Posted on 11/05/2018 1:54:38 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The husband of Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman sentenced to death by hanging in 2010 for blasphemy, is urging the governments of the U.S., U.K., and Canada to grant her and his family asylum. Bibi is a Roman Catholic living under the repressive religious caste system in Pakistan. She was born and raised in the Sheikhupura district of Punjab, a place where Christians are second- or third-class citizens and relegated to lower-class jobs like cleaning and sweeping.
In 2009, Bibi was harvesting berries with a group of other women in a field, when she was ordered by a Muslim peer to fetch water from a well. She dutifully obeyed, but according to the strict religious norms of the region, committed an atrocious crime: She took a drink of water from a nearby cup, thereby contaminating the Muslim-reserved water with her Christian uncleanliness.
For this crime, a Pakistani court convicted her of blasphemy and sentenced her to death in 2010. The verdict was confirmed by the Lahore High Court, the ruling jurisdiction of Punjab, to the joy of many Islamic leaders around the country. Her case reverberated around the world and drew the attention of other religious leaders like Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis, who defended her, dutifully adopting the modern view that this so-called blasphemy ought to be tolerated.
For the past nine years, Bibi has been living mostly in solitary confinement in an eight-by-ten-foot jail cell without windows in a Lahore prison. The Masihi Foundation, a human rights group, described her physical condition as "very frail," and her health was reported to be in decline due to poor living conditions. She has on multiple occasions suffered from abuse by prison guards in an institution which is already known for killing inmates accused of blasphemy.
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How do you grant asylum to someone in prison in another country?
Pope Francis has been defending her but has not offered her asylum in Vatican City?
She was acquitted in October. Because of protests she has not been set free yet.
Can you say “A$$wipeistan”?
It is time for us to leave the Muslim world to themselves, the Russians and China. All Americans have to vacate within 5 years. Keep Israel but nothing else, not even Jordan or Egypt.
If Americans go there then they will not be protected. No embassies, nothing.
Asia Bibi is “free” but not free to leave Pakistan. Howling Muslim male mobs got the Paki regime to cave.
Pres. Trump should offer asylum, of course. But the mobs will have the U.S. embassy surrounded (don’t forget the Paki mobs burned it back in 1979).
A rescue of Asia by helicopter might be the only way. Pray for this brave woman!
And THISis what the Left wants here! Or do Leftists think they can CONTROL the sharia enforcers??
Nice plan but any such plan that forgets to remove every last Muslim from the West and send them to Crapistan is fatally flawed.
You are 100% right, sir!
Posted on the Twitter account of a Pakistani newspaper. Bad hombres stealing bananas from a young boy’s cart while they were protesting the acquittal of Asia Bibi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmL5mgLPEO8
Sad!
In searching for the video, I read that the government is going to reimburse the boy.
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