A Nigerian Islamic group has challenged a lawsuit against a senator who married a 13-year-old Egyptian girl.
While the government has issued the suit against Ahmed Sani Yerima for his marriage to the girl,
the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria is seeking an order of the Federal High Court to restrain the government from taking action over the marriage.
The Supreme Council for Sharia enforces Islamic laws and stands outside the regular court system.
The government-backed National Human Rights Commission and the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficing in Persons had brought the lawsuit, which will be challenged on constitutional grounds.
According to the Supreme Council for Sharia, Muslim men in Nigeria are allowed to marry four wives without restriction on age, even a child in the womb of her mother.
The group has said the constitution guarantees the senator the right to practice his religion in the way and manner it is described.
Yerima, 49, the ex-governor of Muslim-dominated northwest Zamfara State, has slammed the Nigerian Child Rights Act of 2003 which forbids marriage to anyone under the age of 18, saying it contravenes the country's constitution which guarantees a citizen's rights to practice his religion. The case has been adjourned until October 21.
So that's how the Islamists will run their Islamic states according to Sharia?! I would be the first to flee such a state!
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