LONDON — Asia Bibi is a defenseless Pakistani Christian woman who was maliciously accused of “blasphemy” by her Muslim neighbors. They did this to settle a score after she committed the other “crime,” as a non-Muslim, of drinking water from the same cup as them. Asia was sentenced by Pakistan’s courts to death by hanging in 2010. She languishes in jail awaiting execution until this day. So far, so obscene.
Five years ago, Asia must have thought she had been given a lifeline. Imagine the delight felt by this powerless woman—for Christians are a tiny and discriminated against minority in Pakistan—when the governor of Pakistan’s largest province, the flamboyant secular Muslim, Salmaan Taseer, publicly took up her case. With such a high-profile champion, Asia would have been forgiven for thinking that her savior had arrived and that she would soon be freed.
The world reeled in shock at what happened next.
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That last bit, at the end, about how Islamic blasphemy laws are actually British colonial ones was eye-popping.
I had never studied the history of the blasphemy law in Islam.
But I’m going to now.
I do know that, many times, rich business owners in Pakistan buy poor people for the purpose of their paying off debt.
One of the problems is that Pakistani Christian slaves are harder workers than Pakistani Muslim slaves.
(It’s the Christian work ethic VS the Koranic entitlement ethic.)
So,
*Muslim slaves have (recently) burned two Christians in a kiln because the owner appreciated their hard work.
*Muslim slaves have accused Pakistani Christian slaves of adultery and pelted them with stones to death.
*Muslim slaves have accused Christian slaves of touching a Koran and mobbed them to death.
I see a pattern…..
Slavery is bad.
Maybe Pakistan could make it possible for poor people to have other opportunities than selling themselves to rich people.
dealing with animals, they have only two options- conquer or death. Death is the best option. Recall that in the quran it is acceptable to kill children.