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Off Topic: A Fascinating Contradiction: Islam & Jinn

This is completely out of character for me to blog about topics of this nature, but I recently read an article in The Economist entitled "Jinn: Born of fire" with fascination.

You can find the article here.

And with equal fascination, I recently stumbled across this article, which states that:

Government officers in Malaysia tore pages from international weekly newspaper "The Economist" and blacked out a paragraph because the content contravened Islamic teachings, according to the Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ), SEAPA's partner in Malaysia.

Missing in the locally circulated 23 December 2006 edition of "The Economist", published by the Economist Newspaper Limited in Britain, is the article, "Born of fire", about Muslims in Afghanistan and Somalia believing in the existence of jinns (genies).

I have no idea why this topic fascinates me -- but it does.

Some additional background can be found here.

Cheers.

- ferg

posted by Fergie @ 1/15/2007 02:04:00 PM