""Saudi
Arabia takes witchcraft so seriously that it has banned the Harry Potter series by British writer J.K.
Rowling, rife with tales of sorcery and magic. It set up the Anti-Witchcraft
Unit in May 2009 and placed it under the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPV), Saudi
Arabia's religious police. "In accordance with our Islamic tradition we
believe that magic really exists," Abdullah Jaber, a political cartoonist at the
Saudi daily Al-Jazirah, told The Media Line. "The fact that an official
body, subordinate to the Saudi Ministry of Interior, has a unit to combat
sorcery proves that the government recognizes this, like Muslims
worldwide.""