She's Free

[-Talbot-]

But I would leave immediately if I were Aasia Bibi.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46040515

[youngmafbog]

"if you didn't like someone in the village you just accused them of witchcraft and the mob would do the rest, "

Just like Social Media does not you mean?

[youngmafbog]

She wont be safe anywhere in Europe thanks to Merkel and her ilk.

[ludwig]

//Just like Social Media does not you mean? //

It's a fair point. Trial by social media might be our modern equivalent. Pakistan's still a tishhole though.

[youngmafbog]

Agreed Ludwig.

[emmie]

what a terrible story, if she get's out alive it will be a miracle.

[douglas9401]

Peter, that was kinda what I was meaning, no progress in centuries.
Thanks though, it'll help those lacking interpretive skills.

[naomi24]

^ :o)

[fender62]

i hope she gets out, pakistan mmm blasphemy laws, such a backward country that has nukes, and an education that consists of madrasa's that only pump the koran into childrens brains, that achieves nothing in the long run, except contempt for anything not islamic, to the point of wholesale murder, pakistan has educated citizens but they are not the mainstream and who stay silent for fear of death, pakistan will be forever poor and uneducated, but they would say it's the will of allah or blame the west, but its not, its themselves with there 7th century doctrine under pain of death.

[hereIam]

Poor soul, hope she's going to be ok.

[vetuste_ennemi]

The bloke who got murdered was Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab. He was killed by his bodyguard Mumtaz Qadri who is now a national hero in Pakistan and many parts of Britain.

[naomi24]

He is indeed.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-blasphemy/executed-pakistani-hailed-as-hero-of-islam-for-supporting-blasphemy-law-idUSKCN0W33YH

As I said, crazy people....

[vetuste_ennemi]

This verdict is right but nine years too late. No judge till now has risked his life by acquitting her.

Congratulations to Chief Justice Saqib Nisar, Justice Asif Saeed Khosa and Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel all of whom run the very real risk of being murdered by any one of a million "martyrs".

Bibi herself has a price on her head, doesn't she?

PS: Thank you to Amnesty International and Women's rights groups everywhere who have toiled tirelssly on Asia Bibi's behalf for so long.

[naomi24]

//Bibi herself has a price on her head, doesn't she? //

500,000 rupees.

[Peter Pedant]

and was hanged in 2016

( the body guard that turned on the fella he had sworn to protect)

The sikhs did that to Mrs Gandhi -
and his secretary to O'Dwyer after amritsar ....

[douglas9401]

£5,300 give or take. Life IS cheap.

[bainbrig]

“She wont be safe anywhere in Europe thanks to Merkel and her ilk.”

WHAT???

Talk about twisted logic. If she’s not safe anywhere in Europe it’s thanks to YOU and your ilk.

Blaming Merkel is like blaming puddles for the rain.

B

[naomi24]

Even cheaper, Douglas. You've converted Indian rupees. The Pakistani version works out to be just under £3000.

[douglas9401]

Schoolboy error. :-)

[naomi24]

Easily done .. but Bainbrig has a point. It's a well known fact that people coming here from backward countries abandon their antiquated beliefs, habits, and foibles the moment they hit European shores. :o/

[vetuste_ennemi]

Is there anything to be learnt by this news item from 2016, I wonder:

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/pakistani-hate-preacher-who-glorifies-islamist-murder-welcomed-by-archbishop-canterbury-1571418