The case of the nine-month-old baby who was accused of murder got international publicity as an indication of how utterly mad Pakistan’s justice system is. But the case of Asia Bibi illustrates that madness just as well, and gets scant attention. Would reporting on a Christian woman unjustly condemned to death for blasphemy be “Islamophobic”?
“BREAKING NEWS: Pakistan Appeals Court May Uphold Christian Woman’s Death Sentence,” BosNewsLife,
April 12:
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)– A senior advocacy official remained concern Saturday, April 12, that a Pakistani appeals court will confirm the death sentence of Christian woman Asia Bibi, who has been charged with blasphemy against Islam.
“Given the recent decisions made against people charged under the blasphemy law, it is not looking likely that the judgment against Asia will be favourable,” said Nasir Saeed, a director of the Center for Legal Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS), which supports the Christian.
She was to appear at the Lahore High Court Monday, April 14, where judges Sardar Tariq Massod and Abdula Sami Khan were to hear final arguments, Saeed told BosNewsLife. It was not immediately clear whether they would make a ruling on that day.
A planned March 17 hearing was adjourned when one of the two judges failed to appear amid concerns over Islamic extremists, trial observers said.
Bibi, a 45-year-old mother of five, has been in detention since 2009 after she reportedly told Muslim co-workers that Jesus Christ is alive. She made the remarks while working in the fields for a Muslim landowner, according to investigators.
“CHRIST ALIVE”
“Our Christ sacrificed His life on the cross for our sins…Our Christ is alive,” Bibi reportedly said. She spoke amid a dispute with non-Christian colleagues when she attempted to drink water from a well owned by Muslim, Christians said.
Besides “insulting Prophet Muhammad” she was accused “of contaminating” the well by Muslims. She was charged with blasphemy and a lower court eventually sentenced her to death by hanging.
Bibi has denied wrongdoing, but rights activists say judges are increasingly under pressure to sentence Christians to death.
On April 4, a Pakistani Christian couple, Shafaqat Emmanuel, a crippled 38-year-old man, and his wife Shagufta Kausar, 42, were found guilty of sending a text message insulting the Prophet Muhammad.
They were sentenced to death just days after Sawan Masih was given the same sentence for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad during a conversation with a Muslim friend in the city of Lahore’s Joseph Colony area last March.
JUDGES “BIASED”
“It is thought the judges were biased when making their decisions and did so under pressure from Islamic extremists,” CLAAS said in a statement.
Saeed, who leads CLAAS UK, told BosNewsLife that he has urged Christians around the world “to pray for Asia and a positive outcome” for her case. “We are [still] optimistic that justice will prevail and that Asia will be cleared of all charges,” he said.
“However, we need the prayers of the international church and Christian supporters so that the judges can be free of all pressure from Islamic extremists and make a just decision according to the facts, and fearing God.” A favorable ruling for Bibi could prompt angry reactions from Islamists, Christians warned.
Pakistani Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, a Christian, and the former governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province, Salmaan Taseer, were both killed in separate incidents in 2011, after openly condemning the controversial blasphemy legislation and expressing support for Bibi.
richard Sherman says
Winston Churchill said it best: “Islam is as dangerous in a man as rabies in a dog”.
Jay Boo says
DIVINITY
One thing that absolutely INFURIATES many Muslims is to hear Christians speak of the divinity of Jesus for it reminds them just how lowly is Muhammad by comparison.
Muslims are only too well aware that they could never claim divinity of Muhammad who ruled by a sword and vile perversions.
john spielman says
indeed! in fact the Bible says that people like Muhammed are deceived by demons (or even Satan himself) into believing a false gospel that brings damnation upon them.
Jay Boo says
Where is Obama hiding while Islam violates human rights of Christians?
Is he searching every nook for a film to let Islam play the victim?
Jack says
People tend to forget that Obama is a muslim by his own admission, to
a reporter years ago, when he was a senator. He has islamics on his
staff in the Whitehouse. He can’t stand Isreal and caters to the Palistenians.
He has sent American taxpayer money to the Islamic brotherhood. One thing everyone needs to do is not to listen to what Obama says, but to watch what he does.
Salah says
“..she was accused “of contaminating” the well..”
Dawud :: Book 1 : Hadith 66
Narrated AbuSa’id al-Khudri:
The people asked the Messenger of Allah (peace_be_upon_him): Can we perform ablution out of the well of Buda’ah, which is a well into which menstrual clothes, dead dogs and stinking things were thrown? He replied: Water is pure and is not defiled by anything.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2010/04/muhammad-and-menses-mahomet-et-les.html
Salah says
“Our Christ sacrificed His life on the cross for our sins…Our Christ is alive,”
Indeed He is.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2012/04/he-is-risen-il-est-ressuscite.html
Jay Boo says
Bibi, a 45-year-old mother of five, has been in detention since 2009 after she reportedly told Muslim co-workers that Jesus Christ is alive.
Shouldn’t we then place Muslims in detention for calling Muhammad a prophet?
enwhitenment says
Yes Jay Boo we should & we should also charge them with contaminating the planet with parasitic welfare leaching good for nothing jihadist fuckwits.
tpellow says
Disgracefully, the West’s MSM, in general, is nowhere on the plight of Asia Bibi at the hands of the utterly repressive Islamic Republic of Pakistan; but, that same MSM gives much propaganda for the al-Jazzera journalists on trial in Egypt for supporting the Muslim Brotherhood.
bobm says
For the Joy that is set before you Asia; be strong dear sister.. for He has set before you a Door that no man can close.. rejoice.
bobm says
Salah;
you cannot contaminate what is already an abomination….can satan cast out satan?.. she is covered by the Blood of the Lamb.. The Grace of God.. things that do so terrify you in your fearful rush to perdition… 1 John 2:22… islam is the spirit of antichrist…
duh_swami says
that’s nice…but none of that is going to save her from a sharia court that likes blood better than life.
duh_swami says
These people are fiends, that’s ten times worse than depraved. Torturing her daily for 4/5 years, probably raping her, and then polish it off by murder. Depravity is two steps up from the ‘down low’ where Islam lives.
Veracious_one says
the case of Asia Bibi is just one example that shows just how evil Islam is….
dumbledoresarmy says
Every Catholic in jihadwatch should be writing to Pope Francis I *demanding* that he publicly condemn what Pakistan is doing to non-Muslims, both Christian and Hindu; in particular, that he should condemn Pakistan’s abominable “blasphemy law”. And that he should press Italy to break off relations with Islamic Pakistan.
The rest of us, if we are Christians, need to send copies of this story to our parish priests, pastors or ministers, and to our senior clergy.
Christian leaders throughout the entire non-Muslim world should be demanding that our assorted nations’ relations – diplomatic, financial, military, you-name-it – with entities such as Islamic Pakistan be ended, or at the very least, severely curtailed, on the grounds of the ongoing and atrocious human rights abuses openly perpetrated upon the non-Muslim minorities in those abominable countries.
If Asia Bibi, and the other two recently-condemned Christians, ” Shafaqat Emmanuel, a crippled 38-year-old man, and his wife Shagufta Kausar” are publicly, gloatingly, judicially *murdered* by Islamic Pakistan, for what boils down to the ‘sin’ of being Christian and preferring Jesus over mohammed the mad, then from that day forward *all* entry of Muslims from Pakistan into majority nominally-Christian countries should be stopped. Never to be resumed.
Let’s write to our assorted governments, cite these three cases of these three innocent people who are about to be judicially, ritually slaughtered by Islamic Pakistan on the basis of its hideous – and thoroughly-Islamically-orthodox sharia-based – “blasphemy” “law” – and demand that our diplomatic, trade, and other dealings with Islamic Pakistan be brought to an end. Forever.
thomas_h says
“Christian leaders throughout the entire non-Muslim world should be demanding that our assorted nations’ relations – diplomatic, financial, military, you-name-it – with entities such as Islamic Pakistan be ended, or at the very least, severely curtailed, on the grounds of the ongoing and atrocious human rights abuses openly perpetrated upon the non-Muslim minorities in those abominable countries.”
Absolutely, Dumbledoresarmy! This is of utmost importance.
I will be talking to our parish priest about it on the nearest occasion and ask him to discuss the matter with the Bishop who resides in Copenhagen. I doubt the Bishop may have enough weight to spur the politicians into kind of action you propose. Denmark is not a sovereign country today – it is ruled from Brussels and the EU leaders, like the leaders of the US, will not want to appear as taking sides in a “sectarian strife” by speaking for oppressed Christians. They are too busy fighting “islamophobia” at home. But the Bishop does connect regularly with the Pope. I have met the Bishop some years ago. He is of Polish extraction and speaks fluent Polish. Perhaps I should try to meet him…
Joseph says
Any word on whether Pope Francis took time away from taking ‘selfies’ in St. Peter’s Square to reply to Mrs. Bibi’s personal letter to him?
But, of course, according to him, the “authentic” interpretation of Islam has nothing to do with violence. So I suppose he doesn’t see any need to reply.
Really, your Holiness?