This is just a quick update on the Asia Bibi story. While the free world rejoiced just two short weeks ago over her release from years of unjust incarceration in Pakistan, the celebration was very short-lived. Almost immediately the Islamists in that country took to the streets to express their outrage. How could a Christian woman possibly be allowed to live after drinking from a Muslims-only water pitcher!

(M)assive street protests by extremist Muslims immediately erupted to pressure the government to delay her release. The phone network in some areas was suspended for reasons of “security”. Rioting caused schools in Islamabad, Punjab and Kashmir to close. Roads were blocked, paralyzing parts of Islamabad, Lahore and other cities. Christian schools warned parents to come and get their children for fear of violence. Churches were put on high alert. Protesters hold placards that read: “Hang Asia Bibi.”

Many of these crazed fanatics won’t stop at just marching in the streets ~

The Muslim judges who acquitted Asia Bibi, Supreme Court President Mian Saqib Nasir and Judge Asif Khosa, have also received death threats. They were doubtless aware of the potential danger to their lives, but bravely went ahead and took the risk of becoming targets of the vigilante groups.
 
“They all three deserve to be killed,” an Islamist leader, Muhammad Afzal Qadri, told a protest in Lahore. “Either their security should kill them, their driver kill them, or their cook kill them… Whoever, who has got any access to them, kill them before the evening”[…]
 

Salman Taseer, a brave Muslim who was governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province, paid with his life just for expressing support for Asia; he was murdered by his own bodyguard, who said “he did this because Mr Taseer recently defended the proposed amendments to the blasphemy law.”

 
Unfortunately, because this is how things work in Muslim-majority Pakistan, it was inevitable that authorities would yield to the Islamists ~

Threats by vigilante mobs who called for her death and warned of national unrest evidently worked. Pakistan’s government, after saying it would begin the process of preventing Asia Bibi from leaving the country, has now been accused of signing her “death warrant”.
 
The government apparently succumbed to pressure and signed an agreement giving in to many of the demands of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP; an Islamist party that supports blasphemy laws). Pakistan’s government also promised not to oppose a legal petition to reverse Asia Bibi’s release, and to put her name on the “exit control list” (ELC), a no-fly list, to prevent her from leaving the country.

 
Subsequently, Asia is in hiding and her husband, Ashiq Masih, has requested asylum from the West ~

If she stays she faces almost certain death. Two of the politicians who bravely defended her – Salman Taseer and Shahbaz Bhatti – have already been assassinated, while her lawyer Saif Mulook has fled to the Netherlands.

Masih first appealed to the U.K. for help, a request which – astoundingly – was denied. Writing at Breitbart, Brit, James Delingpole is not amused ~

The obvious place (for Bibi and her family to flee to) would be the country with the strongest cultural and historical ties to the Indian subcontinent, the one that included what’s now known as Pakistan as part of its Empire for more than two centuries.
 
Unfortunately, the British government appears to have wussed out. Theresa May and her advisors, it has been reported, do not want to give refuge to this exhausted, sick, middle aged Christian woman because – allegedly – it would “cause security concerns and unrest among certain sections of the community and would also be a security threat to British embassies abroad which might be targeted by Islamist terrorists.” […]
 
Is Britain really saying to the world that it no longer dares to take a principled stand on certain key moral issues for fear of provoking an adverse response from all the Islamists on its home territory?

Bibi’s husband has also requested asylum from other Western leaders – including President Trump, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. And although Trump seems to be assailed from every direction at the moment, American assistance in this case would surely receive bipartisan support. Delingpole highly recommends it ~

If Theresa May remains resistant to doing the right thing – it certainly wouldn’t be a first – then perhaps the leader of the free world should step in to show her how it’s done.
 
By rescuing Asia Bibi, Donald Trump could kill two birds with one stone: take the moral high ground while revealing one of the world leaders he likes least for the moral pygmy she is.

Meanwhile, keep praying.
 
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