“The son of a Pakistani governor who was assassinated in 2011 because of his support for imprisoned Christian mother Asia Bibi told religious freedom advocates that there are over 200 people jailed in Pakistan for blasphemy. Shaan Taseer, the son of late Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, delivered a powerful address at the State Department’s second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom……’I think it is all of our fault,’ Taseer told CP. ‘We need to speak more about [the victims]. A lethargy has set in, complacency has certainly set in. It’s the old adage that one person is a story and 1 million is a statistic. That applies here also.'”
Not just complacency, but a terror of being called “Islamophobic” and “racist” has set in. The cruel Islamic blasphemy laws of Pakistan that resulted in the treatment of Asia Bibi and scores of others like her who were jailed (and some murdered, as was Salmaan Taseer ) are being transported into Western countries through open-door immigration. Islamic supremacist doctrine is being spread and protected by Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups, whose members have made their way into Western governments. They use the “Islamophobia” narrative to make Muslims out to be the victims of “racism” as they advance Sharia doctrine globally.
Nonetheless, it is good news that Shaan Taseer is raising awareness about Pakistan’s blasphemy law. There needs to be a wider awareness, however, about the doctrine behind those abuses. It is Islamic doctrine that is justifying such abuses. And Western nations are increasingly succumbing: indiscriminate open-door immigration from Muslim countries, allowing the proliferation of jihad-preaching mosques, “tolerating” the “Islamophobia” subterfuge, and being scared into silence instead of calling out Islamic abuses.
Three days before his murder, Salmaan Taseer stated: “I stand with the weakest of the weak but I have been asked to retract and also refused. Not if I am the last man standing.” If the majority of Westerners had such resolve, the West wouldn’t be in the advanced stage of deterioration that it is now in.
“‘There are 200 more Asia Bibis’: Son of slain Pakistani gov. fears ‘complacency’ has set in,” by Samuel Smith, Christian Post, July 18, 2019:
WASHINGTON — The son of a Pakistani governor who was assassinated in 2011 because of his support for imprisoned Christian mother Asia Bibi told religious freedom advocates that there are over 200 people jailed in Pakistan for blasphemy.
Shaan Taseer, the son of late Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, delivered a powerful address at the State Department’s second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom on Wednesday — the second day of a three-day summit touted as the largest of its kind ever held.
“Eight years later, the woman that my father gave his life to defend has been found innocent by the highest court in the country,” Taseer said. ”For this ladies and gentlemen, I want to congratulate each and every one of you. Asia Bibi’s acquittal is a victory for humanity, it’s a victory for human dignity and it is a victory for common sense.”
Although the world rejoiced when Bibi (real name is Aasiya Noreen) was acquitted by Pakistan’s Supreme Court last fall after spending nearly a decade on death row over an accusation that she insulted Islam’s prophet, Taseer warned that there is much work still left to be done.
“As we celebrate these victories, we must be mindful of the challenges ahead,” he stressed. “While Asia Bibi — the world’s most famous prisoner victim of blasphemy is a free woman — I want you all to know that there are 200 Asia Bibis in jail accused of blasphemy law in Pakistan today and these are only the reported cases.”
Taseer has followed in his father’s footsteps in calling for an end to Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, which are regularly used by Muslims in the Muslim-majority country to take advantage of or settle scores with religious minorities.
Under Pakistan’s penal code section 295, those accused of insulting Islam’s prophet Muhammad or desecrating a Quran could be subject to imprisonment or even capital punishment.
Bibi, an illiterate farm laborer, was accused by Muslim colleagues of insulting Muhammad during an argument, a claim that she has denied. In 2010, she was sentenced to death by a Pakistan court.
“My father as the governor at the time said, ‘No, not on my watch. I will not let this injustice take place for this woman, not when I am governor,’” Taseer told the crowd. “He threw his weight behind Asia Bibi, he met with her in prison. He showed her that he stood for her. He called for a presidential pardon given the weaknesses in the case. And, he called for reform of the blasphemy law.”
Although he was a Muslim himself, Salmaan Taseer’s advocacy drew the ire of radicals in Pakistan who demanded he issue a retraction. When Taseer refused to retract his support for Bibi and his calls for blasphemy reform, a fatwa (religious proclamation) was issued calling for his death…..