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Tony Grew: Nigerian Sharia court punishes lesbian couple
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Two women in Kaduna, Nigeria have been sentenced to six months in prison and 20 lashes each for having a lesbian relationship. [...] Nigeria, like many African countries, is notoriously conservative on issues such as homosexuality. It is currently banned in the Nigerian penal code and in Muslim law. Predominantly Muslim states in Nigeria introduced Sharia law, a legal system based on Islamic theory and philosophy of justice, in 2000. [...] In reality the re-introduction of harsh punishments apart from the death penalty has been the main feature of Islamic courts. In Bauchi state alone there are 40 people awaiting amputation of one or both hands for theft.
[Article continues at link. When thousands of Muslims around the world can riot for months on end about cartoons in a newspaper but remain utterly silent about hateful nonsense like the above, Islam becomes a religion that I find difficult to accomodate or respect.]
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