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Next time on Cops: The Religious Police:
(Officer): "You put this uniform on every day, and you never know what you're gonna come across in the line of duty. I seen it all: A niqab getting caught in the wind, unmarried members of the opposite sex exchanging pleasantries, you name it. A buddy of mine even saw a woman driving."
(Dispatch radio): "We have a 1031 in progress; repeat, 1031 in progress."
(Officer): "I'm on it... Hold it... she's got 'talismans and products of charlatanism.' I need backup, NOW!"
(Cue closing music, until tape ripped out and stomped on by religious police)
But seriously, "Maid arrested after Saudi employer ‘bewitched’," from Agence France-Presse:
RIYADH - Saudi Arabia’s religious police have arrested a domestic worker accused of having put a spell on her employer, the Al Madina newspaper reported on Sunday.
One can't help but speculate that it may have been a more figurative variety of "spell" -- one resulting in a jealous wife, with no, well, earthly course of action to make him stop in Saudi Arabia.
The arrest of the maid, whose nationality was not revealed, followed a complaint by the wife of the employer who she said had been ‘bewitched by the maid’.
The woman said she suspected her husband had been put under a spell because he fiercely defended the maid from criticism every time she neglected her work.
Members of the religious police, known as Mutawas, discovered ‘talismans and products of charlatanism’ in a search of the maid’s quarters in the eastern city of Damman, the newspaper added.
The paper said the maid, who is to face trial, ‘admitted she took refuge in sorcery so as to make her employers like her’.
‘The bewitched husband adored the maid and carried out all her wishes, unbeknownst to his wife,’ the newspaper said.
Saudi’s feared religious police are tasked with enforcing respect for public morals. Witchcraft is a capital offence in Saudi Arabia, where Sharia law is strictly applied.
Around two million domestic workers, mostly from Asian countries like Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, are employed in Saudi Arabia.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says many are sexually exploited and otherwise mistreated by their employers.
"Those whom your right hands possess."
Posted by Marisol at October 8, 2007 12:01 AM
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Marisol
Make sure the Nigerian cops don't get you
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at October 8, 2007 2:12 AM
That funny, Harry Potter is a big hit with the saints of Islam.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/11/content_467964.htm
Posted by: Joe Schmoe USA at October 8, 2007 2:12 AM
Why would ANY woman go to work there?
Actually why would ANYONE work there?
I have spoken to two people from my work (men) who used to work there and they despise the saudis.
Nothing could make me go there.
Its just another islamic hole.
D.T.
at October 8, 2007 6:02 AM
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Posted by: traeh at October 8, 2007 6:19 AM
It is hard to believe that these creatures actually believe in spells and sorcery. If a US Congressman proposed a law that made it a crime to cast spells, he or she would be laughed out of office. On the other hand, a wiley president who could make Muslims believe that he had a witchcraft and sorcery adviser could send the Muslims into a frenzy. The power of suggestion when applied to ignorant people can be a powerful tool. The recent meteorite that landed in Peru caused an outbreak of a mysterious illness. Investigators attributed the "illness" to mass hysteria.
Here is a response to a question about magic:
"Is it permissible to learn how to remove spells from a person affected by magic?"
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=4010&ln=eng&txt=spells
Part of that answer contains this: "But if a person learns magic in order to counteract magic, or for any other purposes, then that is not permitted and in fact is something which nullifies a person’s Islam, because it is not possible to learn it without falling into shirk."
Islam is soaked with belief in magic and spells, that includes the delusional Islamic clergy. Even the Prophet(MHRIH) believed in black magic.
Posted by: Pelayo at October 8, 2007 6:27 AM
What a tragic story for the maid. It's like being sent back in time to the dark ages and tried as a witch.
My bet is the girl is a filipina and the talismans may have been religious symbols she smuggled in.
These women are quite bewitching though I must say.
Posted by: payingattention at October 8, 2007 6:43 AM
maybe it was eessa?
Posted by: leonthepigfarmer at October 8, 2007 7:26 AM
Saudi Arabia is our 'staunch ally' against the
'forces of darkness'.
The Alice of American foreign policy long ago slipped down the rabbit hole of Islam.
Posted by: poetcomic1 at October 8, 2007 8:00 AM
"My bet is the girl is a filipina and the talismans may have been religious symbols she smuggled in......
Posted by: payingattention"
...I agree....
Posted by: exsgtbrown at October 8, 2007 8:31 AM
If she wiggled her nose and made the Ka'aba disappear, she's okay in my book.
(CUE: Frank Sinatra's "Witchcraft")
Posted by: profitsbeard at October 8, 2007 9:13 AM
I've got it!
We could cripple the Saudis by broadcasting old "Bewitched" reruns!
Posted by: tanstaafl at October 8, 2007 9:40 AM
1300 years of denying the truth. The nightmare lives on. The story of Islam shud be filmed in the genre of a Halloween, Friday The 13th or Nightmare On Elm Street. Muhammed as a Freddie or Michael Myers type character.
Posted by: TheOmegaMan at October 8, 2007 9:43 AM
I bet if any of these Islamainiacs get out of Gitmo that they claim the CIA made them read the Potter books. Torture at his most heinous. Cruel and unusual. Human-Rights watch needs to protest this total disregard for the muslim soul.
Posted by: TheOmegaMan at October 8, 2007 9:47 AM
The belief in the sacred inferiority of women and slavery and the belief in superstitions, these are the great fault lines of islam and should be exploited.
Posted by: the poetess at October 8, 2007 10:02 AM
The ultimate in job degradation: Working as a domestic (maid) for Mohammedans.
Posted by: darcy at October 8, 2007 10:42 AM
"We could cripple the Saudis by broadcasting old 'Bewitched' reruns!" Posted by: tanstaafl
-- Imagine the fun you could have with script rewrites before it was dubbed.
"Next time on Cops: The Religious Police..." Posted by Marisol
-- This is funny yet entirely believable given the article, which makes it scary.
Posted by: Josephine at October 8, 2007 11:01 AM
LOL, I'm in the middle of watching old Bewitched shows on DVD and tanstaafl's remark mirrored my own thoughts!
Posted by: atheling at October 8, 2007 11:03 AM
The Police in charge of protecting the Religion of Peace will now cast terror into the mind of that unbelieving women.May Allah(cow dung be upon him) bless her with 72 virgins in heaven.
Meanwhile the practitioners of the Religion of Peace are doing what they do best:Issuing Fatwas for petty matters.
Posted by: anti islamocommunist at October 8, 2007 11:22 AM
Hey, I was cursed right here at JW/DW by a moslem whose nic was "evil white devil".
He was a particularly nasty character.
They believe in curses and such, after all their god is master of such things.
at October 8, 2007 11:24 AM
> Cue closing music, until tape ripped out and stomped on by religious polic. >
Hysterical.
Posted by: Morgaan Sinclair at October 8, 2007 12:10 PM
While searching through an opinion website, I found this:
http://islamqa.com/index.php?ref=25803&ln=eng&txt=black%20cats
I appears that Moh was a cat person.
Excerpt:
Question: are cats taahir (pure) or naajis (impure)?
Answer: cats are taahir, and based on that, if a cat drinks from a vessel of water, the vessel does not become impure, because of the hadeeth of Kabshah bint Ka’b ibn Maalik, who was in the house of Abu Qutaadah: “Abu Qutaadah came in and I poured water for him to do wudoo’. A cat came and drank some of the water so he tilted the vessel to let it drink. He saw me looking at him and said, ‘Do you find it strange, O daughter of my brother?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said that they are not naajis, rather they are among those who go around amongst you.’” Narrated by al-Tirmidhi, 92; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Tirmidhi..
at October 8, 2007 12:48 PM
"It is hard to believe that these creatures actually believe in spells and sorcery."
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Although this is the subject of ridicule by most North Americans and Europeans, it is considered serious stuff in much of the world, and not just by Muslims.
In 2006, Vilasrao Deshmukh, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra state in India pushed a bill to outlaw and suppress black magic. A few years ago, a member of Taiwan's Legislature sparked a major scandal for politically switching sides. The government actually investigated whether one of his female political assistants had used black magic to cause him to become sexually infatuated with her. Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez makes no secret of his belief in Brujeria, a Latin American form of black magic based on a twisting of Santeria.
In Europe, while the Catholic Church opposed witchcraft and several supposed witches were killed by ignorant mobs in the Middle Ages, the severest punishment was usually excommunication. Orthodox Byzantium abolished the old Roman Empire's civil penalties for witches in the fourth century. However, the Protestant Reformation brought back witch hunting with a fury. In 1604, King James I of England made witchcraft a capital offense. In 1735 the penalty was reduced from death to life in prison. Helen Duncan, the last Englishwoman to be jailed for witchcraft was convicted in 1941. Although Churchill's government repealed this law in 1951, her conviction remained and she died in prison in 1956.
Nevertheless, it is in Muslim countries where this has become universalized. Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Iran have all publicly executed supposed witches. Interestingly, many Middle Easterners believe (based on much evidence) that the practice of black magic is endemic among members of the Al-Saud family and the Wahabhi elite.
One elderly Saudi prince has a reputation for keeping several African shamans or witch-doctors in his palace. It was even reported in an Eritrean newspaper, that he has participated in the human sacrifices of kidnapped African children. Although, these reports cannot be verified, it would be typical of the Wahabhi mindset to execute poor people for the very crimes that the rich and powerful commit daily.
at October 8, 2007 1:24 PM
It really was no miracle. What happened was just this:
The maid began to twitch - the master, unzipped.
And suddenly the wife of him became -- unhitched...
Just then, that *itch, called in the Mutawas with this pitch:
"Our maid's... a WITCH! She stopped pushing broomsticks!
But then my Husband's happy stick did start -- to itch!"
And oh, what happened then was rich...
at October 8, 2007 1:41 PM
Provoslavni wrote:
In 1735 the penalty was reduced from death to life in prison. Helen Duncan, the last Englishwoman to be jailed for witchcraft was convicted in 1941. Although Churchill's government repealed this law in 1951, her conviction remained and she died in prison in 1956.
According to the BBC, the details of this case are a little more complicated. Their story says the gov't released her from prison in 1944. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/scottishhistory/modern/oddities_modern.shtml. It looks like she annoyed the authorities by leaking news of the sinking of HMS Barham. The statute didn't bar practicing witchcraft, only pretending to practice it.
Posted by: sceptico at October 8, 2007 2:32 PM
Posted by: jsla
The maid began to twitch - the master, unzipped.
You are very close to the mark
I have a feeling she could be Indonesian, as there is quite a lot of magic being used today, and some of it is very hard to dismiss.
The word dukun is an Indonesian word meaning "witch doctor" or "shaman".
Dukuns still operate today, often consulted for medical or personal reasons. Although the word is Indonesian there are Dukuns of all religions and races.
http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/2007/06/where-i-live-pt-18-witch-hunting.html
Posted by: shiva at October 8, 2007 2:55 PM
Sceptico,
It's true that Duncan's witchcraft was a little more complicated. According to Wiki, the seeming overzealousness of this prosecution may be explained by the mood of near-paranoia surrounding the impending D-Day. There were also concerns that she was exploiting the recently-bereaved. It should be noted that the government did not believe she had practised witchcraft; the 1735 statute covers fraudulent "spiritual" activity. Nevertheless, the statute was still in force to Churchill's repeal of it.
Duncan was released nine months after her first conviction but on this condition: she promised to stop conducting seances. However, she was arrested after another one in 1956. She died a short time later while awaiting trial.
Posted by: Provoslavni at October 8, 2007 3:01 PM
The ONLY redeeming characteristic of Moslems is that they like cats. Cats are the most-owned pets in the USA. Such as my family and myself. My husband and I love our cats and ditto my parents and my brother. And a million other + pet owners in the USA. Loving cats/kittens is the ONLY redeeeming characteristic of Moslems.
Posted by: darcy at October 8, 2007 6:01 PM
"The ultimate in job degradation: Working as a domestic (maid) for Mohammedans."
Posted by: darcy
No.
The ultimate in job degradation: A President of the United States working for mohammedans.
Posted by: ImNoDhimmi at October 8, 2007 7:49 PM
Darcy-
"Loving cats/kittens is the ONLY redeeeming characteristic of Moslems."
In theory. When I lived in Cairo in the 70's I saw cats casually tormented and cruelly mistreated.
Posted by: poetcomic1 at October 8, 2007 8:51 PM
Get a video camera, get a old bearded rummy, put him a purple bathrobe and give him a staff. Then have him mumble some gibberish and then strike a Koran with his staff and lastly step on it.
If you have a budget make the koran ignite afterwards.
Then put the video on Youtube. I'm sure it will be a hit with the religion of perpetual inflammation.
at October 9, 2007 12:29 AM
It's the ultimate "Get out of jail free" card when a wife catches her husband with the maid. "She used sorcery and black magic on me and I was helpless to resist."
And remember, this is the RoPaTaST (Religion of Peace and Tolerance and Scientific Thought).
Posted by: jay at October 9, 2007 3:47 AM
Sounds like a 21st Century Salem witch-hunt to me, Folks. There's never anything new under the sun.
Posted by: hardball at October 9, 2007 10:27 AM
"The paper said the maid, who is to face trial, ‘admitted she took refuge in sorcery so as to make her employers like her’"
One can only imagine the horrors she faced to say that!
Posted by: Weatherob at October 9, 2007 4:43 PM
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