
The indignation a lot of persons feel about the ruling of the Kano Sharia court as regards Yahaya Sharif Aminu, the ‘blasphemous’ musician, isn’t righteous. Certain persons who are not Muslims feel it is wrong because “Mohammed is not God, the Virgin or Jesus” & that says a lot. This is not about protecting fundamental rights or warring against religious bigotry, it is bigotry against bigotry. Mike Bamiloye and Oreofe Williams have been making Christian movies portraying African beliefs and gods as nonexistent/ powerless for years and Christians have been & are still okay with it, because religious bigotry is fine if we are the ones doing it (don’t mention the outrage about Netflix Jesus). You might have the inclination to concur with this postulation on religious bigotry & opine that they could have produced their movies without their unrelenting denigration of the African Traditional Religion. But that’s a lie.
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