Saudi religious police begin campaign against sorcery and witchcraft

by Kal El on May 12, 2009 · Comments

Saudi Arabia has a special group of religious police called the Muttawa. From what I hear from friends who have lived there, the muttawa are the dumbest, most inbred f*ckheads the Saudi religious authorities can find. Now we see why they choose them…

Saudi seeks to break spell of sorcerers

AFP/Riyadh
Saudi Arabia’s morality police are launching a programme to combat witchcraft and sorcery, the official SPA news agency reported yesterday.
The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, also known as the muttawa, will create teams specially trained to eradicate the practices, deputy commission president Ibrahim al-Hoiml said.
“The plan is aimed at developing people to work in the field on cases of witchcraft and sorcery to protect the society and raise public awareness,” he said.
Saudi clerics are concerned about the operations of self-described fortune-tellers, mystics, magicians and others.
They often pitch their services to women seeking to put spells on men or to have children, and to people suffering from diseases.
Some are especially popular with the hundreds of thousands of immigrant workers from Africa.
In March, a sorcerer was arrested in the Hail region. He had covered the walls of his home with more than 100,000 ‘magic’ inscriptions, including some written in blood, according to press reports.
Some officials urged the government to destroy the dwelling rather than paint over the walls, to make sure the inscriptions would not retain any potency.

Ahh the modernity of islam, doing what it can to combat the threat posed by sorcerers and witches!

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  • bangsat
    well it happens....indonesia is rife with this sort of thing!!!
  • hellosnackbar
    There used to be a blogger called the religious policeman (muttawa).
    I think his blog can still be seen and well worth a visit.
    He claims to be a Saudi living in the UK;but his use of English is very strong(uncharacteristic for a muslim).However he speaks Arabic.
    He says that the muttawa are people ,who are too stupid to become an Imam(that gives a new benchmark for thick!).
  • Kal_El
    hellosnackbar,

    I have read his blog, muttawa.blogspot.com. He has a lot of interesting
    articles. He is Western educated, as are many middle easterners. His
    definition of the muttawa is quite polite compared to the one my coworker
    who lived in Saudi for 5 years gave.

    JEWHAWK,

    My coworker that lived in Saudi said it was like being on another world,
    much like an episode of Star Trek. Only more frightening, at the sheer
    stupidity and ignorance of the masses. They make the kool-aid drinkers in
    the US look like Rhodes Scholars! :)
  • JEWHAWK
    I like sorcerers.They are cool.I like Harry Potter ,too.I like
    everything muslims don't.
  • Kal_El
    I fear most for Gandalf The Grey, I mean he is powerful in his own right,
    but against the muttawa, and their slobbering, inbred ranks he may be
    overmatched. :P
  • JEWHAWK
    Dear Kal_El,I wonder if we are living in a different DIMENSION or
    the muslims travelled through some wormhole from another
    time,place...I dunno man,they simply DON'T belong to our reality,
    but to some Star Trek episode!!
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