Jinn and justice
The jurisprudential genie is out of the bottle in Saudi Arabia. A family in Madina has gone to an Islamic court charging a "spirit" with theft and harassment. Here's a primer on jinn.
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Majnoon.
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That is just demented. We live in dark times, someone pass me a pitchfork and flaming torch. Better yet, get those d&^cheb"gs from NI's Greatest Haunts on the case.
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I think that they have a bit too much faith in the court system (unless said judges are also exorcists or the Islamic equivalent thereof).
And they aren't the first to do something like this. A man sued Satan in a US court- it was dismissed on a technicality. (Although the case has been cited numerous times...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_ex_rel._Gerald_Mayo_v._Satan_and_His_Staff
http://kevinunderhill.typepad.com/Documents/Mayo_v_Satan.pdf
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Eek, I think I just got the title of this. The Gourds or Snoop dogg was it Will?
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Jinn and Tonic, I think...
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Isn't it a play on "Gin and Juice"?
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Need coffee, badly caffeine depleted; brain not function good...
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