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Nigeria: Muslim singer sentenced to death for blasphemy, Muslims burn his house down

Aug 12, 2020 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer

This is all because of a song in which, critics claim, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu “praised an imam from the Tijaniya Muslim brotherhood to the extent it elevated him above the Prophet Muhammad.”

The substance of this charge shows that ultimately any expression of any non-Muslim religious faith is blasphemous in Islam, as it would involve the non-Muslim, if pressed and if honest, denying that Muhammad was the last and greatest prophet. That is why the existence of non-Muslims in Muslim countries is so precarious.

“Nigerian singer sentenced to death for blasphemy in Kano state,” BBC, August 10, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

A musician in Nigeria’s northern state of Kano has been sentenced to death by hanging for blaspheming against the Prophet Muhammad.

An upper Sharia court in the Hausawa Filin Hockey area of the state said Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, 22, was guilty of committing blasphemy for a song he circulated via WhatsApp in March.

Mr Sharif-Aminu did not deny the charges.

Judge Khadi Aliyu Muhammad Kani said he could appeal against the verdict.

States across Muslim-majority northern Nigeria use both secular law and Sharia law, which does not apply to non-Muslims.

Only one of the death sentences passed by Nigeria’s Sharia courts has been carried out since they were reintroduced in 1999.

The singer who is currently in detention, had gone into hiding after he composed the song.

Protesters had burnt down his family home and gathered outside the headquarters of the Islamic police, known as the Hisbah, demanding action against him.

Critics said the song was blasphemous as it praised an imam from the Tijaniya Muslim brotherhood to the extent it elevated him above the Prophet Muhammad.
‘Judgement will serve as deterrent to others’

The leader of the protesters that called for the musician’s arrest in March, Idris Ibrahim, told the BBC that the judgement will serve as a warning to others “contemplating toeing Yahaya’s path”.”When I heard about the judgment I was so happy because it showed our protest wasn’t in vain.

“This [judgement] will serve as a deterrent to others who feel they could insult our religion or prophet and go scot-free,” he said….

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Filed Under: blasphemy, Featured, Nigeria Tagged With: Kano, Tijaniya Muslim brotherhood, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu


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  1. The Political Oracle says

    Aug 12, 2020 at 1:12 pm

    Well, it looks like Nigeria has violated the ICCPR that was entered into full force on 29 October 1993. Can a sharia court overturn this universal rights declaration?

    • toomanyhobbies says

      Aug 13, 2020 at 8:41 pm

      CULT of intolerance.

  2. Paul says

    Aug 12, 2020 at 1:20 pm

    Ironically, the same day, the same sharia court sentenced a 13 year old boy to ten years (10 yrs) in prison for blasphemy against Allah when he was younger. This goes to show that Mohammed is more esteemed than Allah. Otherwise, why would a blasphemy against Mohammed carry a death sentence while the same blasphemy against Allah, the Islamic god carry a prison sentence for heaven’s sake? Even at thirteen (13) years, this boy is still a minor. What a religion!

  3. mortimer says

    Aug 12, 2020 at 1:29 pm

    Islam … the MOST INTOLERANT of all religions. Muslims … the winners as the MOST BIGOTED of all faiths.

    The PACT OF OMAR contradicts modern human rights codes. Nevertheless, Muslims use the PACT OF OMAR as their DEFAULT legal system.

    https://wikiislam.net/wiki/The_Pact_of_Umar

    • Antiislamicman says

      Aug 12, 2020 at 1:56 pm

      That pact is evil

  4. The Political Oracle says

    Aug 12, 2020 at 1:55 pm

    I must also mention that Nigeria ratified The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UNCAT) on 28 June 2001. Nigeria also entered into an optional protocol on 27 July 2009. The optional protocol allows for complaints to be filed with tge UN Human Rights Commission. Will any of you join me on this?

    • The Political Oracle says

      Aug 12, 2020 at 2:05 pm

      Correction: tge to the

    • The Political Oracle says

      Aug 12, 2020 at 2:08 pm

      Please note that Christians and other groups thst were tortured under sharia laws will be entered into the Nigerian human rights complaint.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 12, 2020 at 7:38 pm

      This seems to be, in part, a clash between two different “Islamist” factions:

      https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2020/08/10/Nigerian-gospel-singer-22-sentenced-to-death-for-blasphemy-in-Sharia-court/5191597098185/

      “Sharif-Aminu is not a well-known singer in Nigeria, being one of many…musicians within the Tijaniya Muslim brotherhood sect, the BBC reported. He is currently being held in jail.

      Another member of the Tijaniya sect was sentenced to death in Sharia courts in 2016 and remains in prison. Abdulazeez Inyass was convicted of blasphemy in Kano after a secret trial for allegedly proclaiming that Tijaniya founder Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse “was bigger than Prophet Muhammad” during a sermon.

      Outraged protesters at Inyass’s trial set the courthouse on fire, BBC reported.”

  5. Antiislamicman says

    Aug 12, 2020 at 2:41 pm

    Muslim singer, music is forbidden in Islam.

    Anyway let’s look at the intolerant attitude of this so called faith.

    Burn down another human beings home, because a 7th century camel piss drinker says its OK to do so.

    What kind of madness is this. Islam is a cancer on humanity and an abuse of human dignity

  6. Wellington says

    Aug 12, 2020 at 3:07 pm

    Grimly humorous because not only do Muslims aplenty denigrate, humiliate, physically abuse and even kill non-Muslims because of one bogus Mohammedan pretext after another, they even do it to each other when one is not, in some way, Muslim enough.

    Islam is the sickest, most malevolently influential religion in all of history. By now, someone NOT proceeding from this so obvious starting point is deficient in knowledge, common sense or morality—or some combination of these three.

    There is no defense for Islam. None. (And Bush 43 is still unforgivably clueless about this; as for Obama, well, I personally sense not ignorance but cognitive complicity, but even if “only” ignorance on Obama’s part, nonetheless totally unforgivable).

    • revereridesagain says

      Aug 12, 2020 at 3:46 pm

      Extreme irrationality leads to extreme inhumanity. When tyrant gods are promising you glorious eternal rewards for the most cruel and callous behavior towards those who do not share your fantasies it creates an incentive. It is the purpose of reason to overcome such cruel and vicious hysteria and it is not an easy task and must never, ever, be surrendered once it has succeeded.

      We are in the process of doing so today to our peril as we allow, in our “tolerance”, advocates and practitioners of this savagery to invade our legal systems and departments of government. Do we imagine the Senile Old Man in the Basement and the Marxist Racist Reparations-Demanding Woman of Color would stand in the way of a United States Attorney General Keith Ellison? Or what would come after him?

      • James Lincoln says

        Aug 12, 2020 at 4:28 pm

        revereridesagain says,

        “Do we imagine the Senile Old Man in the Basement and the Marxist Racist Reparations-Demanding Woman of Color would stand in the way of a United States Attorney General Keith Ellison? Or what would come after him?”

        No, they would not stand in the way…

      • Wellington says

        Aug 12, 2020 at 4:29 pm

        Yes, Biden and Harris will do nothing, say nothing, about how nefarious Islam truly is. Biden is mostly clueless and Harris is clueless too but her political ambitions will outweigh any advantage to America for calling out Islam for the wretched ideology which it is.

        Put another way, anyone voting for the Biden/Harris debacle ticket is, at best, indefensibly ignorant; at worst, actively complicit with iniquity.

        • GreekEmpress says

          Aug 12, 2020 at 5:26 pm

          Biden says he’d like to see more about the Islamic faith taught in our schools—
          His whole speech to EMGAGE took pandering to a whole new level.

        • gravenimage says

          Aug 12, 2020 at 7:34 pm

          Grimly true.

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 12, 2020 at 7:33 pm

        revereridesagain, it is not just that Islam is so irrational–it is that it is irrational in such an ugly manner.

        These are not airheads who believe in unicorns and lucky pennies–Islamic irrationality is a lot nastier than that, as here.

    • James Lincoln says

      Aug 12, 2020 at 4:27 pm

      Wellington says,

      “There is no defense for Islam. None. (And Bush 43 is still unforgivably clueless about this; as for Obama, well, I personally sense not ignorance but cognitive complicity, but even if “only” ignorance on Obama’s part, nonetheless totally unforgivable).”

      I agree 100%.

      The thing is, whether one is either ignorant or complicit regarding islam, the results are usually pretty much the same…

  7. elee says

    Aug 12, 2020 at 3:19 pm

    Outlaw sharia “courts,” anywhere and everywhere.

    • UVG says

      Aug 12, 2020 at 4:38 pm

      The average muslim will gladly accept a universal penal code and abandon the Sharia penal code. But will not accept any form of civil law apart from the Sharia willingly or unwillingly. That is just how the religion of peaces work.

      The only way to fight this medieval, cruel and depraved thought system is to continuously jostle with it. Every chance you get.

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 12, 2020 at 7:36 pm

        Really, UVG? Yet, more than half of Muslims in the United States say they’d like to see Shari’ah law imposed here.

  8. gravenimage says

    Aug 12, 2020 at 7:25 pm

    Nigeria: Muslim singer sentenced to death for blasphemy, Muslims burn his house down
    ………………

    So this pious Muslim’s only crime was being so ecstatic over an Islamic cleric that he would not–as some saw it–be able to be even more unhinged over the “Prophet” Muhammed.

    This would seem to be the very definition of looking for “blasphemy”.

    God, I hate Islam.

  9. Ravi says

    Aug 13, 2020 at 6:38 am

    They burned a normally peaceful city in India few days ago including a legislator house apart from burning police station and properties over a counter comment on FB post which was slandering Hindu deity .
    He is a mere singer and must be living in a Muslim majority province , it was bound to happen .

  10. James Lincoln says

    Aug 13, 2020 at 8:54 am

    Makes me wonder what Yahaya Sharif-Aminu thinks of islam now…

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 13, 2020 at 8:51 pm

      I doubt he’s changed his mind, James–he got in trouble for enthusiastically praising an Imam from the Tijaniya Muslim brotherhood. I’m sure he just thinks that these other Muslims are getting Islam wrong…

      • James Lincoln says

        Aug 15, 2020 at 10:17 am

        Likely so, gravenimage.

  11. James Lincoln says

    Aug 13, 2020 at 9:02 am

    Cancel culture in Nigeria…

    According to the feature article:

    “Protesters had burnt down his family home”

    “singer sentenced to death for blasphemy”

  12. Marttheman says

    Aug 13, 2020 at 9:55 am

    By condoning islam you actually admit that you enjoy Sado Masochism to an extreme. I didn’t know that about 80% of all people around the world are SM fans. I personally enjoy going for a walk, reading a book and having a beer. I must be mad.

  13. OLD GUY says

    Aug 13, 2020 at 11:28 am

    It wouldn’t take much to raise above the pedophilic Muhammad.

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