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Nigeria: Boko Haram cuts hands off civilians for not following Sharia law

Nov 4, 2014 7:36 am By Robert Spencer

boko-haram-extremists-attack-damboaSome were found guilty of looting, which would put the hand amputation in this context: “[As for] the thief, the male and the female, amputate their hands in recompense for what they committed as a deterrent [punishment] from Allah. And Allah is Exalted in Might and Wise.” (Qur’an 5:38)

This is, of course, not Boko Haram’s “strict interpretation of Sharia,” this is Sharia as understood by all the schools of Islamic jurisprudence, based directly on the Qur’an.

Anyway, remember: to oppose Sharia in the U.S., and to call for anti-Sharia laws, is racist, bigoted, and “Islamophobic.” In the mainstream discourse, the idea that one might simply wish not to see the hands of one’s fellow citizens amputated is not allowed to be considered.

“Nigeria: Boko Haram Cuts Hands Off Civilians for not Following Sharia Law,” by Ludovica Iaccino, International Business Times, November 4, 2014 (thanks to Twostellas):

Witnesses have said Boko Haram members cut off the hands of at least 10 people who did not follow sharia law implemented in the recently occupied town of Mubi(YouTube)

Members of Nigerian terror group Boko Haram have cut off the hands of at least 10 people in the town of Mubi, Adamawa state, for not following it’s interpretation of Islam’s rules, according to the country’s most widely read newspaper, The Punch.

The spate of corporal punishment was carried out on the group as it allegedly failed to comply with Boko Haram’s form of sharia law implemented in the occupied territories.

The victims were allegedly found guilty of different crimes, including looting.

A witness told local The Punch that militants decapitated two people who voiced their opposition to the group’s insurgence.

The town of Mubi was captured by Boko Haram in October 2014, as part of the group’s plan to expand its caliphate established during August 2014 in the town of Gwoza, near the border with Cameroon.

Boko Haram are also suspected to be behind the recent mass jailbreak carried out with the aid of some unidentified gunmen in Kogi state, central Nigeria, and a suicide bomb attack supposedly targeting Shia Muslims celebrating Ashura in Potiskum, Yobe State, which killed at least 32 people.

Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa states, where the militants usually carry out their attacks, have been under a state of emergency since May 2013.

Failed Ceasefire

Boko haram’s fresh attacks came weeks after the Nigerian government announced it had reached a ceasefire with the terror group….

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  1. Charli Main says

    Nov 4, 2014 at 7:52 am

    And Allah is Exalted in Might and Wise.” (Qur’an 5:38)
    Allah is also, clearly, an insane psychopath ably served by an equally insane psychopath, Mohammed,
    but then, Allah is Mohammed’s alta ego, a figment invented by a psychopath to justify his insane behaviour. Its OK to rape, burn, loot, behead and crucify anyone that disagrees with you because Allah said it was OK.

    • john spielman says

      Nov 4, 2014 at 8:02 am

      Yep! just more proof(how much more does anyone need?) that islam is a doctrine of demons and Allah is actually Satan!

    • Huck Folder says

      Nov 5, 2014 at 12:05 am

      mo is great, and allah is his sock-puppet.

  2. moses says

    Nov 4, 2014 at 8:05 am

    Apart from the ukranian crisis every major problem in the world is associated with islam

  3. AnneCrockett says

    Nov 4, 2014 at 9:22 am

    Julie Burchill today
    “One minute Cat Stevens (Greek Orthodox father, Swedish Baptist mother, Roman Catholic school) was the wimpiest of hippie troubadours, extolling the peaceful pleasures ‘leapin and hoppin’ on a moonshadow’; the next, he was calling himself Yusuf Islam and demanding the head of Salman Rushdie, the rotter. (He subsequently defended this as a ‘joke.’)
    Even the terminally wet ‘Moonshadow’, however, sounds sinister now in the light of the approval of amputation under Sharia law – ‘If I ever lose my hands. . . I won’t have to work no more.’ Personally, having come to loathe ‘Yusuf’ for his vileness during the Rushdie affair and his subsequent cowardice in reducing it to ‘a joke’, and taking into consideration the awfulness of his recent music, that’s certainly a situation I could live with.”

    http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/julie-burchill/2014/11/of-pop-stars-and-prayer-from-madonna-to-cat-stevens/

  4. mortimer says

    Nov 4, 2014 at 9:40 am

    No! No! No! It can’t be true! Say it isn’t so! Islam actually promotes violence against DISBELIEVERS?

    Don’t tell Ben Affleck…he thinks that quoting the Koran is ‘racist’.

    • mortimer says

      Nov 4, 2014 at 9:47 am

      Message for Ben Affleck:

      Ah, the non-racist, noble savages of Nigeria who enslave teenage girls and rape them, chop off heads and hands, burn down churches, murder Christians and animists in their beds with machetes, practice pedophilia and FGM.

      Ah, Ben, you are so noble for defending these savages! If you didn’t allow them the right to be savages…you would be a racist.

      So much for the human rights of their victims, Ben.

  5. boakai ngombu says

    Nov 4, 2014 at 10:56 am

    FEAR, only FEAR, shall reign in the caliphate Sheku envisions, and he will be the most afraid that there will be deviance, not obedience to the Allah god of Islam (unknowable; the best of all deceivers).

    SHARIA (enslavement tool) encourages such malevolent acts as to cut off someone’s hands so as to gain control, power, dominance. SHARIA heaps on cooperate guilt while encouraging cruelty beyond measure.

  6. salamander says

    Nov 4, 2014 at 11:29 am

    As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. ~ Voltaire

  7. Salah says

    Nov 4, 2014 at 12:48 pm

    “Boko Haram members cut off the hands of at least 10 people who did not follow sharia law …”

    – Why would any Muslim NOT follow sharia law?
    – Because they are fed up with Islam.

    – Why are they STILL Muslim?
    – Because they don’t want their hands cut off.

    Conclusion: Without violence, Islam is DEAD.
    Solution: Exterminate the violent ones so as to free the captives.
    How: Stop Political Correctness.

  8. Kathy Brown, Esq. says

    Nov 4, 2014 at 3:10 pm

    You know: It’s not hard to understand the appeal Is-Slime has, to the criminals in jail.

    It’s a dream-come-true to them! Murder, torture, rape, you name it! All of a sudden it’s not only OK; but JUST WHAT ALLAH ORDERED!

  9. salamander says

    Nov 4, 2014 at 3:41 pm

    Just when it all looked gloom and doom, a bright beam of light shines through the darkness. Jug-eared Prince Charlie has released a video saying muslim leaders are duty bound to warn followers about the persecution of Christians in the Middle East and around the world. Well done wingnut. I think as a token of gratitude the schoolgirls of Boko Haram and the Yazidi women should get together and crochet some nice winter mittens for Charlie and Camilla

  10. Hassan says

    Nov 4, 2014 at 10:21 pm

    So Porko Harem has the right to steal lives ? They won’t be punished ? XD

  11. dumbledoresarmy says

    Nov 5, 2014 at 8:42 am

    And meanwhile, Boko Haram is funding their jihad by robbing banks. Mohammed the founder of Islam engaged in armed robbery on the grand scale – robbing caravans and so on; boko haram attacks towns and robs banks.

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-05/boko-haram-gunmen-raid-nigerian-town/5866994

    Gunmen raid Nigerian town of Nafada in suspected Boko Haram attack

    “A large convoy of suspected Boko Haram gunmen carrying grenade launchers have conducted a midday raid on the north-eastern Nigerian town of Nafada, targeting police and the military before robbing a bank and destroying a political office.

    “The attack in Gombe state began with a gunfight at a military checkpoint on the outskirts of Nafada, where the gunmen overpowered soldiers and police before moving into the town.

    “They came in large numbers in vans and on motorcycles, shouting Allahu Akbar (God is greater),” said resident Abubakar Galda.

    **Multiple witnesses said the suspected militants also robbed a bank, a common feature of Islamist raids.** {my emphasis – dda}.

    “The group is thought to be funding its insurgency through theft and ransom kidnappings.”

    Let’s just repeat that, shall we: “The group is thought to be funding its insurgency through theft ..”.

    And then they have the *hide* to cut off people’s hands after accusing them of theft…

    Projection and Scapegoating, thy name is Islam.

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