Bad news – the Lahore High Court has upheld the death penalty for Asia Bibi for “blasphemy.”
Asia Bibi, a mother of five, has been on death row since November 2010 after she was found guilty of making derogatory remarks about [the prophet] during an argument with a Muslim woman.
She probably didn’t even do it – anything that even theocrats could call blasphemy. It appears to be just something some people said because they don’t like her.
The blasphemy allegations against Bibi date back to June 2009.
She was working in a field when she was asked to fetch water. Muslim women labourers objected, saying that as a non-Muslim she was unfit to touch the water bowl.
A few days later the women went to a local cleric and put forward the blasphemy allegations.
Hateful. Because she’s of the “wrong” religion, she’s too dirty to touch the water bowl.
Salmaan Taseer and Shahbaz Bhatti were murdered for urging reforms to the blasphemy law and trying to defend Bibi.
Over a dozen religious clerics — including Qari Saleem who brought forward the initial complaint against Bibi — were present at the court Thursday.
“We will soon distribute sweets among our Muslim brothers for today’s verdict, it’s a victory of Islam,” Saleem told AFP outside the courtroom as the clerics congratulated each other and chanted religious slogans.
That’s so sickening. They’re celebrating because a poor woman is closer to being executed for purportedly saying the wrong thing about their religion. That is not any kind of victory for Islam.
offtopic – Isnt talking about harm caused by Islam banned for liberals?
No.
Essentially Bibi is condemned to death for not being a Muslim.
Perhaps part of the animus against Bibi comes from sharing a (nick)name with a notorious Zionist thug.
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i) No.
ii) Why would you expect that in the first place?
iii) Who even has the authority / cheek to think they determine what liberals can talk about?
dshetty probably isn’t around to reply because she/he is off telling fellow conservatives about the hilarious ‘zinger’ he/she just laid on those ‘libruls’. This is why there are almost no right-wing comedians, and those there are aren’t actually funny.
Isn’t there a way to just simply get those convicted out of the country? This sounds like a clear cut political/religious asylum case for any secular nation.