States in Nigeria’s mostly Muslim north, which adopted penal codes based on sharia, are letting the rules slide
guarded by high walls and a thick metal door, a nightclub in Kano hardly bothers to conceal its existence. Disco lights flash out on the surrounding streets. Pop music is pumped carelessly into the night air. Young men and women sip beer and sway to the rhythm, seemingly unconcerned that, under Islamic law, such depravity is punishable by whipping.
Between 1999 and 2002 a dozen states in Nigeria’s mostly Muslim north, including Kano state , adopted penal codes based on sharia. At first these states strove zealously to enforce the new rules. Many recruited religious police forces, called the, to confiscate alcohol and arrest adulterers to ensure that citizens did not sin.
Between gulps of beer, Danladi, a former civil servant, speculates that politicians have lost interest in sharia because they have exhausted its vote-winning potential. But being a Muslim, he admits, he wishes he could resist the temptation to drink. “We are all human beings,” he adds. “You rarely find a person who is perfect.”section of the print edition under the headline
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