Hashimyussufamao: Death Sentence For Blasphemy At Kano: A Perspective by O. G. Chukkol
I have been following arguments on social media for the past two days about the death sentence passed on one Yahaya Aminu Sheriff for blasphemy (insulting prophet Mohammed PBH) at Kano.
Let me make few observations here:
1. There is actually a Shariah Penal Code law in Kano state
2. The said Shariah Penal Code makes provision for offences and punishments recognized in Islam
3. The Shariah Penal Code Law prohibits blasphemy and a violator risks death sentence. See section section 382 thereof.
4. The Shariah Penal Code Law of Kano applies to Muslims only
5. The Shariah Penal Code Law of Kano does not apply to non Muslims. So a Christian or any other non Muslim cannot be prosecuted under the law except if he consents to it
6. Sheriff was tried and convicted under the Shariah Penal Code Law because he was a Muslim.
7. Sheriff has the right to appeal to a higher court for his conviction to be reviewed or set aside if the trial court was wrong.
8. Governor of Kano State has the final say on Sheriff's conviction. He can pardon Sheriff and allow him go free or change the punishment or sign death warrant for Sheriff to be executed/killed as ordered by court
9. A non Muslim who insults prophet Mohammed or commits any other form of blasphemy can at best be tried under the general Penal Code law for defamation or breach of public peace or any other related offence depending on exactly what the person says
In view of the foregoing, I will completely refrain from commenting on the appropriateness of death sentence for blasphemy because it is an Islamic injunction entrenched in a written law. Besides, I may not even be objective about it because I am not a Muslim, but a Christian. I will only end up pouring my sentiment in the guise of criticism. To me, is not even logical to use my religion to condemn another religion.
I submit further, for the purpose of emphasis, that the offence of blasphemy applies to Muslims only and they are in support of it. They are comfortable with it because their religion provides for it. I cannot take panadol for somebody's headache
Had it been the offence applies to non Muslims also, I would have immediately condemned it for being unconstitutional.
It should be noted that the Shariah Penal Code was enacted pursuant to section 38 of the constitution which provides for right to freedom of religion and sections 4 and 6 of the constitution which gives states power to make laws and also establish courts for themselves and also section 36(12) which provides that person can be convicted for an offence only if the said offence is defined in a written law with sanctions attached.
That is to say, the Supreme Law of the land has given them backing. They can practice their religion provided that a non Muslim shall not be affected
Let me drop my pen here. Everything I put down here is strictly my opinion and I may be wrong.
Chimookigwe: So, Multichoice is marginalising you? You just open your mouth and talk nonsense as if you are in a long distance relationship with commonsense.
Kalatium: God created the family concept as the cornerstone of His Church & Kingdom on earth . The children of a “healthy family” stand a much better chance at procreating and producing the next generation of healthy families and healthy productive societies.
Healthy families make disproportiately larger contributions to society. Economic growth, pay more taxes, moral stability, love, joy & peace in the Holy Spirit, the internet is FULL of evidence that children from broken families suffer terribly & generally under achieve.
Satan wants to destroy this corner stone of a healthy society. He sets out to destroy and who are more vulnerable than the youths. He entices us with premarital sex through social media, news, movies, erotic books, articles etc. Our young guys and young girls see it as a status quo, children of 10 years are even experimenting.
Youths want to feel among, within their peers. A guy feels he has arrived and starts chasing anything under skirts, whenever he is able to have his way with a girl, he is applauded. On the other end, especially in SS class A Girl feels she is very hot and can get any guy, she sees sex as an adventure and fun. This becomes worst in higher institutions.
This is how the devil is gradually succeeding. She starts sleeping with different guys in the name of fun, any guy who underperforms is seen as a disgrace and not man enough. This pressure guys into taking all kinds of substance such as Vega(sildenafil), aphrodisiacs and miscellaneous just to last long in bed and give her the best orgasm.
Adverse effects of promiscuity/premarital sex As a Christian you already know premarital sex is a sin against God. This is the spiritual aspect of it, i do not want to repeat what you must have known before. Here i will like you to see the Physical and Medical Adverse effects of such lifestyle.
Psychological effects As people keep having premarital sex they see themselves catching fun and getting the pleasure they want. However, they do not understand something in going on within them. In Promiscous individuals, brain chemicals such as PhenyEthylAmine & Oxytocin are depleted after 3 or 4 sexual unions, which make them physically incapable to deeply bond with their future spouse.
Risk of Infection In their youthful exuberance young people enjoy diving raw but never seems to think about the repercussion. Although you might probably be lucky enough to escape any deadly disease but prevention is better than cure. Don’t destroy your good health with Gonorrhea, Syphilis, Herpes, or the dreaded HIV/AIDS.
Complications Abstenance is the best contraception. No matter the contraceptives, the safest sex is marital sex. Contraceptives have the following side effects such as Intermenstrual spotting= Breakthrough vaginal bleeding common between expected periods, Nausea, Breast tenderness, Headaches and migraine, Weight gain, Mood changes, Missed periods etc
Many ladies end up having countless abortion some died, some nearly died while others end with a damaged womb leading to childless marriage.
Unwanted pregnancy As far as a sex happens and a man ejaculates, pregnancy should be expected. Some guys get girls Pregnant and run away leaving her to be a single mum. Some ladies in the process gets pregnant and in fear of losing their womb after multiple abortions decides to keep the baby, this leads to unwanted pregnancy further leading to unwanted marriage.
Most times they never planned to get married, they end up being frustrated. Most times the guy is yet ready and is not capable of being a father. A pastor was shared a story of how he tried to make his wife to abort their first born child because he was not ready to marry, all the pills his wife took didn't work and she ended up giving birth. He had to marry her.
Lies As a lady gets older, her biological clock kicks resulting in sudden decline of male suitors at this point she is pressured to marry. A Promiscuous lady seeing that her lifestyle has not attracted men with the intention of marrying her will decide to “change her ways” and become “conservative” in the hope of snarring a “nice man”, good provider & good father.
She then LIE about her Sexual Past, because she wants to be loved for the “Changed Person she is NOW” She becomes sister Nkechi who is a prayer warrior and attends every church program. This is to lure in a man to marry her. Some will go to the entend of lying they are virgins only for the husband to marry her and be shocked. The Marriage then falls apart in one week because of lies. Or he later founds out she can't give birth because she destroyed her womb through abortions.
Unsatisfied sexual life Sometimes she may not lie she is a virgin but pretends she never had multiple partners. The Husband being deceived she is decenr will feel the luckiest man alive. However, when wify finally has sex with her husband., she is bored out of her mind with his performance in bed, because Every Single Previous Lover outperforms her pathetic husband . She begins to miss.. Makanaki: “who could go at it all night” John: “who could give her multiple orgasms” Zaddy: “who was better endowed” Paul: “who was much more experience” Or Falz: “who gave her WILD SEX . . . a preference that Hubby is totally unaware of.
Risk of extramarital affairs Some wives start affairs, because of the Dead Bedroom Husband “my husband cannot meet my sexual needs I FELT the need to FEEL ALIVE AGAIN "," my husband is a 5minutes man". Affair is guaranteed to give her the endomorph rush that she craved during her promiscuous years. She then begins to cheat with her ex or a Neighbour and then refuse the Husband sex. And there you have it, the emasculated husband caught in a sexless marriages i.e satan’s plan for marriages.
In the other end, the man gets married but his wife is boring in bed, he wants all the sexual styles he can think of but she is not willing to give in to his denands. He then gets a side chick to fulfill his sexual fantasies.
Unhappy marriage/seperation/divorce Inevitably satan bides his time for an opportunity to expose her lies at the time in her marriage, she either gets caught cheating or the truth about her past gets revealed leading to cataclysmic consequences for her & the children (if there is). The Husband then realizes his Entire Marriage was a big scam by this time he is sexually frustrated and very resentfull of his frigid wife the knowledge & MENTAL IMAGES that his wife had threesomes at college – One Night Stands with random guys, is psychologically too much for him to bear and he starts to cheat as revenge/ or seperate from his wife.
A man due to his previous excapades during his premarital life may want to taste other women because he is getting bored with having only one woman, he then ends up inpregnating a side chick or ends up contracting a disease.
As you can see premarital sex puts you at a disadvantage not only spiritually but physicially and healthwise.
Quality20: Yeah u heard me right. They are not only that. In fact most girls these days are just too promiscuous. What really is happening? How and why should grown up girls be taking sex with every Tom, dick and Harry as fun? Many don't even care whether the man before them is a ghost, or whatever
agya1: Sad.. May His soul rest in Peace. Either COVID 19 Or not Death is inevitable And every souls will surely taste it. At least Obasanjo will let him be now...
lexy2014: "What will Jesus do?" That's a good question. In d face of Corona, will Jesus hold a healing crusade or what will he do? Will Jesus be a praise singer of d buhari administration in d face of obvious failed promises to Nigerians?
StagethemTVee: The man in the videos below whe claims to be a policeman attached to Pedro Police Station, Shomolu — today assaulted a female resident of Awofodu Street, Pedro and a man who was spotting a dreadlocked hair. He also assaulted another and stabbed a third. a crowd gathered challenging him while he made calls probably to officers from his station.
weIMPORT: BBNaija housemate, Laycon has opened up on how he finds it irritating whenever Kiddwaya and Erica kiss in his presence.
While talking with Prince and TrikyTee, Laycon said that he likes Erica but finds it irritating that Kiddwaya always intrudes, grabs and kiss her anytime he’s having a discussion with, Erica.
He said:
“I like Erica, I like her and i love spending time with her.. but there’s Kidd. Erica and I might just be having a discussion and he’ll just come, grab her waist and start kissing her. I don’t even get jealous anymore, i just find it irritating, disrespectful and awkward.”
made4naijamusic: A video making the rounds on social media has shown the moment a lady rejected her boyfriend’s public proposal.
In the video, her boyfriend could be seen standing on his feet as he begged her to close her eyes tightly while stretching out the engagement ring towards her.
As she opened her eyes, she saw him standing on his feet to propose and she got offended that he didn’t go on his knees to propose to her.
Her boyfriend on the other hand insisted that kneeling down doesn’t prove anything. He turned down all her efforts to make him kneel down and she walked out immediately.
Kwanza: Boko Haram Releases Footage Of Members Observing Eid Prayers In Niger State
The Shekau-led faction of BH has released its first video exclusively featuring members claiming to be from Niger State.
It shows about one hundred persons praying Eid in the heart of a bush before showing three fighters sending Eid greetings in Hausa, English and Fulfulde.
It’s interesting that two of the fighters were respectively wearing Nigerian military & police uniforms. This indicates that they might’ve recently killed security forces and got their uniforms. This is because in their past video, the only speaker from Niger was in mufti.
This video, if genuine, is further evidence that BH has expanded to the northcentral. The dense forest there is a perfect haven for terrorists and if the group is able to consolidate its presence in Niger, it can easily target Abuja as well as to other states like Kwara and Kogi.
I won’t get tired of urging the FG and the Niger State Govt to take this threat seriously. We shouldn’t wait until the situation gets out of control before we start running helter-skelter. We better nip this challenge from the bud before it grows too gigantic to be uprooted.
Miracle1991: the house of assembly members were with UDOM. And for bayelsa you know definitely he didn't win the polls. Also you should know that the local govt chairmen and councilors who are at the grassroots are not with Obaseki.
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