WITCHCRAFT

The Holy Church forgets too often its past when dictating its own morale to the world. Inquisition, witches, Jews discrimination, colonial crimes….

It must also be proud to see that its example is still being followed: in the USA by the anti-abortion, in Italy by the Northern Leagues against immigrants, Israelis against Palestinians, Islamists against black people in Sudan….They follow the secular teaching of the church !

But Saudi Arabia, the model friend of the USA, the support of the West, is the best pupil amongst all. They have just condemned to death sentence a certain Ali Hussein Sbat, a Lebanese citizen, arrested while doing his pilgrimage to the Islam’s Holy cities.

His crime ? Witchcraft !

What did he do to be found guilty ? He was employed by a Lebanese television, Sherazade, receiving phone calls and telling the future a bout the callers issues: work, health love…Subsequent to the closing of Sherazade, he became a specialist in medicinal plants

He was last seen on Saudi television, with tied legs and arms, admitting witchcraft. The Saudi court condemned him witchcraft, for being miscreant, for insulting Islam and for not observing the Islamic law.

He has until the 8th of December for filing an appeal. Saudis lawyers have asked 1 million dollars for undertaking such a procedure. Talking about crooks.

True that we are in 1430 (Muslim calendar) and that the last witch to be burned in Europe was Anna Göldin in 1782 in Switzerland. Time for more crimes, time to stop being lenient towards obscurantism, time to say BASTA to Saudi Arabia.

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UNESCO: good news

For years we got used to the absurdities of international politics:
- Cuba and Libya elected at the UN Human rights Commission, that same that was supposed to be a major reform by Kofi Annan;
- Islamic and African countries supporting the Sudanese dictator whose hands are full of blood;
- African countries electing el-Gaddafi as President of the African Union;
- the USA organizing coups in Chile and other Latin American countries;
- Russia occupying parts of Georgia (with the support of Mr. Berlusconi);
- the USA closing two eyes on the Israel colonization of occupied territories;
- French Presidents honouring African presidents like Bokassa and Bongo

And so on and so forth.

But two days ago, Ms. Bokova, a woman, former communist, was elected to lead UNESCO instead of Mr. Hosni, a male, Egyptian, who likes to burn books. This is really good news.

For the first time a woman will lead the world leading cultural institution. It was time. A male, representing a corrupt, but American supported, regime, an Islamist based on his declarations, is defeated. The reaction of the Egyptian and Arab countries to this defeat, and that of Mr. Hosni himself (the defeat was due to an anti-Islamic campaign lead by the USA) just confirm that the right choice was made.

At the same time, the long standing political control of France over UNESCO is gone. The French support of Hosni to help Sarkozy in its dying dream of a Mediterranean Union failed miserably, so the Italian foreign policy supportive of the Egyptian candidate in spite of his declared involvement in an Palestinian high-jacking of a cruise boat in the Mediterranean sea.

Regrettably, Obama’s USA continued to support Hosni, in spite of what the Egyptian Press says. So did the Africans, Islamic and Arab countries in the name of a wrongly conceived “blood alliance”.

It was a good start. Up to all of us to ensure it will continue.

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