So Jesus, being wearied from His journey, was sitting thus by the well. It was about [a]the sixth hour. 7 There *came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus *said to her, “Give Me a drink.”
John 4:6-7 NASB
My Brief Explanation:
On a very hot day Asia Bibi drank water at a well using a cup belonging to Muslim women. This started an argument in which Asia defended her Christian faith. Pushing and shoving ensued and later Asia was reported to authorities as having “Blasphemed”. Later Asia and her family was beaten and Asia was arrested and brought up on charges of Blasphemy under the Sharia Law. (MP)
Below are some Sub-facts about Asia’s Accusation of Blasphemy (Sharia Law explained in next post).
- Asia Bibi, 46, was accused of blasphemy after dispute with Muslim women
- Women told her Christians make Muslims’ water ‘unclean’ by drinking it
- Tired of insults and calls for her to convert, Ms Bibi defended her religion
- She was then accused of insulting the Prophet Mohammed, before an angry mob arrived at her home and savagely beat her and her family
- She was ordered to convert to Islam or face death on ‘blasphemy’ charges under the Sharia Law
- Despite international outrage she this week lost an appeal against sentence
Now is the Story :
A Pakistani Christian woman has been sentenced to hang after she was accused of making ‘blasphemous’ comments about the prophet Mohammed during an argument.
While working as a berry picker in 2009, 46-year-old Asia Bibi got into a dispute with a group of Muslim women who objected to her drinking their water because as a Christian she was considered ‘unclean’.
Hours after the incident one of the women reported mother-of-five Ms Bibi to a local cleric, claiming she had made disparaging remarks about the prophet Mohammed during the row.
As a result of the allegations, a furious mob arrived at Ms Bibi’s home and savagely beat her and members of her family.
She was later arrested, charged with blasphemy and eventually sentenced to death – with her entire family forced to go into hiding after receiving threats on their lives.
This week, despite international outrage and hundreds of thousands of people signing a petition for her release, Ms Bibi lost an appeal to have her sentence overturned, meaning she now faces death by hanging.
The shocking case hit global headlines after two prominent politicians who tried to help Ms Bibi were assassinated, one by his own bodyguard.
Lawyers showered the killer with rose petals when he appeared in court and the judge who convicted him of murder had to flee the country.
Asia’s Account:
‘I, Asia Bibi, have been sentenced to death because I was thirsty. I’m a prisoner because I used the same cup as those Muslim women, because water served by a Christian woman was regarded as unclean by my stupid fellow fruit-pickers.’
More from Bibi:
Mrs Bibi describes how – tired of being considered a second-class citizen simply because of her religion and insulted by constant calls for her to convert to Islam – she decided to stand up to the crowd and defend Christianity.
Pushing and shoving ensued, forcing Ms Bibi to flee the scene.
When she returned to work five days later she was attacked again, but this time the crowd were accusing her of having insulted the Prophet Mohammed.
Battered and bruised, Ms Bibi was dragged before the local Islamic teacher who told her the only way she could redeem herself was by converting to Islam. Otherwise, he said, she would face death.
In November 2010 Ms Bibi was sentenced to death in a Sharia law court, becoming the first woman in Pakistan’s history to be given the death penalty for blasphemy.
Over the past four years Ms Bibi has languished in the high-security District Jail Seikhupura, 22 miles north-west of Lahore, before being moved to a more remote prison.
Officials now make her cook her own food every day because they fear that Ms Bibi has so many enemies – within both the prison population and its staff – that she is at serious risk of poisoning.
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