Posted on 12/18/2018 5:17:28 PM PST by marshmallow
December 18, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Asia Bibi will still be in protective custody in Pakistan over Christmas, her British spokesman has said.
Asia Bibi, 53, is the Catholic Pakistani woman who was acquitted of blasphemy by Pakistan’s supreme court on October 31. Following her acquittal, there was mass unrest in Muslim-majority Pakistan, led by an Islamist political party. Dashing hopes that the woman and her family would soon find refuge abroad, the Pakistani government signed an agreement with the extremists, preventing Asia Bibi from leaving the country. The extremists hope to overturn Bibi’s acquittal and ensure her execution. Meanwhile, she, her husband, and her family are in hiding, protected from would-be lynchers by the government.
A petition to the Pakistani government to overturn the agreement will be heard in early or mid-January, Bibi’s British spokesman told LifeSiteNews.
“She’ll be spending Christmas in a closed room with her husband,” said Winston Chowdhry of the British Pakistani Christian Association. He declined to comment on whether or not Bibi’s children would be with her.
Chowdhry, who is currently in Canada, had not heard that there has been recent criticism of the Vatican Secretary of State for stating that Asia Bibi’s case was “a Pakistani internal matter (“é una questione interna al Pakistan”).”
Il Messaggero wrote that Cardinal Pietro Parolin’s November 6 response to a question regarding Asia Bibi was that the Holy See has always been interested in saving her life, and he thought that a good thing. (“Da parte della Santa Sede c’è sempre stato interesse per salvare la vita ad Asia Bibi. Penso che sia una cosa buona.”)
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First thing these snakes tell you is that islum (piss be upon him) is about tolerance and peace. About letting people live their lives.
They say this sort of extremist behavior is condemned throughout islum.
when islime is in the minority they demand tolerance.
when they are in the majority there is no tolerance.
Has the US offered her asylum yet? She’s certainly more deserving than the caravan folks looking for $50,000 each.
It’s time to pray for Asia Bibi.
169,800,000 reasons to nuke “Pockeestahn”.
Amen. Thanks for this reminder.
President Trump should fly her here to show what a real refugee is.
All for a drink of water. The original prosecution was because she drank water out of a cup reserved for muslims. There were no other cups available. For this they wanted the death penalty.
Muslims deserve the same quality of mercy.
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