Sarah Palin, Witchhunting, and her Wacky Church

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christiv3
September 22, 2008

A visiting pastor at Sarah Palin's longterm church in Wasilla, is an admitted Witchhunter in Kenya. Sarah Palin gives credit to Pastor Muthee for praying her into the governor's office. This past...

A visiting pastor at Sarah Palin's longterm church in Wasilla, is an admitted Witchhunter in Kenya. Sarah Palin gives credit to Pastor Muthee for praying her into the governor's office. This pastor has vistited this church over 10 times and is proud of his witchhunting in Kenya. He even made a video describing his "success" in driving out a witch from the town by threatening to stone the old woman.

About Witch-hunts:
A witch-hunt is a search for witches or evidence of witchcraft, often involving moral panic, mass hysteria and mob lynching, but in historical instances also legally sanctioned and involving official witchcraft trials.

Many cultures throughout the world, both ancient and modern, have reacted to allegations of witchcraft either with superstitious fear and awe, and killed any alleged practitioners of witchcraft outright; or, shunned it as quackery, extortion or fraud. Witch-hunts still occur in the modern era in many communities where religious values condemn the practice of witchcraft and the occult.

Witch-hunts in Kenya:
Although Pastor Muthee is not known to be involved in this incident, this type of witchhunt has been reported in Kenya this year. Note the targets are the elderly. Witchhunts usually target the weakest of society and have nothing to do with actual "spiritual warfare".

In late May, news outlets in Kenya told the story of 15 people, mostly elderly women, who were murdered in a witch hunt near the town of Kisii. The killings shocked the nation.

Villagers said more than 100 people gathered machetes and knives and stormed the village of Kegogi after midnight.

"They started banging on the doors, they broke into the house and then they killed our grandmother inside," says Justus Bosire. "The mob was screaming and we panicked. We ran away and they came to our house and burned it to the ground."

When Bosire returned to his grandmother's house, he found her dead on the floor in a bed of embers. His father is missing.

"They claim that my grandmother and father were practicing witches," Bosire says. Watch Bosire describe her die »

Belief in witchcraft is strong in this part of Kenya. A few days before the incident, a group of schoolchildren reportedly found a book in their school that listed all the people in the community who would soon die and the witches who would be responsible. iReport.com: Share your stories, videos from Africa

For Bosire and his family, the killings are hard to believe. His grandmother, Peris, was the matriarch of the family. She was 86 but still actively farmed and dispensed invaluable advice to the family.

Up the road from Bosire's house lives Paul Magoma. "I believe there is witchcraft and the witches kill," Magoma says while building a chapel. His fellow workers concur: Witches exist and can put spells on people.

Others are skeptical the slain women were witches. At the top of a hill outside Kisii, Joseph Omache practices his craft. Omache is a shaman, or traditional healer. He throws bones and communes with ancestors to help heal physical and spiritual ailments.

"It is very painful when somebody kills another person in the name of witchcraft," he says. "Why couldn't they come to me so that I can perform my herbal potion to identify the real witch so that I can go ahead now to trap him and then we can see what to do?"

Omache says that in his 10 years of studies and decades of practicing, he has never come across a witch.

"These are vendettas. It is not that people really bewitched somebody," he says, adding he believes that witch hunts are really about people expressing hatred and coming up with an excuse to hurt someone.

The area is one of the most populated rural areas in Kenya. Over the years, farming plots have been divided and subdivided. Omache and others say they believe witch hunts are about greed and vendettas in a place where almost everyone struggles to survive.

Whatever the reason, Bosire and his family must live with the consequences. Due to local taboo, they will never live in his grandmother's house. The doors are boarded, her belongings still lie charred on the floor. The family fears further attacks.

"We are fearing for our lives," Bosire says. "I knew my grandmother since I was a young child and I have never seen evidence of her being a witch."

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"witchhuntery"?
wow george w. oberman ...you can never give george crap for that again

muthee prays for Palin. Palin makes a statement regarding how it is not about hoping and wishing, but rather getting it done (Something I strongly agree with). And I think keith is stretching the association between the two of them too far.

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Kids, even babies in Nigeria get set alight and left at the side of the road cos they've been branded witches. These corrupt 'pastors' make money out of desperate people, blaming all their ills on witches, often their own children. Not a laughing matter and Palin, through ignorance, praises one of these murderers. Politics irrelevant.

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@Dubwise78 I wish they had played the part of the video where the narrator was saying that the woman really was a witch.

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Obama is a crook who wants to sell the United States Soul.

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We have a president in office that is surrounded by crooks and evil men and Keith Oberman is worried about Sarah Palin's faith.

What a tool!

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"crooks and evil men"... lol

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This is insane!!!! Religion is a cancer!!! When are we going to overcome it???!!!

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You're very lucky to have Keith, him and Bill Maher are the only ones telling it like it is in America.

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Palin watch out ima witch! lol
That dumb bitch should look at the "Freedom of Religion" right.

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