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Nigerian Singer Sentenced to Death for Blasphemy

Mike.Hester

Mike.Hester

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Yahaya Sharif-Aminu is a Muslim singer from Kano, Nigeria. After singing a song deemed offensive and blasphemous to Muhammad, Yahaya was sentenced to death by a Sharia court for violating Islamic blasphemy laws. DO you agree that this is an extreme punishment for exercising freedom of speech?
 
danieldemol

danieldemol

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Mike.Hester said:

Yahaya Sharif-Aminu is a Muslim singer from Kano, Nigeria. After singing a song deemed offensive and blasphemous to Muhammad, Yahaya was sentenced to death by a Sharia court for violating Islamic blasphemy laws. DO you agree that this is an extreme punishment for exercising freedom of speech?
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FWIW I agree this is an outrageous and extreme punishment for the exercise of an opinion
 
Terrywoodenpic

Terrywoodenpic

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Clearly by most standards of justice, this is totally evil.
However people must expect to have to obey the laws of their country or they will certainly be subjected to them.
There is no freedom of speech in a courtesy that applies Sharia law.
 
Terrywoodenpic

Terrywoodenpic

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Blasphemy laws depend on believing that God can not stand up for himself.
and that he needs men to back him up and defend him.
It ensures that men who no longer believe the official line, keep to the laws on pain of death.
 
Cooky

Cooky

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Mike.Hester said:

Yahaya Sharif-Aminu is a Muslim singer from Kano, Nigeria. After singing a song deemed offensive and blasphemous to Muhammad, Yahaya was sentenced to death by a Sharia court for violating Islamic blasphemy laws. DO you agree that this is an extreme punishment for exercising freedom of speech?
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I would like to know what it is he sang that is so bad.

...All I can find is this:

"Critics said the song was blasphemous as it praised an imam from the Tijaniya Muslim brotherhood to the extent it elevated him above the Prophet Muhammad."

Nigerian singer sentenced to death for blasphemy
 
Cooky

Cooky

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Terrywoodenpic said:
Blasphemy laws depend on believing that God can not stand up for himself.
and that he needs men to back him up and defend him.
It ensures that men who no longer believe the official line, keep to the laws on pain of death.
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Really, he didn't even blaspheme Allah, he only elevated an Imam to a position other Muslims didn't appreciate... Which is over the top, even by their own twisted standards.
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

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Terrywoodenpic said:
Clearly by most standards of justice, this is totally evil.
However people must expect to have to obey the laws of their country or they will certainly be subjected to them.
There is no freedom of speech in a courtesy that applies Sharia law.
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That exactly. These applications of Sharia should be universally denounced and condemned, as in the modern world it has become an excuse to uphold all manners or repression and legalized dogma that much if the world has left behind and renounced as things a healthy society just cannot feature.
 
Saint Frankenstein

Saint Frankenstein

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Terrywoodenpic said:
Blasphemy laws depend on believing that God can not stand up for himself.
and that he needs men to back him up and defend him.
It ensures that men who no longer believe the official line, keep to the laws on pain of death.
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I think blasphemy laws stem from a fear that an offended deity will punish not only the individual that personally offended the deity, but the community that allows it to happen so by punishing the offender, the community was spared the wrath of the deity - the deity is definitely viewed as able and willing to defend themselves. So it's actually the exact opposite of what you said. Such a concept was common around the world long before the Abrahamic religions and long after.
 
Piculet

Piculet

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I wasn't there, but based on four different articles, he was asking for it. It was said huge protesters began after he shared the song and that he went to hiding after sharing the song.
 
Piculet

Piculet

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JustGeorge said:
As far as I know, I'm safe for the time being.

More worried about this guy.
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Another blasphemer has been in jail for some years. The sharia court in Nigeria is beneath some other court and needs their permission. I don't imagine the Nigerian prisons are great places to be, but then the man knew that before he blasphemed.
 
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