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Christian woman sentenced to death in Pakistan 'for blasphemy'
Topic Started: Nov 11 2010, 03:42 PM (96 Views)
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A Christian woman has been sentenced to hang in Pakistan after being convicted of defaming the Prophet Mohammed.

By Rob Crilly in Islamabad and Aoun Sahi in Lahore 5:36PM GMT 09 Nov 2010

Asia Bibi, a 45-year-old mother-of-five, denies blasphemy and told investigators that she was being persecuted for her faith in a country where Christians face routine harassment and discrimination. Christian groups and human rights campaigners condemned the verdict and called for the blasphemy laws to be repealed. Her supporters say she will now appeal against the sentence handed down in a local court in the town of Sheikhupura, near Lahore, Pakistan. Ashiq Masih, her husband, said he had not had the heart to break the news to two of their children. "I haven't told two of my younger daughters about the court's decision," he said. "They asked me many times about their mother but I can't get the courage to tell them that the judge has sentenced their mother to capital punishment for a crime she never committed." Mrs Bibi has been held in prison since June last year. The court heard she had been working as a farmhand in fields with other women, when she was asked to fetch drinking water. Some of the other women – all Muslims – refused to drink the water as it had been brought by a Christian and was therefore "unclean", according to Mrs Bibi's evidence, sparking a row. The incident was forgotten until a few days later when Mrs Bibi said she was set upon by a mob. The police were called and took her to a police station for her own safety. Shahzad Kamran, of the Sharing Life Ministry Pakistan, said: "The police were under pressure from this Muslim mob, including clerics, asking for Asia to be killed because she had spoken ill of the Prophet Mohammed. So after the police saved her life they then registered a blasphemy case against her." He added that she had been held in isolation for more than a year before being sentenced to death on Monday. "The trial was clear," he said. "She was innocent and did not say those words." Earlier this year, Pakistan's internet service providers were ordered to block Facebook to prevent access to supposedly blasphemous images. Human rights groups believe the law is often used to discriminate against religious minorities, such as the country's estimated three million Christians. Although no one has ever been executed under Pakistan's blasphemy laws – most are freed on appeal – as many as 10 people are thought to have been murdered while on trial. Ali Hasan Dayan, of Human Rights Watch, said the blasphemy laws were out of step with rights guaranteed under Pakistan's constitution and should be repealed. "It's an obscene law," he said. "Essentially the blasphemy law is used as a tool of persecution and to settle other scores that are nothing to do with religion. "It makes religious minorities particularly vulnerable because it's often used against them."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/8120142/Christian-woman-sentenced-to-death-in-Pakistan-for-blasphemy.html
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Nice way to thank the 'Christian' countries who sent them aid.
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this will be uk, in a few years time, take my word for it.

and i think that we are protesting the wrong people, now don't get me wrong i think your protest, are helping the government see people are not happy, with radical islam.

i belive that more good will be done if a protest was held, outside the church the next time the archbishop of canterberry holds one of his interfaith services, or in fact outside of anychurch in anytown anywhere in the uk which choses to hold such events.

this will wake the church leadership up to fact that people will no longer take, there blasphemy, and are willing to speak out about it.

this is why i belive the edl needs a christian division, for such protests, as as anyone who has read my posts will know that i belive radical islam is gods judgment on a people who have turned there face from him.

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Here is a further report on the case from the Freethinker ;
http://freethinker.co.uk/2010/11/12/woman-faces-death-for-blasphemy/
Winston Churchill on Islam ; ' The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities - but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world....
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I think you have a good idea chunky to protest out side churches 0n a Sunday morning with banners asking what are they doing to stop the slaughter of Christians at the hands of islam with photo's of the victims and I can see the need for a Christian flag on demo's, what I dont want to see is the Christians forming their own little group and staying there when they should be all over the EDL like a rash with their support for all beliefs.
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