What was all that we heard about Islam being tolerant and peaceful? The Pope is appealing for the victims life
Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday made an appeal for a Pakistani Christian mother of five who has been sentenced to death for blasphemy after she collected water from a well to be drunk by Muslims.
“I today express my spiritual closeness to Asia Bibi and her family while asking that, as soon as possible, she may be restored to complete freedom,” said the pontiff at the end of his weekly general audience at the Vatican.
(45 year old Asia) Bibi was charged with insulting Prophet Mohammed, after she was sent by the wife of a village chief in her village in eastern Punjab province to fetch water. Muslim clerics reported her to police after villagers claimed it was sacrilegious to drink water collected by a non-Muslim, Bibi’s husband was quoted as saying.
Following a year-long trial, Bibi was sentenced to death Monday by a court in Nankana, about 75 km from Lahore. Her family announced it would appeal the sentence.
Liberal apologists to attempt to find some sort of similar action by Christians in 3..2..1….
Meanwhile, a father of 6 will face a judge on November 21st in Afghanistan for converting to Islam from Christianity, a capital crime…oh, sorry, had that conversion part backwards.
More: The Jawa Report points out that there is now a petition Bibi freed. Check it out, and send an email (yes, I have now sent one)
