“The religious decree warned government of Pakistan that if Asia Bibi was sent abroad with any conspiracy then administration will face consequences.”
That is, of course, a threat of violence if they don’t get this poor woman’s blood. If we had a sane administration, Asia Bibi’s case would have been taken up energetically by the State Department and made into a diplomatic issue until she was released to a country where she could live free. She is facing death for supposedly insulting Islam and Muhammad. The United States ought to be standing up for the freedom of speech. But this is, of course, the age of Obama and Hillary Clinton.
“150 Sunni Muslim Clerics demand death for Asia Bibi,” Pakistan Christian Post, October 11, 2016:
Lahore: October 11, 2016. (PCP) As hearing date of appeal of Asia Bibi against death sentence on blasphemy charges in Supreme Court of Pakistan Lahore Bench is approaching the radical Muslim groups have also lined up for showdown to put pressure on Judges of SCP to uphold death sentence for her issued by District and Session Judge Sheikhupura, a lower court carrying jurisdiction of police station in which FIR was lodged under section 295 C PPP.
Today about 150 top Muslim Clerics (Muftis) issued a religious decree and demanded from Government to hang Asia bibi [sic] and all other prisoners of blasphemy laws and also demanded speedy trial of pending cases of blasphemy in Pakistani courts.
The religious decree warned government of Pakistan that if Asia Bibi was sent abroad with any conspiracy then administration will face consequences.
The Markaz Ahl-e-Sunnat Lahore which have issued signed Fatwa of 150 of Muslim Mullahas have warned Supreme Court of Pakistan to hearing appeal of Asia Bibi because Islamic teaching have judgment of hanging or beheading of blasphemers and Asia Bibi deserves death.
They also issued decree of killing of those who rescued blasphemy accused and assisted or trying to rescue blasphemers.

john spielman says
and I demand death for those 150 sunni clerics for blaspheming against MY GOD by worshiping Satan ( known as allah to these evil doers)
anonymous to avoid terrorists says
If those clerics do not have any evidence of their own and were not present. Then Allah might make them burn in hell for using their clout and democracy for causing the death of an innocent.
They are terrorists who have killed those who supported the accused.
If the clerics believe in the Quran then they should follow the last two lines of surah 2.
Cunamarra says
لَا يُكَلِّفُ اللَّهُ نَفْسًا إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا ۚ لَهَا مَا كَسَبَتْ وَعَلَيْهَا مَا اكْتَسَبَتْ ۗ رَبَّنَا لَا تُؤَاخِذْنَا إِن نَّسِينَا أَوْ أَخْطَأْنَا ۚ رَبَّنَا وَلَا تَحْمِلْ عَلَيْنَا إِصْرًا كَمَا حَمَلْتَهُ عَلَى الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِنَا ۚ رَبَّنَا وَلَا تُحَمِّلْنَا مَا لَا طَاقَةَ لَنَا بِهِ ۖ وَاعْفُ عَنَّا وَاغْفِرْ لَنَا وَارْحَمْنَا ۚ أَنتَ مَوْلَانَا فَانصُرْنَا عَلَى الْقَوْمِ الْكَافِرِينَ
Would her death not be a “victory over the disbelievers?” The consequence of blasphemy is what she has earned from an Islamic premise.
Perhaps you should read the whole Sura and then the rest of the book to get a better picture of Allah and what pleases this deity.
The Allah I find in the Koran would glory and delight in her death. Those clerics do believe in the Koran and their religious decree is indicative of a thorough understanding of the teachings and of the character of Allah.
boakai ngombu says
the allah god of islam (unknowable; the best of all deceivers) knows nothing of mercy. the messenger of the allah god – Muhammad (lately contrived; full of lusts) has not spiritual strength to be forgiving and kind. what an example he is being an adulterer, sexual predator, thief, liar ….
read the Bible and learn of forgiveness and grace (mercy to the undeserving) from the Holy Trinity (Father, Son, Holy Spirit). learn of kindness from the Son, Jesus, who died for the sake of especially the unforgiveable, should they turn to Him.
mousa boulbahaiem says
those clerecs schould get to the dead row first before she.
for rape and adultery and hate speech.
this evil doers have nothing to do with allah but with satan.
jesus is love teach us to forgive and to love and mohamad teach us to hate and kill and rape the unbelievers while the families are watching….HYPOCRITS YOUR DAYS HAS BEEN COUNTED.
YOUR EVIL THOUGHTS HAS ULTRA PASSED THE HEAVENS.
gravenimage says
How is *democracy* to blame? There is no real democracy in Pakistan.
Jack Diamond says
The latest: “Asia Bibi’s court hearing adjourned after judge abstains from the panel.”
One of the three judges hearing the appeal abstained and the hearing has been postponed indefinitely.
This would be the 6th postponement of her appeal to the High Court. This is a farce, they have no intention of hearing her appeal or rendering a decision and hope she will just die in prison so they don’t have to.
mousa boulbahaiem says
ok they can kill her but all who demand her dead schould be getting to the dead raw first by raping the
the christian and the unbelievers first,
all of those clerecs schould receive the dead penalty for adultery in their thoughts and even in their deeds
after that bibe will be the last one to face dead.
HYPOCRITS……STUPIED IDIOTS,this they will do as well in europe.
Shan Lim says
Please sign the petition to ave her lie:
http://beheardproject.com/bibi?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=d-10112016_top-PC_seg-BHNO_typ-PT#sign
billybob says
How ’bout a URL that didn’t come from your mailbox?
http://beheardproject.com/imran-masih-persecuted-christian-pakistan
billybob says
Woops – that should be…
http://beheardproject.com/bibi
DJ says
Signed and will bring it up with Pakistani colleagues.
i will be polite but this fear of Islam has to be confronted by each of us.
gravenimage says
Signed!
DFD says
Signed
No Fear says
“muslim cleric” = nutjob.
Jaladhi says
ah that religion of peace is always asking for the blood of non-Muslims and the the same non-Muslim nations allow these Muslims to come in here in the name of compassion and all that nonsense. Our Western nations have to work together to protect Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and other minorities in Muslim countries. These people have no voice and they look to USA to save them but USA and rest of the West is only concerned with helping Muslim refugees from Syria and other Islamic hells. What a shame the West now become enabler of Islamic atrocities!! The same Muslim “refugees” commit terror/rape atrocities when they come here. Stop bringing in Muslims here!!
Westman says
Does any rational person think Pakistan’s help is of any consequence in battling jihad?
It is part of the problem with it’s barbaric, deplorable, Islamist clerics agitating for blood in an alleged case of “blasphemy”. Let the Russians have them, their belligerent religion, and their economic black hole.
In the realm of human rights, pointing to ISIS and proclaiming, “see, we’re not that bad”, is not elevating.
Rich says
In other news, Pope Francis never replied to Asia Bibi’s two heartfelt personal letters to him asking for help. And…has done nothing – publicly or privately – to secure her release.
Not the guy you want “answering the phone at 3 AM”, I suppose. What a disgrace.
Jack Diamond says
He also had nothing to say to her husband and daughter when they made the trip to Rome and were in his receiving line.
“In the fleeting encounter along the barriers – as can be seen in the video – the pope brushes past the two, accompanied by the children’s tutor. He does not listen to them, he does not speak, he does not bless them. The girl looks at him with amazement at such coldness. Everything takes place as if the name of Asia Bibi means nothing to Francis…next to their little daughter is Ignacio Arsuaga, founder of the humanitarian association HazteOir.org. Who tried uselessly to tell the pope, in Spanish, who the man and his daughter were, not even succeeding in handing him the dossier he wanted to give
him.
http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1351264?eng=y
This, after the letter Asia Bibi had written to him:
“I am holding tightly onto my Christian faith and trust that God my Father will defend me and give me back my freedom. I also trust in you, Holy Father Francis, and in your prayers. Pope Francis, I know you are praying for me with all your heart. I know that, thanks to your prayer, I could be set free. In the name of the Almighty Father and his glory, I thank you for your support in this moment of suffering and disappointment. My only hope is that I will one day be able to see my family reunited and happy again. I believe that God will not abandon me and that he has a plan of happiness and well-being for me, which will come into being very soon. I am grateful to all Christians across the world who are praying for me and doing everything to help me.”
Benedict had called for her release. Francis will not speak her name.
Rich says
He truly is a disgrace as a Pope. And as a priest. And even as a human being. His arrogance always reminds me of another person: Barack Obama. The utter arrogance and contempt of leftists is just sickening. At least Obama isn’t pretending to be a holy guy, though. Francis tries to portray himself as “a pope for the people”, someone who is approachable and warm, unlike his [supposedly] distant predecessor, Benedict. Well, the facts speak for themselves. Francis, the self-absorbed, small-minded little narcissist is as cold and uncaring as they come. And this case of Asia Bibi is the perfect illustration.
The facts speak for themselves: Pope Francis is a horrible, self-absorbed, cold-hearted leftist and a total disgrace as a pope. There, I said it.
gravenimage says
Yes–sickening.
John Marst says
Perhaps insulting the psychotic Allah and his twisted and morally bankrupt “messenger” should become a standard practice among rational people until these murderous religious bigots learn to get over themselves. Tyrants hate the sound of laughter.
A pedophile and a serial killer walk into a bar, and the bartender says, “What will you have Muhammad?”
billybob says
This should be headline news on CNN/ABC/NBC – the entire MSM. What is wrong with these people???
Obama should be threatening to stop all aid and other dealing with Pakistan if this woman is not released IMMEDIATELY. They should not wait for the Supreme Court decision, because her arrest was based on a barbaric law that should not exist in this modern world in the first place.
I would take that a step further if I were President. I would set a clock ticking… I would give Pakistan 24 hour to release her or I will send drones to destroy each and every mosque with an Imam who supports the death of this poor girl (vote for me!).
Ciudadano says
This news dosn’t match the current narrative being pushed by MSM. They are too busy publishing Islamic propaganda and attacking Trump.
DFD says
Ciudadano says: “… What is wrong with these people??? …”
EVERYTHING!
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Fear, being Hebdod, fired, corruption, couldn’t give a damn, whatever – have your pick
gravenimage says
Of course this should be covered here.
Stephanie says
Does not get Pakistan aid from USA?
Stop it, when Asia was sentence to death!
gravenimage says
Exactly, Stephanie.
Angemon says
Pakistan’s nukes complicate the whole thing – there’s the implicit danger of them “falling” into wrong hands if the jizyia stops flowing.
DFD says
Yup!
stevea56 says
Hear hear, Billybob!!
Theresa May should be loudly protesting in the strongest terms too, as should every democratically elected leader in the civilised world. Make them pay as dearly as possible for this if they go through with it.
dumbledoresarmy says
The British Pakistani Christian Association are urging western governments to *cut off aid* to Pakistan because of Pakistan’s atrocious abuses of the human rights of its indigenous non-Muslim minorities (notably Christians, but also the Sikhs and Hindus).
ALL of us can get on board with that and start writing to *our* respective governments, insisting that we use this leverage on behalf of Asia Bibi and the many, many other non-Muslims who are being daily abused and degraded and raped and *murdered* in ghastly Islamic Pakistan.
ALL of us can demand that our governments *publicly* offer asylum to Asia Bibi and her family.
If the USA, Canada, Australia, UK *and* India all got together and applied suitable pressure using all means available to us, I think we’d get some results.
Muslims are BULLIES. They think and act like bullies. Bullies buckle when people stand up to them and fight back.
If Pakistan *hangs* this innocent Christian woman, for no other ‘reason’ at bottom than that she stated she preferred Christ to Mohammed, then ALL ‘aid’ to Pakistan – and all western TRADE with Pakistan (yes, we do get stuff from them – rice and cheap textiles, mainly) – should cease, and all entry of Pakistani Muslims into the ‘west’ should cease henceforward.
And all Pakistani Muslims currently within Infidel lands, but not yet having inveigled themselves into citizenship papers, should be rounded up and deported, right back to Pakistan.
PRCS says
Although such a mass deportation would never pass legal muster, if it could–that should include the Khan family.
gravenimage says
Yes–I’ve written to US authorities before about her case–and will do so again.
Here’s Amnesty International:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/ASA33/015/2014/en/
john spielman says
unless they release Bibi NOW, I demand the US cut off ALL foreign aid to Pakistan and send it to India instead
Mark A says
India is now in a position where it it wealthy enough that it should not be receiving foreign aid.
But there are plenty of other countries which could use western aid and are far more deserving of it than Pakistan.
Sheykh Yer Weeni says
This is the scriptural basis for this poor woman’s plight. Qur’an 33.57: “Those who annoy Allah and His Messenger – Allah has cursed them in this World and in the Hereafter, and has prepared for them a humiliating Punishment.” This is why sharia prescribes (among other things) the death penalty for blasphemy, and why those young Charlie Hebdo cartoonists were slain: Islam takes insults very, very seriously.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_blasphemy
The Infidel Imam says, we Kufrs need to take Islam very, very seriously. Asia Bibi is not only a persecuted Christian; she is a symbol of all that is wrong with Islam. Sam Harris was spot on when he said, “Islam is the mother lode of bad ideas”. On the ashes of my father (alaihi al-salam), I sincerely hope that Asia Bibi is rescued from the wretched clutches of Islam.
gravenimage says
Pakistan: 150 Muslim clerics demand death for Asia Bibi, Christian woman accused of blasphemy
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Could you imagine the clerics of any other religion demanding the death of anyone–especially a non-violent mother?
Every Infidel nation should be demanding here release. Pakistan should not get one more cent from us until they let her and her family fo.
gravenimage says
“fo” should be “go”.
Mazo says
Indian Hindu BJP members view Dalits who converted to Christianity under British missionaries as sellouts. The BJP is working on banning Western Christian missionaries in India.
john spielman says
Mazo;NOTHING to do with the above article! your religion is evil and your god is Satan! and your “prophet was a disgusting vile demon possessed mass murderer thief liar and pedophile pervert!
gravenimage says
Mazo is here claiming that all Pakistani Christians are “low life” Dalits, whom are despised by Hindus–he’s done this before.
Even if this was the case, note that it is *not* Hindus who have sentenced this poor woman to death–it is Mazo’s own vile coreligionists.
Moreover, she has not been sentenced to death because she is of low caste, but for “Blasphemy”.
Further, Muslims claim that Islam does not recognize caste, but are (supposedly) egalitarian.
Note that Mazo has not a word of criticism for this woman’s horrifying ordeal–he is just–absurdly–trying to put the blame for her plight onto Christians and Hindus.
Mazo says
Cravenmirage, BJP right wing Hindus will not give a damn about Asia Bibi. They will not file any protests for her. That was the meaning of the statement.
Her Hindu Dalit ancestors were converted by western missionaries.Right wing Hindus view that as a betrayal.
And its western missionaries and their converts who are whining about BJP Hindus “persecuting” them.
deja vu says
‘And its western missionaries and their converts who are whining about BJP Hindus “persecuting” them.’
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Whining?! I think you’d whine if the boot was on the other foot. Have you any idea whatsoever of the extent of the persecution of Christian minorities today? Out of 50 nations Pakistan ranks 6th and India 17th in severity.
https://www.opendoorsusa.org/christian-persecution/world-watch-list/
You are right that the BJP wouldn’t give a damn about Asia Bibi. The ‘untouchable’ caste (Dalits) are useful for working as slaves in the brick kilns for a pittance and doing the most digusting jobs – exactly the kind of people whom Jesus loved and wanted to free from oppression. He taught that in His Kingdom the ‘the first (ie the proud, and the self-righteous) would be last, and the last (the humble and downtrodden) first’.
May I remind you that ALL human beings are made in the image of God and are equal in His sight To use your analogy, the Hindu caste system betrays Christ and His love for the downtrodden and neglected. Only He can truly convert hurting people – it is purely a spiritual matter. No human being can ‘convert’ another.
Mazo says
Cravenmirage, according to Hinduism people are born as Dalits because Brahma and Karma are punishing them for sins in their previous life. Hindus say they are supposed to suck it and accept their sub human treatment from higher castes because they deserve Karma. They aren’t supposed to cheat and get out of it by converting to Christianity.
gravenimage says
The repulsive Mazo wrote:
Cravenmirage (sic), BJP right wing Hindus will not give a damn about Asia Bibi. They will not file any protests for her. That was the meaning of the statement….
Cravenmirage (sic), according to Hinduism people are born as Dalits because Brahma and Karma are punishing them for sins in their previous life. Hindus say they are supposed to suck it and accept their sub human treatment from higher castes because they deserve Karma. They aren’t supposed to cheat and get out of it by converting to Christianity…
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It is not Hindus, but Muslims who have imprisoned this poor woman and sentenced her to death. It is not Hindus who assassinated Christian Minster of Minority Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti for condemning her death sentence, but rather a Muslim. It is not Hindus who showered the Muslim assassin of Governor Salmaan Taseer with rose petals, but rather pious Muslims.
It is not Hindus who are in charge in Pakistan–in fact, Hindus make up another persecuted minority there:
“Hindu Priest Fears That Soon There May Be No Hindus Left In Pakistan”
http://topyaps.com/religious-minorities-in-pakistan
The above article also shows that it is false to say that no Hindu will mention the Asia Bibi case.
There are two more problems with Mazo’s implication that the reason Asia Bibi has been sentenced to death is due to the lingering effects of the Hindu caste system in Pakistan; firstly, if this was the case, then surely things would be *much worse* in Hindu-majority India.
But it is not. While there is no doubt that discrimination lingers in India, she has taken many steps to right this historic wrong. State discrimination was abolished by the Constitution. Even using the term “Dalit” rather than “untouchable” is a strong move in the right direction. In 1997, India elected Dalit K. R. Narayanan as president.
Even more to the point, India is *not* sentencing Dalits–Christian or otherwise–to death for “blasphemy”. It is not Hinduism that murders people for “blasphemy”, but Islam.
Here’s the other problem with Mazo’s claims–if Asia Bibi is supposedly only being targeted in Pakistan because she is a low class Dalit, how does he explain Muslims all over the world violently targeting Christians–in Syria, in Indonesia, in Iraq, in Nigeria, in Egypt, in Turkey, in Malaysia, in Sudan, in the Islamic State–who are not members of a low caste at all–in places, in fact, where the caste system has never existed?
And note–once again–that Mazo has no criticism for what has been done to this poor woman.
And why would he? He has never criticized *any* Muslim savagery against Infidels. *Ugh*.
Mazo says
Cravenmirage, people commenting on here are telling India to get involved and protest for Asia Bibi.
The BJP Hindu party in power in India will not intervene on her behalf because her ancestors tried to cheat the caate system by converting.
That is the meaning of my statement which you knew full well before lying and insinuating false accusations.
Kepha says
I’ve known Hui people who whined about how the Communists treated them (and they had reason to do so).
But it is also true that the BJP and its supporters can be and have been nasty to Christians in India. Even before it rose to power, I knew Indian Christians from “tribal” backgrounds who spoke of how many Hindus were incensed at them that they never bothered to become Dalits.
We Westerners tend to see Hinduism through lenses provided by Gandhi, Vivikenanda, and such like who knew how to talk to Quakers and Quaker wannabes.
At the same time, I see the persecution of Asia Bibi as further evidence that Pakistan might better be named Pathologicalstan.
gravenimage says
The idea that Mazo is just urging India to stand up and get involved in Asia Bibi’s case is just absurd.
Instead, he was trying to blame Hindus and Christians for her plight.
India *should* pressure Pakistan on her case. So should Western Christian leaders, including the Pope. So should Western nations, including the US. I have urged the same myself, including on this thread.
But the vicious Mazo is *not* defending a victim of Muslim savagery here. He has had many chances to do so, and has never taken them.
deja vu says
Mazo: The BJP Hindu party in power in India will not intervene on her behalf because her ancestors tried to cheat the caate system by converting.
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Your comments reveal sympathy for the BJP, not revulsion at the barbaric treatment of a Christian woman accused of ‘blaspheming’ Mohammed – which I’ve already pointed out is *itself* blasphemy on the part of those who believe that a mortal who is dead and buried can be blasphemed.
The reality is that in Pakistan merely *being* a Christian is sufficient to arrest you on the say-so of someone who has a personal grudge against you, desires to take over your business, acquire your land, or who covets your daughters. Whole families have been locked in their houses which are then set on fire. Do you condone this? Asia Bibi has been in solitary confinement to protect her from being murdered in prison. She cooks her own food to avoid being poisoned. Raging mobs of raging men brandishing weapons have shot acquitted Christians on the steps of the Court as they leave. Recently, a young Christian couple were thrown into a brick kiln and burnt alive because they owed the owner some money. The wife was pregnant and struggled to get out, but they pushed her back in with long poles. Pakistan is a Muslim-majority country. Are you content with the status quo?
You speak as if you are omnisicient, when you speak of ‘cheating’. Can you see a man’s heart as God does? That statement is absurd – conversion to Christ is a deeply spiritual matter, not a way to ‘escape’ the endless round of reincarnation. Your pronouncements merely demonstrate your denial of the use of the Qur’an to persecute non-Muslims. Your insistence on deflecting does not impress us. Hindus also persecute Christians – but that is not the topic under discussion.
deja vu says
Correction:
That should have been bloodthirsty mobs of raging men brandishing weapons…
Mazo says
@Kepha
The Hindu right wingers hate on recent converts under Western colonial rule like Protestants and Catholics.
They don’t have issues with the long established St Thomas Syriac Orthodox Christian Malabar church in Kerala. The St Thomas Christians were descendants of Brahmins who St Thomas met 2,000 years ago and they used to observe the caste system stringently and discriminated against lower castes. They weren’t converted by western imperialists and are basically now and indigenous religion to India. The St Thomas Christians used to hate on Dalits too since many of them were Brahmins. Indian Muslims also observed the caste system and discriminated against Dalits.
The recent Catholic and Protestant converts by imperialist western missionaries are however seen in a negative light by Hindus due to unethical and predatory methods like targeting low caste Dalits and backward tribals for conversion with material incentives and promises to escape caste discrimination. Most Protestant and Catholics in Punjab are recent converts from the Dalit Hindus population under imperialist British rule by western mssionaries. Virtually almost no high caste Hindu like Brahmins converted to Protesntanism under British rule. Catholicism and Protestanism are seen as imperialist invader european religions by Hindus. Mother Theresa was an extremely offensive and nasty person to Hindu right wingers.
deja vu says
The notorious Blasphemy Law is itself blasphemous. By accusing people of blaspheming against Mohammed they are effectively raising Mohammed, a mere human being, to the status of God.
God, and only God, can be blasphemed against.
This barbaric Law must be repealed and all prisoners suffering under it released immediately. .
Steve's nephew says
The Pope might be coming around to sanity. At the service honoring slain priest Jacques Hamel, Pope Frances said “to kill someone in God’s name is satanic.” Which is indirectly a way of saying the the Muslim religion is satanic. To extrapolate, anyone who rapes in God’s name is also satanic. So Muslims are worshiping Satan, not God. When you really think about it, it makes sense. So how is it possible to have blasphemy against Allah, who is actually Satan. The Muslims have all been brainwashed. We need to tell them they are wrong. Truth is either Christianity, humanism, or some other version of “love your neighbor as yourself.” Truth is NOT Muslim.. That’s why they don’t allow criticism.
Robert Spencer says
No, the Pope is not coming around. He said to kill someone in God’s name is Satanic, but he has previously said that Islam properly understood rejects all forms of violence — an astoundingly counterfactual statement and one that makes it clear that he was not including Islam in any way in his condemnation of the jihadist killers of Fr. Hamel.
Baucent says
I don’t believe that quote was the Pope’s words at the funeral, rather it was the Bishop or was it the Cardinal of Paris.
gravenimage says
Steve’s nephew, Pope Francis is not claiming that Islam is satanic, but–absurdly–that Jihadis are not really Muslims.
Mark A says
Now this is someone who has a valid claim for refugee status in a western country.
gravenimage says
God knows this is true, Mark.
bc says
Further conformation that Muslim clerics are psycopathic. Islam can never change as long as its clerics are so fanatical
deja vu says
They are simply reflecting their master of darkness. Such murderous hatred can only come from one source.
Crusades Were Right! says
When am I going to hear the word “Christophobia” being used in the “mainstream” Western media?
Oh, right; they are too busy PRACTISING it!
Lexa456 says
I am shocked by the lack of awareness of this case in western media and even by the Representatives of Christianity, not even the POPE!?! Absolutely digusting!
Petition signed.
deja vu says
The problem isn’t lack of awareness in the western media – stories like this don’t sell papers and are certainly not the ’cause du jour’. Instead we are being conditioned to sympathise with misunderstood lone-wolves and mentally ill assassins. Forgive my cynicism.
The reality is that many Christian agencies are in the field supporting and advocating for persecuted believers – an estimated 200 million of them in over 50 nations. Hundreds of thousands are dying in the wretched internment camps of Eritrea and North Korea, and in the prisons of both the Islamic and Communist world. The sheer scale of it is staggering.
Forget the Pope – he does not represent Biblical Christianity. But I’d like to ask him what Hebrews 13:3 means. Just in case it’s slipped his mind I quote: ‘Remember the prisoners as if chained with them – those who are mistreated – since you yourselves are in the body also.’
While we’re at it, he might like to consider why Jesus blessed the persecuted for His Name’s sake in Matthew 5:10-11, or why Jesus equated His follwers’ attitude to ‘the least of these ‘*my brethren*’ when sorting the sheep from the goats. (Matthew 25:31-46)
One could be forgiven for thinking the Pope hardly ever consults the Word of God. Too busy with his farcical publicity stunts perhaps.
deja vu says
I should have clarified – the prisoners in Hebrews 13:3 are specifically those imprisoned for their faith in Jesus Christ. They are not criminals, otherwise they would not be called His ‘brethren’. .
Baucent says
Long overdue to cut all military and development aid to Pakistan.
Norger says
The medieval barbarism & backwardness of “true Islam” on full display. And the MSM remains silent.
deja vu says
The video included in Aljazeera’s report on Asia Bibi’s case is harrowing but essential viewing to understand what she and others are facing. Currently 300 Christians are in her position. This is the true face of evil.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/pakistan-delays-asia-bibi-blasphemy-appeal-161013050644760.html
gravenimage says
Thanks for the link, deja vu–powerful and distressing piece. I’m surprise that Al Jazeera would cover it–except that it had the requisite fake disclaimer that this really has nothing to do with Islam.
deja vu says
I was surprised too, gravenimage, but of course it’s ‘de rigueur’ to add a caveat exonerating Islam.
Infidel says
And they say in our media that it’s the MINORITY of extremists that are calling for her death? Yet again, the lies and magnitude of the problem is transparent!