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Sharia in action in Nigeria: Four accused gays publicly whipped

Mar 6, 2014 11:07 pm By Robert Spencer

NigeriaIslamicCourt“Under Islamic Shariah law in some north Nigerian states, homosexuals can be sentenced to death by stoning or lethal injection.” Yet gay advocates in the U.S. such as Theresa Sparks and Chris Stedman attacked Pamela Geller and me for calling attention to the institutionalized mistreatment of gays under Islamic law. Their gay advocacy doesn’t extend to standing up to Sharia oppression of gays, even though that oppression is far more virulent and violent than anything from “right-wing extremists” in the U.S. And you can’t blame them: given the Leftist/jihadist alliance, it’s clear that if they spoke out against Sharia mistreatment of gays, they would no longer be invited to the best parties, and might even be branded as “right-wing.”

“4 accused gays whipped in north Nigerian court,” by Michelle Faul for the Associated Press, March 6 (thanks to all who sent this in):

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Four young men were convicted of gay sex and whipped publicly as punishment Thursday in an Islamic court in northern Nigeria, a human rights activist said.

The four were among dozens caught in a wave of arrests after Nigeria strengthened its criminal penalties for homosexuality with the new Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act in January.

The men could face further violence in prison if human rights organizations do not come up with an additional fine of 20,000 naira ($120) each meted out Thursday by a judge in Bauchi city, Dorothy Aken’Ova, convenor of the Coalition for the Defense of Sexual Rights Network, told The Associated Press. The four were sentenced to 15 strokes plus a year’s imprisonment if they cannot pay their fines.

Aken’Ova said the men, aged between 20 and 22, should not have been convicted because their confessions were forced by law agents who beat them.

She said they had to lie on the floor of the court to be whipped on their backsides.

The men’s families, mainly subsistence farmers in rural areas where everyone knows everyone else, refused an offer of legal representation because they preferred to negotiate with the judge and get the case behind them, said Aken’Ova. She said the families were embarrassed by the stigma attached to homosexuality, which many highly religious Nigerians consider an evil imported from the West.

The hearings in Bauchi city, capital of the state of the same name, had been delayed from January, when a crowd tried to stone the accused men outside the court and demanded the judge pass the death sentence. Security officials had to fire into the air to save the men and disperse the crowd.

Under Islamic Shariah law in some north Nigerian states, homosexuals can be sentenced to death by stoning or lethal injection, though that sentence has never been enforced.

Aken’Ova, who got her information from the men’s families, said the judge was lenient because the men had promised that the homosexual acts occurred in the past and that they had since changed their ways.

For fear of further disruption, Judge El-Yakub Aliyu held hearings on Thursday unannounced and in secret. He said the hearing for another four men accused of sodomy would be heard at a later date.

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  1. Salah says

    Mar 6, 2014 at 11:58 pm

    “She said the families were embarrassed by the stigma attached to homosexuality, which many highly religious Nigerians consider an evil imported from the West.”

    An evil imported from the West? Hmmm…let’s read some “holy” hadiths:

    1-The Prophet used to dye his hair with henna.
    2-The Prophet had a kohl container from which he would smear his eyes every night, three times in each eye.
    3-The Prophet lift up his shirt, so he (the man) hugged him and kissed his torso (from his belly button to his armpits).
    4-So he (Zahir) proceeded to push his back into the prophet’s chest when he recognized him.
    5-He entered between him (Muhammad) and his shirt and began to kiss him and embrace him.
    6-Muhammad said: Revelations (i.e. the Qur’an) never come to me when I’m dressed in women’s clothing except when I’m dressed in Aisha’s.
    7-Abu Bakr sought permission from Allah’s Messenger for entrance (in his apartment) as he had been lying on his bed dressed in Aisha’s clothes.

    Here you’ll find links to these Islamic sources and screenshots of the pages.
    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2012/10/was-muhammad-gay.html

    • mortimer says

      Mar 7, 2014 at 12:13 am

      Mohammed, the cross-dressing, pedophiliac, necrophiliac, polygamist pirate.

      • Hass says

        Mar 7, 2014 at 6:02 am

        And that’s just the good qualities of Pedo Mo (Sh*t be upon him).

      • Arjay says

        Mar 7, 2014 at 7:01 pm

        MoHAMmed was a pedophile as many people know- this monster repeatedly raped a little girl that he married when she was only six years old. HOWEVER, this “Prophet” of Izslime also molested his own two grandsons. So he is also engaged in INTERGENERATIONAL INCEST.

        MoHAMmed. A perfect pile of slime.

  2. duh_swami says

    Mar 7, 2014 at 7:02 am

    Only whipped? Not hung or thrown off a tall building? The court must consist of some of those ‘moderates’ we hear so much about but never see.
    Isn’t not carrying out a sharia punishment, a violation of sharia? Why have it at all if Allah’s desires are not carried out? Allah and Mahound clearly want gay people dead. Not following through with it is anti-sunnah, and makes a mockery out of Allah’s word. Don’t worry though, Allah will take care of this court in his own way and in his own time. Vengeance belongs to him, and he has plenty of that. He always has a pot of boiling water and some hot molten lead ready just in case he feels vengeful…

  3. SKevin says

    Mar 7, 2014 at 11:17 am

    Story covered on PinkNews in the UK. Please click on “comments”.

    http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2014/03/06/nigeria-4-men-charged-breaking-anti-gay-laws-whipped-islamic-court/

  4. Defcon 4 says

    Mar 7, 2014 at 12:59 pm

    “Aken’Ova said the men, aged between 20 and 22, should not have been convicted because their confessions were forced by law agents who beat them.”
    Islam0nazi jurisprudence in action.

  5. joseph e. says

    Mar 7, 2014 at 1:30 pm

    While Shari’a instructs death to homosexuals the government of Nigeria does not allow the death sentence to be passed except in secular courts. Ironically, the push back embarked upon by the Nigerian government against the West in their efforts to encourage the celebration of the homosexual lifestyle in Africa incidentally plays into the hands of Islam particularly in the north of the country. So, while the secular courts are required to pass a 14 year sentence to those who practice and propagate homosexuality the Islamic courts have chosen a symbolic punishment of public flogging which is general child’s play. This certainly has the effect of gaining converts from among those who would practice this lifestyle for the simple reason that Muslim suspects are taken to the Shari’a courts while non-Muslim suspects are taken to the secular courts. Which homosexual will not immediately become Muslim? It’s sadly funny that homosexuals will end up being targeted for death at the triumph of Islam. No conversion away and no practice. Cleanest trap ever!

    • Defcon 4 says

      Mar 7, 2014 at 4:09 pm

      Somehow I don’t think the flogging is child’s play. I’ll bet it’s agony and bloodshed.

      • joseph e. says

        Mar 8, 2014 at 3:40 am

        Defcon 4, maybe, in environments where Islam is disadvantaged but in Nigeria where government and the attractiveness of other faiths tamper their activities it is child’s play. Many Nigerians like me had worse walloping while in high school (which is normal in this environment) than what the sharia court enforces, by the way, none of which are bloody in the least.

        • joseph e. says

          Mar 8, 2014 at 4:06 am

          “in environments where Islam is disadvantaged”, sorry, I meant to say, “in environments where Islam has the advantage”

        • Defcon 4 says

          Mar 8, 2014 at 7:37 pm

          When I think of flogging, I think of the former punishment meted out to sailors in the US and English navies. A punishment that leaves lifelong scars, that has killed people and that usually requires the victim to be revived from unconsciousness.

        • joseph e. says

          Mar 9, 2014 at 9:20 am

          Actually, that’s what we should expect but unfortunately that’s not what obtains. Nonetheless making argument about it though isn’t important, as we all know, the actual Islamic punishment is death, I was only looking at how secular laws that prevent Shari’a from executing death in Nigeria and secular laws prosecuting homosexuality have inadvertently resulted to the propagation of Islam.

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 10, 2014 at 12:04 pm

          joseph e. wrote:

          Many Nigerians like me had worse walloping while in high school (which is normal in this environment) than what the sharia court enforces, by the way, none of which are bloody in the least.
          ……………………….

          Is that so? And yet, a girl in Bangladesh was *flogged to death*. She collapsed during her Shari’ah whipping, and later died in the hospital.

          Even if these Shari’ah whippings are “child’s play” now—a pretty questionable assertion—there is no guarantee that they will remain so.

          And what about stonings in Nigeria? Are those “child’s play” as well?

        • joseph e. says

          Mar 11, 2014 at 5:22 am

          I was referring to what IS happening in Nigeria, not what is happening elsewhere of which I am aware. Again, in Nigeria the secular (non-Islamic) government does not allow the death to be applied by Shari’a as a result there is no stoning, fortunately.

  6. SKevin says

    Mar 7, 2014 at 5:04 pm

    Housing Works, an organization for people with AIDS, led a demonstration at the Nigerian Consulate in NYC today.

    http://www.housingworks.org/advocate/detail/action-alert-nyc-3-7-14-11am-nigerian-global-day-of-action/

  7. Champ says

    Mar 9, 2014 at 12:01 am

    “Isa” and “Watcher 1” are one in the same person, who’s also “WatchDawg” …

    MarcLouis exposed him here:

    marclouis
    March 6, 2014 at 9:59 pm

    Are you Kenneth Marcus Lowe? AKA WatchDawg, Watcher 1, Isa, Bookman…
    You might want to see a physiatrist about this multiple personality disorder, preferably a not a Jewish one.
    BTW can I ask if you were mentally ill before you picked up the koran, or was it the cause of the illness itself?

    Here’s the thread:

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/03/egypt-muslim-scholars-call-for-destruction-of-theatres-showing-noah-movie/comment-page-1#comment-1017939

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