Comments on: Another look at a Port Dickson sunset, and what I’m reading

By: bibliobibuli

bibliobibuli — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:36:00 +0000

absolutely! i was horrified when i read about this chap too. and i'm even more horrified that you are the only person who has actually spoken out about this as far as i can see from the blogs. this man and his PISANG are charlatans!

i am actually an expert in demonic possession. and in a sense that isn't a joke.

i used to look after all the hostel students when i taught in a bush school in nigeria. every so often i got woken from sleep by students knocking on my door and telling me that their friend had been possessed by demons and was on the verge of behaving vilently towards herself and others.

of course there were no demons - just enough misery around (no water, not enough food, being bullied) to cause a mental health crisis. the best way for me to "cure" them was to give them something to help them sleep, and then when they woke up (calm) talk to them and find out the root of their problems. it invariably worked and i got something of a reputation as a bomoh meself!

By: glenda larke

glenda larke — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:15:00 +0000

You know, Ted, that was my immediate reaction too, especially as the whole thing seemed so bizarre - these djinn chasers had formed an organization called "Islamic Support and Nurture Group - or PISANG for short - PISANG*???

But the article was published on the 30th March.

Other really laughable stuff - they said Scottish djinns speak with a Scottish accent...and "We usually ask where the djinn is from as well as its name" and they had encountered djinns from countries like South Korea, Jordan, Australia - and they mostly spoke Malay!!!

However, they also said things like they "have approached the Dept of Islamic Development Malaysia (JAKIM)" - and I rather think JAKIM would take a dim view of being made the butt of an April fool joke.

They scare me to death because they want to set up Salem-type witch trials and send Islam and Malays back to the dark ages, scared of things that go bump on the night, and then encourage them to blame some poor fellow who looked at them cross-eyed.

And someone is funding these guys. They are travelling the world and they do things like screen 1,200 students in Cairo, not to mention others in Yemen, Australia, Brunei, Japan and Singapore, not to mention Malaysia (20,000).

One of them calls himself an Islamic medical practitioner - when he sounds more like a horror story. He is proud of the fact that he makes people hysterical, and has them screaming.

I want to know why there has been no reaction to this nonsense. How do conmen get away with idiocy, simply by saying it is done in the name of religion??

*Banana

By: Ted Mahsun

Ted Mahsun — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:34:00 +0000

It’s not The Star playing an April Fool’s joke is it?

By: Jo

Jo — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:44:00 +0000

It is scary, people do practice black magic as well as white magic, but up til now I didn't realise anyone actually believed in it. Most sane people dismiss it as nonsense, but from your articles it appears that there are gullible people out there who can be preyed upon by others. Remind me not to buy a black cat.

Lovely picture.