“The Sufi preacher, from Sunni Islam who are the majority among Nigerian Muslims, was accused of having issued statement considered to have mocked the prophet during a religious ceremony.” It isn’t really very likely that a Muslim cleric mocked Muhammad, but the verdict is what it is. In the West, meanwhile, we are more civilized. Those who are deemed to have mocked Muhammad are not sentenced to death; they’re just vilified, ostracized, and denounced for “bigotry.”

“Kano court sentences cleric to death for blaspheming Prophet Mohammed,” by Travis Underwood, The Post Oracle, January 6, 2016: