Posted on 12/14/2018 8:06:20 AM PST by Cronos
..In 2009, Bibi was at her work on a farm when she stopped to drink some water from a well, using someone else’s cup. She was told that she could not share utensils with a Muslim because she was ‘unclean’. This led to an argument about religion, and Bibi and her family were later beaten by a mob who extracted a ‘confession’.
She was then arrested and imprisoned for more than a year before being formally charged. She was the first woman in Pakistan to be sentenced to death for blasphemy, and would have been the first to be executed for blasphemy under the current law. Her case sparked international outrage. Her family visited the UK to appeal for help, and even met the Pope.
..After nine years in prison, Bibi was finally acquitted. The judges ruled that there was insufficient evidence against her, because she ‘confessed’ to blasphemy while she was being beaten. Her exoneration sparked violent protests across Pakistan from the country’s fundamentalists. Some called for the judges involved in the case to be killed.
...At the end of November, Theresa May was asked to ‘put the record straight’ by Tory MP Zac Goldsmith after reports she had blocked an asylum bid for the family. Some reports have suggested it is because the government fears a backlash among British Muslims of Pakistani heritage. ‘The UK is being totally unfair,’ says Malook. ‘Theresa May should be a brave Prime Minister while deciding about Asia Bibi’s case, instead of taking into consideration what may or may not happen. For nine years the western, Christian world raised a campaign in favor of Asia. Now she is free they are showing a cowardly attitude. They are not able to stand up with conviction.’
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.us ...
Pakistan’s blasphemy laws go back to the British Raj. Laws enacted in 1860 made it a crime to disturb a religious assembly, trespass on burial grounds, insult religious beliefs or intentionally destroy or defile a place or an object of worship. Several more clauses were added in the 1980s by President Zia. In 1986, a separate clause was inserted to punish blasphemy against the Prophet Mohammed. The penalty recommended was ‘death, or imprisonment for life’. Since 1990, 62 people have been murdered, often on the flimsiest of allegations.
Has the US offered Asia Bibi asylum? She is deserving of it, unlike the Honduran caravan hordes funded by Soros.
Theresa May is a coward. But the really scary part is that May is a “conservative”. Heaven help the UK when the Labour party returns to power.
may knows that Christians aren’t going to keep her in power. muzzies are, and she will do everything to make sure the savages like her and keep voting for her.
The non-muzzies in the UK are being sacrificed. They aren’t making babies - too busy working to pay the taxes that go to the non-working baby factories.
You’d have to be nuts or brave or both to be an outright Christian in Pak
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