Casting Stones

By Simon Robinson Monday, Aug. 26, 2002
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    Amina Lawal, 30, with her baby in the Funtua Sharia court, Nigeria

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    The ruling last week jolted Obasanjo's government to react. "We are totally opposed to [stoning]," Justice Minister Kanu Agabi told reporters. He has an ally in Muslim human-rights lawyer Aliyu Musa Yauri, who argues that harsh sentences are giving Nigerian Muslims a bad name: "Unless the Muslims of the world stand up and reinterpret these laws, we will find that the other religions will be laughing at us." And crying foul.
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