Malleus maleficarum Arabicus

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Mar 6, 2012 at 23:14

Pied Piper wrote :

> 1. I agree that death for witchcraft is a cruel and unusual punishment. However, death by the electric chair, still practiced in the USA, is equally brutal and savage, particularly when it is later found out that the dearly departed was innocent after all.<

You're a strange fellow. You speak of a "state of mind (that) precludes any further reasoned discussion" and what sort of 'rationality' are you representing yourself? I have reminded you of something which you would rather conceal, namely that e.g. witches are being hunted down in Saudistan and you retort with an infantile argument of "the electric chair"! You condemn "death for witchcraft" instead of condemning witchcraft as a medieval and deeply irrational atavism! We are not talking about serial killers and psychopaths that deserve death but about women whose only crime is in the criminal mind of the perverted Saudi witch-hunters which makes a world of difference! Have you ever seen any witches in the US on the electric chair or otherwise executed, nay accused without joking? Which court of justice would accept such an accusation? If you don't believe, try and accuse any woman of what the victim of Saudi obscurantism was executed for!

We stopped hunting witches centuries ago with the advent of rationalism.The Saudis are a medieval , deeply anti-rational wahhabi theocracy and the best measure of its real nature , i.e. its monstrosity is that witchcraft as such is a criminal offense for which capital punishment is foreseen. You can't see this obvious point, can you?

> 2. The only people that condemn the Kingdom, particularly in the demented terms that you do, occurs when:

a. they have a political agenda that encourages condemnation<

Unlike you I rely on a third party to prove my point. What political agenda does the Department of State an Amnesty International pursue in their reports on what is going on in Saudistan behind the beautiful Fata Morgana you are so fond of praising ? You yourself don't need any third party to prove the virtue of Saudi despotism, do you ? Or perhaps you can't find such a third party anywhere, can you? All you said is official Saudi hagiography, useless in terms of reliability and truthfulness.

> b. they applied for a job in the Kingdom, at some point in their lives, and were summarily laughed out of the interview room.<

I understand that your job application was accepted and now that you are taking rich alms from the Saudi hand willy nilly you are obliged to justify any Saudi monstrosity, to whitewash witch-hunt and religion police, to eulogize any atavistic Saudi institution and oppression of freedom of speech in order to prove what a good servant you're to your Saudi masters who of course control everything you're writing here. It's what happens when you sell your soul to the Devil, doesn't it ?

> You are clearly consumed with hatred towards the Kingdom and likely the entire region. What the reasons are we'll never know.<

The reason is simple and quite humane. Unlike you I do hate evil. What's wrong e.g. about hating evil like witch-hunt à la saudienne , carissime advocate diaboli ?

> But this state of mind precludes any further reasoned discussion and so I wish you the best of luck.<

Indeed, when you are confronted with such pure evil like beheading wretched women for being a witch and forcing terrified girls back into fire to horrible death for not wearing Islamically correct clothes during their desperate attempt to save their lives in a burning building, instead of displaying the most basic human feelings of disgust and horror, you engage in indulgent meditations and cogitations in the spirit of "Epistulae obscurorum virorum", then what "state of mind" and what "reasoned discussion" are you in reality talking about , I wonder ?

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