Central African Republic: Sorcery at War (Which is more strange, these beliefs and practices, or that the open-borders overlords of all Western nations are importing this stuff into the West as fast as they can?)

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                 I prefer Western witches.

Sorcery at War

BANGUI, Central African Republic — This nation is flirting with genocide. Two barely organized groups — one Christian, one Muslim — have been fighting for control in the last year, and in some areas have tried to hunt each other to extinction. C.A.R. is splitting in two, with Muslims in the north and Christians in the south. Much of the capital is already empty of Muslims.

And yet casting the conflict in religious terms is a poor way to understand it. The war was caused not by sectarian differences, but by political and economic grievances, the products of systematic neglect of Muslim areas by the government once run by François Bozizé, a general backed by Chad and France. Religious divisions mapped onto, and exacerbated, senses of longstanding economic and political injustice.

And if the violence has reached fearsome levels in the last few months, it is partly because a pervasive belief in sorcery among Central Africans has mapped onto and exacerbated Christian-Muslim divisions.

“Witchcraft is real,” the country’s interim president, Catherine Samba-Panza, assured me during an interview at her home in Bangui in late March. . . .

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/19/opinion/sorcery-at-war.html?emc=eta1&_r=1

     Which is more strange, these beliefs and practices, or that the open-borders overlords of all Western nations are importing this stuff into the West as fast as they can? Of course, rather than running around with torches and machetes accusing someone of being a witch because they have enough money to buy a motorbike or build a house on top of an actual foundation, our idea of a witch is the beautiful blond Elizabeth Montgomery doing too many good deeds. Once again showing how evil we all are.