Take a good look at this guy!
Would you want him to marry your daughter?
This is the face of a legal pedophile!
(At least, so far!)
His name is Senator Ahmad Sani Yerima, and he is one of the big shot politicians of Nigeria.
(I wonder if he's the asshole that keeps sending me those phony letters!)
He also "likes" (sic) pre-pubescent 12 and 13 year old girls.
But, the recent wedding of the Muslim leader, who brought Shariah law to Africa's most populous nation, is under scrutiny as human rights groups say he married a 13-year-old Egyptian girl.
As authorities investigate Senator Ahmad Sani Yerima, the marriage is drawing fresh questions about the role of religion in a country of 150 million people split between Christians and Muslims.
Yerima, 49, arranged the marriage with the girl after paying her family a $100,000 dowry, according to a complaint filed by the Nigerian Human Rights Commission in April. Initially, Yerima couldn't arrange a visa for the girl to travel from Egypt to Nigeria, so he instead brought the girl through neighbouring Niger, said Chidi Odinkalu, a lawyer for works for the open Society Justice Initiative.Under child protection laws enforceable in Abuja, Nigeria's capital, a woman must be 18 before being able to consent to marriage. However, those laws aren't enacted in all of Nigeria's 36 states and activists say child brides have been married off in Muslim communities after their first period.
(That leaves Yerima open to human trafficking charges, as well as possible child-sex and endangerment charges, the lawyer said.)
"You don't need the Qur’an or the Bible to get this," Odinkalu said.
"I think most people, irrespective of the cleavage between the two faiths, wouldn't marry off their 13 year old."
It also isn't the first time Yerima has apparently married a child bride. The right commission alleged that he married another underage girl a few years ago, only to divorce her at 17 after she had his child.
"The senator is in the habit of marrying minors and has gained notoriety in enticing girls to marry him," the commission said.
"As a Muslim, as I always say, I consider God's law and that of his prophet above any other law," Yerima told the BBC's Hausa language radio service. "I will not respect any law that contradicts that and whoever wants to sanction me for that is free to do that."Yerima himself appears unrepentant in recent interviews, though he has declined to say how old any of his wives were!
Now, (Here we go kids) in order to erase any confusion about Islam as a just and fair religion, it might be a good idea for all those people who need someone to kill as a sign of their faith to turn their attention to guys like the Senator, rather than some poor schmuck who draws cartoons!
Allan W Janssen is the author of the book The Plain Truth About God (What the mainstream religions don't want you to know!) and is available as an E-Book H E R E! and H E R E! And as a paperback H E R E ! and H E R E !
