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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: WindAndConfusion on Thursday, October 16, 2008, 04:58:58 PM
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Apparently some Tanzanian witch doctors have claimed that the body parts of albinos can be used to attract gold. So far this has sparked about thirty killings, with most of the victims' bodies dismembered.
Living in fear: Tanzania's albinos (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7518049.stm)
Twenty-five people with albinism have been murdered in Tanzania since March, a BBC investigation has found.
Albinos are targeted for body parts that are used in witchcraft, and killings continue despite government efforts to stamp out the grisly practice, the BBC's Karen Allen says.
Once, albinos used to seek shelter from the sun. Now they have gone into hiding simply to survive, after a series of killings linked to witchcraft.
In Tanzania, 25 albinos have been killed in the past year.
The latest victim was a seven-month-old baby. He was mutilated on the orders of a witchdoctor peddling the belief that potions made from an albino's legs, hair, hands, and blood can make a person rich.
Sorcery and the occult maintain a strong foothold in this part of the world, especially in the remote rural areas around the fishing and mining regions of Mwanza, on the shores of Lake Victoria.
'We want your legs'
The last adult albino to be murdered - just a few weeks ago - was Nyerere Rutahiro.
He was eating dinner outside in his modest rural compound, when a gang of four strangers burst in, and threatened to arrest him. As his wife Susannah looked on helplessly, the men began to hack at Nyerere's arms and legs with machetes.
Albinos in Burundi flee killings (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7649420.stm)
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religion, eh?
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Yes, I believe it is commonly known that all religions support the removal of limbs for use in divining the location of precious metals.
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Actually, I'm pretty sure this counts as science.
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Kill whitey?
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I'm down.
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Bill Mahar is in some documentary movie now called Religulous (spelling?) poking at religion and its ridiculous extremes... Bill Mahar, that guy is just so smart and original, I mean, nobody has totally done that before.
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Bill Mahar is in some documentary movie now called Religulous (spelling?) poking at religion and its ridiculous extremes... Bill Mahar, that guy is just so smart and original, I mean, nobody has totally done that before.
I cannot for the life of me tell if you're being sarcastic.
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lol @ W&C
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As an albino, I'm outraged that anyone would believe this is true.
/me furiously hides all his gold
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I didn't know you were from Albania.
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You are a very confused man.
/me pats Pug on the head.
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I was trying to go for an Ali G moment there.
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I knew something was up, but I played it off. Better safe than sorry. :)
How is Ali G? I know the actor (saw Borat) and saw the show while very intoxicated, but haven't seen any more of it. Worth seeing?
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The movie isn't worth seeing. South Beach Bruno should be good though.
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You've seen it?
I listened to Bill Maher talk and it seemed to me that either he didn't understand the fundamentals of faith or he was simply going in a different direction. Based on the reviews that I saw, it seems like the former. He went for the comedic approach rather than the serious one.
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I have seen the Ali G movie, and it is garbage. I have not seen the new Bill Maher movie. For Ali G, stick to the show.
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I agree. The movie is rubbish.. and nothing like the show. Watch him interview the people at the FBI. Hilarious...