Saudi Anti-Witchcraft Unit Breaks Another Spell
Posted: July 20, 2011.
Print: The Media Line
Saudi Arabia takes witchcraft so seriously that it has banned The Harry Potter series by British writer J.K. Rowling, rife with tales of sorcery and magic. It set up the Anti-Witchcraft Unit in May 2009 and placed it under the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPV), Saudi Arabia’s religious police.
“In accordance with our Islamic tradition we believe that magic really exists,” Abdullah Jaber, a political cartoonist at the Saudi daily Al-Jazirah, told The Media Line. “The fact that an official body, subordinate to the Saudi Ministry of Interior, has a unit to combat sorcery proves that the government recognizes this, like Muslims worldwide.”








The Anti-Witchcraft unit claimed that they were able to break the spell. I want this job. Give me a big police truck, authority to arrest people, some anti-witchcraft books, and hopefully a cushy office and fat paycheck, and I’ll roll around anywhere you want investigating magic and breaking spells. Bet these guys never have to work overtime. “Hey Akbar, it’s getting close to 4:30. Whadaya say we break this spell in the next couple minutes and call it a day?”
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