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Pakistan: Top court to decide whether to reverse Asia Bibi’s acquittal as Muslims demand her death

Jan 25, 2019 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Asia Bibi was acquitted of blasphemy after spending eight years in prison on death row, but so many Muslims still want her dead that the Pakistani Supreme Court, bowing to the mob, is planning to reconsider her acquittal.

“Pakistan’s top court to decide Asia Bibi’s fate as Muslim extremists demand her death,” by Leah MarieAnn Klett, Christian Post, January 24, 2019:

Pakistan’s top court will decide next week whether a challenge against the acquittal of Christian mother Asia Bibi can proceed as radical Islamists continue to call for her execution.

Bibi’s lawyer, Saiful Malook, revealed that on Jan. 29 Pakistan’s Supreme Court will review a petition launched by Islamists calling for her blasphemy conviction to be overturned, the Pakistani news outlet Dawn reports. If the court rejects the petition, Bibi will finally be free to leave Pakistan.

The 47-year-old mother-of-five, who was on death row for eight years, was accused by Muslim farm laborers of having insulted the Islamic prophet Muhammad, which is an offense punishable by death in Pakistan.

She was convicted despite denying the charges, and in October the Supreme Court overturned the guilty verdict. The decision sparked nationwide protests by Muslim hardliners, prompting authorities to take Bibi into hiding. Since her acquittal, she has since been living at a secret location, under guard.

Muslim extremists have threatened to kill anyone who supports Bibi, and in efforts to end the violence, authorities struck a deal with protesters. As part of the agreement, the Pakistani government pledged she would remain in the country until the Supreme Court reviews the petition against her acquittal.

A three-member bench will hear the review petition, which claims that the Supreme Court’s acquittal of Bibi did not meet the standards of jurisprudence as well as Islamic provisions.

Ghulam Mustafa Chaudhry, the lawyer who filed the petition seeking an appeal, told AFP the court is expected to decide the same day if the appeal is admitted or not.

In December, he told the BBC he gets “a lot of peace” from prosecuting alleged blasphemers like Bibi and “will be rewarded for it in the hereafter.”

“For us the most sacred thing is [Islamic] prophet Muhammad. Everything we do is for him,” he said, insisting that no Muslim would ever falsely accuse a non-Muslim of committing blasphemy.

Despite her release from prison, Bibi continues to live in fear of being killed and is guarded by security forces who’ve barred her from even opening a window, an unidentified friend revealed earlier this month. She’s also undergoing treatment for various illnesses she suffered while in prison….

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  1. mortimer says

    Jan 25, 2019 at 3:08 pm

    Lawyer Ghulam Mustafa Chaudhry gets a GHOULISH satisfaction for hurting ‘others’, because Allah will reward him with ETERNAL ERECTIONS and SEX SLAVES in Islamic paradise.

    What an absurd man lawyer Ghulam Mustafa Chaudhry is. How can an educated person believe the ISLAMIC PARADISE is real ??

    Islam is amoral, unhistorical and self-referentially incoherent. No argument can defend Islam.

    Islam is based and circular thought and thus is counterfactual and obscurantist.

    • Salome says

      Jan 25, 2019 at 5:11 pm

      He says he’ll be rewarded for it in the hereafter. That’s one reason why I like to believe in the hereafter. Bring it on!

      • mortimer says

        Jan 25, 2019 at 9:51 pm

        Salome has admitted he is amoral. His amorality is a shattering argument against Islam’s authenticity. Whatever is amoral and opportunistic cannot be an authentic revelation.

    • abad says

      Jan 25, 2019 at 6:40 pm

      “Education” does not trump the Quran, Mortimer. FWIW, in Islam, it’s the intellectual acceptance of Islam is all that matters.

      As stated elsewhere on JW recently by me and others:

      There is nothing spiritual about Islam.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 25, 2019 at 9:01 pm

        +1

    • J D S says

      Jan 26, 2019 at 9:50 am

      Of course Islam is NON spiritual…Muhammad…(If he ever actually existed..no historic proof…;) made up Islam maybe because the band of thieves, thugs and caravan raiders he was the boss of, were becoming as smart as he was so in his crippled mind he figured he’d better come up with another plan or they would kill him ..Wallah…a prophet was born in a cave,filled with ..guess what??some spooky mushrooms…One can have all kinds of weird hallucinations eating those mushrooms….just sayin…….

      y in.

      • J D S says

        Jan 26, 2019 at 10:09 am

        Islam needs to be isolated in the mid east…To help do this the west needs to quit funding, in any way, any country that follows Islamic laws…like blasphemy …think back …one of the things, among others, that got Jesus murdered was the Jews blasphemy laws…..
        Now today , even though the Jews failed to believe that Jesus I’d the messiah, I don’t find them using blasphemy laws to kill people as the Muslims , still living in a long gone era, even today, are doing. Western nations are still giving them monies…..THAT NEEDS TO STOP! Of course the need for their oil is a cement that binds the west to them…… with today’s technology…Find an alternative to their blood oil.

  2. PRCS says

    Jan 25, 2019 at 3:30 pm

    That they just can’t settle on ONE definition is an enormous part of the problem.

    Pakistan’s top court…..radical Islamists

    Bibi’s lawyer…..by Islamists

    This is the only correct definition, IMO. “by Muslim farm laborers”. Regular, Allah fearing, Muslims.
    The 47-year-old mother-of-five, who was on death row for eight years, was accused by Muslim farm laborers of having insulted the Islamic prophet Muhammad, which is an offense punishable by death in Pakistan.

    She was convicted….. by Muslim hardliners

    Muslim extremists…..

    • Salome says

      Jan 25, 2019 at 5:13 pm

      And then the conviction was overturned by a Court of Muslims who clearly didn’t know that they were meant to take the word of Muslims over the word of an Infidel. I wonder whether that is the ground of appeal.

      • PRCS says

        Jan 25, 2019 at 6:13 pm

        The article infers that.

      • thebigW says

        Jan 26, 2019 at 10:57 pm

        the Muslims in Paki government didn’t overturn her conviction because of Islam; they overturned it because of $$$$$, worried about international (Western) opinioni which might cut off the BILLIIONS of Jizya they get

    • Or Else! says

      Jan 25, 2019 at 7:53 pm

      Accusations = guilt. Nice to see the Democrats following suit with everything from Trump to Kavanaugh to Catholic high school students.

      Devoid of intellect.

      Anything goes when the goal is absolute power.

  3. Renate says

    Jan 25, 2019 at 3:31 pm

    Isn’t this like double jeopardy? If you’re acquitted, you’re acquitted. No? Just because people don’t like a verdict, you can’t retry or reconsider the case until you get the verdict that people want.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 25, 2019 at 9:45 pm

      This would be true in a civilized society. Pakistan is not civilized…

      • Renate says

        Jan 25, 2019 at 11:43 pm

        So, they have the rule of law, but not really. Well, they have Sharia law, so, anything goes.

    • theSailor says

      Jan 26, 2019 at 3:24 am

      The EU does it all the time; why shouldn’t the Muslims? Does that make the Muslims as degenerate as the EU or the other way round?

    • Dave says

      Jan 26, 2019 at 7:26 am

      Renate this reminds me of the referendum to get out of the EU by Great Britain.

  4. Juhani says

    Jan 25, 2019 at 3:55 pm

    USA could pick her up using a helicopter. Like they did when catching Osama Bin Laden, except killing.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 25, 2019 at 9:54 pm

      I wish.

      • observer says

        Jan 26, 2019 at 6:52 am

        I wish too.
        How I wish…

  5. Wellington says

    Jan 25, 2019 at 4:22 pm

    Feel the love. Feel the wisdom. Feel the tolerance. Feel the compassion. Feel the love of liberty.

    All characteristics of Islam and only a rank, despicable Islamophobe would aver otherwise. Surely.

    • Rufolino says

      Jan 26, 2019 at 4:25 am

      Pope Francis would agree.

  6. islamic text says

    Jan 25, 2019 at 4:22 pm

    Please Google
    Urdu stories in the quran with ex muslim Abdullah Gondal

  7. DHazard says

    Jan 25, 2019 at 4:56 pm

    Can they put her in an amphitheater with hungry lions? If the Muslims in Pakistan want the World to know why NOT to convert to Islam, they are doing a good job. I hope there is still some courage in their Supreme Court.

    • Salome says

      Jan 25, 2019 at 5:14 pm

      More likely tigers in that part of the world.

    • thebigW says

      Jan 26, 2019 at 11:00 pm

      nah, most “American” Muslims aren’t like that, even a llot (most”) of y’all here think that

  8. Ginger says

    Jan 25, 2019 at 5:23 pm

    I am hoping against hope that Asia Bibi and her family have already been spirited out of the country.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 25, 2019 at 10:01 pm

      Ginger, the article above makes it clear that this has, sadly, not happened.

  9. Jeremy Wessel says

    Jan 25, 2019 at 5:43 pm

    Apparently double jeopardy is legal in Pakistan.

    • thebigW says

      Jan 26, 2019 at 11:01 pm

      “I’ll take beheading for $300, Al-Ex”

  10. John says

    Jan 25, 2019 at 5:46 pm

    “For us the most sacred thing is [Islamic] prophet Muhammad. Everything we do is for him,”….

    There’s the real god of Islam!!

    Unfortunately, I feel that Aasia Bibi will be martyred by the system, the judges know they will be targeted if they don’t reach the decision that is expected of them by the Muslims.

    • Infidel for Life says

      Jan 25, 2019 at 6:28 pm

      After some study of Islam, it appears Muslims have deified their prophet over Allah. Seems you can criticize Allah but not the prophet. This seems counterintuitive to the tenets of Islam and what their prophet said about being worshiped.

      • Paul J says

        Jan 25, 2019 at 11:47 pm

        They worship Mad Mo because they can live like him. One of the reasons islam it so wide spread is because it appeals to man’s most basic and primative urges; with no consequences. Far from it they are rewarded for indulging in those urges; both here and in “Paradise”

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 26, 2019 at 12:42 am

      I’d like to see the entire West put pressure on Pakistan–and cut off all aid if they don’t release Asia Bibi and her family.

      • Adrianne Smyth says

        Jan 26, 2019 at 5:43 am

        Absolutely right. The British Government should NOT be giving any of their taxpayers hard earned money to these savages.

        Let Allah provide for them.

        • observer says

          Jan 26, 2019 at 6:58 am

          So right Adrianne.

    • Dave says

      Jan 26, 2019 at 7:22 am

      How about a democratic vote by the people of Pakistan? I am joking, but I shouldn’t be. Is the Paki government totally powerless and weak?

  11. Barbara says

    Jan 25, 2019 at 6:54 pm

    Of all of the people the US should give asylum to, this family deserves to have help

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 25, 2019 at 7:47 pm

      Pakistan will not let her and her family leave.

      • observer says

        Jan 26, 2019 at 7:03 am

        I fear you’re right GI.

        From those along us who pray she needs ongoing prayer and only God knows how very much grace.
        I agonise because of her plight.
        She is also in solitary confinement.

        God help her !

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 28, 2019 at 11:09 pm

          We also need to pressure our governments to put pressure on Pakistan, and cut off aid if they don’t free her.

  12. Lydia Church says

    Jan 25, 2019 at 7:39 pm

    And another item on Morning Star News about persecution against Christians by muslims who are police in Kenya. islam is the religion of evil and the devil.

    • Halal Bacon says

      Jan 25, 2019 at 8:15 pm

      shitslam is a cult

      In modern English, the term cult has come to usually refer to a social group defined by its unusual religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs, or its common interest in a particular personality, object or goal.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 26, 2019 at 12:51 am

      Thank you, Lydia–here is that ugly story:

      “Muslim Police Officers, Others Beat and Arrest Christian in Kenya”

      https://www.christianheadlines.com/blog/muslim-police-officers-others-beat-and-arrest-christian-in-kenya.html

      And Kenya is not even a majority-Muslim nation.

  13. Rosie Branes says

    Jan 25, 2019 at 9:24 pm

    And this is the country at the top of Britain’s list of foreign aid recipients. Followed by Syria, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Afghanistan.

    Beyond belief.

  14. somehistory says

    Jan 25, 2019 at 10:00 pm

    Everything they do is for “him.” They lie for “him,’ and rape for “him” and slaughter for “him.” And this “him,” …if he ever lived at all…is dead. This “him” that is so important to this creep “prosecutor”…if he existed at all…was a mass murderer, a raper of children, and a psychopath, and a a vile creature who lied about everything in order to satisfy his demonic lusts. This “him”…if he ever existed…was a devil worshipper and a follower of satan the devil, a child of that snake. The snake must be jealous of all of the worship given to his child…”him.” Of course, satan is aware that his “child”…”him”…is dead. The dead know nothing, hear nothing, do nothing, say nothing, think nothing.

    As the Proverb says so truthfully, “A live dog is better off than a dead lion.”

    This poor woman should be allowed to leave the country and if they can “hold” her in secret, they could help her leave in secret. They could disguise her and take her away from the daily threat to a place of greater safety. No place will be completely free of the threat as moslims have been given license to live everywhere and most are like this prosecutor and his mob, ravening, and lusting for her blood.

  15. CogitoErgoSum says

    Jan 25, 2019 at 10:10 pm

    They could make it look like they killed her but actually hide her away somewhere. After all, it’s nothing their god has not done.

    • Keys says

      Jan 25, 2019 at 10:19 pm

      Time for a Mission Impossible team to go in.

      • CogitoErgoSum says

        Jan 25, 2019 at 10:26 pm

        I imagine if they could get her out of that hellhole of a country, within a few months she would look like a completely different woman. Give her a new name and a new home here is the U.S. and she could start a new life. Isn’t something similar done with what’s called the Witness Protection Program?

        • Keys says

          Jan 25, 2019 at 11:47 pm

          Yes, I think tens of thoudands Americans would gladly contribute to settling her here safely.

          Sarsour and others like her would more than likely betray her, if they knew where she was living.

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 26, 2019 at 12:52 am

          I would *love* to see her come to America. I know that several Western nations have offered her asylum, including Canada.

        • I AM THE INFIDEL YOUR IMAM WARNED YOU ABOUT says

          Jan 26, 2019 at 10:02 am

          It’s not just giving lip service like offering Aasia Bibi and her family asylum…… it’s acting on it by stepping up and actually having her and her family physically out of the country. Western governments have to apply strong pressure on Pakistan to safely get her onto a plane. The only way to do this is to impose a military curfew ensuring no one are allow to be on the streets and then having the military or police transport take the entire family to the airport and lift the curfew after the aircraft has departed.

          That’s how this has to be done

  16. somehistory says

    Jan 25, 2019 at 10:49 pm

    The U.S. Marshals hide witnesses to protect them from those against whom they testify. They provide new name, new home, SS number, etc. and the family or person being given a new identity has to agree not to contact friends or family or tell anyone that they are really someone else.
    That should be fairly easy for Mrs. Bibi and her family if they can make it to the U.S. as any people they knew before isn’t likely to also be here. And if she saw someone she knew before, she would know better than let them recognize her. She would begin a new “career” also, not work in farm labor as she did there.

  17. Relic says

    Jan 26, 2019 at 12:43 am

  18. Anjuli Pandavar says

    Jan 26, 2019 at 4:07 am

    “Pakistan’s top court to decide Asia Bibi’s fate as Muslim extremists demand her death.”

    —

    Someone please help me out here. What makes these people “extremist” if there are *no* Muslims demanding her release? I would really appreciate a response from the “not-all-Muslims” advocates.

    • observer says

      Jan 26, 2019 at 7:12 am

      Let’s not deflect…
      Let us rather focus on Asia Bibi’s plight… on her looming death.
      This to me makes more sense.
      It is what I would need if I were in her situation.

      Wouldn’t you ?

      • Anjuli Pandavar says

        Jan 27, 2019 at 3:55 am

        observer,

        I’m not sure how “focussing on her looming death” would help her. I’m also not sure how fracturing the monolith demanding her death amounts to a deflection. I’d rather see my aspiring murderers turn on themselves than think of my death as “looming”. It should be pretty clear after ten years of a looming death, that Asia Bibi is anything but defeatist.

  19. FYI says

    Jan 26, 2019 at 7:57 am

    A shame “pope” francis,Smiley Joe Bergolio ,doesn’t help:after all isn’t Asia Bibi a catholic?

    Surely the “listening pope of the listening church,the pope of the Ear will listen..”

    He MUST be listening…..

    HULL-OH frankie!HEY Over here!Do I need a louder megaphone?COO-EE francis!Look I even have my thumbs up and a big grin ….as you like to put on when the photographers are around in that papal virtue-signalling exercise of yours designed to fool the sheeple with your false piety by surrounding yourself with a screen of well-publicized Good Works as you pretend to be a Catholic Christian.

    HULL-OH frankie!Can you not hear the persecuted Christians?

    No luck huh?He’s out of hearing range or maybe the Pope of the Ear needs a Hearing Aid…..yeah,that must be it.

    imran khan,if he had a soul,a conscience or an atom of decency could be magnanimous and could show himself worthy of respect:nah…he is a child of allah the best of deceivers and a follower of muhammed the mass murderer.

    If we had an actual Pope things might be different:the Vatican response to Asia Bibi’s case?

    “It’s an Internal Matter”{for the pakistanis)

    The moral cowardice and hypocrisy of the Whited Sepulchres in Rome!!..more concerned with Global warming,pandering to the UN/Globalist agenda,the plight of migrants{ehm,what about the plight of Catholics you holy hypocrites?}.. and giving their blessing to MORE mass islamic immigration..

    A merciless counterfeit god allah”the best of deceivers” and an evil psycopathic “prophet”:what would you expect from its followers?Moral goodness?

    allah the merciless
    muhammed the uncompassionate

  20. Steve says

    Jan 26, 2019 at 9:42 am

    These people have nuclear weapons!!

  21. J. A. Friedberg says

    Jan 26, 2019 at 10:28 am

    A god who demands human scarifice???

  22. Elizabeth Thorne says

    Jan 26, 2019 at 1:21 pm

    Any day now the pope will step in and say “Here I come to save the day”, yes he is going to FINALLY use his clout with his Muslim friends and save her. What a pathetic lot of church leaders and politicians in the world. Cowards, collaborators, spineless, Godless peoplekind. Peoplekind is a word created by the coward, unicorn hunter, Prime Minister of Canada.

  23. Elizabeth Thorne says

    Jan 26, 2019 at 1:24 pm

    Another Muslim in Canada is going to have a psychiatric evaluation–what about the church leaders, social workers, judges and politicians.

  24. Crusades Were Right says

    Jan 27, 2019 at 12:37 pm

    Shame on you, Theresa May!

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