You’re basically saying that people who make a living working magic (what modern Wiccans can only pretend to do) should be killed off because you’re uncomfortable with it?

Never Again the Burning Times indeed!

And shortly after you e-mailed me that story I had to go out of town for nearly a week with no Internet access. But I have been e-mailing people behind-the-scenes and I have been planning to do my own research into it so I can write about the issue. Sorry that I’m not working on your time-table. I think big stories take time, research, and careful writing.

But anyway, I don’t why I bothered saying anything, since even when I do write about the things you say Pagans are paying attention to you seem to ignore it. Or accuse me of being a leftist stooge. Or enabling child molesters. So whatever man. Have a nice life.

And as for the friendly email idea. I did send you one of more import a while ago. You and several other people. You remember? About the pedophile on Witchvox who was recruiting for a “family coven” in Arkansas? I think that was a rather more important subject than I belive plates but you don’t. Why would the “scorn” directed at you be surprising then?

You have a platform in the Wiccan community and you use it not to keep children from being molested, but to push your politics. I wouldn’t have a problem with that if you simply said that The Wild Hunt was a leftist blog first, but you don’t. There is a person passing themselves off as a Wiccan high priest in Arkansas right now who is a pedophile. There is a magician about to be murdered by Muslims. And you’re big story is South Carolina and the desire of Christians to be Jesus freaky.

Why should you not be the target of scorn again?

Sorry guy I’m of the Herman Slater school of paganism, the community needs to hear the truth, not be spoon fed their Harry Potter fantasies.

I’ve just now heard about this story, and if you really wanted the Pagan blogosphere to cover it, you could have e-mailed me with a friendly heads-up (I’m well-read, but not omniscient) instead of blanketly accusing American Pagans of being “silent” on the story. I have covered the international witch-hysteria on several occasions, and have even covered Saudi Arabia sentencing a woman to death for crimes of “witchcraft” before as well. So I don’t get the hostility you’re directing in my general direction. Is it because I’m not on the same page as you politically? As for covering the license plates, I think it’s important, even if you don’t. Sorry we disagree, but I hardly see why that makes me a target for your scorn.

You’d think they’d have their limits through.

Damien-Modern Wicca is so leftist that they’d march themselves into the pyres to placate the Muslims.

I’m not a pagan, but I can pretty much guarantee I won’t be going to any Muslim country anytime soon either. You’d have to go back to even before America existed as an independent nation in order to find the state putting people to death for witchcraft on what would become US soil. Ironically from what I hear, Salem Massachusetts, the sight of colonial American’s most infamous witch hunt, is now home to a relatively large community of witches. The Puritans, like modern Jihadists, would put to death anyone who even claimed they were a witch. The story of the Salem Witch trials is well known. So most of the modern witches living in Salem should know that their craft is not always tolerated. I wonder how many of them would stand up at first sign of Islamitization of their community, or would they just be silent.

So you never can tell. Starhawk might just jump on this bandwagon. She’s about arrogant enough to think she can influence things one way or another. She may be right. I swear, I think she might have single-handedly prevented the Israelis from bombing Arafats living quarters once, just by standing in front of it. That fat-ass is a one-woman human shield..