution-of-accused-hasidic-drug-smug-345.html\">here\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/19\/the-rush-for-judgment\/\">another<\/a> tale of someone else who sees the tragedy in Japan as an example of divine retribution. On this occasion it\u2019s a Hasidic rabbi who sees Japan&#8217;s detention of some students accused of drug smuggling as the cause of God\u2019s wrath. Here\u2019s what is described as a loose translation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>God is landing blow after blow on the Japanese. But they\u2019re like Egypt and Pharaoh. Japan does not understand that it is holding the detainees [Satmar yeshiva students arrested for drug smuggling] for no reason. They think the yeshiva students know what this drug is, but from where would Hasidic yeshiva students know what this is? Only goyyim [non-Jews] know what drugs are. Rather than [Japan] admitting its mistake, it continues to hold them, and for that [Japan] is punished.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ridiculous. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via FailedMessiah.com (for some background on that site, here\u2019s a New York Times piece from last year), here\u2019s another tale of someone else who sees the tragedy in Japan as an example of divine retribution. On this occasion it\u2019s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-rush-for-judgment-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[711],"tags":[727,738,232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5671,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions\/5671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}