(MENAFN- Gulf Times) The latest Twitter war surrounding the crisis in the Gulf has taken a supernatural turn after a senior correspondent with a Saudi Arabia-based news network accused Qatar of witchcraft.
According to Al Jazeera, hundreds of social media users over the weekend sarcastically hit back online under the hashtag 'Qatar deals with genies, created after Al-Arabiya's Khalil Walid Abajoud posted a series of tweets accusing Doha of conjuring spirits to assist it in its dispute with neighbouring Gulf countries.
'Sorcerers from African countries get millions of dollars after Qatar offer to bring down spirits and harness genies to solve the crisis, wrote Abajoud. The Qatari remittances to Jinn, Al-Arabiya correspondent writes, 'are done via black market.
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE and Bahrain cut ties with Qatar on June 5 over allegations the country funds 'terrorism and is too close to Iran - allegations Qatar has repeatedly denied.
The Saudi-led group offered to end the blockade last month in return for Qatar's compliance on 13 points, including to shut down Al Jazeera Media Network, to scale back ties with Iran and to close a Turkish military base.
Qatar has rejected the demands.
Twitter users, many of them displaying Qatari flags in their user profiles, responded to allegations of sorcery and witchcraft with humour.
Several Twitter users suggested it was time for Doha to open its own branch of the famed Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from JK Rowling's Harry Potter book series.
Others posted pictures and GIFs of the character Albus Dumbledore, head of JK Rowling's Hogwarts school, showing evident exasperation.
One Twitter user posted a GIF of the character 'Jafar from the children's movie Aladdin, implying evil Qatari genies had been enraged over the accusations.
Nour al-Mohanadi posted a GIF of a line of ghosts merrily punching in for a day at work, writing: 'Just another day at work in Qatar.
Others posted videos and photos of witches hiding.
Amr al-Nasser posted a photo from the popular American cartoon The Simpsons, poking fun at a strange group photo taken with a mysterious glowing orb during US President Donald Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia in May.
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