The Asia Bibi in this story is not the same woman as the Asia Bibi who was falsely accused of blasphemy and imprisoned several years ago. The shaving of the head is a common method for humiliating women:Italy: Muslim mom shaves head of daughter for not wearing hijab Pakistan: Muslims torture woman, shave her head, […]
Pakistan: Muslims murder brother-in-law of accused blasphemer Asia Bibi
When Asia Bibi was exonerated of the blasphemy charges that had kept her in prison on death row for eight years, Muslims all over Pakistan demonstrated and some even began hunting for her house to house, hoping to find and murder her. Now her brother-in-law has been murdered. They couldn’t get to her, so they’re […]
Asia Bibi: Christians in Islamic Republic of Pakistan “live with this sword of Damocles over their head”
The persecution of Asia Bibi was a particularly ugly chapter in the history of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and its enforcement of Sharia blasphemy laws. Asia Bibi, a Christian woman, was falsely accused of blasphemy against Islam, sentenced to death, imprisoned for eight years, and then when she was acquitted by the Pakistani Supreme […]
Pakistan Rejects US Government Charge on Religious Freedom
The American government announced in mid-December that Pakistan is a country “of particular concern” given its record on religious freedom. The Pakistani government reacted angrily, and claimed that the Americans were “arbitrary” in their judgement. Apparently Islamabad failed to notice the mountain of material that the American government has acquired to support its “arbitrary” decision. […]
Pakistan: “There are 200 more Asia Bibis”
“The son of a Pakistani governor who was assassinated in 2011 because of his support for imprisoned Christian mother Asia Bibi told religious freedom advocates that there are over 200 people jailed in Pakistan for blasphemy. Shaan Taseer, the son of late Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, delivered a powerful address at the State Department’s second […]
Jihadist declares he is in Canada to kill Asia Bibi, “send her to hell”
A jihadist “filmed a message making the rounds on the Internet this week saying he is in Canada to slay Pakistani Christian Asia Bibi, who was recently released from prison in Pakistan after spending nearly a decade on death row over false blasphemy allegations.” The unidentied man declared: “This message is for all the enemies […]
Persecuted Christian Asia Bibi arrives in Canada from Pakistan
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 […]
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan says accused blasphemer Asia Bibi “will leave Pakistan in a couple of weeks”
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 […]
Despite acquittal, accused blasphemer Asia Bibi still remains trapped in Pakistan
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 […]
Accused blasphemer Asia Bibi still trapped in Pakistan, denied medical care
And with so many Muslims in Pakistan avid to spill her blood, she cannot move about freely. Why the Trump administration has not called attention to this case and demanded that she be allowed to leave the country safely remains a mystery. “Persecuted Christian Woman Asia Bibi Remains Trapped In Pakistan Despite Acquittal,” by Jon […]