Christian student stoned and burned in Nigeria

Abuja - A group of Muslim students publicly murdered a Christian woman in the Nigerian state of Sekoto. Video footage shows an angry mob stoning and burning a young woman while shouting Allahu Akbar. It is said to be the student Deborah Samuel of Shehu Shagari College. Allegedly, she insulted Islam in an internal chat group, whereupon fellow Muslim students hunted down the woman.

Samuel then fled to the university grounds. "Students forcibly dragged the victim from a security room where she had been hidden by the university authorities, murdered her and set fire to the building," police spokesman Sanusi Abubakar was quoted as saying by the Idoma-Voice news channel. Two men were arrested in connection with the crime. The police hope to identify other perpetrators on video recordings.

She wanted to prepare for exams
Shehu Shagari College trains prospective educators. According to unconfirmed reports, the student had complained in a student WhatsApp group that this group had originally been set up to study and prepare for exams, but that mainly "religious nonsense" was being spread.

Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa with over two hundred million inhabitants. Religious tensions prevail between the Christian south and the Muslim north of the country, which introduced Sharia law around the turn of the millennium. Islamic law also prevails in northwestern Sokoto, the administrative center of the province of the same name.

Source: Junge Freiheit