Muthee Prays for Palin

Did the Actions of Sarah Palin’s Exorcist, Thomas Muthee, Lead to the Murder of Mama Jane, the “Witch” of Kiambu?
September 22

Former Fuller Seminary professor Peter Wagner, in his book, Praying with Power (published in June of 2008), provides a rather detailed—and frankly chilling—description of Sarah Palin’s exorcist and witch hunting political ally Thomas Muthee.

Specifically, Wagner recounts the start of Muthee’s career and his encounter with the “witch” known as “Mama Jane.”

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Mama Jane’s arrest and detention is simply described by Wagner as “questioning.”

But Kenya is not the United States, and the police may well have threatened, intimidated, or even tortured her.

Her quick exit from the town, and her complete disappearance from the narrative, suggests that she may well have been threatened with death.

She may even have been killed, inside or outside the city, perhaps by the police, who then said that she ”left” the community.

Why, one wonders, given the high degree of paranoia and superstition that Muthee had generated in the town, should we take for granted that Mama Jane got out of the community alive?

Wouldn’t the rumor of her being a witch have followed her?

Does it really make sense that she just went away and lived somewhere else in peace?

Wouldn’t her life, after her encounter with Thomas Muthee, have been forever precarious?

Wagner’s gleeful statement that Kiambu became a witch’s graveyard may, in literal fact, have been true.

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It is with humble acceptance of God that we announce the deaths of Mr. David Kariri Ngotho and his wife Beatrice Wairimu Kariri of Matimbei Village, Githunguri, Kiambu, Kenya who were attacked and killed by thugs in their home on Friday night 6th June, 2008. Father and mother to Simon Kirobi Kariri of Portsmouth, UK, William Ngotho Kariri of London and Peninah Wanjiku Kariri of Nairobi. Cousins to Simon Mwangi (Hounslow), Margaret Mwangi (Hounslow), Ann and Mama Ann both of Nottingham and Mrs. Wambui Show. The late Mrs. Kariri was former teacher at Gitwe Girls, Kamburu High School. The late Mr. Kariri was a teacher in several schools among them Gatamaiyu and lastly Kamahindu High School...