I’d say that’s a smart move on their part.

A Nigerian lesbian who "married" four women last weekend in Kano State has gone into hiding from the Islamic police, with her partners.

Under Sharia law, adopted in the state seven years ago, homosexuality and same-sex marriages are outlawed and considered very serious offences.
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Lesbianism is also illegal under Nigeria's national penal code.
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Kano's Hisbah board, which uses volunteers to enforce Islamic law, told the BBC that the women's marriage was "unacceptable".

The theatre where the ceremony was conducted has since been demolished, but the mass wedding had nothing to do with that.  Right!

Our correspondent says the theatre where the colourful wedding ceremony was held was flattened earlier this week.

Several reasons were given for the demolition, including the discovery that it was built on wrongly allocated land.

The women are not being actively sought by the police.  The volunteer Hisbah group, on the other hand, is hot on their trail.

h/t: MarriageDebate.com

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UPDATE (29 Apr.):  That didn't take long.  The alleged instigator denies everything.  She's not a lesbian and the ceremony was a party to raise money for the women's upcoming marriages to men.  She has engaged a lawyer and will fight in court to clear her name.

This wouldn't be the first time Muslims misinterpreted and overreacted to a perfectly innocent event.