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Sharia Nigeria: 55 jailed for consuming alcohol during Ramadan

Jul 20, 2014 2:35 pm By Robert Spencer

NIGERIA-NORTH/“Even if we are not in the month of Ramadan, nobody should take alcohol because the state is implementing Sharia law.” As the Qur’an says, “There is no compulsion in religion” (2:256) — except when there is.

“55 Arrested & Convicted in Kano for Consuming Alcohol During Ramadan,” NAN, July 15, 2014:

KANO (NAN) ― The Kano State Hisba Board on Monday said 55 people were arrested and convicted for alcohol consumption in Kano during the ongoing Ramadan fasting.

The board’s Director-General, Alhaji Abba Sufi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano that the convicts were apprehended last week following raids of their hideouts in Kano.

“All the 55 persons were sentenced to four months imprisonment without option of fine in order to serve as deterrent to others who might contemplate doing same.

“From those arrested, 50 of them are married men while the remaining five are women.

“Even if we are not in the month of Ramadan, nobody should take alcohol because the state is implementing Sharia law,’’ Sufi said.

According to him, the board has also arrested another 27 people for the same offence and they will soon be taken to the court.

He said the board would continue to raid the hideouts with a view to arresting them for prosecution….

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  1. Greyhound Fancier says

    Jul 20, 2014 at 3:33 pm

    Maybe a nice cold one would help the Muslims chill out a little! It is difficult to see murder, rape, and lying as OK and a glass of wine as sinful.

    They are swallowing camels and straining at gnats, as Jesus said.

    • Jay Boo says

      Jul 20, 2014 at 4:40 pm

      Strange how the sign reads ‘purity’ and ‘Allah’ all in the same sentence.

  2. Jay Boo says

    Jul 20, 2014 at 4:37 pm

    Good enough for hedonistic self-absorbed leftists to ignore until they see their own favorite bars and liquor stores close per order of sharia.
    Imagine the sad collective whine of PC helplessness.

  3. gravenimage says

    Jul 20, 2014 at 11:24 pm

    Sharia Nigeria: 55 jailed for consuming alcohol during Ramadan

    “Even if we are not in the month of Ramadan, nobody should take alcohol because the state is implementing Sharia law…
    ……………………………

    While the depredations of Boko Haram are the most high-profile ugliness in Nigeria, I wonder how many Westerners realize that the norther Muslim-majority states of Nigeria have imposed brutal Shari’ah law—including *the stoning of women*?

    More:

    The board’s Director-General, Alhaji Abba Sufi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano that the convicts were apprehended last week following raids of their hideouts in Kano.
    …

    He said the board would continue to raid the hideouts with a view to arresting them for prosecution….
    ……………………………

    So often, violations of Ramadan are put in terms of Infidels or the “insufficiently Islamic” being “insensitive” to fasting Muslims.

    But note: these victims were in “hideouts”—that is, they weren’t drinking in front of Muslims at all.

    Another whitewash exposed as bogus.

  4. Martin Hanson says

    Jul 21, 2014 at 2:42 am

    It is high time the word ‘Islamophobia’ was expelled from public use. By definition, a phobia is an irrational fear. To defend the use of ‘Islamophobia’, one would have to consider it irrational for an apostate to fear execution, and that it would be irrational for a woman committing adultery to fear being stoned to death. If I were gay, would it be irrational for me to fear violent death?

    Is it really so irrational to fear being dragged back into the 7th century?

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