Weird Court Case

 There is one particular word that you can use around a Muslim guy/gal, and suddenly they 'perk' up.  The word is 'jinn'.

In simple terms....jinn refers to a demon.  

In the same way that Catholics get all hyped with the suggestion of a demon....in the Islamic faith....jinn equals demon.

One would ask....is there a Islamic version of an exorcism?   Yes, and it's referred to as 'aza'im.  

So this topic comes up in Germany this morning because a exorcism episode was conducted....on a wife of a Islamic guy.

This story is carried by RBB (public TV out of Berlin) and tells the basic story of a Islamic gal. 

The wife (age 22) hadn't been able to conceive a kid.  It reached a level where the husband and wife were worried (as was his parents.....both in their 50s).

So they went and consulted a Islamic scholar.  The advice here?  Demons were at work, and in the wife.  She willingly went along with this (at least it appears that way).

The suggestion....make her drink 1.5 liters of water each day....highly salted-up. We aren't talking a little bit of salt....this was an extreme amount in each day's 'dose'.

By the 8th day, the wife was finished (dead). 

The religious scholar and the two parents of the husband?  All charged up as accomplices. 

All of this occurred in the late fall of 2015, so it's taken this long for the court case to officially open.

I sat and read over this.  The husband was considered educated, and had been in Germany for more than 30 years.  He'd come in from Lebanon.  His wife?  She had grown up in Lebanon and had met him back around 2010.....marrying shortly after that.

The journalists say she made an enormous effort to integrate....learn the language, and had the eventual goal of going to a German university.  

What'll happen in court?  My humble belief is that it'll be laid out by religious experts about the lifestyle and belief in demons.  The judges will probably be viewing as a bit weird, but at least understand the rational behavior of the four parties in front of them. I don't see how they can avoid a sentence of some type.  The husband and his parents put full faith into the religious scholar.  Some kind of prison term will handed out but it certainly won't be 20-odd years in some German prison....more likely to be five to seven years.  

Germans will shake their head over this story, but to be honest....if you went around the German Catholic community....they'd tell you of various exorcisms conducted as well.