Days after Pakistan sentenced Christian woman to death for blasphemy, Muslim countries will vote again at the UN for global blasphemy law

 Only days after a Christian woman, Asia Bibi, was sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan, U.N. members will again vote this week on the resolution “On Combating Defamation of Religions” put forward by Organization of the Islamic Conference, made up of 57 states with large Muslim populations.³ The resolution calls for a ban on expressions which offend religious sensibilities. Pakistan has been pushing for an international blasphemy law since 1999.³

 Freedom House's Paula Schriefer wrote in the New York Times that it was hypocritical that countries with appalling religious and other human right records, such as Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt were pushing for the resolution.³ He also pointed out that blasphemy laws were used to suppress religious minorities and those dissenting from orthodoxy, or simply to settle personal scores.³

 According to AsiaNews.it, the National Commission on Justice and Peace (NCJP) of the Catholic Church recorded 974 people being charged for “defiling the Qur'an or insulting the Prophet Muhammad” between 1986 and August 2009 in Pakistan.²  Christians and Ahmadis (who do not consider Muhammad the last prophet) there made up less than 2 percent of the population but accounted for nearly half of the cases during the last two decades, showing how minorities were disproportionately targeted.³

 Deacon Keith Fournier wrote on Catholic Online that,

This so called "Blasphemy Law" is in actuality an instrument of oppression with which Christians and other religious believers are persecuted by Islamic supremacists.”²

 The Catholic League, which is an anti-defamation organization, also claim that blasphemy laws were

designed to give Islamist nations the right to plunder the religious rights of non-Muslims—under the guise of fighting religious intolerance!¹

 It said that “it is one thing to issue a news release, conduct a letter-writing campaign, call for a boycott or hold a street demonstration; it is quite another to criminalize offensive speech” and has urged for the resolution to be voted down.¹

[Theo Van Gogh was murdered in 2004, on the 2nd of this month, by a Muslim for making a short film called "Submission" that was considered blasphemous. Molly Norris, who a few months ago urged people to draw pictures of Muhammad as an exercise of free speech has had to changed her name and go into hiding following FBI advice, after death threats. The threat from Muslims is there. The only difference is tactical, between those who openly use violence and those who engage in stealth jihad and lawfare, playing the victim card, while issuing death sentences, such as those at the U.N. on this issue.]

Sources: 1. Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights (U.S.), 2. Catholic Online (www.catholic.org), 3. The New York Times 

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[Note: The New York Times article by Paula Schriefer contains some false "moral equivalence" arguments, such as trying to equate (or suggest) the Danish Muhammad cartoons and opposition to the 9-11 mosque in New York with things such as death penalty for blasphemy. This is the standard practice of Muslims and their liberal and leftist sympathizers. It is unlikely that the New York Times would publish anything critical of Islam without also including some criticism of others, however minor, trivial, petty and insignificant it may be. This is borne out of "inferiority complex" leading to obsession with "equality". There is a complete hatred and ressentment (ressentment, not mere resentment) of anyone being better.]

Death sentence for Christian woman Asia Bibi, accused of blasphemy in Pakistan

 Asia Bibi, who is a married⁵ mother of two,¹ in her 30s,⁵ worked as a field laborer⁵ in the village of Ittanwali^3,4 in Punjab⁴ province, and had been under pressure from some Muslim co-workers to leave Christianity and convert to Islam.^1,3,4,5

  On June 19, 2009,^3,5 while working in the fields,⁴ female co-workers called her an “infidel”³ and Christianity a “religion of infidels”,³ and pressed her to convert to Islam.³ Bibi, who has a strong faith⁴ responded by saying Christianity was the only True religion³ and that Jesus died on the cross for their sins and asked what Muhammad, the founder and prophet of Islam, had done for them.^1,5 This reply enraged⁵ the Muslim women who then beat her.¹

  She was then either, locked up in a room by some men who then began broadcasting on the local mosque public address (PA) system plans to blacken her face and parade her through the village on a donkey, while a mob of villagers and Muslims clerics beat her two daughters,⁵ or she fled to her home where she was followed and beaten and her daughters tortured.³ Two other Christian families also lived in the village⁵ and either some of them⁵ or someone else³ informed the police and she was arrested.

  Pressure from local Muslims leaders¹ lead the police to charge her with blasphemy for insulting Muhammad under section 295-B and C of Pakistan Penal Code,³ which carries a sentence of death or life in prison.³ Bibi denies the charges and said instead that she was being persecuted for her religion.²

  The trial lasted over 16 months⁴ and she was found guilty on November 7 ⁵ in the town of Sheikhupura² and sentenced to death in the first ever such sentence for a woman.⁵ She was also fined £728, which is around two and a half year's wage for an unskilled laborer.⁵ Bibi can appeal the sentence but it may take years before her case is heard.⁴

  In a similar case, another Christian, Martha Bibi, is currently on trial for blasphemy in Lahore, after getting into a dispute with builders in Kasur.^1,5

  Release International, a Christian organization working for persecuted Christians worldwide, said the blasphemy law is easily⁴ open to abuse for vengeance,⁵ and Pakistan Christian Congress has called on the government to repeal it.³

Sources: 1. Christian Today (Australia), 2. Daily Telegraph (UK), 3. Pakistan Christian Post, 4. 5. Release International

UPDATE: A second article on this story has been posted here. Later reports claim Aisa Bibi is be 45-years-old and that she has at least 3 and up to 5 children.

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Libyan president who tried converting Italian girls to Islam said to have sex orgies that were copied by Italian Prime Minister

 The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, 74, is currently caught up in his latest sex scandal, with revelations that a 17-year-old Moroccan girl, Karima Keyek, was present at his sex parties.⁴ Keyek calims Berlusconi copied how to organize his sex orgies from Gadaffi,⁴ who previously had tried converting beautiful young Italian girls to Islam by paying them to meet him during his visit to Rome and giving them copies of the Koran.^1,2 She said,

After dinner came "bunga-bunga" which she reportedly described so graphically - "what was being done and who was doing it" - that she astonished the prosecutors. "Silvio told me that he'd copied that formula from Muammar Gadaffi [the Libyan leader]. It's a ritual of his African harem," Ruby said.⁴

 Keyek also goes by the name of Ruby and "bunga-bunga" means a form of orgy.⁴

 Keyek, who fled her home in Sicily aged 14, also claimed that her Muslim father beat her for wishing to leave Islam and convert to Christianity by becoming a Catholic.⁴

 As for Gadaffi, he had said during his attempted conversion of beautiful young Italian girls that Islam was superior and Europe should therefore convert to Islam.^1,2 A critics responded then to his hypocrisy by saying if the same thing was said by a Christian in Libya, he was unlikely to be return home in one piece.² At the end of his trip to Rome, when those comments were made, Gadaffi also engaged in blackmail³ by demanding at least €5 billion a year in return for stopping illegal African immigrants who he said might turn Europe "black"³ and make it into "another Africa".³ 

Source: 1. Daily Mail (UK), 2. 3. The Telegraph, 4. The Times (UK) 

Muslims angry Coptic Bishop Bishoy said they were guests in Egypt and questioned Koran 5:7

 Muslims protested in Egypt and insulted Christians by throwing shoes¹ at picture of  Coptic pope Shenouda III in Alexandria, after Coptic Bishop Bishoy reportedly said they were "guests of the Christians,"² and suggested Koran verse 5:17 was inserted by Caliph Uthman¹. Islamic Research Council of Al-Azhar university¹, a key learning centre of Sunni Islam³ also issued a “Statement to the Nation”¹ saying such comments crossed "a red line" and that Christian should accept accept Islamic dominance as Dhimmis, similar to Christians of Najran, Medina, during the rule of Muhammad.¹ The Coptic pope has issued an apology for the comments.³

 Despite the typical hypocritical Muslim anger over the comments, Christians were the original inhabitants of Egypt² prior to the invasion, conquest, and occupation by Muslim Arabs in the 7th century A.D., which continues to this day. While Al-Azhar denounces others, it has also been accused of challenging and ridiculing other religions since it's founding in 972 A.D., including by Grand Imam Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the current head of it's Islamic Research Council that issued the criticism of Bishop Bishoy, who challenged the validity of the Bible on TV.¹

Sources: 1. Continental News (ContinentalNews.net), 2. AFP, 3. BBC