i can't imagine this

superstitions (of course ALL 'religions' are sort of based on them OR fear OR fantasy). some countries in africa seem to be very much overboard though killing albinos for LUCK in tanzania and this:

Gambians 'taken by witch doctors'

Up to 1,000 Gambian villagers have been abducted by "witch doctors" to secret detention centres and forced to drink potions, a human rights group says.

Amnesty International said some forced to drink the concoctions developed kidney problems, and two had died.

Officials in the police, army and the president's personal protection guard had accompanied the "witch doctors" in the bizarre roundup, said witnesses.

Gambia's government was unavailable to comment on the claims.

The human rights group asserted that many of those abducted were elderly.

The London-based rights group said the witch hunters, said to be from neighbouring Guinea, were invited into Gambia after the death of the president's aunt earlier this year was blamed on witchcraft.

Kate Allen, Amnesty's UK director, said hundreds of Gambians have fled to neighbouring Senegal for safety after seeing their villages attacked.

"The Gambian government has to put a stop to this campaign, investigate these attacks immediately and bring those responsible to justice," she said.......

our best buds, those wild and wacky saudis

are up to their ol' hijinks again! what a bunch of cards they are, huh? i laughed and laughed over this. as a matter of fact, i'm STILL laughing so hard right now, i could just kick the shite out of those f**king asswipes
why don't we bring our 'democracy' over there i wonder to myself?
Saudis to execute a woman for witchcraft
Rights Group: Saudis Should Halt Execution of a Woman for Witchcraft
DONNA ABU-NASR

A leading human rights group appealed to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah on Thursday to stop the execution of a woman accused of witchcraft and performing supernatural acts. The New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement that the kingdom's religious police who arrested and interrogated Fawza Falih, and the judges who tried her in the northern town of Quraiyat never gave her the opportunity to prove her innocence in the face of "absurd charges that have no basis in law."
Falih's case underscores shortcomings in Saudi Arabia's Islamic legal system in which rules of evidence are shaky, lawyers are not always present and sentences often depend on the whim of judges.
The most frequent victims are women, who already suffer severe restrictions on daily life in Saudi Arabia: They cannot drive, appear before a judge without a male representative, or travel abroad without a male guardian's permission..........

The Saudi court cited an instance in which a man allegedly became impotent after being bewitched by Falih, the rights group said.

these people are our 'friends'

i didn't choose them, our government did (not just king george either). they treat women like SHITE, most all of the 9/11 terrorists came out of the country and on and on and on.

i wonder what will happen to this maid. she committed a capital offense (which means, in most cases DEATH) against her male employer by BEWITCHING HIM. so it's the salem witch trials (by the way, the FIRST witch trial and death was in connecticut) in saudia arabia all over again.

Maid arrested after Saudi employer 'bewitched'
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.
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".........