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Author Topic:   Persecuted Christians finally getting noticed
Dr Adequate
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Message 136 of 137 (739203)
10-21-2014 3:41 PM


Asia Bibi
Condemned Christian woman to take blasphemy case to top Pakistani court
She was sentenced to death for allegedly saying something --- not for printing or broadcasting something, but allegedly saying something --- derogatory about Muhammad.
And then ...
An investigation by Shahbaz Bhatti, who was then Pakistan's minister for minority affairs, also found the charges stemmed from religious and personal enmity, and he recommended Bibi's release.
Bhatti was the only Christian member of the Cabinet in Pakistan, where 95% of people are Muslim, and had opposed the blasphemy law. In 2011, he was assassinated in Islamabad.
The Pakistan Taliban claimed responsibility, saying the killing was "a message to all of those who are against Pakistan's blasphemy laws."
Two months earlier, the governor of Punjab province, Salman Taseer, had been shot dead by his security guard because he, too, had supported Bibi and spoken out against the law.
Here is how to contact the Pakistani embassy to the U.S.

  
Dr Adequate
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Message 137 of 137 (740535)
11-05-2014 3:50 PM


And Now This

  
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