{"id":452,"date":"2007-08-10T10:04:10","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T10:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/redletters\/2007\/08\/gay-nigerians-f.html"},"modified":"2007-08-10T10:04:10","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T10:04:10","slug":"gay-nigerians-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/redletters\/2007\/08\/gay-nigerians-f.html","title":{"rendered":"Gay Nigerians face Sharia death"},"content":{"rendered":"

What are your thoughts about these Gay Nigerian men? How do you feel about the stoning? What would it be like to live in a society where certain sins are punishable by death or flogging? What do you really think Jesus would do? <\/p>\n

Eighteen men have been remanded in prison following
\ntheir arrest for alleged sodomy in northern Nigeria, the state-owned
\nnews agency, Nan, reports.<\/strong><\/span>The men were arrested in a hotel in north-eastern Bauchi State, which is governed by the Islamic Sharia law. The Sharia punishment for sodomy is death by stoning. The men, reportedly wearing women’s clothes, are said to
\nhave gone to Bauchi town from neighbouring states to celebrate a "gay
\nwedding".
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\nSharia judge Malam Tanimu ordered that the 18 be remanded in prison after they were arraigned before him on Wednesday. Prosecuting police officer Tadius Boboi said the men’s
\nactions had contravened Sharia law, adopted in Bauchi and a dozen other
\nstates in Muslim northern Nigeria in 2000.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\nAmputations<\/strong>
More than a dozen Nigerian Muslims have been sentenced
\nto death by stoning and for sexual offences ranging from adultery and
\nhomosexuality. But none of these death sentences have actually been
\ncarried out as they were either thrown out on appeal or commuted to
\nprison terms as a result of pressure from human rights groups.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\nMany others have been sentenced to flogging by horsewhip for drinking. Read the entire BBC article here.<\/a>
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