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| Prayer missing 'spells' trouble for Saudi man |
| 2011-04-03 |
| [Arab News] Some outsiders may not be aware that in smaller towns in Soddy Arabia the religious police still patrol and detain people for not going to mosque. Outsiders (much less non-Mohammedans) are rarely subjected to this treatment, but when it comes to local villagers the local religious constabulary treats not going to mosque virtually as a misdemeanor, detainable offense. According to a recent report in Shams Arabic daily, a man faced this situation in Darb, Jazan province, when he was jugged for not attending prayer at a local mosque. His defense? Somebody had cast a spell on him that caused him to forget how to pray. He even produced a sheet of paper with some scribbles on it that he claimed had been left at his doorstep by some unknown practitioner of the black arts. The local Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice took the man to a "white magician" (an Islamic scholar who specializes in de-spelling spells) and, lo and behold, the man said he could now remember his prayers and, you guessed it, headed to the mosque to thank God for his cure. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Police have to mess with magic the world over. Joseph Wambaugh wrote of a senior cop who got very tired of this old couple continually having drunken, knock-down drag-out fights because they hated each other. So he had them put their hands on his badge, and said, "By the power granted to me by the State of California and the City of Los Angeles, I now pronounce you divorced!" Thinking they were now divorced, both of them suddenly became happy and pleasant, stopped arguing and were downright friendly to each other. Problem solved. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-04-03 09:57 |