“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4) “Suspected Boko Haram terrorists kill 20 people in gruesome attacks in Niger State,” by Maimuna Raji Egigogo, Premium Times, June 8, 2024 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Twenty people have been reported killed in one of a series of attacks by suspected Boko Haram […]
Nigeria: Boko Haram imposes Sharia in Niger state, tells Muslims & Christians that 12-year-old girls must be married
Child marriage has abundant attestation in Islamic tradition and law. Turkey’s directorate of religious affairs (Diyanet) said in January 2018 that under Islamic law, girls as young as nine can marry. “Islam has no age barrier in marriage and Muslims have no apology for those who refuse to accept this” — Ishaq Akintola, professor of Islamic Eschatology and […]
Nigeria: Muslims storm community, murder one, burn houses and crops, abduct six
This is not “extremism.” Abduction of Infidels is sanctioned in Islamic law and subject to particular rules: “As for the captives, the amir [ruler] has the choice of taking the most beneficial action of four possibilities: the first to put them to death by cutting their necks; the second, to enslave them and apply the […]