There was article on CNN.com today about a family in Saudi Arabia that is taking a genie to court on harassment charges. My question is this, if the family wins, how does the genie pay them? [Link]
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Mark and Nat, a married couple who are living in Kuwait. Mark is a creative director at an ad agency while Nat runs her own design studio called Push+Pull.
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Let’s start a competition.
How many subliminal punchlines and jokes towards Islam can you find from the article writer’s style and phrasing?
The winner gets 3 wishes from the genie!
Have you noticed how many times strange stories from Saudi Arabia have appeared on CNN this year? Its a conspiracy!
Rub the lamp and ask Genie!
They should use this as a storyline in Boston Legal.
I do believe in Jin , and that they might harass people in their own houses. and I personally know people who had several incidents . and trust me its not psychological imaginations.
The saudi family simply went to authorities to help them using islamics means in getting the jins out of the house.
Mark, bleh, you took the cheap shot with the Disney genie picture.
did the genie make it to court?
“the process of non-thinking, called faith”, (Richard Dawkins).
Belief in the supernatural and make-beleif, is paramount to all faiths (not only Abrahamic faiths).
I love how they decided to use the term ‘genie’ and not ‘ghost’ or ‘spirit’ which would have been more common in the western world and would have been seen as less crazy.
LOOOOL !! Really funny things happen in KSA! but how did the Genie harass them?! ;p
really funny!
I believe in jinns, but how exactly are they going to take (him?) to court?
The Lord of the rings must be real also. At least it’s sounding more credible.
Pics or it didn’t happen.
Original Article from the Saudi newspaper.
http://www.alwatan.com.sa/news/newsdetail.asp?issueno=3204&id=109299
It contains a very long discussion thread, where opinion is split 50/50.
Did it ever cross their minds it could be a human being throwing stones and harassing them? >_>
Maybe they will granted 6 wishes instead of 3 !!
@toni I am quite educated thank you very much, and do not need to look up the term as I understand it’s meaning. I suggest you re-read my comment to help you better understand my point instead of spewing out condescending crap.
@toni
The USA as well as the continents of North and South America are also named after “some guys name”.
lol nice one
toni its still a guys name america or saudi arabia
even without the historical contexts in both occassions
tomAto Tomato
The fact that a court has even accepted to hear their case and a local charity has moved them to another location to protect them from further harassment from this evil jinn just adds insult to injury.
Its stories like this and stories like you find in the Kuwait Times on a daily basis that make the rest of the world think the Middle East is full of backward nuts and wackos.
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Lol, and we ask ourselves why our part of the world isn’t getting anywhere, eventhough we sit on 10% of worlds oil.