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Friday, 26 December 2014

Mauritania Journalist Sentenced to Death for Apostasy

A court in Mauritania has sentenced 28 year old journalist Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir to death for apostasy for criticizing Prophet Muhammed. According to Reuters, the journalist was sentenced by a court in the northwestern city of Nouadhibou for an article he published almost a year ago, questioning some of the decisions Prophet Mohammed took during holy wars.

Some folks saw the article which he posted online and appeared on a number of websites and called for his arrest. He was arrested on January 2nd 2014 after the article sparked street protests and has been in custody ever since. When he appeared in court, he pleaded not guilty, telling the court that it was 'not his intention to harm the prophet' but he was still found guilty and sentenced to death under Sharia law. The prosecutors recommended that he be shot to death.



AFP reported that the blogger fainted when the ruling was read out in court yesterday Dec. 25th. He was revived and taken to prison. His lawyers say they will appeal the sentence. 

According to AFP, Mauritania hasn't executed a prisoner since 1987, and has not given a death sentence for apostasy since it gained its independence from France in 1960.

84 comments:

  1. Mtchewwww, Muslims with there Harsh Discipline...

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    .Disclaimer:: Raise Your Words, Not Your Voice. It Is Rain That Grows Flowers, Not Thunder..

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    1. That's what to expect if Buhari takes the saddle....!

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    2. These people and their way shaa

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  2. NA WAOH FOR THESE ISLAMIC PEOPLE.
    IS PROPHET MOHAMMED GOD?

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    1. I tire oooooooooo

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    2. Imaging the world without Muslim
      Peace .love .care for one another
      Assuming the whole world is Christian

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    3. @Annonymous, a world without Islam will be a doomed one. And to y'all insulting Islam, I would say it's better you keep your mouth shut if you don't know what Islam teaches rather than judging the entire muslim community by the misdeeds or say exaggerated actions of very little few.
      Just to let you know. ..........

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    4. Anon 9:08..u re mad! A world witout muslims will b bokoharam free,isis free,alquedah free,osama bin ladin free,sharia law free,etc..

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    5. @Annonymous, all I can say is May God forgive you for you do not know what you are saying......smh

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  3. see d effect of sharia law and u want GMB to rule Nigeria? God forbid

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  4. Smh! n d nearest future, we wil Ave few reporters and more OAP's . Press freedom exists nowhere

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  5. No prophecy.. but I see this happening in naija pretty soon... save the file...

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  6. IMAGINE THESE PPLE OOOOO.........TAKING SUMONES LIFE LIKE ITS A CHICKEN'S LIFE....... FREEDOM AFTA SPEECH IS NEVA GUARANTEED.....

    IT IS WELL







    MERRY XMAS LIBERS

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  7. Islam,religion of peace n love indeed...

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  8. Immediately i saw the heading i knew its moslem.....must everything be by force....did ur so called senseless Mohammed beg u to fight for him....IF ONLY GOD CAN WIPE OUT THE WHOLE OF MOSLEM GENERATION

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    1. For once u said something that makes sense..I totally agree with you,I'm tired of them already

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    2. Aswr all Muslims should be wiped out

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    3. Every time I read headlines like this one, I already assume that it as to do with Muslims and I'm always 98% correct.

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  9. Immediately i saw the heading i knew its moslem.....must everything be by force....did ur so called senseless Mohammed beg u to fight for him....IF ONLY GOD CAN WIPE OUT THE WHOLE OF MOSLEN GENERATION

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  10. Awwww! See how muslims take their religion seriously but we Christians take the name of the lord our God for granted. Proper research will show, what he did doesn't even merit strokes of the cane but he gets death! But some idiot will open his bloody shitty mouth and compare GEJ to Christ!

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    1. Mind you genuine Christisns are Godly and not religious so for u to generalise n conclude that Christians r not that serious is wrong. Please it's a stupid idea to sentence anyone to death for blaspheming a mere man...mere mortal. For me i hav not seen any Christian that takes the name of our Lord for granted o.....

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    2. My brother that is the different
      Our own God love us that he came and died for us to redeem us
      But their own gods is a vampire,drinker of blood. Can you emagine a god that you must kill fellow human to enter into his paradise.a god that delight in shedding human blood
      If you are a Muslim by now common
      sence should make you ask a question how will this your gods who has no mercy.who hate peace.cry of innocent children don't move him.
      Always happy to see blood
      Howbdo you think that his Paradise will be.
      You better accept Jesus into your life now before it is too late
      If God open your eyes and you see where people that died as Muslim are
      You will not gamble with your life.
      No one can enter into Paradise without Jesus.the Bible said and your Quran confirmed it

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    3. Wait, are you saying it's right to sentence him to death? Because it sounds more like you're admiring that kind of practice

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    4. Anon 8:32 get d specs right, no one takes pleasure in the loss of life it's only d evil one dt comes to thief n kill, I mean hw can a well meaning individual pleasure in a blood spill. This case has being indelibly inscribed into d religion of the islamites, It's only God dt knows d reason for dis so called religion, and none can escape him judgement

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  11. I think my fellow Nigerians want a similar case in dis country if dey vote in d muslim fanatic buhari

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  12. Poor him. I pray his appeal is heard

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  13. So sad hope something will be done because this is not enough to take someone's life pathetic indeed

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  14. Is well, in everything give God d glory ...remember God commandments ..don't kill

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  15. Let these blood thirsty mofos temper justice with mercy and let the young man be for christ sake, the has suffered a lot and learnt his lessons... Why is islam full of killing with their stupid sharia law... Goddamit!!!

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  16. If they haven't executed a prisoner since 1987 and haven't given a death sentence for apostasy since gaining independence from France in 1960, why now?

    Why take this young man's life?

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  17. This sharia law is too harsh, haba

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  18. Hypocrites....this religion is the worst I have ever seen....
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    ¤¤¤QUEENMAYA¤¤¤

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  19. Linda b careful o. Dz Muslims ehn. Lips sealed.

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  20. Face your fate o. That's what you get for being a member of an occult sect. Islam is a cult. They show no mercy to noone.

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  21. a.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said...
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    I wonder hw many christians will raise any alarm if someone insult jesus..... thank God am a christian......
    *GLO BRING 3G TO KONTAGORA*
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    ***CURRENTLY IN JUPITER***

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  22. a.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said...
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    I wonder hw many christians will raise any alarm if someone insult jesus..... thank God am a christian......
    *GLO BRING 3G TO KONTAGORA*
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    ***CURRENTLY IN JUPITER***

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  23. Wetin concern am concern muhammed mtvheeeew

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  24. Abeg they should tamper justice with mercy. It might not be his intention to cause such an uproar.

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  25. Muslims are evil people. D only thoughts dey av in their evil black hearts is how to take out their opponents. Buhari is a sharia supporter and a loser foreva. A loser till he dies

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  26. Geezz am not surprised that they were gonna kill him. What a heartless religion. Tufiakwa.
    FACEOFLIB

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  27. Under Sharia law? Evil people!

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  28. Can u imagine, So person no get freedom of expression again...

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    The perfect world is a world without religion

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  29. Why don't they allow God to judge him?


    ......optimalgoal@gmail.com......

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  30. Sad....and you would think the court has moderate Muslims as judges and lawyers ....so if Islam is a peace loving religion ,why does stuff like this still happen....why can't Mohammed the prophets actions be questioned especially for one trying to have some meaning about his or her faith.... it is sad ,sad,sad and just stokes the flames of fear. Religion is supposed to be an internal reassessment of oneself with God's plan and nobody's business.Islam is as I gather one of them. This is a shame

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  31. Your religion, your problem. I'm sorry!

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  32. Na wa o! These muslims overwhelm me with the things they do atimes. They preach love but it doesn't show in their ways. Biko let the man live.

    Redcandy
    ****www.idoncomeagain.com****

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  33. Nawa for this muslim belief....God forbid Buhari coming in as president and imposing sharia law in this country...stupid belief.

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  34. Nawa for this muslim belief....God forbid Buhari coming in as president and imposing sharia law in this country...stupid belief.

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  35. This Muslim religion never cease to amaze me. After they will say their religion is all about peace. Why dont u allow Allah to judge him. So someone cant leave a free life anymore and even change his religion at a later time ie if he likes? That was how they almost killed the other lady for marrying a Christian + the bokos. Pls i wanto understand truly what muslim religion stand for. Mtchewwwww>>>> Walks away.
    God is watching!

    edi udom








    LIN-LIN REMAINS MY ROLE MODEL

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  36. I plead for mercy from Mauritania. Only God who gives life has the sole right to take it. They should spare his life. 2014 has seen too much blood shed. He should be warned and forgiven.

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  37. Useless religion. I hate anything that has to do with Islam with so much passion. Everyone should be entitled to their opinion wen it comes to religious beliefs but u just can't dare speak up in this useless religion without been held or sentenced for Apostasy. Mtcheeeew

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  38. Lawd v mercy,so sad he has to end dis way... yet Muslims say Islam is peace nd luv,Fuck y'all Muslims fr ur evil

    Bankz

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  39. Those campaining for GMB just take a sneak peak into ur future

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  40. Very harsh ruling...too bad for him but he should have knw better instead of getting himself into this wahala...its a pity

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  41. There is a freedom of speech, it is freedom after speech everyone should be wary of...kpele bros

    #meestaFlash

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  42. Like it is so daft that ppl who go about killing and saying the quran supports itshouting allah akbar cannot be sentenced to to death but just blasphemy against a mere man is leading to death sentence......hypocrisy is terrible.....praise Jesus for salvation!! If u dont hav Jesus sincerely u are missing out....cos He said any that comes to Him...He shall in no wise cast out

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  43. Will be much better if people really practise what they preach and openly condemn acts of wickedness like this....just for danish cartoons some were vexing and killing now.....the problem is they focus too much on d little things which shld b ignored but d major things which ridicule their faith like boko al queda taliban...they dont focus as much on those to deal with them....God hav mercy on us and save this man in Jesus' name....Amen

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  44. Hmmmm it is well, on several occasions has pple spoken abt Christ in an ill-mannered way bt nothing was done, and jst because someone aired his opinion abt prophet mohamed, his going to die. Kk o God is seriously watching u all

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  45. Hmmmm it is well, on several occasions has pple spoken abt Christ in an ill-mannered way bt nothing was done, and jst because someone aired his opinion abt prophet mohamed, his going to die. Kk o God is seriously watching u all

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  46. God did not bring Muslim to man
    It was the devil that brought it
    Muslim is pure Warcraft
    They worship the Queen of heaven the wife of Satan. Very wicked demon.
    Immediate you begin to worship her.
    You have no mercy again. Something is trigger inside them.that want to see blood.
    They love bad new of shedding blood
    As they here this story now some of them can not eat again until they drink the blood of the man
    Please Christian all over the world pray for them ..They must not die in their sins
    Christ did for them also
    Show them love of our Christ. Remember our own God is love.

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  47. FOR EVERY FREEDOM OF SPEECH, THERE IS LIMITATION. YOU CANNOT SAY YOU HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND ABUSING, INSULTING, ACCUSING, INSTIGATING, AND TALKING BAD/EVIL ABOUT A PERSON. YOU CANNOT SAY YOU HAVE A FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND THEN DOWNGRADING PERSONALITY OF AN INFLUENCED MAN. ALL WHAT HE (SAW) WAS BY COMMANDMENTS OF HIS LORD AND DESTINY OF HIS CREATOR TOO.

    mjabdulk@gmail.com

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  48. Well i did not see any muslim droping their comment on this .they really understand ..i do not knw why this issues drive straight to buhari ..whatz politic doing wif religion in nigeria .infact is there freedom of speech in nigeria generally?. This journalist is bearing a muslim name dat what we forgot about. Is He a muslim? .what surprise mi is dat french gave them independence. Is it a muslim country ? Is sharia law introduce to their constitution ?what is the percentage of muslim people in their country? .

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  49. Well i did not see any muslim droping their comment on this .they really understand ..i do not knw why this issues drive straight to buhari ..whatz politic doing wif religion in nigeria .infact is there freedom of speech in nigeria generally?. This journalist is bearing a muslim name dat what we forgot about. Is He a muslim? .what surprise mi is dat french gave them independence. Is it a muslim country ? Is sharia law introduce to their constitution ?what is the percentage of muslim people in their country? .

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  50. Bunch of hypocrites! Does dis muhammed u are fightinb for mo wat u are doin...mcheeew...u guys are our problem on earth.

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  51. An article about some one who lived about a thousand years ago leads to some one been sentenced to death. Mohammed killed lots of people all in d name of holy war ( forced every one in Medina to become muslims or death sentence).
    Am not surprised that Muslims still do DAT. # mumu religion with blind folowers.

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  52. There is nothing I won't hear in this life,what nonsense is that

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  53. Islam na shit nau..evil minded blinded followers...Buhari can never rule...he is from the camp of blood suckers..

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  54. I really don't understand why we Christians wld chose to be so inconsiderate and intolerant of other humans..what is happening to this man is wrong..very wrong..but it doesn't give u d right to bash another person's religion.. A few extremists or even a quota of 50% of extremists doesn't define an entire people..think before u talk..and remember What wld Jesus do? We all some Muslims who are plain old good people and wld never hurt any 1and Christians who are assholes.

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  55. That is Islam for U. No room for you to question the did of Prophet Mohammed? If u try it, that is death sentence. Please, is any war Holy?

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