This would be funny, but pity the poor souls who will be accused of this idiocy.
Witchcraft is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia.
Via Jerusalem Post:
Saudi Arabia’s religious new police recruits are now being trained in more than enforcing modesty standards. According to various reports across Arab media, cadets are taking a five-day course in combating wizards, witches and as-of-yet unconfirmed plague of leprechauns blighting the Kingdom.
Saudi media reported that 30 members of the religious police, formally named the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPV), completed the course in February. Classes educated the officers in how to identify and safely apprehend the dangerous suspects who may be travailing the Arabian desert, such as Sharia-desecrating elves….
The Kingdom 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. In 2011, Abdullah Jaber, a political cartoonist at the Saudi daily Al-Jazirah, told The Media Line “In accordance with our Islamic tradition we believe that magic really exists. 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.”…
Related:
Would the Sharia NAZI’s approve books where grand wizards raped and pillaged their way across Israel?
I take it that Lord of the Rings is banned there…
The Lucky Charms elf is in grave danger!
Insanity seems rife in some of the offspring of Ishmael.