“She could be killed by any inmate or even a prison guard, so we have to be careful.” Meanwhile, Asia Bibi’s health is deteriorating and she is vomiting blood. Where is the international outcry? Where is the presidential demand for her release and invitation to the White House? You can be sure: if she were a Muslim accused of “blasphemy” in a Christian state (if there were such a place), she would be an international cause celebre.
“Pakistan isolates Aasia Bibi after security fears,” AFP, October 14, 2015:
Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman on death row for blasphemy has been put in isolation over fears of attacks by vigilantes enraged over a high-profile ruling in another blasphemy case that moderates said struck a blow against religious extremism.
Prison officials and rights activists said this week that they were concerned for Asia Bibi’s life due to the security threat and her worsening health.
The mother-of-five, whose plight has prompted prayers from the Vatican, has been on death row since she was convicted in 2010 of committing blasphemy during an argument with a Muslim woman over a bowl of water.
She was put in solitary confinement last week at the women’s prison in the city of Multan, an official there told AFP.
The move came after “genuine” threats to her life were issued in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that upheld the death sentence for Mumtaz Qadri, the killer of a politician who sought blasphemy law reform in a separate, high-profile case.
Although, blasphemy is a hugely sensitive issue in Pakistan, the country has never executed anyone on the charge — but anyone convicted, or even just accused, of insulting Islam risks a violent and bloody death at the hands of vigilantes.
Last year a British-Pakistani citizen who had been sentenced to death for blasphemy was shot and wounded by a guard at Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail.
A Christian labourer and his wife were also burned alive last November after being accused of throwing pages of the Koran in the garbage.
“She (Bibi) could be killed by any inmate or even a prison guard, so we have to be careful,” a prison official told AFP.
A second official confirmed that Bibi had been isolated, adding: “We are concerned for her life.”
The second official, who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity, also said Bibi’s health had deteriorated.
“She was vomiting blood last month and was having difficulty walking,” the official added. Rights activists and family sources also voiced concerns for Bibi’s health.
“Her life is in danger because of her health and the filthy prison conditions, and from fundamentalist elements within the prison,” Shamaun Alfred Gill, a Christian activist and spokesman for the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (APMA), told AFP.
He said the group had repeatedly requested Bibi be transferred to a hospital, but the requests had been rejected.
“Asia has a history of asthma and we were told that her health condition had worsened at one time but she was recovering now,” a source close to the prisoner’s family told AFP.
Bibi denies the charges against her. The Supreme Court agreed in July to hear an appeal against her sentence, but no date has yet been set….

pdxnag says
This should be automatic and immediate grounds for excluding Pakistan (any Sharia-compliant government) from the United Nations, at a minimum.
Gene says
Actually, this is a requirement for getting on the UN human rights counsel.
Angemon says
Poor woman… 🙁
Jay Boo says
“Poor woman”
Unfortunately that is about all that Obama would say.
Obama will likely lower his head in mock dismay and say it is unfortunate.
We can expect Obama to then wax philosophically about how both sides need to find a common solution.
He won’t dare mention the rule of law or “justice”
He reserves those words as the right of Muslims.
Joseph says
Jay Boo says
“Obama will likely lower his head in mock dismay”
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I wouldn’t even give him that.
He might say.. We need to open our boarders further to enrich our multiculturalism so we can embrace the peaceful ideals of the Islamic faith which will ensure our slaughter….I mean safety.
Jaladhi says
One way or the other, Pakistanis will kill Asia Bibi! That’s the bottom line. Muslims don’t need any reason kill non-Muslims! All Muslims will be guilty of killing Asia Bibi!1
Jay Boo says
Yet, NPR and BBC World insists that we must open are doors wide to Muslim immigrants and repeatedly scolds the West for “Not doing enough” while totally ignoring and in some cases covering up Muslim bad behavior.
Jerry says
One way or another the Phakistanis are going to to kill all Christians, Hindus Atheists and other non-Muslims.
This is the nature of the beast called Islam which ostensibly rejects idolatry, yet worships an imagined deity called Allah, to which all Muslims prostrate themselves in prayer five times a day in the belief that it somehow dwells inside a stone in Mecca, in site that was originally a pagan temple.
Jay Boo says
The only reason that — ” blasphemy is a hugely sensitive issue in Pakistan” is because the rest of the world has not yet called out Muslims and put Islam at front and center in the spotlight of its shame. Muslim grievance mongers will always claim offense while attempting to justify Islam’s inherent filth, after all MO did it.
Khan says
Its a nation of barbarians following a demonic law.
Muslims philosophy is by committing the most devilish deeds they would enter heaven! Greatest ideology on earth!
Meriam Ibrahim of Sudan was fortunate enough to be saved from the barbarians;
but Aasia Bibi’s fate looks extremely gruesome. Mother of five is undergoing unimaginable torture while the West is busy showering mercy on refugees from the Middle East!
Jaladhi says
Imagine what it would be like if Islam was not a “religion of peace”!! Ha, ha,.. Who is going to lead a charge to get rid of these monsters from this world! The political correctness of the West is suicidal and the Western morons(leaders, media, and academia) don’t even know it.
el cid says
All it would take is for Obama to make this an international issue and she would be released. He will not.
In the case of the Boy who was testing the defenses of the school with a fake bomb, Obama’s intervention will help no one and probably cause harm.
Jayke says
As far as Oballah is concerned … well, let’s just say he’s not. On the other hand, he has to close Club Gitmo and give those poor terrorists American housing and tax dollars so they can make pressure cooker/alarm clock bombs.
The awful trith says
I’m aware that the UK govt is giving £100s of millions in aid to Pk and probably so is the US. Pakistanis help save NATO from the Taliban is the excuse. If only. Pk has no oil and no credibility – a cesspool of Arab funded Madrassas, burgeoning rape and terrorism. But this is not news is it? Bibi deserves the Nobel peace prize as much as Malala whatever.
Jay Boo says
Obama and NPR promote brag about trade sanctions on Russia.
Boycott and Divest from all Muslim country products.
Trade sanctions on Pakistan .
Salome says
Vladimir Vladimirovich, where are you? It’s time to send in the Russians.
abad says
For a Religion of Peace(TM), the followers of Islam are incredibly violent.
Annabellee Beidersee says
You can send letters of support to Asia Bibi at: Central Jail Multan, Multan City, Punjab, Pakistan. It is advisable not to use your return address or mention politics in your letters. She may never get them, but it helps to show the prison that people are advocating for her. Some Christians in Iran were released because of international pressure. And pray for her and her family.
Linde Barrera says
To Annabellee Beidersee- Thank you so much for providing an address for Asia Bibi. I will send her a card tomorrow. I will send her another card in a week. And I will pray for her, her family, her jailers and her government.
mortimer says
Muslim boy who makes a devise that resembles a bomb: invitation to White House.
Christian woman falsely accused, imprisoned and tortured: no invitation to White House…ignored by White House.
underbed cat says
I saw the title of the story, avoided reading it for too long, it was an aversion to the horror this Christian woman is facing in real time. The type of reality that I have a hard time from the thoughts that ramble thru my head. Finally read it. What should I do, call the WH, leave a message to help her, a slight distraction for a man who faithfully, dogmatically, subverts reality, get on the future list of slander criminals. I will ponder it now, she is in dire straits.’ Pakistan Blasphemer…in solitary confinement…..’ hello Hilliary…
Lilithwept says
I am surprised that there jsnt more violence towards muslims in this country. In reality, despite CAIR’s hysterical claims, violence against or towards muslims is almost non existant…..
And I wonder if that were to change, if there were more violence towards muslims, the ones that are the most demanding or threatning, how muslims would respond. Would they resond with more violence, lr like bullies when confronted, would they back down the level,of their threats and demands.