My latest in PJ Media: Concerned about the government overstepping its bounds and asserting increasing control over aspects of life it has no business interfering with? You should be. And in many parts of the world, governments are providing daily object lessons in what happens when citizens allow self-serving, power-mad officials to arrogate too much […]
Nigeria: 16 Christian orphans abducted, abused and forcibly converted to Islam
The Washington based “US Nigeria Law Group (USNLG) has called for the release of 16 Christian children allegedly abducted and Islamised by the Kano State Government two years ago.” The children have reportedly been neglected, abused and forcibly converted to Islam, an all too common practice in Sharia states such as Pakistan and the Sharia-controlled […]
Nigeria: Kano State Sharia police arrest five men accused of engaging in homosexuality
A hadith depicts Muhammad specifying the punishment for homosexual activity: “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, ‘Whoever you find doing the action of the people of Loot, execute the one who does it and the one to whom it is done.’” (Sunan Abu Dawud 4462) Will gay rights […]
Nigeria: Army arrests 10 suspected jihad terrorists inside mosque
Inside a mosque? But don’t these jihadis realize that Islam is a religion of peace that has nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism? Why would members of a jihad terror group be inside a mosque? “Army Arrests 10 Boko Haram Suspects Inside Kano Mosque,” Sahara Reporters, May 9, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): […]
Nigeria: Appeals court throws out 2 blasphemy convictions over social media posts that sparked protests
Some good news out of Nigeria for a change, in light of the ongoing Islamic genocide against Christians in pursuit of an Islamic caliphate in the region. Teenager Omar Farouq and Yahaya Aminu Sharif were convicted in August by a Sharia court in the northern state of Kano. Unfortunately, as is the case in some […]
Nigeria: Kano state ban on sale and consumption of alcohol binding on Christians as well as Muslims
Sharia apologists in the West routinely claim that Sharia, when imposed upon a given area, applies only to Muslims, not to any non-Muslims who may live there. Reality again and again proves otherwise. “Kano Sharia Law Against Sale, Consumption Of Alcohol Binding On Muslims, Christians –State Hisbah Chief,” Sahara Reporters, January 12, 2021 (thanks to […]
Nigeria: Sharia police conduct door-to-door search at resort, hunting for sinners
What fun they’ll have when they’re in charge in Europe. “Hisbah Conducts Door-to-door Search To Fish Out ‘Sinners’ In Kano,” Sahara Reporters, November 27, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Officials of Hisbah in Kano State on Friday conducted a door-to-door search at Hills and Valley, a holiday and relaxation resort located at Dawakin […]
Nigeria: Kano state Sharia enforcers confiscate and destroy 1,975,000 bottles of beer
Here again we see that the frequently enunciated Islamic critique of the West as a sinkhole of vice and immorality, compared to the purity and uprightness of Sharia states, is not based on genuine virtue, but upon force. The residents of Kano State, or at least some of them — those who were going to […]
Nigeria: Musician sentenced to death for blaspheming Muhammad appeals conviction, says country isn’t under Sharia
This is a very significant case. It will be interesting to see how Shariff-Aminu’s appeal is received. This recalls the case of Robert Hussein Qambar Ali, a Kuwaiti national who converted from Islam to Christianity in the 1990s. Hussein was arrested and tried for apostasy, even though the Kuwaiti Constitution guarantees the freedom of religion […]
Nigeria: Muslim chains up teenage daughter for two years for refusing arranged marriage
Muhammad Ujujud chained up his son also. The Qur’an specifies this punishment for lesbian activity and requires four witnesses. It may be that he got the idea that this was justified from this passage of the Qur’an: “Those who commit unlawful sexual intercourse of your women – bring against them four from among you. And […]