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Brickbat: How Mature

Charles Oliver | 9.25.2020 4:00 AM


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A sharia court in Nigeria has sentenced Omar Farouq, 13, to 10 years in prison for blasphemy. He was accused of using foul language about Allah in conversation with a friend. The same court recently sentenced singer Yahaya Sharif-Aminu to death for blaspheming Mohammed.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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