She did want to go to the UK or The Netherlands. But the UK cannot guarantee her security, that is surprising. Apparently, Canada were in secret talks to bring her in:
http://time.com/5452949/canada-pakistan-asia-bibi-asylum/
Asia Bibi pleads for UK asylum after blasphemy conviction overturned
- Thread starter Zaibetter
- Start date
http://time.com/5452949/canada-pakistan-asia-bibi-asylum/
Again with the groping LOL what are you ADD ? Its about Asia Bibi !!
You post about Butler in Jest? LOL Jest? I bet you use terms like reckon too? I reckon you were making fun of me LOL
Butler rides you most of the time, so I don't think its in Jest....
What are you trying to say???? Off course I know it is about Asia Bibi, but your question makes zero sense!!
Go check out Butler's signature then you will realise what "jest" is. You are in the world of your own, cocooned in your Anti-Muslim threads. Period!!
I do not have reins round my neck, so get on your camel and ride away!!
Christians have been long persecuted in Pakistan, I'm sure things got worst sine the Asia story. Apparently she's still in Pakistan.
Report: Pakistan’s Christians Living in Terror over Asia Bibi Case
Pakistan’s Christians are living in a state of fear in the wake of Asia Bibi’s acquittal for allegedly committing blasphemy against Islam, the Telegraph reported over the weekend, echoing other assessments.
More than a fortnight after Mrs Bibi, a Catholic farmhand, was acquitted of defaming the prophet Mohammed, she is still hiding in legal limbo, awaiting asylum in the West. Her case also hangs uncomfortably over the country’s Christians. The violent reaction to a supreme court ruling to free the mother of five has once again highlighted the country’s harsh blasphemy laws, but has also reminded many of Pakistan’s Christians of how vulnerable they are.
“We live under fear, the whole country is under tension. People are afraid and anything can happen in this situation,” Younis Masih, a 61-year-old retired Christian soldier from the Islamabad slum of France Colony told the Telegraph, adding:
There’s no political backing here, no Christian leaders here. They feel isolated and weak and prefer not to talk about such issues. The government protects us, but blasphemy is such a sensitive issue we feel weak and in fear. People are helpless, they don’t have any other option, but thank God this time the loss is not bigger. There have been protests, but they have been against judges and the government, not against Christians.
On November 11, CNN learned from some Pakistani Christians who preferred to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals, that Islamists had begun attacking random travelers in the Muslim country who identified themselves as Christians in the wake of Bibi’s acquittal.
Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy law is disproportionally used to target religious minorities, particularly Christians, according to human rights groups, which note that the statute is often used to settle personal disputes and vendettas.
The Pakistani Supreme Court’s October 31 decision to overturn Bibi’s 2010 death penalty verdict after she spent nearly eight years in prison gave way to violent protests orchestrated by the anti-blasphemy Islamist Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) party.
Last week, the administration of Prime Minister Imran Khan and TLP reached an agreement to stop the protests that eventually evolved into riots.
Although Pakistan’s top court cleared Bibi and ordered her release, she remains in protective custody in an undisclosed location in Pakistan after Khan agreed to allow a petition against the court’s decision as part of the deal. The Muslim country’s Supreme Court is Pakistan’s court of last resort, implying no further appeals should occur following its rulings.
Nevertheless, Islamabad is prohibiting Bibi from leaving the country while the Supreme Court reviews petitions filed against the acquittal verdict.
The Khan administration also agreed not to block a TLP petition to add Bibi to a no-fly list. The Islamist party has threatened to kill Bibi, her lawyer, and judges who cleared her.
In January, the U.S. State Department added Pakistan to a watchlist for “severe violations of religious freedom.”
The country’s blasphemy law can carry a punishment of life in prison or death. Although Pakistan has yet to execute anyone over blasphemy, Islamists are known to take the law into their own hands, often killing suspects.
The U.K. has reportedly denied Bibi and her family asylum, but Italy, Spain, France, and Canada have allegedly opened their doors.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, urged U.S. President Donald Trump to grant Bibi asylum.
In Pakistan, “Christians are very much beleaguered and so are Hindus,” Sen. Paul, who long advocated for Bibi’s release from prison, declared. “Any other minority religion [is] beleaguered in Pakistan and if ever there was a call for a refugee to be admitted into our country, I think this is one. ”
While Khan defended Pakistan’s blasphemy laws when campaigning this summer, the PM has repeatedly voiced his support for the Supreme Court’s acquittal verdict.
https://nationalpost.com/news/pakistans-christians-live-in-state-of-fear-after-blasphemy-row
Report: Pakistan’s Christians Living in Terror over Asia Bibi Case
Pakistan’s Christians are living in a state of fear in the wake of Asia Bibi’s acquittal for allegedly committing blasphemy against Islam, the Telegraph reported over the weekend, echoing other assessments.
More than a fortnight after Mrs Bibi, a Catholic farmhand, was acquitted of defaming the prophet Mohammed, she is still hiding in legal limbo, awaiting asylum in the West. Her case also hangs uncomfortably over the country’s Christians. The violent reaction to a supreme court ruling to free the mother of five has once again highlighted the country’s harsh blasphemy laws, but has also reminded many of Pakistan’s Christians of how vulnerable they are.
“We live under fear, the whole country is under tension. People are afraid and anything can happen in this situation,” Younis Masih, a 61-year-old retired Christian soldier from the Islamabad slum of France Colony told the Telegraph, adding:
There’s no political backing here, no Christian leaders here. They feel isolated and weak and prefer not to talk about such issues. The government protects us, but blasphemy is such a sensitive issue we feel weak and in fear. People are helpless, they don’t have any other option, but thank God this time the loss is not bigger. There have been protests, but they have been against judges and the government, not against Christians.
On November 11, CNN learned from some Pakistani Christians who preferred to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals, that Islamists had begun attacking random travelers in the Muslim country who identified themselves as Christians in the wake of Bibi’s acquittal.
Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy law is disproportionally used to target religious minorities, particularly Christians, according to human rights groups, which note that the statute is often used to settle personal disputes and vendettas.
The Pakistani Supreme Court’s October 31 decision to overturn Bibi’s 2010 death penalty verdict after she spent nearly eight years in prison gave way to violent protests orchestrated by the anti-blasphemy Islamist Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) party.
Last week, the administration of Prime Minister Imran Khan and TLP reached an agreement to stop the protests that eventually evolved into riots.
Although Pakistan’s top court cleared Bibi and ordered her release, she remains in protective custody in an undisclosed location in Pakistan after Khan agreed to allow a petition against the court’s decision as part of the deal. The Muslim country’s Supreme Court is Pakistan’s court of last resort, implying no further appeals should occur following its rulings.
Nevertheless, Islamabad is prohibiting Bibi from leaving the country while the Supreme Court reviews petitions filed against the acquittal verdict.
The Khan administration also agreed not to block a TLP petition to add Bibi to a no-fly list. The Islamist party has threatened to kill Bibi, her lawyer, and judges who cleared her.
In January, the U.S. State Department added Pakistan to a watchlist for “severe violations of religious freedom.”
The country’s blasphemy law can carry a punishment of life in prison or death. Although Pakistan has yet to execute anyone over blasphemy, Islamists are known to take the law into their own hands, often killing suspects.
The U.K. has reportedly denied Bibi and her family asylum, but Italy, Spain, France, and Canada have allegedly opened their doors.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, urged U.S. President Donald Trump to grant Bibi asylum.
In Pakistan, “Christians are very much beleaguered and so are Hindus,” Sen. Paul, who long advocated for Bibi’s release from prison, declared. “Any other minority religion [is] beleaguered in Pakistan and if ever there was a call for a refugee to be admitted into our country, I think this is one. ”
While Khan defended Pakistan’s blasphemy laws when campaigning this summer, the PM has repeatedly voiced his support for the Supreme Court’s acquittal verdict.
https://nationalpost.com/news/pakistans-christians-live-in-state-of-fear-after-blasphemy-row
Thankfully, Canada, like Italy, Spain, and France are willing to grant her asylum.
When is that moron called Trump going to do the same, instead of just praising and protecting the murderer called Mohammed bin Salman??
They're looking for her and her family and Christians feel very afraid as harassment increased since the Bibi affair.
Asia Bibi family being hunted 'house to house' in Pakistan
The family of Asia Bibi, the Christian woman who spent eight years on death row in Pakistan for blasphemy before being acquitted three weeks ago, claim they are being hunted by extremists going house to house with their photographs to try to track them down.
Bibi’s family have been in hiding since her acquittal by the country’s supreme court. She is in protective custody as part of a deal between the government and a hardline Islamic party, under which violent protests were called off while a review of the court ruling was undertaken.
Bibi’s lawyer, relatives and supporters have appealed for the family to be given asylum in a European or north American country. Several countries have indicated their willingness to offer a home, but nothing concrete has emerged.
John Pontifex, of Aid to the Church in Need UK (ACN), which has campaigned on Bibi’s behalf since she was convicted and sentenced to death in 2010, said he had been in almost daily contact with her family over the past three weeks and they were very frightened.
“They have told me that mullahs had been reported in their neighbourhood going from house to house showing photos of family members on their phones, trying to hunt them down,” he told the Guardian.
“The family have had to move from place to place to avoid detection. Sometimes they can only operate after sundown. They have had to cover their faces when they go out in public. They have had to remove the rosary that hangs from their car rear-view mirror for fear of attack.”
Pontifex said the family’s faith was “sustaining them in this time of acute danger”. He added: “They say that if they are not allowed to find a future outside Pakistan, the fear is that sooner or later something terrible might happen to them.”
Bibi’s lawyer, who fled Pakistan shortly after the court ruling saying his life was in danger, said this week that talks on asylum were under way with several European countries. “I hope the western world is trying to help her,” Saiful Malook told reporters in Frankfurt.
Canada, Spain and France are thought to have offered asylum to Bibi. Germany and Italy have reportedly held talks with Pakistan on the issue.
The UK government has declined to answer questions about whether it is considering an offer of asylum, saying it does not want to further endanger Bibi and her family.
The former foreign secretary Boris Johnson and many other MPs and peers have called for the UK government to act. Some reports have suggested that the government fears a backlash among British Muslims of Pakistani heritage if it offers Bibi asylum.
On Tuesday, Sayeeda Warsi told the House of Lords: “There have been press reports that Asia Bibi, if granted asylum in the United Kingdom, would potentially not be safe from some communities here … As someone who is deeply connected to British Muslim communities, I assure her that they are fully supportive of any asylum claim that Asia Bibi may have and that our country may afford her, and that she would be supported as she would be by all other communities in this country.”
The Muslim Council of Britain said in a tweet: “There are unfounded media reports that Pakistani national Asia Bibi is being denied asylum into the UK because of concerns from British Muslims. We find such insinuations to be as nonsensical as they are divisive. We see no reason why Asia Bibi should be denied asylum into the UK.”
After Bibi’s acquittal, Islamic hardliners called for her and the judges in the case to be killed, and they mounted protests that brought cities to a standstill. Pakistan’s prime minister, Imran Khan, has been accused of capitulating to their demands.
Bibi, a farm labourer, was accused by Muslim villagers of insulting the prophet Muhammad in a row over a cup of water. The supreme court judgment said there was no evidence to support the charge.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...amily-being-hunted-house-to-house-in-pakistan
Asia Bibi family being hunted 'house to house' in Pakistan
The family of Asia Bibi, the Christian woman who spent eight years on death row in Pakistan for blasphemy before being acquitted three weeks ago, claim they are being hunted by extremists going house to house with their photographs to try to track them down.
Bibi’s family have been in hiding since her acquittal by the country’s supreme court. She is in protective custody as part of a deal between the government and a hardline Islamic party, under which violent protests were called off while a review of the court ruling was undertaken.
Bibi’s lawyer, relatives and supporters have appealed for the family to be given asylum in a European or north American country. Several countries have indicated their willingness to offer a home, but nothing concrete has emerged.
John Pontifex, of Aid to the Church in Need UK (ACN), which has campaigned on Bibi’s behalf since she was convicted and sentenced to death in 2010, said he had been in almost daily contact with her family over the past three weeks and they were very frightened.
“They have told me that mullahs had been reported in their neighbourhood going from house to house showing photos of family members on their phones, trying to hunt them down,” he told the Guardian.
“The family have had to move from place to place to avoid detection. Sometimes they can only operate after sundown. They have had to cover their faces when they go out in public. They have had to remove the rosary that hangs from their car rear-view mirror for fear of attack.”
Pontifex said the family’s faith was “sustaining them in this time of acute danger”. He added: “They say that if they are not allowed to find a future outside Pakistan, the fear is that sooner or later something terrible might happen to them.”
Bibi’s lawyer, who fled Pakistan shortly after the court ruling saying his life was in danger, said this week that talks on asylum were under way with several European countries. “I hope the western world is trying to help her,” Saiful Malook told reporters in Frankfurt.
Canada, Spain and France are thought to have offered asylum to Bibi. Germany and Italy have reportedly held talks with Pakistan on the issue.
The UK government has declined to answer questions about whether it is considering an offer of asylum, saying it does not want to further endanger Bibi and her family.
The former foreign secretary Boris Johnson and many other MPs and peers have called for the UK government to act. Some reports have suggested that the government fears a backlash among British Muslims of Pakistani heritage if it offers Bibi asylum.
On Tuesday, Sayeeda Warsi told the House of Lords: “There have been press reports that Asia Bibi, if granted asylum in the United Kingdom, would potentially not be safe from some communities here … As someone who is deeply connected to British Muslim communities, I assure her that they are fully supportive of any asylum claim that Asia Bibi may have and that our country may afford her, and that she would be supported as she would be by all other communities in this country.”
The Muslim Council of Britain said in a tweet: “There are unfounded media reports that Pakistani national Asia Bibi is being denied asylum into the UK because of concerns from British Muslims. We find such insinuations to be as nonsensical as they are divisive. We see no reason why Asia Bibi should be denied asylum into the UK.”
After Bibi’s acquittal, Islamic hardliners called for her and the judges in the case to be killed, and they mounted protests that brought cities to a standstill. Pakistan’s prime minister, Imran Khan, has been accused of capitulating to their demands.
Bibi, a farm labourer, was accused by Muslim villagers of insulting the prophet Muhammad in a row over a cup of water. The supreme court judgment said there was no evidence to support the charge.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...amily-being-hunted-house-to-house-in-pakistan
Some of these Islamist leaders have also been taken into custody. At least the Pakistani Government is responding to try and quell these riots:
Pakistan detains hard-line Islamists ahead of protests over Christian woman's acquittal:
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/24/asia/pakistan-islamists-arrest-intl/index.html
Pakistani PM Imran Khan used to be a Pakistan Cricket Captain and a legend there. That is why he was voted as a PM and graduated from Oxford University and was The Chancellor of The University of Bradford.
In no way is a Fundamentalist, and will in anyway prevent Asia Bibi from leaving Pakistan.
Pakistan detains hard-line Islamists ahead of protests over Christian woman's acquittal:
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/24/asia/pakistan-islamists-arrest-intl/index.html
Pakistani PM Imran Khan used to be a Pakistan Cricket Captain and a legend there. That is why he was voted as a PM and graduated from Oxford University and was The Chancellor of The University of Bradford.
In no way is a Fundamentalist, and will in anyway prevent Asia Bibi from leaving Pakistan.
