OPINION: RELIGION HYPOCRISY IS REAL

December

DID MRS KEMI BADENOCH LIE FOR NOT WANTING TO HAVE ANYTHING DOING WITH THE CORE NORTH?

By Olu Iwaa

Below are the lists of previously reported blasphemy cases that have occurred in northern Nigeria.

✓ In 1995, A group of Muslims broke into the police station and dragged Gideon Akaluka out of his cell at Goron Dutse prison in the northern city of Kano and beheaded him for blasphemy.

✓ On 14 July 1999, in the village of Randali in Kebbi state, a Muslim mob beheaded Abdullahi Umaru. The mob accused Umaru of blasphemy against Mohammed. 

✓ On 20 November 2002, Isioma Daniel fled Nigeria ahead of a fatwa that called upon Muslims to kill her.

✓ In 2006, Florence Chuckwu, a school teacher in Bauchi was killed with other 20 Christians and two churches were destroyed in the town because she told her student to stop reading the Quran in the class while she was teaching the class English language.

✓ In February 2006, Violence was ostensibly outrage at the publication in the Danish magazine Jyllands-Posten of cartoons that some Muslims consider blasphemous, Thousands of Muslim rioters went on rampages in different states. The rioters burned churches, torched Christian shops and homes, and killed Christians.

✓ On 21 March 2007, a mob of Muslim students and neighborhood extremists lynched Christianah Oluwatoyin Oluwasesin, a mother of two and a teacher at Government Secondary School of Gandu in the city of Gombe. Oluwasesin, a mother of two was assigned to supervise an Islamic Religious Knowledge exam. When one of the students wanted to enter the exam hall with his books, Oluwasesin collected them and threw them outside. The students claimed that one of the books was a copy of the Qur’an, This caught the attention of the popular thugs (Yan Kalare) who stabbed her to death.

✓ On 28 September 2007, a Muslim mob rioted at Tudun Wada in Kano state. The Muslims complained that Christian students had drawn a picture of Mohammed. The mob killed nine Christians, burned several churches, and destroyed the homes and businesses of some non-Muslims. The Christians reported that the violence erupted after they had prevented one of their members from converting to Islam.

✓ In October 2007, A sharia court convicted Sani Kabili, a Christian and a father of six, in the town of Kano for blasphemy against Mohammed. The court sentenced Kabili to three years in prison. In February 2009, an appeal court overturned the conviction.

✓ On 4 February 2008, a Muslim mob besieged a police station and set it on fire in the city of Yano in Bauchi state. The police station was the refuge of a Christian woman whom the mob accused of desecrating the Quran.

✓ On 9 February 2008, a Muslim mob rioted in the town of Sumaila in Kano state. The mob acted upon the alleged distribution of a leaflet that allegedly slandered Mohammed. The mob killed a Christian police inspector, two civilians, wounded twenty others and destroyed properties.

✓ On 20 April 2008, Muslim rioters in the city of Kano burned the shops and vehicles of Christian merchants after one allegedly disparaged Mohammed.

✓ On 9 August 2008, a Muslim mob in Kano state beat to death a fifty-year-old Muslim man who blasphemed Mohammed

✓ On 19 June 2009, a Muslim mob in the town of Sara in Jigawa state burned a police outpost and injured about twelve people over alleged blasphemy against the Islam.

✓ In 2016, 74 years old Bridget Agbahime was beheaded in Kano for refusing to allow the Muslims to spread their praying mats in front of her rented shop.

✓ In 2016, Evangelist Eunice Olawale of Redeemed Christian Church of God was lynched by a group of Muslims in Abuja because she told them to accept Jesus Christ as their savior.

✓ On 10th August 2020,Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, 22, was guilty of committing blasphemy for a song he circulated via WhatsApp in March. He was sentenced to death by hanging…

✓ On the morning of 12 May, 2022, Deborah Yakubu,…