Really, Saudi Arabia? Really? Isn’t it about time that Saudi society and law were forced to grow up and stop believing in fairy tales?
This court case could be used to spell the end of this nonsense, but it won’t unfortunately…
From Emirates 24/7:
Lawyer wants jinn to testify in court
Says court should summon genie in corrupt judge caseA Saudi defence lawyer has asked court to summon a jinn (genie) claimed to have possessed a judge who has been arrested on corruption charges, the Saudi Arabic language daily Okaz reported on Saturday.
The lawyer, Salim bin Atteyya, told court that the jinn must be present in court to testify in the case of the corrupt judge in Madina, Islam’s second holiest shrine after Makkah, the newspaper said.
“The case of the corrupt judge in Madina has taken a new turn and witnessed new developments as the lawyer of an absent defendant has asked court to summon the jinn to testify,” the paper said.
“If what the accused judge said about the jinn, then this jinn could be bad and blasphemous…this jinn could have been sent by a bad sorcerer because witchcraft is bad and non-Islamic.”
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February:11:2012 - 14:05
As an atheist, I was mildly amused by this:
“Really, Saudi Arabia? Really? Isn’t it about time that Saudi society and law were forced to grow up and stop believing in fairy tales?”
Regardless of the content you link, believing fairy tales is probably the only reason Saudi Arabia is a nation.
February:11:2012 - 23:55
First, an observation. The story is from October 2010. Although it is kind of dated it could very easily happen in 2012 in the KSA.
Secondly, if this is allowed to stand and holds any sort of weight or precedent then all crime in the Kingdom can be explained away as influenced by a jinn. The accused judge has his own hired expert (a Raqi ??) that will testify about the jinn’s actions. Who could argue with a man that communicates with jinns? Who’d want to cross him?