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BOKO HARAM EXECUTES EIGHT PEOPLE IN THE NORTH FOR KICKING AGAINST SHARIA LAW

Boko Haram militants in Nigeria executed eight villagers in the West African country after they allegedly tried to fight off the group’s hardline Islamic police.



A video released by the Islamist group showed eight people blindfolded and lying face down. A man in a white turban told a crowd that the people were “apostates [who] have left the fold of Islam.” Four masked gunmen shot the people at close range as the crowd cheered, AFP reported on Tuesday.
Boko Haram—which means “Western education is forbidden”—launched a war against the Nigerian government in 2009. It has since killed tens of thousands and displaced millions in a bid to create an extremist caliphate in northeast Nigeria.
The man in the turban said that the eight people who were executed had threatened to fight Boko Haram’s so-called Sharia police, who enforce the group’s hardline interpretation of Islamic law. Boko Haram has previously carried out extreme punishments, such as cutting off hands, on those who fail to follow its rules.
Nigerian soldiers hold up a Boko Haram flag that they had seized in the retaken town of Damasak, Nigeria, March 18, 2015. Emmanuel Braun/Reuters

“These people are not different from vigilantes fighting us, spies and Nigerian soldiers,” said the unidentified man in the turban, speaking in the Hausa language.
The video also shows other graphic punishments carried out by the militants. These include stoning for alleged adulterers; beheading of purported drug dealers; chopping off the hands of reported thiefs; and flogging for those accused of drinking alcohol.
Sharia law maintains that God has mandated certain punishments, known as hudud, for specific crimes. Some conservative Islamic countries, such as Saudi Arabia, carry out hudud punishments—such as crucifixion for drug smuggling—but in general they are rarely practiced. Several states in northern Nigeria implement Sharia law but are not as extreme in their interpretation as Boko Haram.

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