It’s a moment every human rights advocate has awaited….
Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman who spent eight years on death row for blasphemy against Islam before she was freed last year, is now safely in Canada and reunited with her family, her lawyer has said.
Because of Muslim outrage, outbreaks of riots and death threats against Bibi, she remained incarcerated for her own safety upon the announcement of her release, amid many offers of asylum from countries.
Britain openly refused to offer Bibi asylum to appease the sector of its Muslim community who wanted to see Bibi further punished on bogus charges of blasphemy, a common plight of Christians living in Pakistan. The UK feared Muslims who would riot and endanger innocent lives if she entered its country. To read the list of troubling reports about Asia Bibi, click here. Her ordeal sheds much light on the nature of Sharia blasphemy laws, the zealousness of its adherents and appeasing Britain.
Although it is great news that Asia Bibi is now in Canada, there is an irony involved. Canada is a country that has implemented anti-Islamophobia Motion M-103 in its parliament, where a followup document was unveiled–along with 23-million-dollar financing and the participation of groups like CAIR-CAN (renamed National Council of Canadian Muslims) and IRFAN (Canada’s branch of Islamic Relief ). The document, titled Taking Action Against Systemic Racism and Religious Discrimination”, included “monitoring citizens for compliance“. Anti-Islamophobia Motion M-103 is an assault on Western free speech and amounts to a tacit implementation of Islamic blasphemy laws.
Motion M-103 accused Canadians of fostering “a climate of fear” toward Muslims, one which must be “quelled.” For more information about the highly questionable Islamic supremacist influences behind M-103, click here. For an extended report about M-103, its dangers and why it was broadly opposed by many Canadian citizens, click here.
May Asia Bibi succeed in her long road again to full recovery from her ordeal in a country that is struggling to remain free. With elections this year, the announcement of Asia Bibi’s arrival in Canada is beneficial for Trudeau, but his policies do not support the continuation of a free society, nor has Trudeau offered asylum to other persecuted Christians, save for Asia Bibi’s high profile case during this election year.
Another high profile (and welcome) case was the safe arrival to Canada of Saudi teen, Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, who fled her family after they threatened to kill her for leaving Islam..
“Persecuted Christian Asia Bibi Arrives in Canada After Leaving Pakistan”, by Simon Kent, Breitbart, May 8, 2019:
Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman who spent eight years on death row for blasphemy against Islam before she was freed last year, is now safely in Canada and reunited with her family, her lawyer has said.
“It is a big day,” Saiful Malook told the Guardian. “Asia Bibi has left Pakistan and reached Canada. She has reunited with her family. Justice has been dispensed.”Pakistani TV channels Geo and ARY, citing unidentified sources, also reported Bibi had left the country.
Roman Catholic Bibi was acquitted of her religious crime last year but has since faced death threats in Pakistan and was offered asylum by multiple countries including Italy, the Netherlands, and Canada. The latter has finally provided her with safe haven.
The British government turned her away, allegedly to appease “certain sections of the community” at home and Islamist terrorists who might be inclined to attack British embassies abroad.
Blasphemy against Islam is a proscribed crime in multiple Pakistani statutes. Insulting Mohammed specifically is a crime carrying the death penalty in Pakistan. Bibi was originally sentenced to hang in 2010.
Islam is Pakistan’s national religion and underpins its legal system. Public support for the strict blasphemy laws is strong.
Bibi’s release last year followed a period of intense international pressure on Pakistan to respect its Christian minority.
In January, the United States Department of State placed the country on its Special Watch List for severe religious freedom violations, citing, among other infractions, Bibi’s imprisonment.
The Pentagon also cut military aid to the country that month arguing that the Pakistani government did not sufficiently curb its Islamist elements, while President Donald Trump announced cutting American taxpayers’ dollars going to aid the country for the same reason…..

Krishna says
Ah finnaly she is safe now
JB says
We can only hope and pray that she remains safe. Nothing can be taken for granted today.
CRUSADER says
Valerie Price ACT For Canada on freedom of religion
JettieG says
Sadly, trudeau has allowed muslim jihadists/fighters and other militant islamicists to return/reside in Canada. Yadzidi women have reported being followed on buses by rapists & captors from their home countries. She’ll have to go into hiding here, too.
Ashley says
This is wonderful news!
May she and her family find peace In their new homeland.
gravenimage says
Hear, hear!
Lydia Church says
SOOOO happy for her!
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mortimer says
God bless Asia’s new life in freedom.
Anjuli Pandavar says
This is a major relief. May Asia Bibi and her family, with all the support they can get, recover from their ordeal and finally rebuild their lives. All those who assisted in the family’s escape are owed thanks.
It ought to be a matter of international protocol that any woman who manages to escape Shari’a be entitled to automatic asylum anywhere she chooses, without her first having to go through what Asia Bibi has gone through. Every woman and every girl who makes it out of any Shari’a land should be welcomed into the free world and supported to rebuild their lives, including assisted passage and security. This is not a difficult thing to do, especially for Europe, which supposedly has a serious population decline problem. When will the first Western government declare such automatic asylum? Any woman escaping Shari’a is by definition a refugee. Let’s see how long Shari’a lasts after those Hellholes start haemorrhaging their females.
Lookmann says
All girls from Sharia lands ?
What if they marry already arrived warriors [ aka refugees/migrants ] and produce nice little jihadi kids ?
Asylum should be for non-Muslims or those renouncing Islam only.
gravenimage says
Unfortunately, many Muslim women are as committed to their vicious creed as are Muslim men.
Anjuli Pandavar says
GI, I very much doubt whether such women will make hijra without men. It should be fairly obvious whether a woman has suffered under Shari’a or was one of its enforcers.
Anjuli Pandavar says
Lookmann, perhaps you’re right. Perhaps asylum should not be automatic. But there should be a presumption of acceptance.
We ought not to forget that Muslim women are variously considered loot, slaves, children, animals, farmland, or prostitutes. Islam does not recognise the personhood of women, no matter what “Islamic feminists” will tell you. Muslim women are “the women of the believers”. They are not themselves “the believers”, even if they are sometimes referred to as “the believing women”. And as such they are only marginally better off than non-believers and often worse off. Please also see my comment to GI.
Raja says
Anjuli is right about women being refugees in their own Sharia lands but there should be caution like Lookmann has suggested.Islam barely has any piety and hence Muslims remains highly unscrupulous ..
John Allan says
‘Britain openly refused to offer Bibi asylum to appease the sector of its Muslim community …’
Ah, the Muslim community, eh? And stuff the rest of the UK? I hadn’t realised the Muslims were that large in number, never mind that important versus the rest of the UK. Must bear that in mind come the next election.
John Allan says
‘The British government turned her away, allegedly to appease “certain sections of the community” at home and Islamist terrorists who might be inclined to attack British embassies abroad.’
Ah, good old British government – bunch of right twats. They should be less concerned with appeasing sections of the community who aren’t British, than with doing the right thing.
John Allan says
‘The British government turned her away, allegedly to appease “certain sections of the community” at home …’
The British government should be much less concerned with one all-but-irrelevant community and much more concerned with the electorate as a whole.
revereridesagain says
Congratulations to everyone who participated in finally bringing this woman to safety. It sends a message to the Sharia tyrants that to threaten an innocent person’s life over “blasphemy” will not be tolerated, nor will their victims be forgotten or abandoned. At least that’s what it should mean, because there are many more Asia Bibi’s trapped in the Islamic world.
I agree with Anjuli that persecution on the grounds of Sharia should be qualification for asylum. It should be stuck right in the faces of the M-103 enablers of persecution that defenders of freedom of thought will aid and defend the threatened, and they can stick their “Anti-Islamophobia” proclamations where the sun don’t shine.
R Russell says
Hallelujah, for the LORD our GOD the Almighty reigns.
Spare a prayer for the other Christians languishing in Pakistani jails.
jarmanray says
Very well said and may God truly bless the lady and I have said a silent prayer for her every Sunday in Church.
gravenimage says
Yes, R Russell–we cannot forget those still persecuted.
CRUSADER says
OPEN DOORS
https://www.opendoorsusa.org/take-action/advocacy/
VOtM / Voice of the Martyrs:
https://www.persecution.com/about/
R Russell says
No with to appear partisan, but there is another organisation I know of who do excellent work too.
https://barnabasfund.org/en/get-involved
gravenimage says
Thanks for those links.
CogitoErgoSum says
What a great day! God bless her beautiful soul and may she now live a peaceful life in her new home.
tim gallagher says
I agree with you, CogitoErgoSum, and the other commenters here, that it is great news. If anyone deserves to have a wonderfully peaceful life from now on, it is surely Asia Bibi. She’s certainly been through a hellish ordeal. It must have been extremely stressful not knowing if she’d ever safely get out of that Islamic hellhole, Pakistan.
Dan says
I’m so glad she’s safe here but…
Turdolt is just doing this to gin up votes.
Because of his crazy anti oil/pro radical Islam/Antisemite/socialist policies, his scandal ridden party and Marie Antoinette type governing, and the fact he’s just not that freaking bright and is concerned more about hair and flair than fiscal responsibility, this noodle brain is going down in flames at home, as the dumbest leader on the planet.
A good chunk of the planet’s leaders are some form of dictator, and of those who aren’t, most, especially Europe’s leaders, while they are in complete denial about the Muslim problem, you can’t actually say they’re STUPID. They accomplished SOMETHING in their private lives, and at least have grudging respect each other.
But Turdolt?
The whole world thinks he’s an easily manipulated buffoon.
Renate says
I agree 100%.
Michael Garant says
Hopefully this is what will happen to this pompous a– in october.
CRUSADER says
Huzzah!!!
Dawne says
I wish her well. It’s an absolute disgrace that Theresa May refused to give her asylum in the UK.
observer says
I so agree with you Dawne.
Nothing much has changed in this world since Pilate asked the people who they wanted to be set free… And Barabbas it was…
That Theresa is a Christian makes this harder to cope with ….. my own failings notwithstanding.
R Russell says
She got advice from the Archbishop of Canterbury to make that decision.
Ole Pederson says
I do not think she would have been safe in Great Britistan, where the most popular name for male babies now is Muhammad. And has been for a decade.
gravenimage says
Britain cravenly rejected her plea for asylum because it would cause ‘unrest’ among their murderous Muslim population.
observer says
Can this be true ?
I’m hesitant to believe it.
If it is indeed true then thanks be to God for Asia’s freedom. May she receive all the help she inevitably needs to heal from this unimaginable horror. Her endurance under such conditions for so long is, for me, truly astounding. What strength he has to have survived at all…
Amazing Grace now great thou art !!!
She never caved in!
If Asia and her lovely family are free at last, this must go some way to restoring Robert’s situation to normality.
I’m thinking of you and your family Robert.
May God be with all of you according to your needs…
Don’t be hasty about returning to your desk.
Your team is nobly carrying the torch… while we beam love and healing your way.
That’s got to be +one BIG healing beam !!+
Lord hear our prayers for Asia, her beloved family and Robert Spencer…
Amen
DP111 says
From the frying pan into the fire.
Only Eastern Europe – Poland, Hungary, Slovakia are safe for Asia Bibi.. Maybe even Trump’s USA.
gravenimage says
DP111, I agree that things have become steadily worse in Canada under Trudeau–I would never make light of this.
But to imply that Canada is *worse than Pakistan* is quite mistaken. Asia Bibi is definitely safer there than in Pakistan under sentence of death and then with roving mobs of Jihadists looking for her to murder her and her family.
DP111 says
Gravenimage
In Pakistan Asia Bibi was under police protection, as her murder would have lead to very serious repercussions for Pakistan. In Canada, I doubt she is under protection of any sort. Maybe for a month or so, then its open season.
I can understand why the UK did not allow Asia in. Her murder would have led to serious civil disorder in Britain. Ditto for most Western nations except the USA with Pres Trump as president.
The sharia enforcers are too scared what Pres DJT might do if Asia bibi was murdered.However he wont be around after six years.
gravenimage says
Thanks for the reply, DP111. You wrote:
Gravenimage
In Pakistan Asia Bibi was under police protection, as her murder would have lead to very serious repercussions for Pakistan.
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DP111, I never got the impression that she was under police protection–unless this was in secret. All we ever heard was that she was in hiding, presumably sheltered by members of the also-threatened Christian community in Pakistan.
And Pakistan in not releasing Asia Bibi for travel seemed far more concerned about rioting Muslims than they did for her safety.
More:
I doubt she is under protection of any sort. Maybe for a month or so, then its open season.
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Probably so–yet as bad as things are in Canada, there have not been thousands of Muslims rioting there and screaming for her blood as there has been in Pakistan:
“Pakistani government capitulates to rioters, bans Asia Bibi from leaving country, reviews her blasphemy acquittal”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/11/pakistani-government-capitulates-to-rioters-bans-asia-bibi-from-leaving-country-reviews-her-blasphemy-acquittal
Assuming that things are as bad–or worse–in the West as in Dar-al-Islam is, I believe, wrong-headed for a few reasons. Firstly, it is empirically incorrect. Even the most dhimmified part of the West is not nearly as horrific as is the Muslim world itself.
Then, if some have the idea that things can’t get any worse here because they are already worse than under full Muslim rule, they are apt to completely minimize that growing threat we still face.
They may even stop fighting all together–which would be disastrous.
More:
I can understand why the UK did not allow Asia in. Her murder would have led to serious civil disorder in Britain. Ditto for most Western nations except the USA with Pres Trump as president.
The sharia enforcers are too scared what Pres DJT might do if Asia bibi was murdered.However he wont be around after six years.
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I don’t actually think that kowtowing to Muslim thugs is a good thing.
DP111 says
gravenimage
Thanks for the reply.
Asia Bibi was kept in a max security prison, solitary, in Pakistan. Thats about the best protection she could have in that benighted country.
As for Canada, lets see. Accepted – the UK or any country in the West, is no where near as bad as a Muslim country. It is worth noting that the UK is where a serving soldier’s head was hacked off. in the the Netherlands, Tim Fortyun, a popular politician, was beheaded, and Wilders lives under armed protection. Too, a Muslim in Canada thought nothing of attacking the Canadian parliament. Asia Bibi is therefor at great risk in Western Europe and Canada.
She would be safer in Eastern Europe, where Muslims are a tiny minority, and very conscious that they are under watch and notice..
gravenimage says
DP111 wrote:
gravenimage
Thanks for the reply.
Asia Bibi was kept in a max security prison, solitary, in Pakistan. Thats about the best protection she could have in that benighted country.
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This was only while she was on death row in Pakistan, DP111. After she was acquitted and released from prison, she had to go into hiding from the Muslim mobs. She *did not* have any protection then:
“Despite acquittal, accused blasphemer Asia Bibi still remains trapped in Pakistan”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/04/despite-acquittal-accused-blasphemer-asia-bibi-still-remains-trapped-in-pakistan
“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…
“Angry protests and riots immediately erupted in Pakistan when her acquittal was announced”
Victoria says
Canada’s small population of mostly liberals lay her vulnerable to Muslim takeover. I immigrated from Canada many years ago. Even then I could see the writing on the wall. If the French took over Canada they would change the landscape. It started with Trudel’s father, a bitter DeGaul worshiper. He allowed Quebec to strip out anything Engleish , written or spoken in the province. When business and banks fled the province they lightened up a little. Florida is filled every year with Canadians meeting doctors and paying for the elective surgeries they can’t have in Canada. Viva medicare for all ?.
ntesdorf says
Hooray! Hooray!
Watto35 says
Has this been confirmed? We’ve seen this sort of fake news before.
Ashley says
I think this is confirmed.
It was Bibi’s lawyer that asserted Asia was stuck in Pakistan while news outlets previously claimed she was in Canada.
Now her lawyer claims she is reunited with her family in Canada.
Finally…
gravenimage says
Yes–her lawyer has always had accurate and honest information.
Last I heard, her lawyer was in Germany. I hope he himself stays safe.
Raja says
Yes Graven,
Her lawyer too is important and perhaps principled, he deserves some peace from the hellish Pakistan.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Raja. Any lawyer who defends a Christian in Pakistan is principled and very brave. Lawyers have been murdered for this there.
observer says
If this is true it must serve as a welcome boost to Robert Spencer’s well-being. There’s always the possibility that Asia’s lawyer speaks under threat…
If it is true, may Asia be richly blessed and we’ll protected from the dangers to her life and the lives of her family that lurk in Canada thanks to Trudeau’s salivating subservience to the religion of peace.
I will wait and see… Trust has taken on a new dimension since discovering this website.
gravenimage says
Yes–I hope Robert finds this heartening.
Ragdoll says
Yay! Good for Mrs Bibi and her family. Let’s pray she stays safe in Canada.
Dray Al says
Have you ever looked at the maids (Slaves) who work in houses in the middle east?
gravenimage says
Yes–there is terrible abuse–sexual, physical, emotional, and financial–of domestic workers in Dar-al-Islam.
Carolyne says
I have visited a home in Istanbul which “Employs” two teenage girls. They are treated well but their inferior position is well known to them and the family for whom they work. They cannot read and write and each week their father arrives to collect their wages. When I was there they were upset because their father who lived in some village had taken a second wife. I tried to tell the family who “owned” them that they should be helped to become literate and better their place in life but they rejected it. It was some years ago and I told several people that someday there would be a bridge between Asia and Europe and if they were smart they would invest in property on the Asian side. They laughed at the idea of a bridge over the Bosphorus. Guess what? Today there is a beautiful bridge built by Germans. The Asian side is booming. I suppose the teenage servant custom is also still thriving.
A fool sat beneath an olive tree. A song from “Kismet” which perfectly describes Muslim’s habits.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
It seems, this time, the news reports are true:
“Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy in Pakistan arrives in Canada”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/christian-woman-pakistan-arrives-canada-asia-bibi-1.5127495
gravenimage says
Persecuted Christian Asia Bibi arrives in Canada from Pakistan
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Thank God! I was so worried about her and her husband when Pakistan refused to release them.
More:
It’s a moment every human rights advocate has awaited…
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So true. Finally, a bit of good news!
Canada has, goodness knows, been inconsistent at best with facing the threat of Islam. But kudos to them for having given Asia Bibi and her family sanctuary. Her daughters have been in Canada for some months now.
Lookmann says
There was some talk of Pakistan urging a ‘swap’, Aafia for Asia.
I only heard of U S – Soviet spy exchanges during cold war.
But Pakistan is / was a beggar state surviving on U S aid, arms & UN support.
How dare they even think of asking US ?
But Trump’s tough stand might ‘ve forced a rethink on Pakistan’s ruling elite.
If you wonder who this Aafia [ a nutcase] is, here is a brief :
Pakistani neuroscientist with degrees from MIT and Brandeis University,
a courier and financier for Al-Qaeda,
shot at visiting U.S. FBI and Army personnel with an M4 carbine during interrogation,
is serving her 86-year sentence in a U S prison.
gravenimage says
Aafia Siddiqui is not a nutcase–she is a Jihadist.
Raja says
Thanks for the info on a highly educated Jihadist. Left always claims it is poverty that incubates jihad. Jihad is part and parcel of Islam and Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and host of Islamic nations have Jihad as part of statecraft. The more the petro-dollar the more its reach.
dumbledoresarmy says
Yup. The richer a mohammedan country or person, the *more* likely they are to engage in (or financially support) Jihad.
The mohammedan human bombs who mass-murderously blew themselves up in three churches and two crowded hotel dining-rooms in Colombo, Sri Lanka, were not from scrabble-street; they were filthy-rich (sons of a prosperous spice merchant, which BTW demonstrates that Muslims are NOT ‘oppressed’ or hard-done-by, within Sri Lanka) and well-eucated – two had gone to Uni in western countries (UK and Australia).
If their family paid for their education, the cost would have been substantial, and shows that their family was far from poor; if they were on ‘scholarships’ and studying at the expense of the UK or Aussie governments, then their attack on kuffar in Sri Lanka shows just exactly how grateful mohammedans are for kuffar charity.
Further: I *know* that at least one of the three churches mass-murderously attacked, the Zion Evangelical Church, was *full* of very, very poor people; so this particular jihad attack involved fat, rich, sleek, well-educated mohammedans viciously attacking and murdering **poor people**. A classic demonstration of the sadistic Bully Mind of Islam. (As, indeed, was the spectacle of enormous mobs of ferocious-looking mohammedan males in the streets of Pakistan – thousands and thousands of them – baying for the blood of Asia Bibi.. of one tiny little unarmed and powerless Christian woman.
gravenimage says
+1
CRUSADER says
May the inestimable Valerie Price of ACT for Canada .ca
reach out to her ….
RodSerling says
I’m so glad and relieved that Asia Bibi is in Canada with her family. Thanks to Christine, Robert, and everyone at Jihadwatch who has brought attention to this important human rights case and to the plight of Christians and other non-Muslims living in Muslim-majority countries. I appreciate everyone who worked on her case, especially those who risked their lives, and those who lost their lives, in defending her, defending good against the forces of evil. The battle will continue.
gravenimage says
Fine post.
Ole Pederson says
I sincerely hope this is true and not just a newscast meant to calm down the exrtemists in her country.
All the best for her!
Raja says
The way Canada is going down the hill of free speech Asia Bibi might find herself in the same state as in Pakistan in 20 years from now, If she survives murder till then in Canada. For now Canada is heaven compared to Sharia imposing Pakistan which is evil to the core.
elee says
Welcome to our hemisphere Ms. Bibi! I wish my country had the honour of receiving you.
Lor says
Allow me to join in the well wishes for Mrs Bibi and her family. I hope that gradually she will enjoy life again, church again and the feeling of that precious thing – freedom.
lindebarrera says
This is such awesome news! Thank you dear Lord for this miracle.
UNCLE VLADDI says
JUSTIN TURDEAU WILL DOXX HER IN A SELFIE-FRENZY.
Andrew E Walker says
Teresa May should be ashamed at not allowing Mrs Bibi to come to England.
RichardL says
That made my day. I hope she finds happiness.
alex reid says
Seems strange…….Asylum Seekers fleeing Persecution from Muslims, their lands & their ideology seek sanctuary in western Countries, when these very Muslims sort of ‘migrate’ to Western countries & demand we conform to their dingbat ideology. Various personnel have fled to the West for sanctuary, only to be murdered by a Muslim.
observer says
I want to hold a candle to the French journalist ANNE ISABELLE TOLLET who worked wth Asia to highlight her plight in Pakistan by writing the book ‘BLASPHEMY’.
Inevitably Tollet was herself at risk for exposing the lies told by Asia’s co-workers that landed her (Asia) in solitary confinement in a filthy, very small, Pakistani prison cell for approximately 9 years.
Here’s to you Anne Tollet for your determination, against high odds, to stand by Asia Bibi in her time of darkness !
Thank you !
observer says
I want to hold a candle to French journalist +Anne Isabelle Tollet+ who worked with Asia to highlight her plight – in a dark, dank, filthy, very confining prison cell, where she spent almost 9 years in solitary confinement for a so-called crime that she did not commit – by writing the book ‘Blasphemy’.
Thank you Anne Tollet for your courage in exposing this abysmal tale of lies and rampant abuse that destroyed 9 years of Asia Bibi’s life, heaping terrible sadness, separation and pain on her daughters and her husband. God reward you for your courage and determination to stand by Asia in her time of darkness…
observer says
I want to hold a candle to French journalist Anne Isabelle Tollet who wrote a book entitled “Blasphemy” highlighting Asia’s abysmal plight in Pakistan.
This journalist put herself at some risk in talking to others about about Asia but would not back down.
Thank you Anne Tollet !
Linda M Clark says
Asia is free! Thank GOD! I feel as though a small stone has been removed from my shoe. No let us remember to pray for her safety and that of her family.
Carolyne says
I am astonished at the resemblance between Ms. Bibi and Kim Foxx, State’s Attorney in Chicago, the woman who is being investigated over the Jussie Smollett affair. They say everyone has a double.
Sounder says
Nice to see the UK is controlled by Islam now. Progress.