The Chairman of Sokoto State Ulama Forum of Izala, Sheikh Abubakar Usman Mabera has said any lawyer who defends the Kano State singer Yahaya Aminu Sharif recently convicted for blasphemy by a Sharia court has renounced his Islamic faith. According to Tribune Newspaper, the Islamic cleric affirmed that a competent Sharia court in Kano had sentenced the musician to death for blasphemy. He noted that blasphemy in Islam was a capital punishment by death, saying, “As a Muslim, the law applies to the singer. The cleric, who is also the…
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