Bewitched?

If I was the sceptical sort I would say that this story is fake, but then again when religion and theocracies are concerned the boundary between reality and utter lunacy becomes less easy to spot.

The story is about some poor bugger from the Lebanon who visited Saudi Arabia on a pilgrimage and was subsequently arrested for "witchcraft". The basis for this rather interesting charge was that the man in question Ali Sibat appeared regularly on Lebanese satellite TV issuing general advice on life and making predictions about the future, apparently there have been two other such cases in Saudi this month alone, the sentence for this charge can be death.

Since our Government seems so keen to bend over backwards to accommodate Muslim apologists, perhaps we could adopt this little "cultural" quirk here in the UK along with Sharia law? One thing is for sure though, such a move might make deciding to take an umbrella with you to work in the morning a little more hit and miss.