Sharia Nigeria Ready To Stone 6, Hack Up 46 “Criminals”
LAGOS - Six people convicted by Islamic sharia courts in a northern Nigerian state are awaiting death by stoning, while 46 others are waiting for amputation, the official News Agency of Nigeria reported on Friday.
The men on death row in Bauchi state include a 52-year-old sentenced in 2004 for getting his teenage step-daughter pregnant and another who was sentenced in 2002 for having sex 13 times with his friend’s wife, the agency said.
The report did not say how many people were facing such penalties in 11 other northern Nigerian states that have criminal courts using sharia law. Such data is not collated centrally.
The Bauchi convicts awaiting the amputation of their hands include a 46-year-old trader, Husseini Maidoya, who was convicted in 2002 for hacking off the leg of his wife after accusing her of unfaithfulness.
A sharia court had then ruled that Maidoya be amputated without the application of anaesthesia.
The sentences have not been executed because the state government is yet to ratify them, the news agency said, quoting the acting secretary of the Bauchi state Sharia Consultative Council, Ishiaku Tijjani.
Bauchi is one of 12 states in Nigeria’s mainly Islamic north that adopted a harsh sharia-based criminal code eight years ago. The move alienated large Christian minorities and sparked bouts of sectarian violence that killed thousands….
(Reuters)
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Yeah, the global human rights groups and the U.N. will get right on this … just as soon as they’re finished fighting for those poor overly pampered Gitmo detainees.
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February 15th, 2008 at 4:00 pmAfrica is a main front on the war on Islamic Fascism and is of huge geo-political importance to the United States of America. Democratic Presidential candidate Barak Hussein Obama’s older brother, Abongo “Roy” Obama, wants sharia law implemented in Kenya.
February 15th, 2008 at 4:24 pmHere’s a nice target for a Barrett to aim at.
February 15th, 2008 at 4:29 pmDon’t anybody panic…
February 15th, 2008 at 4:50 pmOsama Hussein Obama will make sure that we are safe.
I hope we all have our guns to protect our families and the nation.
February 15th, 2008 at 7:16 pmGreedy Fuckers! Give them the finger and they want your whole hand!
February 16th, 2008 at 10:00 am