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Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan says accused blasphemer Asia Bibi “will leave Pakistan in a couple of weeks”

Apr 16, 2019 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Hold your applause. Why is Khan making this announcement now? Why not in two weeks, after she is safely out of the country? Is he giving the furious Muslim mobs who have been baying for her blood and hunting house-to-house for her time to mobilize and renew their efforts to find and murder her? Why would he make this announcement otherwise, instead of secreting this poor woman out of the country without saying a word until the mission was completed?

“Pakistan releasing Christian woman long imprisoned for blasphemy,” by Kaswar Klasra, Media Line, April 15, 2019 (thanks to Loony Tunes):

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced that Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who last year was saved from death row after being accused of blasphemy against Islam, will soon leave Pakistan to be reunited with her family.

“She will leave Pakistan in a couple of weeks,” Khan told foreign journalists in Islamabad.

News of the impending release came on the heels of British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s statement in the UK Parliament earlier this month that Bibi’s freedom was being negotiated.

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

Pakistani authorities confirmed to The Media Line that the necessary documentation, including visa and air tickets, was ready.

“She is all set to travel abroad. We are waiting for the green signal from concerned authorities in this regard,” a senior government official told The Media Line on condition of anonymity.
Bibi, a Christian mother of five, had been on death row since 2010. She was accused of committing blasphemy in 2009, when she left home early one June morning for farm work, like many of the women in her village.

On that fateful day, as she was picking berries under the scorching sun, she was asked by her colleagues to fetch some water from the nearby well. She set off, jug in hand. But on her way back, she took a sip of the water before handing it over to her Muslim co-workers, which made them furious.

In Pakistan, most Muslims refrain from eating or drinking with people of other faiths, whom they believe are impure. Angered by Asia’s taking a sip of water, her Muslim colleagues told her she was dirty and not worthy of drinking from the same cup as they.

A fierce argument erupted and harsh words were exchanged, climaxing with the Muslim workers accusing Bibi of insulting the Prophet Muhammad.

Several days later, police barged into Bibi’s house and arrested her on suspicion of blasphemy. During her trial, she maintained her innocence, but in 2010 was sentenced to death. She spent the past nine years in solitary confinement….

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  1. mortimer says

    Apr 16, 2019 at 5:19 pm

    Pakistan cannot defend its own citizen against vicious, homicidal Pakistani Muslims.

    That is the power of Islamic hatred directed from Muslims towards the dirty kufaar.

    Al Walaa wal Baraa is the MOTIIVE of Islam. If you have not mastered this teaching, you need to learn more about Islam. This is one of three CORE teachings of Islam.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 16, 2019 at 5:38 pm

      Mortimer, I don’t think Pakistan has much interest in protecting their non-Muslim citizens–just the opposite.

      • mortimer says

        Apr 16, 2019 at 10:38 pm

        The Pak PM Khan is an Islamist or he pretends to be one.

    • KEVIN ELKS says

      Apr 17, 2019 at 4:41 am

      Islam is a cancer on humanity.

      • TruthWFree says

        Apr 18, 2019 at 12:52 pm

        Totally agree!

    • Westman says

      Apr 17, 2019 at 8:26 am

      Are there more than three possibilities?: 1. The Pakistani government is using her as a barganing chip to get something, 2. She is already deceased, 3. They are simply lying; waiting for the publicity to die. After all they already got away with 9 years false imprisonment to calm the rabid dog breasts of the falsely offended. Maybe they have no intention of releasing her.

      China is making a grave error in including an unreliable partner, Pakistan, in their “One Belt, One Road” project. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) initiative will involve 15,000 Chinese worker building infrastructure and investing $60 Billion, some of which are loans to be repaid. At some point China will realize that Islamists, not the Pakistan government, has the real, “on the ground” control as the money leaks into corruption and Chinese workers need protection. It will be interesting to see if China evenually develops a “Monroe Doctrine” of its own.

      The Asia Bibi debacle should give China doubts about the honesty and ability of Pakistan to deliver on its word.

      • Colleen says

        Apr 17, 2019 at 9:57 am

        For China, the ‘Asia Bibi debacle’ is of little concern since their own human rights us just as appalling! China extracts human organs from living dissents, criminals and any one else, who annoys them! So,sad to see China making this u-turn after 30 plus years of a very gradual move towards some kind of democratic governing! They have no love for muslims but money does make strange bed fellows and they dserve each other!

      • J D.S says

        Apr 17, 2019 at 9:57 am

        If this lady IS NOT released all civilized countries should stop any contact with this rabid dog nation….Muslim countries should be brought to their knees until they quit their ruthless actions.
        If we had a REAL UN any nation that stepped out of line such as what happened with Asia Bibi, would be squashed but of course we have a bunch of muslim lovers in the U N do nothing will happen here.
        I hope she is still alive and does get out of that awful country. To be jailed for using WORDS is just plain dumb. and any nation that does that should be ostracized.

  2. gravenimage says

    Apr 16, 2019 at 5:34 pm

    Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan says accused blasphemer Asia Bibi “will leave Pakistan in a couple of weeks”
    …………………

    I hope so–but I’ll believe it when I see it.

    God, I hope Asia Bibi and her husband will be safe at last.

    • CRUSADER says

      Apr 16, 2019 at 6:52 pm

      Have you noted how in Caliphfornia
      there are billboards prominently showing
      Asia Bibi’s face, as a hero, among others…etc…

      Part of a courageous push in advertising to showcase strong female roles….

      Moral courage…hmmm….wonder what Irshad Manji has been saying recently about this topic….

  3. CogitoErgoSum says

    Apr 16, 2019 at 5:49 pm

    Maybe Mr. Khan will be so nice as to tell everybody the time and place of her departure.

    • CRUSADER says

      Apr 16, 2019 at 7:01 pm

      https://www.britishpakistanichristians.org/blog/powerful-re-enactment-of-asia-bibis-tragic-incident

      Powerful re-enactment of Asia Bibi’s tragic incident (it’s been since 2010…)

      On the 16th October 2014, death row mother of 5 Asia Bibi heard her appeal for mercy rejected by Lahore High Court. Sentenced to death by hanging under Pakistan’s notorious Blasphemy laws, Asia returned to her squalid prison cell to await her fate.

      On the 18. October 2014 the BPCA organised a protest the last part of the protest was a powerful re-enactment of Asia Bibi’s tragic incident, by Latasha Sinclair a British Champion in Lyrical, Modern and Acro Dancing.

      • CogitoErgoSum says

        Apr 16, 2019 at 9:16 pm

        I will weep now for my sister and perhaps the dancing will come later when she is set free … at a time and place unknown to the Muslim mobs of the world.

      • J D.S says

        Apr 17, 2019 at 10:04 am

        ANY NATION that has a BLASPHEMY LAW should be shunned by all civilized nations. and any nation that sides with that nation should also be shunned..

  4. Hugh Fitzgerld says

    Apr 16, 2019 at 6:38 pm

    And then what? How can she live safely in the U.K.?

    • Salah says

      Apr 16, 2019 at 10:18 pm

      She’s going to Canada; her daughters are already there.

      • underbed cat says

        Apr 17, 2019 at 8:05 am

        Canada…..has passed M-103 hate speech laws, that prohibit “hate speech”, which is essentially saying something that muslims would hate, even if accurate. She will be safer in Canada than Pakistan, however Canada has opened their doors to returning isis fighters, al queda, etc….so she won’t be able to speak, unless Trudeau comes to his senses. But I give him credit for giving her, a christian, asylum, however there are just as many “pious”tolerant” muslims who will not be happy but they are not the majority yet although it take a small percentage to cause protests and chaos.This woman and many Christians like her have suffered enough, from these terrorists/ and supporters who claim the world’s largest religion of no peace. Thank you Trudeau, I wish her well and hope it is true.

  5. FYI says

    Apr 16, 2019 at 6:41 pm

    “Insulting the prophet muhammed”..

    “muhammed was a Fat,Black slave trading,Cross-dressing,mass-murdering, Dwarf”
    {That’s according to islamic teachings which muslims cannot deny:
    Abu Dawud 40:4731,Sahih muslim 3901,Sahih Bukhari 2442,Abu Dawud 4390}

    muslims may try to fiddle the Arabic but these unflattering teachings come from within islam itself so it cannot be insulting to muslims or islam to simply re-state islamic teachings.

    So,muhammed{APFh,allah prays for him},the Most Perfect Man,the Al Insan Al kamil, was,according to various islamic sources..

    A FAT,BLACK-SLAVE TRADING,CROSS-DRESSING,MASS-MURDERING,DWARF

    But there is something much worse,a much greater “insult to the prophet muhammed”,so terrible that it merited immediate Execution{I’ll bet Imran Khan and his pious pakistanis won’t get this..}

    The GREATEST INSULT anyone could say about muhammed…..is…

    That muhammed was{horror of horrors}………a BLACK MAN.

    “Whoever says the prophet was BLACK is KILLED.The prophet was NOT BLACK”
    Ash Shifa{of Qadi Lyad pg 387}

    So the WORST insult to muhammed was to say he was a BLACK MAN.

    Faisal: So,the “prophet”muhammed it seems was a FAT DWARF according to Ubaydullah{ in Abu Dawud}

    Ahmed: And he liked to wear Aisha’s dress whilst channeling “allah” according to Sahih Bukhari

    Ali: Weird! well,I don’t care if the “prophet” muhammed was White,yellow or BLACK but..

    Faisal did..did..you just say our beloved prophet,who never did anything wrong{..except for the polygamy,the pederasty and the plagiarisim and the mass murdering of Jews..} was BLACK?

    Ahmed:Oh by allah! You are in so much trouble Ali!

    Ali:What’s wrong with saying the “Prophet muhammed was BLACK”?Are we not all children of allah except for the Jews,Christians,Hindus,Ex-muslims,Sikhs and Buddhists?So what if the prophet muhammed was BLACK?Who cares??

    Ahmed:…but the devil in islam, Ali is..a BLACK MAN{Ibn Ishaq pg 243}and there is a prophecy that an Ethiopian,a BLACK MAN will someday destroy the kaaba

    Ali: Racist much?But imagine if the “Prophet of islam was BLACK”

    Angry rioting moslems{the sort you see in pakistan} Let’s KILL him for Ali has insulted the prophet by saying he was a BLACK MAN

    Ali:whoa!talk about an over reaction!And all I said was what if “the prophet muhammed was BLACK”:what is so terrible about saying “the prophet muhanmed was BLACK”?

  6. CRUSADER says

    Apr 16, 2019 at 6:47 pm

    What’s the rush?

  7. John Hawk says

    Apr 16, 2019 at 6:59 pm

    I always thought “insulting” a mass murderer, thief, pedophile, and rapist was a rather novel concept. How is that even possible?

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Apr 16, 2019 at 7:05 pm

      Oh, those are the type of people who are most easily offended, making it quite risky to be around them.

  8. Bob Builder says

    Apr 16, 2019 at 8:51 pm

    Maybe the freedom fighters for womens rights will come to side? Linda Sarsour or
    Ilhan Omar…

    Where are you?

    Chirp
    Crickets

  9. Wellington says

    Apr 16, 2019 at 9:01 pm

    If only Islam would leave Earth in a couple of weeks. A beautiful thought but I digress.

    • CRUSADER says

      Apr 16, 2019 at 11:48 pm

      Will have to await the Second Coming of Christ, and the Tribulation period….

  10. Lydia Church says

    Apr 16, 2019 at 9:36 pm

    I pray for her safe departure to a safe destination and that all is done in secrecy.

  11. Mr. Maxwell S. J. Fenton says

    Apr 17, 2019 at 3:25 am

    Meanwhile back in Blighty our government won’t allow her asylum into our country for fear of upsetting the Islamic community but have given tax funded legal aid to a terrorists wife to argue the case she can come back in even though everyone but the Islamic community do not want her here at all.

    • Dexter says

      Apr 17, 2019 at 9:41 am

      Bibi’s case in comparison to Begum’s sums up for me everything that is wrong with the UK’s current political elite.
      Soon may they be defeated at the ballot box

  12. Laura says

    Apr 17, 2019 at 3:59 am

    She is not an ‘accused blasphemer’ she is an innocent woman, falsely and illegally accused of blasphemy. She should be compensated by the corrupt Pakistani government for the wrongs and ill treatment she has had to endure for almost a decade.

  13. Rod says

    Apr 17, 2019 at 5:59 am

    Cold hearted bullies. The Prohpet Mohammed would be proud.

  14. Elizabeth Thorne says

    Apr 17, 2019 at 12:53 pm

    I hope she will be safe but I give Justine ZERO credit. He has been a busy boy with his 10 Muslim members telling Canadians what is wrong with us, paying Khadr, allowing the Muslim, back bencher to introduce M-103, paying people to be quiet about his bringing in invaders. What is the ratio of Muslims brought into Canada–what happened to all the Christians who wanted to come to Canada. Trudeau is all about the global world–screwed Canada. Damn, disgraceful peoplekind.

  15. Elizabeth Thorne says

    Apr 17, 2019 at 1:07 pm

    Oh dear, one might think an election is coming and Justine will be going. Hallelujah, hip hip hooray, hot damn.

  16. sidney penny says

    Apr 22, 2019 at 10:12 pm

    Aisi Bibi will remain at an undisclosed government location this Easter.

    https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/04/21/asia-bibi-acquitted-of-blasphemy-months-ago-will-spend-easter-in-captivity/

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 22, 2019 at 10:15 pm

      Thank you for that link, Sidney.

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