>From: "Yusupha C. Jow" <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: A Missing Penis...(Observer Story) >Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 12:59:03 EDT > >All: >I think what is happening here is a classic case of hypnotism? In other >words, common sense tells us that no one can 'loohoos' a person's body parts. > So the logical explanation is that these fakirs hypnotize their victims to >believe that they are missing a body part. But given the rife superstition >back home, folks thnk these charlatans are for real. I heard that mob >justice was meted out to one of these so-called magicians in Nigeria very >recently. The poor chap was murdered. > >Habib, I do disagree with you on Sheikh Abdul Rahman. He is a classic case >of these religious leaders preaching fire and brimstone on the 'civilized' >World from their mosques. Rahman is/was the spiritual leader of the Islamic >Jihad in Egypt, a movement which produced the likes of Zawahari, Bin laden's >right hand man. Rahman even visited Afghanistan during the war against the >Russians. He was in cohoots with Al Qaida. His blindness should not deter >from the fact that he is capable of inciting terrorism by using words. > >_Yus > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface >at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html >To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: >[log in to unmask] > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~