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Despite acquittal, accused blasphemer Asia Bibi still remains trapped in Pakistan

Apr 11, 2019 1:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Update on the case of Asia Bibi: despite Asia’s acquittal and release from prison, she remains stuck in Pakistan and unable to move about freely, because of a Pakistani public and Islamic supremacist thugs indoctrinated by Islamic law, which mandates the death penalty for those who insult Islam.

Fears about the safe release of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who was recently saved from death row in Pakistan after being accused of blasphemy against Islam, remain strong despite assurances from U.K. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt that her release is being negotiated.

Angry protests and riots immediately erupted in Pakistan when her acquittal was announced. Demonstrators threatened to kill her and the judges who order her release.

Fear of Sharia adherents has also prevented Bibi from obtaining freedom elsewhere. While many Muslim refugees (including jihadis) who have proven harmful to free societies have managed to migrate to the West, Bibi has not received asylum.

The UK has barred Bibi from entering the country, for fear that if she did, Muslims would riot.

Bibi’s case represents a sad commentary on how far Western countries have submitted to Islamic law.

“Asia Bibi, Christian woman saved from death, remains trapped in Pakistan,” by Leonardo Blair, Christian Post, April 9, 2019:

Fears about the safe release of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who was recently saved from death row in Pakistan after being accused of blasphemy against Islam, remain strong despite assurances from U.K. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt that her release is being negotiated.

Hunt told the British Parliament last Wednesday: “Making sure that she is safe and has somewhere safe to go is a top priority for this government. We have had numerous discussions in private with [the] Pakistani government about how to progress this. We are making progress and I’m very hopeful that this will have a positive outcome.”

The 54-year-old Christian woman’s saga began nearly 10 years ago when two Muslim farm laborers accused her of drinking from the same container as them and refused to drink after her because she’s a Christian.

A conflict ensued and Bibi was accused of insulting the Islamic prophet Muhammad. In Pakistan, where 97 percent of its 180 million inhabitants are Muslim, being charged with committing blasphemy against Islam is punishable by death.

The Supreme Court of Pakistan ultimately said there were many inconsistencies in the testimonies against Bibi and she was acquitted. But her acquittal incensed the Muslim community.

And the longer she remains in hiding in Pakistan, friends are worried she is exposing herself to more danger.

“Extremists could still harm Bibi,” Obed Robert, a friend of Bibi’s husband, Ashiq Masih, told DW.

“I think she is still in the country and has not left yet,” Robert, who is a priest, said.

Shamoon Alfred Gill, vice-chairman of the Minorities Alliance Pakistan organization, also told the publication that as long as Bibi remains in Pakistan, her life will be in danger.

“We have requested our friends and civil society members to appeal to international organizations, as well as Pakistani authorities, to ensure Bibi’s safe departure from the country,” Gill told DW.

In an interview with The Mail last month from a secret location in Canada, Bibi’s youngest daughter, Eisham Ashiq, 18, explained how much she missed her mother and pleaded for her release.

“I am missing her so much, I think about her all the time, and I speak to her on the phone all the time. I say to her, ‘Have faith in God, because if God can release you from jail, God can release you from where you are now. He will bring you out.’”…..

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  1. mneidoff says

    Apr 11, 2019 at 1:07 pm

    I wish Pres Trump would bring her to the USA

    • n says

      Apr 11, 2019 at 4:31 pm

      As soon as Pakistan has an internal crisis that demands all the people’s attention, the government can sneak her out of the country to another state that agrees to receive her.

      Hey, what about a nice apartment at the VATICAN?

      • StacyGirl says

        Apr 11, 2019 at 4:53 pm

        If she converts to islam, Dope Francis May consider helping her. She is Catholic but he is not. Sad.

  2. Barbara says

    Apr 11, 2019 at 1:24 pm

    Brave England is treating her the same as the Czar and family. Some one would rise up and cause them problems. The king was to chicken to help his family.
    Now the same England refuses to help a Christian woman. If she were Islam she would be welcome.

    Let the Muslims riot. Then they could send all of them back to their home country. Then teen age girls would not longer have to fear being raped.
    “religon of peace’ not a cold day in hell.

    • Rufolino says

      Apr 12, 2019 at 4:23 am

      If British Moslems rioted at the rescue of Asia Bibi, this would most certainly be a good thing.
      It will reveal the truth about Islamic ideology, and everyone would be compelled to examine why the rioting happened, instead of avoiding the issues, as happens now.
      The truth always turns out to be wholesome, no matter how horrible.

  3. jayell says

    Apr 11, 2019 at 2:39 pm

    Clearly Asia Bibi, as a Christian, is causing unrest amongst the muslim communities in Pakistan. So let her leave the country and go somewhere more civilised, The UK? Apparently not, because she is going to ’cause unrest’ in ‘certain communities’ (I don’t Theresa May actually identified which ‘communities’ in that quote. Strange – everyone I know would love to have her here).

  4. revereridesagain says

    Apr 11, 2019 at 3:02 pm

    The Democrats are blocking all efforts to prevent jihadists from entering our country illegally along with all the other prospective Dem voters, MS-13 gangbangers, human traffickers, and all, swarming over our southern border. But they can’t figure out a way to smuggle in this one innocent woman, or Dr. Shakil Afridi, or anyone else threatened by the thuggery of Islam. Well, heck, “Rep.” Ilhan Omar might find out and raise a stink on the floor of Congress where she, as an enemy of the Constitution and advocate of Islamic supremacy and the Sharia, has no business opening her mouth. And then what would her Dumbocrat colleagues, terrified of being tagged “Islamophobic”, do?

  5. Jean Terry says

    Apr 11, 2019 at 3:12 pm

    I agree. I pray that President Trump will take notice of this and bring Asia and her family here to the USA.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 11, 2019 at 10:24 pm

      +1

  6. Michael Garant says

    Apr 11, 2019 at 5:59 pm

    Peewee Trudeau was supposed to help her come to canada, the first post national country of the world, the country with no core values and no common history. But we only heard him once on the topic, guess his muslim friends convinced him to forget about the idea…..maybe our great feminist is worried about unrest in this election year.
    Then this january he opened arms and our pocket book to give asylum to a Saudi woman fleeing alleged abuse.

    I guess he has his priorities in the right place…..islam yes, christian no

    ‘We have accepted the UN’s request that we grant her asylum,’ prime minister says
    for CBC News · Posted: Jan 11, 2019 5:43 AM ET | Last Updated: January 11

    Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, an 18-year old Saudi woman who fled alleged abuse from her family to seek asylum, is headed to Canada. (Sakchai Lalit/Associated Press)

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 11, 2019 at 10:26 pm

      Actually, Canada has already given sanctuary to Asia Bibi’s daughters. It is not that Canada will not take Asia Bibi , but that Pakistan will not let her go.

      • Michael Garant says

        Apr 12, 2019 at 9:00 am

        I know her daughters are in canada, most probably British Columbia with family. And it may well be that the pakistanis won’t let her go, even if their minister of information Fawad Chaudhry said in January, that she was free and could go wherever she wanted in the country or leave the country. They themselves know what religious fanatics can do……so are probably scared to give her proper credentials to leave. That being said, peewee and his government could put diplomatic pressure if they wanted to. They bowed to the UN for the saudi lady, they could turn to the UN for Asis…..

      • 🇺🇸 ktchnsnk 🇮🇱 (@US_4Geert) says

        Apr 12, 2019 at 10:11 am

        Source?

  7. Jenine says

    Apr 12, 2019 at 10:24 pm

    what good is the UN if it refuses to help this woman who did nothing wrong to begin with? problem with the UN is it is mostly muslim countries along with socialist/communist countries. the UN is a JOKE and a huge waste of time and money. Nothing is accomplished except for who oils the hand with money; then something might be done.

    Pakistan government is full of cowards who kowtow to the fanatics. This is more than stupid that this woman is not safely freed to be with her family, in Canada I hope. If this was a muslim who had been persecuted for doing the same thing; they would be kissing their asses. Wake up Pakistan, grow some balls, do your job, protect this woman.

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