Close allies of Iran‘s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have been accused of using supernatural powers to further his policies amid an increasingly bitter power struggle between him and the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Several people said to be close to the president and his chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, have been arrested in recent days and charged with being “magicians” and invoking djinns (spirits).

Ayandeh, an Iranian news website, described one of the arrested men, Abbas Ghaffari, as “a man with special skills in metaphysics and connections with the unknown worlds”.

http://www.menwithfoilhats.com/2011/05/i...ack-magic/

And this is in one of the most educated Islamic societies?

Islam - slightly more insane than Christianity ....... if that's even possible.

Iran is a great example of what happens when religious fucktards run things.

(May 6, 2011 at 11:29 pm)theVOID Wrote: Ayandeh, an Iranian news website, described one of the arrested men, Abbas Ghaffari, as “a man with special skills in metaphysics and connections with the unknown worlds”.

Wow. Obviously holding people in custody without charge is no obstacle to Iranian law enforcement, everyone's guilty until proven innocent.

(May 7, 2011 at 2:46 am)Welsh cake Wrote:

(May 6, 2011 at 11:29 pm)theVOID Wrote: Ayandeh, an Iranian news website, described one of the arrested men, Abbas Ghaffari, as “a man with special skills in metaphysics and connections with the unknown worlds”.

Wow. Obviously holding people in custody without charge is no obstacle to Iranian law enforcement, everyone's guilty until proven innocent.

If they convict him of this can he win the james randi prize?

http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html

(May 7, 2011 at 2:46 am)Welsh cake Wrote:

(May 6, 2011 at 11:29 pm)theVOID Wrote: Ayandeh, an Iranian news website, described one of the arrested men, Abbas Ghaffari, as “a man with special skills in metaphysics and connections with the unknown worlds”.

Wow. Obviously holding people in custody without charge is no obstacle to Iranian law enforcement, everyone's guilty until proven innocent.

The Iranians aren't alone in that......


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_...ntion_camp

Quote:After the United Nations called unsuccessfully for the Guantanamo Bay detention camp to be closed, one judge observed 'America's idea of what is torture ... does not appear to coincide with that of most civilised nations'.[18]

You know what I am thinking? Thats a great way to take out political enemies in a country that is superstitious...accuse them of witchcraft, and if anyone rejects the claim then obviously they too are dabling in witchcraft as well.

(May 7, 2011 at 11:35 am)reverendjeremiah Wrote: You know what I am thinking? Thats a great way to take out political enemies in a country that is superstitious...accuse them of witchcraft, and if anyone rejects the claim then obviously they too are dabling in witchcraft as well.

Not a dime's worth of difference between Islam and Christianity.

(May 7, 2011 at 11:50 am)DeistPaladin Wrote:

(May 7, 2011 at 11:35 am)reverendjeremiah Wrote: You know what I am thinking? Thats a great way to take out political enemies in a country that is superstitious...accuse them of witchcraft, and if anyone rejects the claim then obviously they too are dabling in witchcraft as well.

Not a dime's worth of difference between Islam and Christianity.

Thats my I specifically said "superstitious" instead of a specific religion.

My bro was going to marry an iranian girl and have to 'become a muslim'.

THANK THE INVISIBLE LORD HE CAME TO HIS SENSES!