Dietrich Claims he took this Photo of a Yazidi girl when he was in Iraq in 1988. He also claims the girl was offered to him as a child bride by the Yazidi.
This is an edited and re-published post from August 27, 2018
Dietrich first made the claim in August 2018 in a Facebook post that showed a closely-cropped version of the photo. (The original post is no longer available on Dietrich's Facebook timeline).
"ONE-‘O’-MINE PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN FROM MY TOUR ‘O’ THE FRONTLINES IN ‘THE REPUBLIC-‘O’-IRAQ in 1988, THE SUBJECT BEING A MINOR-AGED GIRL FROM THE E’‘ER-PERSECUTED MINORITY-SECT ‘O’ THE ŶǢƵIDÎ – THE SEVEN THOUSAND YEAR(S)-AULDEN CULTURE-‘O’-WORSHIPERS ‘O’ THE FALLEN ANGEL “TAWOÛSÊ-MELEIK ‘MELIEK TA’‘OUS’”) – TRUE LUCIFERANS AFORE THERE WAS MONOLATRY Ô’‘ĒR THE SURFACE ‘O’ THE WORLD; CAPTURED IN PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE(RY ONSITE ŞINGJARA -IN NINEVEH: NEARSITE THE RUINS-‘O’-PAZUZU"
But the image is not the work of Douglas Dietrich:
Photograph by: Youssef Boudlal, National Geographic
Date Taken: Aug 13, 2014
Date Uploaded: Apr 28, 2015
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Focal Length: 200 mm
Shutter Speed: 1/400 sec
Aperture: f/4
ISO: 200
Copyright: © Youssef Boudlal
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| Photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters |
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| A young Yazidi girl rests at the Iraq-Syrian border. Photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters |
"A girl from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, rests at the Iraqi-Syrian border, August 13, 2014. I remember the scene well. It was the day that I arrived at the Iraqi-Syrian border crossing of Faysh Khabur. With shocked, sunburnt faces, men, women and children in dirt-caked clothes were struggling in temperatures of over 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit), waiting patiently for local Kurdish aid."
Boudlal described the encounter in a brief article written for Reuters titled "A Brief Encounter with a fleeing Yazidi"
"I was drawn to her wild beauty in this terrible situation."
This a clear and flagrant infringement of copyright law.
According to Boudlal, the images were taken not in Sinjar or Ninevah, as Dietrich claims, but at the border crossing of Faysh Khabur, which lies in Dohuk, part of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq.
Dietrich is also incorrect in claiming that the ancient city of Ninevah was located near Sinjar. The Yazidi were fleeing Sinjar to Syria and stopped at the Syrian border crossing about 100 KM Northeast of Sinjar.
The ruins of ancient Ninevah are located near Mosul which is 100 KM East of Sinjar and 100 KM Southeast of Faysh Khabur. Dietrich is not only a sloppy liar, he is a piss-poor researcher/historian.
https://mapcarta.com/12539148
My research proves that Douglas Dietrich has never traveled to Iraq and received an Entry Level Separation Discharge from the US Marine Corps in January 1988.
Boudlal is an award-winning photojournalist who worked for Reuters at the time. The photo, one of many Boudlal took that day in 2014, was featured on the cover of Jewish Journal on Feb 9. 2017, and was also featured by National Geographic Magazine.
Dietrich continues to make the false claim now (2021), three years later, despite overwhelming contradicting evidence. And now adds an interesting embellishment to his previous lie:
"Light at Opportune Angle as Sourcing from the arched radius window halōed in-nimbus ô’‘ērhead the M(iste)r DOUGLAS DUANE DIETRICH and Here captured in the E(lectronically)-(a)ttached Photo(graphic) Image (To The Re/Viewer’s Right, opposite that Photograph [To The Re/Viewer’s Left], wherebe E-ttached one ‘o’ the Mr Douglas Dietrich’s own Photos ‘o’ a young girl from the Tribe-‘o’-“Ŷǣƶīdî”, the seven thousand year[s]-aulden Cult[ure]-‘o’-Worshippers ‘o’the “Devil-Angel” “Meīlīek Ṭāw’‘oȗs”] – True Luciferans afore there was any Monolotry ô’‘ēr the surface ‘o’ the World; captured in Photographic Image onsite Şingjara - Nineveh nearsite the Ruins ‘o’ PfAƵUƵUa as brought into public awareness by “THE EXORCIST"
Dietrich refers to the 1973 film The Exorcist in all of his posts associated with this claim.
Dietrich also claims the person in the second photo is actually himself, standing under a window which he claims "lighted his subject", the Yazidi girl, as he took the photograph. He mixes and confounds both images in a very bizarre way, including his claim of having the very rare condition of Kawasaki Disease Syndrome (blood-red eyes) as an adult. But this is another example of Dietrich's history of portraying himself as the "Peacock Angel".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melek_Taus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melek_Taus
"The Yazīdī cosmogony holds that a supreme creator god made the world and then ended his involvement with it, leaving it in the control of seven divine beings. The chief divine being is Malak Ṭāʾūs (“Peacock Angel”), who is worshipped in the form of a peacock. Malak Ṭāʾūs has often been identified by outsiders with the Judeo-Christian figure of Satan, causing the Yazīdīs to be inaccurately described as Devil worshippers."
NOT TRUE:
The image Dietrich claims to be of himself in 1988, is actually of one of his favorite Asian cosplayers, "Hakken" taken in 2019 in Melbourne, Australia during "Animaga Expo 2019"
https://www.facebook.com/hakkencoser/posts/zasshugilgamesh-at-yesterdays-animaga-in-australia-had-so-much-fun-with-onnies-t/3200786839939155/
The second image Dietrich is plagiarizing was actually taken in the Royal Exhibition Building (Museum) in Melbourne. The window can be seen clearly at the lower center of this photograph.
https://www.facebook.com/hakkencoser/posts/zasshugilgamesh-at-yesterdays-animaga-in-australia-had-so-much-fun-with-onnies-t/3200786839939155/
The second image Dietrich is plagiarizing was actually taken in the Royal Exhibition Building (Museum) in Melbourne. The window can be seen clearly at the lower center of this photograph.
Sources:
Here are other images of the girl with her mother and siblings that were taken by Boudlal in 2014.
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| Photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters |
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| Photo by Youssef Boudlal/Reuters |
