Pakistan: Jailed Christian Woman Accused Of Blasphemy Living In Constant Fear

From Jihad Watch:

Pakistan: Jailed Christian woman accused of blasphemy living in constant fear


For even if she is cleared, she could easily then be murdered by Islamic supremacist vigilantes. "Jailed Pakistani Mother Living in Constant Fear, Husband Says," from Compass Direct News, January 19:



LAHORE, Pakistan, January 19 (CDN) -- A mother of five sentenced to death on "blasphemy" charges has lived in constant fear since the killing of Punjab Gov. Salman Taseer, her husband told Compass as he came out of Sheikhupura District Jail after meeting with her last week.

Ashiq Masih said his wife, Asia Noreen (alternatively spelled Aaysa, and also called Asia Bibi), is "very afraid." Her conviction triggered a violent chain of events in Pakistan, including the Jan. 4 murder of Taseer by his bodyguard after the governor voiced support for her.



"She knows the Muslims have announced a prize on her head and would go to any lengths to kill her," a visibly nervous Masih told Compass. "The governor's murder in broad daylight has put her in a state of paranoia."



He added that threats by Islamist extremists have dampened Noreen's hope of getting justice from the Lahore High Court, where her appeal against the conviction has been filed but yet to be taken up....



Posted by Robert on January 21, 2011 8:54 AM

Honor Killing In Pakistan: Muslim Hacks Wife, Daughter To Death On Suspicion Of Infidelity

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Honor killing in Pakistan: Muslim hacks wife, daughter to death on suspicion of infidelity


Many Muslim countries have relaxed penalties for honor killing, and Islamic clerics have resisted efforts to stiffen those penalties. Yet we are constantly told that honor killing has nothing to do with Islam.



"Killer of wife, daughter arrested," from The News International, January 19 (thanks to Weasel Zippers):



GHAZIABAD police on Tuesday arrested an accused of murdering his wife and daughter in the name of 'honour.'

According to police, the accused after killing his wife, mother of seven, had hid her body in a heap of woods in a cattle shed and was arranging to burry [sic] it when police after having information from their sources found the body. Police arrested the accused and recovered the murder weapons - a hammer and meat cleaver.



The accused has confessed that he killed his wife on suspicion of having illicit relations with another man. He also confessed that he had killed his daughter three months back.



Ghaziabad SHO Atif Zulfiqar said that after receiving information of murder of a woman, he deputed three cops to find out truth and arrest the accused. He said that they went in civvies and succeeded in arresting the accused - Rehmat Ali, husband of deceased Allah Rakhi.



He said the accused had hid the body in a heap of woods and was in a chance to remove it to some other place to burry [sic] it. He said the accused killed his wife with repeated strokes of the meat cleaver on her sensitive parts. He said later he pressed her head with a hammer.



He said the accused killed her early in the morning after taking her into the cattle shed, saying her that he needed her help in milking a cow.



The SHO said that during the initial investigation the accused confessed that he had killed his daughter Surayya, 17, three months back over same suspicion. The SHO said that on his information, they exhumed the body of Surrayya from the cattle shed.



Posted by Robert on January 19, 2011 8:06 AM