3 comments

• Pingback: The Wild Hunt » Just News, No Fooling

  […] police, including modern Pagans. What’s that? There are no modern Pagans in the Middle East? Well, it seems that there are indeed Pagans in Lebanon. Lebanese blogger Hanibaael explores the phenomenon (in an Arabic-only post, here’s a rough […]

  1 April 2010, 16:53 pm
• Pingback: The Wild Hunt » Quick Note: Great Article on the Ali Sibat Situation

  […] For the moment there is a stay of execution, but there is no clue as to if it is only temporary, or if Sibat’s life will truly be spared. This show of force by conservative factions in Saudi Arabia, and the hesitancy of Lebanese politicians to directly challenge their powerful neighbor place Sibat in a precarious situation. As I pointed out the other day, Saudi Arabia brazenly grabbing pilgrims and sentencing them to death for “sorcery” or “witchcraft” endangers the lives of any who don’t toe the line of Sunni hard-liners, including the small community of modern Pagans and occultists living in Lebanon. […]

  3 April 2010, 10:01 am
• Hanibaael

  the second part of “Paganism and Occultism in Lebanon”:

  http://wp.me/pjh2S-vv

  6 April 2010, 17:38 pm

  Reply to this