Post by Teddy Bear on Oct 22, 2014 19:19:38 GMT
Let's first look at an article on the BBC website posted on the 16th October:
Now when you read the headline, would you know who Asia Bibi is, or even if it was a man or woman? Since the last article run by the BBC on this woman was back in 2010, when she was first arrested, do they really expect for people to remember her?
As you will have seen from the rest of the article, whatever are the salient points that might give you a better understanding of what exactly is going on here are sketchy at best, typical of the BBC when covering the Islamic mindset, as we noted here yesterday.
To her credit, Orla Guerin covered her arrest fairly comprehensively back in 2010, where far more detail of what this woman and her family were enduring, and other factors that reflected the mindset pursuing her.
You will still have to read other articles on it by different media organisations to know that this woman was working in the fields alongside Muslim women and she inadvertently drank water from the same cup as them. This is what led to their accusing her some days later of insulting Allah, the crime for which she has been sentenced to death.
I have no doubt that most of not all will be sickened by this story and the actions of the Pakistan court.
In the same way that a petition was raised to try and save the Christian woman, Meriam Ibrahim, in Sudan, which ultimately succeeded, another has been raised by the same British woman as before to try and achieve the release of Asia Bibi.
Please sign it and tell your friends and family.
If the BBC were doing their job properly, it wouldn't be necessary.
Pakistan court upholds Asia Bibi death sentence
A Pakistani court has upheld the death penalty for a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy in 2010.
Asia Bibi was found guilty of making derogatory comments about the Prophet Muhammad during an argument with a Muslim woman.
The Lahore High Court rejected her appeal against the sentence passed by a lower court. Her lawyers have vowed to take the case to the Supreme Court.
Ms Bibi's sentence in 2010 sparked global condemnation.
Two prominent politicians - Punjab governor Salman Taseer and minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti - were both murdered the following year for calling for reforms to blasphemy laws in the wake of her trial.
Ms Bibi consistently denied the allegations against her, saying they stemmed from an argument with a group of women over a pot of water.
Blasphemy is a highly sensitive issue in Pakistan. Critics argue that blasphemy laws are frequently misused to settle personal scores and that members of minority groups are often unfairly targeted.
Since the 1990s, scores of Christians have been convicted for desecrating the Koran or for blasphemy.
While most of them have been sentenced to death by the lower courts, many sentences have been overturned due to lack of evidence.
Muslims constitute a majority of those prosecuted, followed by minority Ahmadis.
A Pakistani court has upheld the death penalty for a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy in 2010.
Asia Bibi was found guilty of making derogatory comments about the Prophet Muhammad during an argument with a Muslim woman.
The Lahore High Court rejected her appeal against the sentence passed by a lower court. Her lawyers have vowed to take the case to the Supreme Court.
Ms Bibi's sentence in 2010 sparked global condemnation.
Two prominent politicians - Punjab governor Salman Taseer and minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti - were both murdered the following year for calling for reforms to blasphemy laws in the wake of her trial.
Ms Bibi consistently denied the allegations against her, saying they stemmed from an argument with a group of women over a pot of water.
Blasphemy is a highly sensitive issue in Pakistan. Critics argue that blasphemy laws are frequently misused to settle personal scores and that members of minority groups are often unfairly targeted.
Since the 1990s, scores of Christians have been convicted for desecrating the Koran or for blasphemy.
While most of them have been sentenced to death by the lower courts, many sentences have been overturned due to lack of evidence.
Muslims constitute a majority of those prosecuted, followed by minority Ahmadis.
Now when you read the headline, would you know who Asia Bibi is, or even if it was a man or woman? Since the last article run by the BBC on this woman was back in 2010, when she was first arrested, do they really expect for people to remember her?
As you will have seen from the rest of the article, whatever are the salient points that might give you a better understanding of what exactly is going on here are sketchy at best, typical of the BBC when covering the Islamic mindset, as we noted here yesterday.
To her credit, Orla Guerin covered her arrest fairly comprehensively back in 2010, where far more detail of what this woman and her family were enduring, and other factors that reflected the mindset pursuing her.
You will still have to read other articles on it by different media organisations to know that this woman was working in the fields alongside Muslim women and she inadvertently drank water from the same cup as them. This is what led to their accusing her some days later of insulting Allah, the crime for which she has been sentenced to death.
I have no doubt that most of not all will be sickened by this story and the actions of the Pakistan court.
In the same way that a petition was raised to try and save the Christian woman, Meriam Ibrahim, in Sudan, which ultimately succeeded, another has been raised by the same British woman as before to try and achieve the release of Asia Bibi.
Please sign it and tell your friends and family.
If the BBC were doing their job properly, it wouldn't be necessary.
