Four years ago this month, a young Nigerian Sufi musician named Yahaya Sharif-Aminu was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging. His trial had taken just a few months, and he had no lawyer to defend him. A mob burnt down his home when he was arrested. No one in the mob was arrested.
His alleged crime was sending music lyrics over a social media chat group that others thought were “blasphemous” towards the Prophet Muhammad.
I am thinking of Yahaya because today, August 22, is the UN’s International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief. Nigeria is…
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