Five of family beheaded for “witchcraft” in India

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GUWAHATI, India - A tea plantation worker and his four children were beheaded in India’s remote northeast by a mob which accused them of practising black magic, police said on Sunday.

Sixty-year-old Amir Munda, who was also a traditional healer, his two sons and two daughters were killed by angry villagers after a kangaroo court held them guilty of spreading a mysterious disease which killed two people and left many others ill over the last two weeks. snip

“More than 200 people who were involved in the gruesome murder marched to the police station carrying the severed heads and shouting slogans against witchcraft all the way,” T. Gogoi, a local police officer, said by phone.

He said the heads were left at the police station.

[BlackHeart]

1. Coming to a neighborhood

in your area soon, thanks to the fundies.

[chaumont58]

2. Yep

A fundie is a fundie, whether he is a Christian, Hindu, or a Muslim.

The future don't look that bright. The hyper-religious want to turn back the calender to 1498.

[cali]

5. Baloney.

Serious belief that we're close to such things happening is a sure sign of paranoia.

[MetaTrope]

6. Er, you haven't heard about satanic ritual abuse?

The hysteria peaked during the Reagan/Bush years...

[no_hypocrisy]

3. "We have found a witch! We have found a witch! May we burn her?"

"How do you know she's a witch?"

"She looks like one!"

Thanks to Monty Python and The Holy Grail for succinctly reducing the argument to its basis.

[patdem]

4. Well, crap, let's just givem a nuke....oh wait....

We already did that, thanks george* for encouringing them to nuke the unfaithful rather than behead them, the bomb is such a sophiticated way of doing away with one's enemies doncha know!