Posted on 10/17/2014 6:56:18 AM PDT by george76
A high court in Pakistan on Thursday upheld the death sentence for Asia Bibi, a Christian mother of five who in 2010 became the first Pakistani woman to be sentenced to death for “blasphemy,” after Muslim fellow laborers accused her of insulting Mohammed.
After the high court in the Punjab provincial capital Lahore dismissed Bibi’s appeal, an organization that campaigns against Pakistan’s notorious laws accused the panel’s two judges of being swayed by about 25 Islamic clerics who it said were present in the courtroom “to apply pressure.”
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Under Pakistan’s penal code, insulting Mohammed or desecrating the Qur’an are criminal offenses, punishable by death in the former case, or life imprisonment in the latter.
Since 2002 the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, a statutory watchdog, has called on the administration to designate Pakistan a “country of particular concern,” a step that would make it eligible for sanctions or other measures intended to prod governments to stop violating religious freedom.
Each year the State Department has declined to do so, most recently last July.
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7th century religion of peace?
Guess I better never go to Pakistan.
Apparently Obama had no problem going there (on whatever mystery passport) in the 80's.
The Game is rigged.
Working with a group of Muslim women in a berry field on a summer day in 2009, Bibi took a drink from a communal well during a rest break, upsetting co-workers who accused the non-Muslim of defiling the water.
According to Anne-Isabelle Tollet, a French journalist who worked with her in prison on a book, Bibi had responded, “I don’t believe that Mohammed would share the same view as you.”
So, what Bibi did was to tell the muslim women that Mohammed would not have said that she was "defiling the water." Huh. So, her stupid co-workers got mad when she told them essentially that Mohammed would not be un-Christian by refusing to let her drink from the well.
Could some of our Republican House members do something to create some pressure about this? I know this is one woman stuck in a jail in Pakistan, but something needs to be done.
They used to exile people when they didn't know what else to do with them. How about a cry for Bibi's exile to the evil satan America?
Email the US embassy in Pakistan, your congresscritter, the State Dept., and the White House.
4 emails.
Simple. Don’t write a long screed, these aren’t read, but they are WEIGHED—counted. A lot will make a difference.
Bloody savages!!
A typical Infidel approach to Islam.
They are following their religion to the letter.
It's the Muslim religion itself that is the problem for us non-believers.
We have to make it clear to Infidels what that religion is about, and stop portraying it as something you can live with, or tolerate in our midst..
It's not like Islam is a esoteric religion ; the marching orders are spelled out in the Koran and Hadiths that any Infidel can read, and undestand -Tom
I piss on your Koran and your evil prophet, pig gutas and bacon be upon you. Now, if I had an address in Pakistan, I would mail the product to them.
If those who follow Jesus Christ were to take it upon themselves to execute everyone that insulted God / used his name in vein, Bill and Melinda Gates would feel no need to come up with a vaccine to thin the population by 3/4s.
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