Nigeria is roughly evenly divided between a Christian population that is primarily in the South, and a Muslim population that is mostly in the North. Meanwhile, a genocide against Christians in Nigeria continues to wipe out Christians in the country. This latest court decision enables the Sharia’s spread.
A Nigerian court has ruled that Islamic religious law does not violate the constitution, dismissing a challenge over the sentencing of singer Yahaya Aminu Sharif to death by hanging for blasphemy.
In a CNN report, an Islamic scholar reviewed the court transcript and emphasized the extent of how Muslims view Sharif’s “blasphemy”:
Islamic scholar and cleric Bashir Aliyu Umar, who is not connected to the case, but said he had read the transcript of the court proceedings, told CNN, “No Muslim will condone it. People hold Prophet Mohammed higher than their parents, and when things like this happen, it will lead to a breakdown of peace because of mob action and attacks against the accused.”
The forcible spread of Sharia is the goal of mainstream Islam historically and at present, contrary to the woke and willfully blind’s insistence that Islam is a religion of peace and that there are only a few “radicals” in Islam. The spread of the Sharia is happening in some form all over the world. It isn’t exclusive to countries of Africa and the Middle East, and lessons from those countries should have been taken seriously by Western leaders. In the West, for instance, fear has been thoroughly struck into the heart of disbelievers, and most refrain from appearing to criticize Islam and Muhammad (Quran 8:12). Fear of violence, and fear of being branded “Islamophobic” for even criticizing Islam is now commonplace. The Salman Rushdie case has captured media attention, but ordinarily and routinely the media ignores the jihad.
“Nigeria Activists Concerned as Secular Court Upholds Islamic Court Trial for Blasphemy,” by Timothy Obiezu, Voice of America, August 19, 2022:
ABUJA, NIGERIA —Supporters of free speech in Nigeria are expressing concern after a federal court ruled this week that a singer appealing his death sentence for blasphemy must have his case retried in a Shariah court.
Yahaya Aminu Sharif’s lawyer argued his case should be tried in a secular court and challenged the legality of Nigeria’s Islamic courts, which critics say threaten free speech.
But in its decision delivered Wednesday on Zoom, the Kano state appeals court ruled 2-1 that Islamic law does not violate the national charter and that Islamic courts have jurisdiction to try blasphemy cases.
The ruling dismissed a challenge filed by Sharif’s lawyer, Kola Alapinni, questioning the legality of the death sentence. One of the judges, Abubakar Muazu Lamido, said the challenge was not backed by law, and that it was “more out of sentiment.”
An Islamic court in Kano sentenced Sharif to death in August 2020 for allegedly circulating a song that blasphemed the Muslim Prophet Mohammed on social media.
In November, the Kano High Court overruled the sentence and ordered a retrial at the Shariah court, stating that Sharif did not have any legal representation during his trial.…
Shariah is more dominant across the 12 northern Nigerian states, with a strong base in Kano….
somehistory says
the poor guy. mozlums just can’t stand for their putrid fake prophet to be discussed by anyone telling the truth about the scummy snake and calling him things not approved by the scummy snake…or the scummy snakes who made him up from their evil brains.
this guy will not stand a chance in the “court” of lawlessness from satan the devil. anyone should be able to exercise the Freedom to speak, given by man’s Creator, but satan doesn’t want people to know the Truth about his snakedness and the evil he practices and produces in his adopted children.
Mr. Raymond Ibrahim has collected information on the persecution of Christians; and from nigeria, he reports that a Christian is murdered every two hours there…of course, by mozlums such as the ones who want to put this man to death for speaking Truth.
One cannot “blaspheme” a piece of camel dung who raped little girls, wrote that males could rape little girls and little boys, mass-murdered his evil way across the desert as he stole from others…including wives…and sold women as slaves for sex, promising that his followers would be given young girls and boys to rape continually while getting drunk. One cannot blaspheme such evil as he was portrayed to be. and neither can he be “slandered.”
https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2022/08/25/father-blinds-daughter-so-she-can-stop-seeing-churches-forever-muslim-persecution-of-christians-june-2022/#respond
mortimer says
Your unrestrained bigotry is the religious version of secular hate speech. There is no place for hate speech in Jihad Watch. I think this example of hate speech should be saved for the board of directors of JihadWatch. Your hatred is unhinged. It is not based on facts and careful reasoning. Your curses are unacceptable in a civilized forum.
Hate speech is characterized by many things you write such as overgeneralization, devaluation, dehumanization, demonization, scurrilous words, defamation, imprecation, vulgarity.
Calumny and hate speech are very close to one another and they are inherently sinful, an offense against charity and unjust.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, please give it a rest. Somehistory is condemning pedophilia, rape, and mass murder sacralized by Islam.
This is *not* bigotry, and condemning this is *not* hate speech as you constantly claim.
And this is *not* calumny. You yourself have noted that many pious Muslims do indeed act in just this manner, and per Islamic diktats.
I might not use Somehistory’s exact phrasing myself, but condemning these horrors is *anything but* sinful. The Bible actually says that no one should not laud evil as good:
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
–Isaiah 5:20
And it is neither unjust or uncharitable to condemn these evils. In fact, it is both unjust and uncharitable to wink at such savagery. Consider the victims rather than making excuses for the perpetrators as you unfortunately often do, saying that Jihad terrors are just good people with the wrong information.
somehistory says
thank you very much, g.
It seems that mozlums are okay with telling each other that their ‘prophet” had take a child to rape and called it marriage; but infidels are not to say the same thing.
“mortimer” does my comments the same way; just don’t tell the Truth about what’s acceptable to, and practiced by, mozlums.
gravenimage says
Sadly true, Somehistory.
somehistory says
“mortimer, schmortimer.” Mr. Spencer, Marc and others can read any or all of my comments. they can save them and share them with Mr. Horowitz. He emails me frequently. He can tell me via that method that he has read them and give me his thoughts.
As Mr. Spencer himself has stated many times, “hate speech” is in the ear of the hearer.
You constantly take the side of rapists, kidnappers, liars, thieves, murderers and have decided that I don’t have the right of Freedom of Speech to point out that mozlums who rape and murder and threaten and kidnap and lie and go against every moral law of the Bible and mankind, are nothing but evil sons of satan….as Jesus Himself said of the men who wanted Him dead. And they weren’t said to have been raping and murdering other innocent ones…they just wanted Him to ****stop telling the Truth about them.****
Why don’t you condemn so many others here who use the *f* word and the “s* word and maggots….to describe your best buds? those words qualify as “vulgar” to many people…but evidently not to you.
so, go ahead and call on the “board” to “save” my comment. Ask them to save everything I write. Maybe they’ll take your *unhinged* hate against me as reason to tell me to just shut up as “mortimer” wants and all well be well.
mozlums won’t kill any more innocent people…or even other mozlums
mozlums won’t rape any more children or old ladies or young women
mozlums won’t use dull rusty knives to mutilate little girls
mozlums won’t lie and deceive in order to manipulate others
mozlums won’t slice and dice and bomb and threaten…if I just stop calling them what they are.
It’s okay with “mortimer” if a woman abuses a little girl. He gives his self-righteous approval of locking a child in a closet for saying a word he says is an insult. so, it’s no wonder that he wants me banned from telling the Truth because the Truth is an insult to “mortimer”
“moritmer’…you make me sick.
James Lincoln says
mortimer,
In somehistory’s post, the prophet mohammed was characterized as:
Putrid / fake.
A scummy snake.
Satan the devil.
Camel dung.
But it is not bigotry / hate speech / calumny when the characterizations are accurate.
Would you characterize the prophet mohammed (if he actually existed) as just another human being with the “wrong information”?
somehistory says
thank you very much, James.
I fully expect one day for him to accuse me of the dreaded “phobia.”
gravenimage says
+1
mortimer says
This wrong ruling by the court makes Islam the DEFACTO official religion of Nigeria.
In order to define ‘BLASPHEMY’ it is necessary to choose one religion, because what is sacred to one religion is ‘blasphemy’ to another.
There are some 4,200 different religions. The Supreme Court of Nigeria cannot choose only one of the 4,200 religions as the NATIONAL religion of Nigeria, so recognizing the Sharia blasphemy law is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
There is no NATIONAL religion in Nigeria, so there is no BLASPHEMY law.
gravenimage says
Nigeria: Secular court upholds Islamic Court affirming Sharia blasphemy law not unconstitutional
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Suicidal madness–but this does not surprise. Shari’ah law is already imposed throughout most of the northern part of Nigeria.
Kenneth J Johnson says
Nigeria is a very troubled country and the court makes a decision that can only make matters worse., They had an opportumnity to make a small step forwd, and they blew it. Are the judges themselves Muslem, by hapenstance??? KEN