User talk:Abiodun Sanusi

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Abiodun Sanusi (talk) 07:57, 2 May 2020 (UTC)Thanks so much. I'm currently working my bio, how do I get that done here?

Atheism and religious extremism in Nigeria
This is not the first time that Muslims in Nigeria would harass, threaten to kill, or arrest an atheist for blasphemy. They've been doing this for a very long time, and people like Mubarak Bala have for a long time been their victim.

I met Mubarak for the first time in 2017 at the first National Convention of the Atheists Society of Nigeria, ASN. Listening to him while he narrates his ordeal, especially his near-death experiences at the hands of Nigerian Muslims you'd agree with me that Boko Haram terrorists are not following a different creed which is averse to the tenets of Islam as written in the Quran and Haddiths; in fact, the Boko Haram sect follows Islam to the core as it was laid down by Prophet Muhammed. I kid you not, there's no such thing as moderate Islam - every Muslim you see who's not an Islamic fundamentalist is either not Muslim enough or incapable of harassing or killing people who belong to other religion or do not have a religion like Mubarak Bala. Islam as a religion belong to the 14th century, not this age.

Below is an excerpt from Wikipedia concerning what Mubarak Bala went through in the hands of Nigerian Muslims for declaring himself an atheist in 2014 - read.

Mubarak Bala, a Nigerian atheist, who was born in Kano State, Northern Nigeria in the mid 80s, was forcibly committed to a psychiatric institution in Kano for eighteen days in 2014, where he was forcibly drugged. One doctor suggested there was nothing wrong with Bala but a second doctor suggested a personality disorder and, according to Bala, told him:

"My dear, you need a God, even in Japan, they have a God, no one should live without God, those that do, are all psychologically ill, denying the biblical account of Adam and Eve is delusion, denial of history.."

The International Humanist and Ethical Union has taken up the case and feels Bala's Human rights were violated.

According to the IHEU, "The real reason for this outrageous and inhumane action is because Mubarak has renounced Islam and has openly declared himself to be an atheist."

On 4 July 2014, the BBC reported that Bala had been released from hospital in conjunction with a doctors' strike, and was seeking reconciliation with his family. It was not yet clear if he would remain in Northern Nigeria, due to death threats.

Nigeria is a secular state, Nigeria is not an Islamic state. Blasphemy is not a crime.


 * 1) FreeMubarakBala Free Mubarak Now Abiodun Sanusi (talk) 08:09, 2 May 2020 (UTC)