Saudis' launching "Withchunt"

[Yahoshua]

Read...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060605/...DJlYmhvBHNlYwM-

My, I wonder if they'll be going after suspected Jewish foreigners or Christian arabs?

[TLAM Strike]

Ahh so they are going after Witches now. I guess we can call this progress at a minimum the Muslim world is only 300 years behind the rest of us.

I have a suddon urge to watch Firefly now.

Patron: This is a holy cleansing. You cannot think to thwart God's will.

Mal: Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting. (To Simon) Gotta say, Doctor — your talent for alienatin' folks is near miraculous.
Simon: Yes, I'm very proud.
Mal: Cut her down!
Patron: The girl is a witch.

Mal: Yeah, but she's our witch. <cocks gun> So cut her the hell down.

Ya see Mal knows how to deal with the more "primitive" people of the 'verse and there "backwards beliefs", just have a spaceship with a trigger happy mercenary hover over them while you point a large shotgun in their face. I think we can all learn a thing or two from good old Mal, and thus ends todays lesson in Western/Muslim relations.

[Abraham]

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's powerful morality police is launching a witch hunt in the birthplace of Islam.
The Authority for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice is setting up special centers in all cities to "register complaints on sorcerers and charlatans, track them and terminate them," the authority's chief Sheikh Ibrahim bin Abdallah al-Ghaith told al-Madinah newspaper.
Islam forbids magic and practicing it is considered blasphemy.
Saudi newspapers often report incidents involving so-called sorcerers, mainly from the Indian subcontinent and Africa.
Some Saudis pay them vast amounts of money, hoping to uncover hidden treasures or get jobs, according to the papers.
The religious police have wide powers in Saudi Arabia, which imposes a strict version of Sunni Islam, to prevent the spread of drugs, alcohol and prostitution as well as stop unrelated men and women mixing in public.
is setting up special centers in all cities to "register complaints on sorcerers and charlatans, track them and terminate them," the authority's chief Sheikh Ibrahim bin Abdallah al-Ghaith told al-Madinah newspaper.
Islam forbids magic and practicing it is considered blasphemy.
Saudi newspapers often report incidents involving so-called sorcerers, mainly from the Indian subcontinent and Africa.
Some Saudis pay them vast amounts of money, hoping to uncover hidden treasures or get jobs, according to the papers.
The religious police have wide powers in Saudi Arabia, which imposes a strict version of Sunni Islam, to prevent the spread of drugs, alcohol and prostitution as well as stop unrelated men and women mixing in public.

I like the line: "The Authority for Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice".
Sounds like a kind of Islamic subsim moderator.

[scandium]

I like this mix of 18th century concepts with 21st century language, t'is very striking:

The Authority for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice is setting up special centers in all cities to "register complaints on sorcerers and charlatans, track them and terminate them"

[Skybird]

Primitives.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Primitives.

Thanks for the laugh Skybird, I had a rotten day.

[TteFAboB]

I don't know what's more fascinating. The termination of sorcerers, or the fact some Saudis pay them large sums of money in the hopes of finding a hidden treasure, or a job.

Seems like Saudi Arabia could use more jobs, and more treasures too, outside the Prince's garage.