Iran is a weird fucking place...

[Zenith]

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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?

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I thought Saudi Arabia is the light of the arabic nations.
Anyway, "education" has perhaps nothing to do with "faith": I've watched a video on youtube, it appears to have been a UK broadcast. It was about UK muslims. The ones with higher education (i.e. university degrees) were more fanatical than the others. So I guess it is wrong to assume "education" (as the teachings that are received in schools) are the same as "reasoning/thinking capability". You may get a very good muslim scientist in schools, but if he's spent all his free time in mosques taught to blindly believe the imam and all the religious leaders, then his school didn't help him much.

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It's up to them to deal with that situation, though. No one can do it for them.

Yeah, and if the people would try to do something about that situation, they would very probably end up being massacred by the government (the country's army, whatever)
I believe that there might be centuries needed for this to end, a time when saying "Islam" and "religion" would sound "hypocrisy" to most.