Muslims in Asia Bibi’s home village: “They should execute her”

These Muslims are so mad for the blood of one poor Christian woman, who has already suffered on death row for eight years, that they are taking out their bloodlust on random Christians within the country. This is a human rights abuse of monumental proportions, but you won’t hear a word about it from the United Nations or the world “human rights” organizations. They’re too busy looking for new ways to condemn Israel.

Her lawyer has fled Pakistan in fear for his life.

Asia Bibi spent eight years on death row for a bogus charge of “insulting the prophet Muhammad.”

Asia Bibi was convicted of “blasphemy” after she went to get water for her and her fellow farm workers. Two Muslim women refused to drink from a container used by a Christian, and a few days later she was accused of “blasphemy.” She was convicted and given the death penalty. Even those who knew her want her dead. Horror.

“‘She confessed… how can we forgive her?’: Little sympathy in Pakistan for Christian woman accused of blasphemy,” Telegraph, December 28, 2018:

ISLAMABAD — A decade ago it was an argument among such female workers that suddenly flared into an accusation of blasphemy and set in train bloody events that are still unresolved.

The accusation against a Christian mother of five called Asia Bibi and the death sentence that followed divided Pakistan and prompted religious extremists to assassinate two senior politicians who spoke out for her.

In October, the 54-year-old was acquitted on appeal but remains in protective custody until the ruling has been reviewed. She is widely expected to be freed to flee to the West where she will claim asylum.

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Pakistan’s supreme court demolished Bibi’s conviction saying it was fatally undermined by procedural problems, contradictory testimony from her accusers and an apparently forced confession.

But even settling her abroad is not without complications. Wary of a reaction from Britain’s Muslim community, Theresa May, the prime minister, reportedly shrugged off the pleas of cabinet ministers that the U.K. step forward and offer a route to safety. Canada, Australia, or the U.S. are likely alternatives.

Yet in Ittan Wali, where it all began, time has not mellowed the villagers’ accusations and there is no forgiveness for a woman who spent eight years on death row.
“She confessed her crime in front of them, how can they forgive her?” asked Mohammad Bota, the 50-year-old elder brother of Mohammad Idris. Villagers in Ittan Wali were open, hospitable and insisted their village was not backward. But they were also uncompromising when it came to the former neighbour who had lived in a small house with a blue painted gate.

All maintained that Asia Bibi had confessed to insulting the Prophet Mohammed during a quarrel with Muslim co-workers and her conviction should stand. If Pakistan’s harsh anti-blasphemy laws decree it, she should hang, they said.

“I would die in the name of my religion and if someone has committed blasphemy, then they are not forgiven,” said Shawkat Ali, a 62-year-old farmer. “If the supreme court has some faith in religion and if they are Muslims, they should execute her.”….