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Islamic Republic of Pakistan: Security high at churches for Christmas, Asia Bibi still in hiding

Dec 25, 2018 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

Pope Francis and other learned imams who insist that Islam rejects violence and terrorism should go to Pakistan now and explain to Pakistani leaders that these precautions around churches and guards around Asia Bibi aren’t necessary: it’s a religion of peace!

“Tight security at Pakistan’s churches this Christmas as Asia Bibi remains in hiding,” Christian Today, December 24, 2018:

A protester holds up a sign saying: ‘Wicked Christian Patras must be punished for committing blasphemy!’

Security has been ramped up at churches across Pakistan where tensions are still simmering over the recent acquittal of Christian woman Asia Bibi.

Churches have previously been the target of suicide bombers and this year, police have trained hundreds of Christian volunteers in an effort to see the season through peacefully.

More than 1,500 police have been deployed across Islamabad and Rawalpindi to protect churchgoers over Christmas, AFP news agency reports. CCTV cameras have also been installed at entry points and parking restrictions have been put in place to keep cars at least 100m away from church buildings.

In Abbottabad, a district north-east of Islamabad, police were sweeping churches with sniffer dogs and bomb disposal units ahead of Christmas celebrations.

Christians have been fearful of retaliatory attacks since Bibi was acquitted of blasphemy, for which she had received a death sentence. She was freed from prison in November but immediately forced into hiding as Muslim extremists hunted her down.

‘We’re afraid,’ Pastor Munawar Inayat at Holy of Holies Church in Islamabad told Samaa TV. ‘We can’t speak against anyone.’

A petition review against Bibi’s acquittal has been filed with the Supreme Court, casting a shadow over her first Christmas with her family after eight years on death row. A hearing for the petition review has been set for January.

Wilson Chowdhry, chairman of the British Pakistani Christian Alliance, said Bibi would be spending Christmas with her husband in a secret location under police protection.

‘Despite her joy at being free I cannot believe that Asia Bibi is feeling like much of a winner today,’ said Chowdhry.

He added: ‘Christmas will be a lonely time for Asia Bibi and her husband Ashiq as they spend it together away from other family members as we know the appeal will not be heard before Christmas and is expected during the early part of the new year.’…

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  1. Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says

    Dec 25, 2018 at 11:39 am

    Stay out of Muslim countries. Tourists- Boycott all Muslim countries.

  2. FYI says

    Dec 25, 2018 at 11:56 am

    Spineless “pope” francis who does nothing to help persecuted catholics whilst putting on his fake show of false piety and imran khan proving himself to be incapable of acting like a decent human being or a competent politician.

    Both Mr Bergolio and khan pander to islamic fascism.

    May God show no mercy to those who preach a false Gospel like francis does.
    May God show no mercy to those who show no mercy like imran khan.

    • Rufolino says

      Dec 26, 2018 at 4:46 am

      Dante said the hottest place is hell is reserved for those who compromise in the face of a moral choice, which is just what this shameful pope has done.

      How this pope has the nerve to tell other people what to do, is breath-taking.

  3. Rishi Sarin says

    Dec 25, 2018 at 2:36 pm

    Pakistan, besides being the Godfather of Terrorism is a vile Muslim shithole that needs to be quarantined from the rest of the world..

    In pakistan you will see mobs of Culturally, Morally backward, uneducated and inbred Pakis Slaughtering Hindus, Christians Sikhs, Ahmadis and other minorities without shame (of course to the average paki shame is only for the women),…..blood thirsty mass mobs shutting down the capital of Islamabad because they want Islamic law to reign supreme and they are prepared to kill for it.

    I think Christopher Hitchens said it best when he personified Pakistan as an anti-Semite, woman hating man that is backward and without humour.

    • mortimer says

      Dec 26, 2018 at 4:39 am

      The ACTUAL motto of Pakistanis is this:

      “Islam is a religion of peace and we will KILL YOU to prove it.”

  4. Ragdoll says

    Dec 25, 2018 at 4:31 pm

    She’s under ‘police protection’?? Just great. One of them will sell her out sooner or later

    • Rufolino says

      Dec 26, 2018 at 4:51 am

      Asia Bibi’s current predicament is an affront to the reputation of the Christian world. It suggests the collapse of Christian morality in the face of Islam’s evil.

  5. r Russell says

    Dec 26, 2018 at 5:43 am

    Theresa May is in the process of deporting another Pakistani Christian from the UK.
    I wonder how she has the gall to call herself a Christian.
    Asher Samson is in a detention centre awaiting deportation.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/home-office-christian-man-pakistan-asylum-seeker-islamic-extremists-a8698356.html

    I tried contacting Amber Rudd about Asia Bibi, on this website but surprise surprise I never got a reply.
    https://www.amberrudd.co.uk/religious-freedom-and-plight-christians

    Lord have mercy

    • KWJ says

      Dec 27, 2018 at 8:21 pm

      You have groups funding terrorism in the U.K., Islamic hate preachers, migrants with multiple crimes, and they are going to deport the kind of person you’d think they would want. It’s like when Britain wouldn’t take in the farmers being killed in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) even though they held British passports and their attitude towards the white farmers in South Africa is unconcerned.

      These countries’ give lip service to human rights…human rights and compassion only go along with the agenda du jour.

  6. Mirren10 says

    Dec 26, 2018 at 6:02 am

    Please sign the petition to prevent Mr. Samson’s deportation.

    https://www.change.org/p/sajid-javid-mp-end-the-detention-of-pakistani-christian-asher-samson

    ”Theresa May is in the process of deporting another Pakistani Christian from the UK.
    I wonder how she has the gall to call herself a Christian.”

    She’s a politician, she has no moral compass.

  7. Cathy Kaech says

    Dec 26, 2018 at 10:06 am

    Please continue to pray for Asia Bibi…it is the most we can do for her and her family.

  8. TKF says

    Dec 26, 2018 at 12:03 pm

    Muslim blood-lust knows no bounds. Islam is EVIL, it must be DESTROYED.

  9. E. Maria says

    Dec 26, 2018 at 12:37 pm

    Frankie would rather defend the Terrorist political ideology, Islam then defend the persecuted Christians who are being martyred on a daily basis. I’m ashamed and appalled of this man who ‘took over’ the Chair of Peter.’ He is no friend of the Catholic church nor of any Christian and he doesn’t speak for many of us who are not in line with his Marxist Ideology!

  10. Truth says

    Dec 27, 2018 at 1:57 pm

    I wish I could get Asia Babi a handgun. So when the Muslim thugs come for her, she could terminate ten before they get her. Better yet, get her a jet flight to the USA.

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