{"id":33181,"date":"2019-02-19T09:07:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T09:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=33181"},"modified":"2019-02-19T09:07:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T09:07:33","slug":"the-asia-bibis-the-world-knows-nothing-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2019\/02\/19\/the-asia-bibis-the-world-knows-nothing-about\/","title":{"rendered":"THE \u201cASIA BIBIS\u201d THE WORLD KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>THE \u201cASIA BIBIS\u201d THE WORLD KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In Pakistan, 224 Christians have been victims of the blasphemy law since the law\u2019s passage in 1986, Cecil Shane Chaudhry, Executive Director of the National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP) of Pakistan, told a delegation from Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) during a visit to the Asian country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Although the legal case against Asia Bibi finally came to a positive resolution on January 29th, 23 Christians were killed for blasphemy accusations between 1990 and 2017 and the Commission has documented a further 25 cases of Christians under trial, according to a study presented to ACN.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Specifically, there are two paragraphs of Section 295 of the Pakistani Penal Code (paragraphs B and C) that can be understood as the \u201canti-blasphemy law\u201d. Section 295B stipulates a life sentence for anyone who desecrates the Quran while insulting the Prophet Muhammed carries the death sentence under Section 295C.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe anti-blasphemy law is a powerful tool that fundamentalists can wield to the detriment of minorities and is often misused as a means for personal revenge,\u201d Chaudhry said. \u201cAnd when charges are brought against Christians, the entire community suffers the consequences.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is exactly what happened in March of 2013 in Joseph Colony, a Christian district in Lahore after the young Christian Sawan Masih was accused of having insulted Muhammad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cOn 9 March, after Friday prayers, a mob of 3000 Muslims burnt down the entire district, destroying almost 300 houses and two churches,\u201d Father Emmanuel Yousaf, NCJP President, explained to the delegation from ACN during a visit to the residential area. The district has in the meantime been rebuilt thanks to funding from the government and returned to the Christians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While the 83 instigators of the arson attack have all been released, Sawan Masih was sentenced to death in 2014 and is still waiting for the appeal proceedings to be held. \u201cThe hearings are constantly being postponed,\u201d attorney Tahir Bashir explained. \u201cThe last hearing was scheduled for 28 January, but the judge did not appear. A new court date has now been set for 27 February.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Just as in the case of Asia Bibi, there are a lot of irregularities in Sawan\u2019s case. The charges against him were brought by one of his Muslim friends, Shahid Imran, following an argument between the two men. Only two days later, two witnesses appeared who in reality had not even been present at the time Muhammed was allegedly insulted. \u201cThe charges against Sawan are being exploited,\u201d Father Yousaf told ACN. \u201cThe true motivation behind this is an attempt to drive Christians out of this city district. It has become very popular because it lies very close to the steel factories.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the meantime, Sawan\u2019s wife Sobia is raising their three children all by herself. \u201cI don\u2019t know why they have accused my husband,\u201d she said to ACN. \u201cI just know that the man who brought charges against him was a friend of his with whom he had quarrelled. Sawan is innocent!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>ACN Malta<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE \u201cASIA BIBIS\u201d THE WORLD KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT In Pakistan, 224 Christians have been victims of the blasphemy law since the law\u2019s passage in 1986, Cecil Shane Chaudhry, Executive Director of the National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP) of Pakistan, told a delegation from Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) during a visit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-newsletters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>THE \u201cASIA BIBIS\u201d THE WORLD KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT - 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