Sharia in action in Nigeria — in a case that neatly encapsulates the supremacist posture of Islamic law toward people of other religions. “‘I married her as Muslim, she must leave my house now that she’s Christian,’” from the Nigerian Tribune, February 1 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A Kubwa Upper Area Court, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has dissolved a 16-year-old marriage between Idris Abubakar and his wife, Aishat, over the wife’s resolve to change her religion to Christianity.
According to the judge, Alhaji Lawal Munir, Islamic legal system (Sharia) provided that a mere denouncement of Islam by any of the parties automatically dissolved a marriage.
“A case when one of the Muslim spouses denounces Islam and changes religion, the marriage is dissolved,” he said.
I suspect that the word that both the reporter and Judge Munir are searching for here is “renounces,” not “denounces,” but the meaning is clear.
Munir held that the petitioner’s directive that the wife should pack out of the house was proper because they were no longer husband and wife.
The judge said the only contention was the custody of the four children as their interest and welfare must be protected.
He granted custody of the children to the husband because they have been living with him since their mother abandoned them three years ago.
Earlier, Abubakar, who hailed from Okene, Kogi State, told the court that his wife, Aishat, who he married under Islamic laws in 1998, had changed to Christianity.
He said their daughter, Kadija Abudullahi, informed him that her mother was always praying in the Christian way while she attended church services every Sunday.
Abubakar said when he confronted his wife on the issue, she did not deny it. He therefore, urged the court to dissolve their marriage.
The petitioner, who asked the court to direct Aishat to vacate his house, applied for the custody of the children.
He said his wife had left the house for three years and left the children behind.
Aishat, who accepted the divorce and agreed to pack out of the matrimonial home, however, urged the court to grant her the custody of two of the children.
“Abubakar can go with the first two children, while I’m allowed to be in custody of the two younger ones,’’ she said.

Salah says
“In Africa alone, every day, 16.000 Muslims convert to Christianity.”
(Sheikh Al-Qataani on Al-Jazeera TV)
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2010/05/dying-islam-lislam-mourant.html
mortimer says
Yes, Salah, amazing numbers of Africans are becoming disenchanted with this racist, Arab-supremacist cult. It works out to an estimated 6 million Africans leaving Islam every year, with 60 million leaving every ten years. This will lead to a rapid loss to Islam 120 million every 20 years. I suspect there are many more apostates that are unmeasurable because in hiding…possibly as many as 300 million Muslims are crypto-apostates.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Infidel magristrates contort to accommodate Moslems cuz they are smart enough to fear them, if only subconsciously.
On the other hand, Dar al-Islam magristrates, even ones in countries in the process of tipping into sharia, fear the Moslem activists among them, too. But it’s a collusive fear, the perfect unspoken excuse to accomodate Islam and silently enjoying the process. Courtroom jihad is its perfect venue, a ready made adversarial setting in which to purvey fear.
mortimer says
Maybe interfaith dialogue would convince the husband that wife-beating and jihad are misunderstandings of Islam.
surita says
islam will not and never will accomodate beliefs outside of islam and all this interfaith scatology IS exactly that -scatology.
Defcon 4 says
It is the husband’s fault — he should have been beating his wife more diligently.
gravenimage says
I married her as Muslim, she must leave my house now that she’s Christian”
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Notice, also, that he doesn’t consider it ‘their house” but “my house”—typical.
Often Muslims do marry Christians and other Infidel women, but consider it irrelevant as long as the children are raised as Muslims. In fact, under Islamic law all such children are raised Muslim.
I’m sure he is even more enraged here, though, because his wife dared to apostatize.
More:
The judge said the only contention was the custody of the four children as their interest and welfare must be protected.
He granted custody of the children to the husband because they have been living with him since their mother abandoned them three years ago.
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Bullsh*t—it is standard practice under Shari’ah to grant custody to the man.
More:
Aishat, who accepted the divorce and agreed to pack out of the matrimonial home, however, urged the court to grant her the custody of two of the children.
“Abubakar can go with the first two children, while I’m allowed to be in custody of the two younger ones,’’ she said.
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This is sometimes granted under Shari’ah—but only temporarily—as soon as the children are older, the mother automatically loses custody.
Buraq says
Well ladies, now you know how to get out of the marriage to that clown who’s been mistreating you, a-la Qur’an, for years. Just renounce Islam. Easy!
Time to hang up your hijabs!
Semeru says
And what is the punishment for renouncing islam
DEATH
CLOWN
revg says
Come on guys…he isn’t calling for her death as an apostate, this is REAL interfaith dialogue, someone call Bishop McManus!