Note, that I referred to Asia as a "persecuted Catholic," unlike Inés San Martín, who referred to her fellow "Third World" Catholic sister as the "illiterate Catholic."
Another reason to mock and the "Catholic" MSM and its sycophantic writers.
Surely Inés, you can do better.
On the other hand, maybe she can't.
Asia Bibi reported to
be on her way to Canada
Inés San Martín
May 8, 2019 ROME BUREAU CHIEF
Asia Bibi reported to be on her way to Canada
In this Monday, Oct. 30, 2017, file photo, Aasia Bibi is
presented to journalists at a police station in Muzaffargarh, Pakistan. Bibi
was acquitted in Pakistan, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. (Credit: AP Photo/Iram Asim,
File.)
SANTIAGO, Chile - Asia Bibi, the illiterate Catholic woman
who spent almost a decade on death-row over blasphemy allegations in Pakistan,
has finally been allowed to leave for Canada, where she will be reunited with
her family.
The information was first shared by the UK’s The Daily Mail,
and then confirmed by Paloma Garcia Ovejero the London correspondent for Cope,
the Spanish bishops’ radio network.
Church officials in Pakistan told Crux they couldn’t verify
the news.
Bibi was acquitted in October after a years-long court
battle.
She headed to Canada late on Tuesday, and was scheduled to
arrive on Wednesday, where she will join their daughters, who’ve been granted
asylum by the Ottawa government.
The 53-year old woman had been jailed in June 2009 after an
argument with a group of Muslim women after she drank water from a local well.
The women claimed she blasphemed Mohammed, which Bibi has always denied.
The country’s Supreme Court absolved Bibi, dismissing the
case against her as “nothing short of concoction incarnate.”
She was secretly released from prison in November amidst
riots in Pakistan’s largest cities, with extremists protesting a Supreme Court
decision acquitting her of blasphemy, a criminal offense that carries the death
penalty in the South Asian country.
She had been in hiding since her release, with countries
such as Italy saying they were open to granting her asylum.
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demurs
Radical Islamists demanded Bibi’s death as well as the death
of the three Supreme Court judges who acquitted her.
According to one national survey from November, at least ten
million Pakistanis said they would be willing to kill Bibi with their bare
hands, either out of religious conviction, for the money, or both. A Pakistani mullah
offered a reward of roughly $10,000 to anyone who killed her, either inside or
outside prison.
Last year, the demonstrations dispersed after Prime Minister
Imran Khan’s government promised a court would review a motion to challenge the
acquittal and denied Bibi permission to leave Pakistan.
In January, the court upheld her acquittal, removing the
final obstacle to her leaving Pakistan.
Speaking to reporters in Islamabad, Khan had anticipated in
mid-April that Bibi was soon to be allowed to leave Pakistan, together with her
husband, Ashiq Masih, who’d been hiding with her since her acquittal.
According to a source quoted in The Daily Mail in March,
Bibi was “very unwell” and being denied medical care while holed up in a safe
house with “low blood pressure.”
Her departure from Pakistan coincides with the beginning of
Ramadan, considered by Muslims as a a
time for peace and reconciliation.
3 comments:
There is little to say, these people are demons from hell.
She is finally free.... *despite* Mr. "I love refugees" Bergoglio, not because of him! SHAME ON HIM for rejecting asylum to her!!! Shame, shame, shame!!!
When it comes to persecution Catholics are on their own as far as Vatican 2 is concerned, can't let little things like that interfere with their dialogue.
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