G,
Don't worry much about such a big question,this religious hypocrisy would
not help you to answer your question.The religious leaders in northern
Nigeria are more interested in political power than the promotion of their
religion.If such people should died and go to heaven then I will prefer to
be in hell.
Yus,I believed that the only way Nigeria can avoid internal war again is
that the Government should act to defend the right of the innocent and not
to remain passive,how long will the innocent allow such barbaric acts to
continue without reacting ?
For Freedom
Saiks
----- Original Message -----
From: Ginny Quick <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: Nigerian court sentences unmarried pregnant girl to caning
> Hello, I have a question about this story. Hopefully, someone can help me
> answer it. My question is not so much whether or not the sharia law
should
> be enacted and used. What I want to know is, where is the father of this
> girl's baby? I mean, she couldn't have gotten pregnant all by herself.
> Would he suffer the same punishment as she is going to have to?
> I just wanted to know because there was no mention of the father in
> this case, and shouldn't he be as guilty as the girl is?
> Ginny
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "MOMODOU BUHARRY GASSAMA" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 2:16 PM
> Subject: Fwd: Nigerian court sentences unmarried pregnant girl to caning
>
>
> Nigerian court sentences unmarried pregnant girl to caning
> September 15, 2000
> Web posted at: 11:30 PM EDT (0330 GMT)
>
>
> GUSAU, Nigeria (Reuters) -- A pregnant teenage girl has been sentenced to
> 180 strokes of the cane by a Muslim sharia court in northern Nigeria,
> officials said Friday.
>
> Human rights activists have reacted angrily to the sentencing of
17-year-old
> Bariya Magazu after a trial likely to fuel controversy over the
introduction
> of the strict sharia penal code in parts of northern Nigeria.
>
> Separately, Roman Catholic bishops of Nigeria issued a statement calling
on
> President Olusegun Obasanjo "to address the sharia issue with the
> seriousness and sense of urgency that it deserves."
>
> The court in Zamfara state, the first of Nigeria's regional governments to
> proclaim sharia law, tried Magazu on charges of having had pre-marital
sex.
>
> Multi-ethnic Nigeria has been sharply divided over sharia since late last
> year when Zamfara embraced it. Hundreds of people died in two bouts of
> Christian-Muslim bloodletting over plans to introduce it in neighboring
> Kaduna state earlier this year.
>
> Non-Muslims oppose sharia for its tough sanctions, such as stoning for
> adultery and amputation of hands for theft.
>
> Zamfara officials said the court in the state capital Gusau had earlier
this
> week found Magazu, who is several months pregnant and being looked after
by
> her parents, guilty of having sex illegally.
>
> "The court sentenced her to 180 strokes of the cane, and she will be
> publicly flogged 40 days after she puts to bed (gives birth)," an official
> told Reuters.
>
> Rights groups described the sentence as barbaric and a violation of the
> girl's fundamental human rights.
>
> "It's shocking and really very embarrassing. It is baffling why the
Zamfara
> government would go ahead to enforce sharia to the extent of having to
give
> a small girl 180 strokes of the cane," said Samson Bako of the
> Constitutional Rights Project.
>
> Bako said a coalition of rights groups would consider court action against
> the central government if it failed to stop the spread of sharia in the
> country.
>
> Despite opposition, sharia appears popular in the predominantly Islamic
> north where some half a dozen states have adopted it or are about to do
so.
>
> In their statement issued Friday after a five-day meeting in Kaduna, the
> bishops said their original fear that non-Muslims would suffer under a
> sharia regime had been justified.
>
> "The reality on the ground in states that have adopted sharia shows that
> non-Muslims are being negatively and unjustly affected," the statement
said.
>
> In many cases Christian bodies were denied land on which to build places
of
> worship, it said.
>
> While reaffirming their faith in a unified Nigeria, the bishops said they
> believed Nigeria's constitution needed to be reviewed to reassure people
of
> all faiths.
>
> "There should no longer be room for special provisions for any religion
> within our constitution," their statement added.
>
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