As a Christian indigenous to South western Nigeria, I found the call for a Shariah legal system in the South west quite an interesting proposition to say the least. But as I pride myself on objectivity, I would like to entertain some of the argument and reason them out.

The good thing about the shariah legal system is that it is not merely a theory, but a system rooted in several of years of history.

Ist Argument: "Shariah law does not concern non Muslims, and as such non Muslims should not have a say in the question of her establishment."

On the surface, this seems like a legitimate argument. If true that the shariah concerns only Muslims then we Christians may potentially allow this matter slide and allow Muslims their own legal code.

So the matter requiring verification would be to find out if truly non Muslims have ever been penalized using the shariah legal system.

TWO INDONESIAN CHRISTIANS FLOGGED FOR DRINKING ALCOHOL

"The two Christians were among seven people publically flogged in the aceh province on Monday.

The caning comes less than two weeks after a male couple were flogged nearly 80 times each for having gay sex, which is outlawed under local Islamic law.

On Monday, the two accused received 40 lashes each from a masked sharia officer who beat their backs with a stick.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wionews.com/world/two-indonesian-christians-punished-for-violating-islamic-law-on-gambling-362167/amp

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PAKISTANI CHRISTIAN ASIA BIBI SENTENCED TO DEATH UNDER BLASPHEMY CHARGES


Asia worked as a farm labourer. It was June and the women were to spend the day picking berries. After working for hours under the scorching sun, the thirsty, exhausted women stopped for a break. Asia was asked to fetch some water from the nearby well.

She set off, jug in hand. But on her way back she took a sip of the water before handing it over to her Muslim co-workers. They were furious.

Asia is a Christian. In Pakistan, many conservative Muslims don’t like to eat or drink with people of other faiths. They believe that non-Muslims are impure.

Asia’s co-workers told her that she was “dirty” and not worthy of drinking from the same cup as them. An argument erupted and fierce words were exchanged on both sides.

The water pump from which Asia collected water
The water pump from which Asia collected water

Five days later, the police barged their way into Asia’s house and accused her of insulting the Prophet Muhammad. Outside was a mob, including the village cleric who had accused her of blasphemy. Asia was dragged outside.

The mob brazenly began to beat her, right in front of the police. She was arrested and charged with blasphemy.

During the trial Asia maintained her innocence, but in 2010 she was sentenced to death. She has spent the past nine years of her life in solitary confinement.

In Pakistan, the punishment for blasphemy against Islam and its prophet is either life imprisonment, or death. But all too often the allegation is misused as a way to settle personal scores. Once someone has been accused of blasphemy, before their case has even gone to trial, they and their families come under attack.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/Asia_Bibi

SUDANESE WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MARRYING NON MUSLIM


A Sudanese doctor who married a Christian man and who was convicted earlier this week on charges of apostasy was sentenced to death on Thursday, judicial officials said.

According to the Sudanese officials, 26-year-old Meriam Ibrahim, whose father was Muslim, was convicted on Sunday and given four days to repent and escape death. She was sentenced after that grace period expired, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The sentencing drew condemnation from western embassies in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, and international rights groups, including Amnesty International.


The court in Khartoum also ordered Ibrahim be given 100 lashes for committing zina – an Arabic word for illegitimate sex – for having sexual relations with a non-Muslim man.

The couple married in 2011 and have a child, born 18 months ago. Sudanese law does not recognise Ibrahim's marriage to a non-Muslim.

Ibrahim can appeal against her death sentence as well as the 100 lashes.

As in many Muslim nations, Muslim women in Sudan are prohibited from marrying non-Muslims, though Muslim men can marry outside their faith. By law, children must follow their father's religion.

Sudan introduced Islamic sharia laws in the early 1980s, a move that contributed to the resumption of an insurgency in the mostly animist and Christian south of Sudan. An earlier round of civil war lasted 17 years and ended in 1972. The south seceded in 2011 to become the world's newest nation, South Sudan.

Sudan's current ruler, Omar al-Bashir, is an Islamist who seized power in a 1989 coup.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/15/sudanese-woman-married-christian-death-sentence-apostasy

11 YEAR OLD PAKISTANI CHRISTIAN GIRL WITH DOWN SYNDROME SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER BALSPHEMY CHARGES.

AN 11-year-old Pakistani Christian girl with Down’s Syndrome faces the death sentence for blasphemy.

Rimsha Masih had been burning paper for heat in the slums she calls home.

A mob claiming she had burnt the Koran began to attack her family. As local Christians fled in terror, Rimsha was charged with blasphemy by the police and her age recorded as 16 so she could be incarcerated in an adult prison. Her mother and sister were taken into ‘protective custody’ but are now ‘missing’.

Suicide bombings, rapes, kidnappings and assassinations have been a daily diet for over a decade in Pakistan.

Illiterate mobs blindly follow ‘uneducated clerics’ who twist the words of the Koran to suit their ends. On the same day of Rimsha’s arrest, 25 Shia Muslims were dragged off a bus and executed by extremist gunmen.

Pakistan’s ruling class rob the country with impunity in a revolving charade of ‘democracy’ and ‘dictatorship’ whilst ruthlessly playing the ‘divide and rule’ card. In 1998 a Catholic bishop committed suicide on the steps of the High Court in protest over another Christian facing a death sentence.

In 2009 eight Christians were burnt alive for burning a Koran.

In 2010 the Governor of Punjab and the only Christian Government Minister Shabaz Bhatti were assassinated by extremists for highlighting the plight of a Christian mother of five sentenced to death for blasphemy.

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/archives/news/66859/downs-girl-is-sentenced-to-death-aged-11/

ATHEIST IN KANO, NIGERIA FORCIBLY ADMITTED TO PSYCHIATRIC WARD AND JAILED INDEFINITELY OVER BLASPHEMY AND APOSTACY


Bala was arrested on April 28, 2020, and has been held without charge since then. His wife, Ahmina Ahmed, whom they met online in an intimate ceremony, still waits for his return, but all seem to be in vain.

According to his advocates, the atheist is accused of writing a Facebook post criticizing the prophet of Islam, an act that is considered blasphemy and can carry a death sentence in Nigeria’s mostly Muslim society where Sharia laws are enforced along with the common laws.

Some believe he was not detained because of his beliefs but because he was and still is an atheist.

"He was trying to change the dynamics... in the north," said Leo Igwe, a rights advocate and founder of the humanist group. "He was even saying he was going to contest elections."

In 2014, Bala was forcibly admitted by his own family to a psychiatric ward for 18 days because he said he did not believe in God.

His wife, Ahmina Ahmed said she did not know where the husband was detained in the first six months after he was arrested.

Ahmina was already pregnant when her husband was arrested.

She later found out that the husband had been taken to a prison in Kano, more than 200 kilometers away from where she was detained.

Bala’s troubles began in 2014 when he publicly renounced his Islamic faith in 2014, an act that is forbidden, a dishonor to the family, and punishable by death in accordance with Sharia laws.

His legal team has been working tirelessly since May 2020 and they had filed a petition seeking his release with the Federal High Court in Abuja.

His advocacy team said his detention violates his fundamental rights to liberty, a fair trial, freedom of thought and expression and freedom of movement according to the Nigerian constitution.

Bala's supporters are worried about his health in detention but also his security.

Others accused of blasphemy in northern Nigeria have been sentenced to death, and in one case in 2011, a man was beheaded in his cell by unknown individuals.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.africanews.com/amp/2021/04/20/detained-without-charges-reknowned-nigerian-atheist-still-in-prison/

To me I see this talk of sharia law as a joke or withing Muslims because Muslims cannot say they are majority, cos we are 50-50. And if they don't listen, they should bring it on and let's make it fire for fire, bulls..... t

Afonjas are in deep poo

You are even going far the non Muslim barber that got arrested by hisbah for barbing punk nkor

What about the non Muslims putting on wizkid sticker on their Keke


This people can keep playing Taqiya to their own selves

As a muslim, i support sharia law... When implemented in our southwest we will make it viable for the benefit of all the omo oluwabis, be it muslims or christians. Insha allah amin

Seyilome:
To me I see this talk of sharia law as a joke or withing Muslims because Muslims cannot say they are majority, cos we are 50-50. And if they don't listen, they should bring it on and let's make it fire for fire, bulls..... t

Yes o. Political Islam needs to be treated like Nazism. Completely expunged from civilization.

The only thing that has made Nigeria liveable is the Christians in it. Just imagine the whole country was Islamic, it would be competing with Yemen and Afghanistan in the prize for worst country on earth.

I'm glad to have read it was Shariah that led to the division of SouthSudan and Sudan. It's likely what would happen.

barojana:

Yes o. Political Islam needs to be treated like Nazism. Completely expunged from civilization.

The only thing that has made Nigeria liveable is the Christians in it. Just imagine the whole country was Islamic, it would be competing with Yemen and Afghanistan in the prize for worst country on earth.

I'm glad to have read it was Shariah that led to the division of SouthSudan and Sudan. It's likely what would happen.

you have said it all

All the alcohol being destroyed. All the Shiite lives wasted. All the innocent Christians killed.

Not in my oduduwa nation, Even the babalawos will join the fight. Rubbish.

Sharia law will bring anarchy to south west.

Never believe the lies that Sharia law is just for muslims.
That is what they said in the north but we now know better.
They destroy beers and arrest beer drinkers regardless of their religion.

We should be very vigilant whenever a religion wants to use governmental power to enforce its rule.
If sharia is just for muslims, set up a private court and tell muslims to attend it, no need for federal
or state laws.

The funny thing here is that it is the same fulani that is currently sighting moon that would be responsible for this sharia/hisbah


Just like ilorin they can't refuse when the sultan would advise that these things be domiciled under the Islamic council to which he is head


At the end it's just ilorin all over again, can you see that Islam is a plague and Yoruba muslims is the problem of Yoruba

Forget the "we eat together" "we have inter-religious families"

The fake Muslims are too eager to please their fulani Muslim superiors upon which they are tools as at when needed

Sharia ko shefeu no, don't try bringing that shit to akure, cos it's going to be war

You will never see Muslims condemn all these barbaric acts. But when someone says Islam is a religion for barbarians all of them will crawl out of their caves to start spouting dog sh*t.

joyandfaith:
Sharia law will bring anarchy to south west.

Who were the foools that even suggested it?

I supoort shari'a 1000 percent, if the cinstitution must be reviewed then shari'a must be implimented in our oduduwa nation.

ivolt:
Never believe the lies that Sharia law is just for muslims.
That is what they said in the north but we now know better.
They destroy beers and arrest beer drinkers regardless of their religion.

We should be very vigilant whenever a religion wants to use governmental power to enforce its rule.
If sharia is just for muslims, set up a private court and tell muslims to attend it, no need for federal
or state laws.

Thank You!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let them set up their private court which their members can choose to subscribe to. Why back it up with federal or state laws.

Xdesign79:

Oponu....come and implement it now...we would not allow any shariah court on any yorubaland...get that into your damn skull

Stop it from happening, its a due a process and must be done, if constitution must be reviewed then shari'a must be implimented in oduduwa,we have numbers. If not for hypocrasy what concerned cristian with shari'a