This is effectively pronouncing a death sentence on any lawyer who defends Yahaya Aminu-Sharif. Apostasy carries the death penalty in Islamic law. This is based on the Qur’an: “They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause […]
Nigeria: Muslim cleric shares Facebook post about how a five-year-old girl raped an adult male
Clearly Dr. Mansur Sokoto is trying to justify the practice of child marriage, which is sanctioned in Islam. Islamic tradition records that Muhammad consummated his marriage with (i.e., raped) Aisha when she was nine, and the resultant fact that child marriage is accepted in wide swaths of the Islamic world. Child marriage has abundant attestation […]
Nigeria: Bishop says Islamic jihadis are bent on “killing Christians” and “destroying Christianity”
“Are we to deny the evidence before us, of kidnappers separating Muslims from infidels or compelling Christians to convert or die?” Why, yes. Yes, we are. To do otherwise would be “Islamophobic.” “Islamist terror groups are set on ‘destroying Christianity’, says Nigerian bishop,” Christian Today, February 13, 2020: Islamist terrorist groups causing havoc in northern […]
Nigeria: Catholic bishop asks “Sharia was supposed to bring joy, how come Boko Haram and bandits have taken over?”
The sharia advocates stonings, beheadings, the inferiority of women, the murder of gays, apostates, opposition to free speech, supremacy of Muslim believers over unbelievers etc. How could possibly anyone think that such abuse and strictures could bring peace? The misguided Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Matthew Hassan Kukah, thinks so. He asks…. According to the principles […]