A sharia court in Nigeria has sentenced Omar Farouq, 13, to 10 years in prison for blasphemy. He was accused of using foul language about Allah in conversation with a friend. The same court recently sentenced singer Yahaya Sharif-Aminu to death for blaspheming Mohammed.
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