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This group declared “total jihad” against the Nigerian state on August 9. “Nigerian police raid Islamic sect, detain hundreds,” by Joy Simon for Reuters, August 16 (thanks to all who sent this in): MINNA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Police in the western Nigerian state of Niger have raided an Islamic community and detained hundreds of men, […]

“Equality,” of course, can only mean the equal accountability of Muslim men before the law, because Sharia is not designed to provide the same for women or unbelievers. And by their nature, theocracies do not lend themselves to accountability due to the sense of entitlement to rule, and the paternalistic “government knows best” attitude that […]

If the ideology that demanded the imposition of Sharia by force had been invented by the sect leader, the game would be over. For that matter, as long as Sharia is in effect in Nigerian states, there will be pressure — including violent outbursts — for more of it. This is because Sharia, believed to […]

It’s all about poverty, of course — as you can see in the final paragraph quoted below. Never mind that Osama bin Laden is an immensely wealthy man. Never mind that study after study has shown that Islamic jihadists tend to be wealthier and better educated than their peers. It has to be about poverty, […]

A human rights group has “traced the recurrent religious violence in the country to the total lack of political will on the part of the Federal and state governments to charge perpetrators of all the previous religious riots to court to serve as deterrent.” Western leaders should take note. But they won’t. And so Sharia […]

They’re opposed to Western education as being against Sharia norms: the group wants to “clean the (Nigerian) system which is polluted by western education and uphold Sharia”h all over the country.” Imagine the quips, the digs, and the New York Times analyses if there were a Christian group calling itself “Education Is Sin.” This one, […]

Sharia is already in place in northern Nigeria, but even that is not enough. It never is, because Sharia is a package deal (lest one pick and choose from Allah’s own law). Thus, concessions toward it only set a precedent for more, and generate perpetual tension (and often violence) over how much Sharia is “enough,” […]

“Sharia law is my ambition and that is the ambition of every Muslim in this country.” “As for the thief, both male and female, cut off their hands. It is the reward of their own deeds, an exemplary punishment from Allah. Allah is Mighty, Wise.” — Qur’an 5:38 “In an appropriate case, he didn’t see […]

How? By prohibiting the consumption of pork in the Koran. This is a manifestation of the kind of thinking that has led to the slaughtering of pigs in Egypt, the U.A.E., and elsewhere in the Islamic world. Even though the swine flu isn’t really spread by pork, it has become in the Islamic world a […]

“… The international news media ‘often describes such warfare erroneously as isolated conflicts, without placing any importance on the wide-ranging effects these ‘isolated local conflicts’ will have on any other countries, but especially on the West’.” “Oil-rich Nigeria will become Islamic soon, warn Dutch MPs,” by Adriana Stulijt for Digital Journal, March 16: Oil-rich Nigeria, […]