Pakistan: Death or Life for Christian "Blasphemer"?
Ruling Expected on the Fate of Asia Bibi
by Raymond Ibrahim
October 10, 2018 at 5:00 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13114/pakistan-asia-bibi-appeal In her memoirs, Asia Bibi wonders "whether being a Christian in Pakistan today is not just a failing, or a mark against you, but actually a crime." Her question is finally about to be answered by Pakistan's Supreme Court.
Because the word of a Christian is not valid against the word of a Muslim, blasphemy accusations by Muslims against Christians are common and routinely result in the imprisonment, beating and even murder of Christians -- as when 1,200 Muslims deliberately burned a young Christian couple to death in 2014 for allegedly insulting Islam.
