VIDEO: Boko Haram militants chop off the hands of thieves

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A new video Boko Haram released by Boko Haram on social media shows some members of the Islamic sect chopping off the right hands of two alleged thieves who supposedly have stolen money.

In the video, a Boko Haram jihadist is seen reading charges against the two alleged thieves. In sharia law, stealing is considered “hudud” or “a crime against God.” The Quranic verse 5:38 advises what to do to thieves:

“(As for) the thief, the male and the female, amputate their hands in recompense for what they committed as a deterrent [punishment] from Allah. And Allah is Exalted in Might and Wise,” he read.

Shortly after the charges were read, the men’s hands are cut off.

Boko Haram seeks to impose its radical Islamic law in Nigeria and wants every form of Western education banished.