Peterborough is not so different from Nigeria Theodore Dalrymple sees unattractive parallels between mob and Sharia law

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: September 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

The day I first arrived in Nigeria, in the northern city of Maiduguri, everyone was away at the public executions. The men to be executed were armed robbers. I didn't feel particularly outraged, because I knew that public executions would draw crowds wherever in the world they were held. Of course, I also suspected what I discovered on subsequent visits to Nigeria to be true, namely that the biggest armed robbers of all were the police.

Now, in accordance with Sharia law, they are going to stone an adulteress to death in northern Nigeria. Those who will cast the stones (if the highest court ...

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