brother krypton6 what are you talking about?? u are confusing youre self and others... islam is islam! the saying of the quran are till the end of time so are the saying of our beloved prophet muhammed! Magic is magic is exist if you agree or not... people get possessed if u want it or not... above are enough hadith to confirm that... and plus evil is caused by the jihn under the command of a human... i can confirm this by this aya.. 'And verily, there were men among mankind who took shelter with the males among the jinn, but they (jinn) increased them (mankind) in sin and transgression(5) surah al Jihn.
"And when there came to them a Messenger from Allah confirming what was with them, a party of those who were given the scripture threw away the book of Allah behind their backs as if they did not know. And they followed what the devils gave out falsely of magic of the reign of Solomon; for Solomon did not disbelieve but the devils disbelieved, teaching men magic and such things that came down at Babylon to the two angels Harut and Marut, but neither of these two (angles) taught anyone (such things) until they had said: we are only for trial, so don't disbelieve. And from them (magicians) people learn that through which they would cause separation between a person and his spouse, but they could not thus harm anyone except by Allah's leave; and they learn that which harms them rather than profits them. And indeed they knew that its practitioner would have no share in the Hereafter. And how bad indeed was that for which they sold their own selves if they but knew" (2:101-2).
read this ayah...
Salam 3alekum brother krypton6 this here is enough proof(read over the hadith given in this thread aswell).. its up to you to believe in the quran or not... if u choose not to please keep it to your self since you are causing confusing to the brothers/sisters here...
salam
Islam is Islam, but the society changes. Magic itself exists but the people who are evil enough to use magic are not many, infact they either do not exist in this age or are very rare. Regarding jins I do not believe that they can posses a human body, and the verse you gave me doe sin no way prove your point.