Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are a massive human rights abuse, used to destroy the lives of countless numbers of people, including Asia Bibi. But the world takes little notice. After all, no “Islamophobia” is being committed, so what’s the big deal?
“Pakistani Christian loses appeal against death sentence for blasphemy,” by Mubasher Bukhari, Reuters, October 16, 2014:
LAHORE Pakistan (Reuters) – A Pakistani court upheld the death penalty on Thursday against a Christian woman accused of blasphemy, her lawyer said, in a case that drew global headlines after two prominent politicians who tried to help her were assassinated.
In 2010, Asia Bibi, a mother of four, became the first woman to be sentenced to death under Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy law.
She is alleged to have made derogatory remarks about Islam after neighbours objected to her drinking water from their glass because she was not Muslim.
Bibi’s lawyer, Naeem Shakir, said his client had been involved in a dispute with her neighbours and that her accusers had contradicted themselves.
Two witnesses allegedly involved in the incident did not appear in court, he said. A prayer leader did appear, saying he did not witness the original altercation, but that Bibi had confessed in front of him.
“I was expecting the opposite decision,” Shakir said. “We will file an appeal to the Supreme Court of Pakistan in a few days.”
But Gulam Mustafa, the lawyer for the complainant, said the court’s decision was correct.
“Asia’s lawyer tried to prove that the case was registered on a personal enmity but he failed to prove that,” he said.
After Bibi’s arrest in 2010, two top Pakistani politicians who sought to intervene on her behalf were gunned down, one by his own bodyguard.
Lawyers showered the killer with rose petals when he appeared in court, and the judge who convicted him of murder had to flee the country.
Rights groups say the blasphemy law is increasingly exploited by religious extremists as well as ordinary Pakistanis to settle personal scores. The law does not define blasphemy and evidence might not be reproduced in court for fear of committing a fresh offence. There are no penalties for false accusations….
Blasphemy cases have also been registered against those who have publicly discussed reforming the law.
Abe says
Rose petals…. my heart literally stopped here. This law is genocide in slow motion.
Jaladhi says
USA should cut off all aid to these Pakistani bastards until they start treating minorities like human beings!!
Jaladhi says
Where all those “moderate” Muslims of the west to save life of Asia Bibi?? Again there are no moderate Muslims – just lying hypocrites and our media and leaders give credence to them. Facts speak for themselves. US population should open their eyes about Muslims and Islam!!
Almach says
Exactly, and where is Sayeeda Warsi’s voice to condemn this?
Lookmann says
I doubt if this US admin., has the balls to do it.
Jaladhi says
And as for the Pakistani courts – they are nothing but kangaroo courts???
Lookmann says
Yes, they are. The Mumbai jihad attack case is heard by the judge once or twice in a month and adjourned thereafter for 20 days . This has been going on for years, despite Indian govt., pressure.
As for as Kuffar are concerned these trials are just ‘sham’
dumbledoresarmy says
And not only the USA.
ALL “aid” to Muslim Pakistan, all trade with Muslim Pakistan (they *do* sell rice and cheap clothing to western countries), indeed ALL relations with Muslim Pakistan, by *all* non-Muslim nations that currently – very stupidly – give such aid and engage in such relations, should be cut off, if Pakistan ritually murders this poor woman. She is being killed for no other reason, at bottom, than that she is a Christian who stated the simple truth: that Jesus was a better person than Mohammed.
Australia and New Zealand and the UK should tell the Pakistan cricket team: you’re not welcome. I’m not a follower of the cricket, so I don’t know how things work; but if there are any Aussie cricketers or aficionados of same, reading this, can you please try to get the ball rolling, so to speak, re. a Cricket Boycott of vile Islamic Pakistan??
The Commonwealth – which is composed of a majority of non-Muslim nations – should give Pakistan the boot; permanently. (I, and all other Aussies, and the Canadians and New Zealanders here present, should be writing post haste to our governments, citing this iniquitous court decision in Pakistan, and *demanding* that we use every bit of leverage we may currently possess, to pressure Pakistan to reverse it. And we should ask our governments to *publicly* offer Asia Bibi – and her entire family, her husband and her children – asylum in our countries).
deja vu says
Well said, dda. We’ve been writing to, and advocating for, Asia for years and many others like her. Her case seems hopeless and it seems only a miracle will get her out of this corrupt and barbaric hellhole.
It’s high time our nations declared a moratorium on Muslim immigration and gave sanctuary to persecuted Christians instead. We would be blessed by doing so. At the moment we’re blindly sealing our fate. I’m beginning to wonder if the rise of Islam is a judgment on the West.
gravenimage says
Hear, Hear!
No one should pretend any longer that Pakistan deserves to be regarded as a civilized nation.
dlbrand says
Amen.
islamisdeath says
Nary a word will spoken by our dear leader to our “ally” Pakistan. Not even a tweet from the imam in the white houses wife!
The left and muslims are parallel in that they both want to wipe Christians off the face of the earth.
Meanwhile in Houston the lesbian mayor is now subpoenaing the sermons of Christian pastors who disagree with her. After much criticism she has vowed to reword the subpoenas and reissue them. Persecute and prosecute in Houston Texas.
Jaladhi says
I think US is caught in a death spiral from which it cannot come out unless PC is wiped out and truth is spoken as plainly as possible to tell everybody dangers of Muslims and Islam in the West!!
dlbrand says
Yup. In a word.
Walter Sieruk says
This article is just one more example of the fact the Islamic has little to no arguments to back up it doctrines,so much as, that Muslim countries feel the need to enact “Blasphemy laws.” The reality is the these type of “laws ” only exist because the teachings of Islam are so weak and flawed that these teachings can’t stand up to or hold up to criticism.
chase says
Thats exactly right and I have explained this to muslims.They falsely call Islam ‘the strong horse’but muslims don’t think.,Islam needs to be defended by these laws because it’s weak.
‘The truth is like a lion,let it out and it will defend itself.’
Dileep N says
Rabid dog of a religion. In an Islamic country the only difference between terrorist and state is the procedure.
Truth says
The Muslim prophet Mohammad was an evil child molester (he married a six year old little girl), and an evil supporter of slavery. Nobody should follow him anywhere.
Vic says
It’s common practice in Pakistan to accuse anyone you have a dispute with of blasphemy. The law there is a farce.
Christopher says
The much larger point is that the law shouldn’t be there in the first place, of course.
Christopher says
Notice the BBC’s coverage states that convictions for blasphemy are only immoral if they are being misused against people innocent of the charge: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-29640245
Ourga says
The muslim crowd outside :
“We will distribute sweets to our Muslim brothers because it is a victory for Islam,”
Islam iss the religion ove the piss nd luve . No Blasphemy .
dumbledoresarmy says
And meanwhile our media is full of whining Muslimahs here in the west who are squawking and crying victim and pretending that they’re being “persecuted”… because, as they go strutting about flaunting the gang colours of the Beheading Gang, a few people here and there are looking at them funny, or making remarks. The very same Muslimahs who would, if in Pakistan, have done to Asia Bibi *exactly* what her Muslim female co-workers did – screamed, yelled, mobbed her and accused her shriekingly of “blasphemy!”, knowing full well that that accusation would get her *killed*.
dumbledoresarmy says
Paging all UK readers (and anyone from across the Channel who might be able to make it to Britain this Saturday, 18 October 2014.
The British Pakistani Christian Association (new website at this link)
http://www.britishpakistanichristians.co.uk/
has been campaigning on behalf of this woman for years.
They are going to be holding a PROTEST on Saturday 18 October, to put pressure on the British Government to use whatever leverage it may have, on behalf of Asia Bibi.
“The BPCA have organised a protest for this Saturday from 11:00 – 13:00 at 10 Downing Street. Further information on this will be posted on our blog later today.”
So there you go. If you’ve been wanting to *do* something, here’s an opportunity to stand up and be counted. Put gutless David Cameron on the spot.
To repeat: outside No 10 Downing St, London, between 11 am and 1 pm on Saturday 18 October (which happens to be the Feast of St Luke the Physician, Evangelist and Martyr).
The more people turn up, the better. I don’t know how many people the British Pakistani Christians are expecting, but…wouldn’t it be nice if at least a *thousand* people – UK citizens of all non-Muslim faiths and of no faith, and a goodly contingent from neighbouring countries who have travelled all the way to London to help make the point – turned up on Saturday?? It would be even better if there were two thousand, or three thousand. Let’s have an *Infidel* insta-crowd, for a change.
Go along whether you’re a Christian or not; indeed, it is important that those who are *not* Christians should go, to uphold the general principle of freedom of conscience and freedom of speech.
And: you can use it as an opportunity to educate the general public; before you go, make sure you can explain to any passer by that this oppression of minorities, *and* specifically this suppression of the critique or questioning of Islam, is **mainstream Islam**. Pakistan didn’t make this up; Pakistan is doing it because Pakistan is trying to fulfil the sharia of Islam. Look up the stories of Abu Afak and Asma bint Marwan, non-Muslims who were assassinated by Muslims to “punish” them for daring to mock Mohammed and his band of caravan-robbers, and be ready to tell them.
More:
“BPCA is calling for global support for her release.
“Please contact your MP’s, and any High Commission/Consulate/Embassy for Pakistan in your respective areas calling for a presidential pardon or better scrutiny of evidence within any proposed Supreme Court hearing.
“Please pray over this whole situation and ask God to give Asia and her family his covering of protection. Asia has had previous assassination attempts whilst in prison, and these will grow with the increasing level of hatred towards minorities, exhibited in modern day Pakistan.”
Maybe there should be highly-embarrassing and visible pray-ins right outside the Pakistani embassies and high commissions.
No reason why American Christians – and all who support freedom of conscience and freedom of speech – shouldn’t gather outside a/ the White House – or the Capitol – and b/ the Pakistani Embassy in Washington, to pray and intercede for Asia Bibi. DEMAND that the US government put pressure on Pakistan for Asia’s release.
No reason why Aussies, and Canadians, could not do similar, in Canberra and in Ottawa. Put our governments on the spot; demand that they use every bit of leverage they’ve got. And make some noise in front of the Pakistani high commissions, as well. L et them see that they’re busted! – that we all know that this is Islam, Islam red in tooth and claw…and that we DESPISE it. That we don’t admire vicious bullies who play cat-and-mouse with an unarmed woman; we DESPISE them.
Massive publicity made a difference for Meriam nee Ibrahim, Mrs Daniel Wani.
The same sort of massive publicity should be mobilised for Asia Bibi, Catholic Christian, of Pakistan.
Salah says
“She is alleged to have made derogatory remarks about Islam”
Fourteen centuries ago, another woman, a poetess, also made deragotary remarks about the prophet of Islam.
“When the apostle heard what she had said he said, ‘Who will rid me of Marwan’s daughter?’ ” (Biography of the Prophet, Ibn Ishaq p.676)
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2012/03/assassin-english.html
Since then, violence has been the ONLY way for Islam to survive. Without violence, Islam is DEAD!
gravenimage says
Very true, Salah—pious Muslims have been murdering critics of Islam—no matter how gentle—since the days of the sanguinary “Prophet”.
TruthWFree says
Islam, the cancer on mankind. It needs to be eradicated.
chase says
Close,but the true cancer of mankind is sin.
Tom Davis says
For anyone who may be interested:
Bishop Rufin Anthony of the Diocese of Lahore in Pakistan has requested that Christians around the world unite in prayer for the deliverance of Asia Noreen Bibi. He has asked that this be done this coming Sunday, October 19, 2014. Please ask your pastors to include her in their Sunday prayers. Please ask your family and friends to join you in prayer.
dumbledoresarmy says
thanks for that information.
I’ll certainly share the request with the church I belong to.
gravenimage says
Thanks for the information, Tom. Everyone should include Asia Bibi in their thoughts and prayers.
dlbrand says
Again, the abject, at best, stupidity, in our giving this “good” Islamic “ally ”of ours as much as one red cent.
Philip Smeeton says
A full boycott of everything Muslim is the only answer.
Steve says
The persecution of Christians is an ever-increasing global phenomenon especially in muslim majority countries. Both opendoorsuk.org and releaseinternational have been highlighting Asia Bibi’s plight for some time now. Pakistan’s blasphemy laws show how weak Islam really is. The mantra of no criticism of Mohammed is beginning to collapse and we in the still partly free west must focus on exposing his corrupt life for all to see. I am praying for Asia Bibi and intend to write to the pakistan ambassador in the UK.
paddy says
The UK is chocka with paki muslims and they are a complete and utter thorn in our side…I mean really, really obnoxious people. I hope the United States will implement measures that stop paki muslim cunt terrorists and all other would be ‘god is great’ assholes from moving into a great nation which is a beacon for all that is true and just…I’m serious
Here in the UK, the pakis and a residue of blacks, turks and african/asian ingrates think that if you concentrate on your penis and pull hard on it and imagine all kinds of sexual gratification… (which is fine because i’m a muslim male and allah is on my side with his massive cock) ..is fine. Just give me something to wrap around my head and a gun. I will show the world how empty life is…BOOM!
The point is, we know how tough life is. Take god out of the equation and you never know….
Jeff says
Send in the Seals to get her out.
gravenimage says
Pakistani Christian loses appeal against death sentence for “blasphemy”
Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are a massive human rights abuse, used to destroy the lives of countless numbers of people, including Asia Bibi. But the world takes little notice.
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No, it doesn’t—including, as many others have already noted, those countries like the United States that are forking over huge amounts of no-strings-attached tribute in the form of “foreign aid”.
If Pakistan’s hiding Osama bin Laden wasn’t enough to wake us up that Pakistan is not ally of ours, this grotesque injustice should be—but I doubt it will be.
More:
But Gulam Mustafa, the lawyer for the complainant, said the court’s decision was correct.
“Asia’s lawyer tried to prove that the case was registered on a personal enmity but he failed to prove that,” he said.
After Bibi’s arrest in 2010, two top Pakistani politicians who sought to intervene on her behalf were gunned down, one by his own bodyguard.
Lawyers showered the killer with rose petals when he appeared in court, and the judge who convicted him of murder had to flee the country.
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Anyone who even dares to question the hideous blasphemy laws in Pakistan is in danger of being charged with blasphemy themselves—or just murdered by pious “believers” on their own, and met with the adulation of the Mohammedan masses for doing so.
No Christian or other Infidel is safe their—nor any Muslim so “insufficiently Islamic” as to have any personal qualms about these atrocities.
PatnTruck says
This is a ‘Crime Against Humanity” among a long list of crimes against humanity that islam really is. Drinking from a glass of water of a musleema by a non-muslim? Then the accusing finger pointing by the musleemsas? I hope somewhere on this planet that scores are being kept for the brutality of islam and all that have murdered in its name will be put on war crimes trials, then after conviction, hanged. War crimes trials were good enough for the Nazis, should be good enough for the immans, islam clerics and their followers that these men point to kill women and children.
dlbrand says
“War crimes trials were good enough for the Nazis, should be good enough for the immans, islam clerics and their followers that these men point to kill women and children.”
Well said, PT.
And why do the imams do and preach what they do; why do their followers do what they do?
One basic reason: Sunnah of their prophet, and the tenets put into practice in that sunnah, spelled out in the book he brought, The “Qur’an.”
Those too, need to be entered as evidence, disclosing why jihadist after jihadist killed, maimed, set fire to, robbed, raped, beheaded; invaded homes, binding and gagging his victims; weaponized his vehicle, or his laboratory access and scientific skills and knowledge used therein, or any other innovative “weapons” used in Allah’s cause.
Thomas Wells says
When dealing with a murderous rabid dog, the best procedure is to place it in total isolation with no interactions of any kind what so ever.