Popular Nigerian Atheist and President of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, Mubarak Bala has been arrested by the Kaduna State Police for Blasphemy.
Bala, who is also an advisory board member of the International Association of Atheists, was arrested due to his Facebook posts questioning the existence of God.
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One of his posts which drew massive outrage reads: “Religion is not a person, long dead people are dead, Gods do not exist, so why fear analysis & critique on works attributed to them?”
Some Muslim lawyers wrote a petition against Mubarak Bala and accused him of “publicly insulting Prophet Muhammad on his Facebook page”. In the petition, they stated that Bala was “born and raised a Muslim but for his own personal reason decided to leave Islam for atheism sometime in 2014”. They said since then he has been deliberately writing posts on Facebook to spite Muslims.
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Meanwhile, Humanist UK has called for the release of Bala in a tweet that reads: “We condemn in the strongest terms the arrest of our humanist colleague @MubarakBala by the Nigerian authorities, who have accused him of ‘blasphemy’. We join with the international humanist community in urging his immediate release.”
A BBC article about Mubarak Bala, published in 2014, disclosed that Bala’s father drugged him and kept him in a psychiatric hospital when he stopped believing in religion and became an atheist.
Source: GhanaCelebrities.Com
This post was published on April 29, 2020 4:43 PM
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