{"id":1047,"date":"2015-02-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.britishasianchristians.org\/full-previous-archive\/2015\/02\/26\/we-still-believe-god-will-set-asia-free\/"},"modified":"2023-04-30T07:22:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T06:22:30","slug":"we-still-believe-god-will-set-asia-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishasianchristians.org\/full-previous-archive\/we-still-believe-god-will-set-asia-free\/","title":{"rendered":"We still believe God will set Asia free!"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.britishasianchristians.org\/full-previous-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Ashiq-masih.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px;\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.8em; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: arial;\">Ashiq Masih believes God will set his wife Asia Bibi free!<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.6666669845581px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 9.5pt; text-align: center;\"><strong style=\"font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 1.8em; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Please sign our petition for Asia Bibi <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petitionbuzz.com\/petitions\/justice4asia\">(click here)<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong style=\"font-family: arial;\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.6666669845581px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;\">By Mehwish Bhatti:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 5pt; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">I<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">t was cold and dreary morning (13th February 2015) as I set off on my four hour journey to meet with Ashiq Masih, the husband of&nbsp;Pakistan&#8217;s most famous prisoner Asia Bibi. In my role as lead officer for the BPCA in&nbsp;Pakistan I often find myself travelling in dangerous areas in&nbsp;Pakistan, a country full of bandits, highwayman and insurgents. It might not seem much of a task till you realise I am a vulnerable 26 year old Christian women in a country where both my faith and gender single me out for discrimination, persecution and other unsavoury attacks. But meeting with Ashiq was important! This was yet another chance for the BPCA to continue to highlight the plight of Asia Bibi, in mainstream media.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #1d1b10;\">On my journey from my home town of&nbsp;Rawalpindi to&nbsp;Lahore I reflected on the cruel predicament&nbsp;Asia has found herself in, simply for extending a hand of friendship. The details of her incident still shock me to the core. How can anyone serve a life sentence merely for offering a glass of water to a Muslim co-worker? The answer lies in the principle of untouchability a consequence of her adherence to the Christian&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #1d1b10;\">faith<\/span><span style=\"color: #1d1b10;\">. Though Asia thought she was drinking from a well, the perception of Muslim&#8217;s was that she was defiling a source of clean water, infiltrating it with the sewage waste of a faith they deem unclean, despite it&#8217;s pre-eminence as one of the Abrahamic texts so commonly lauded within their holy scripture the Quran.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1d1b10;\">After the woman who received water from&nbsp;Asia threw it over her and started to insult her and the Christian faith she upheld. Other Muslim women joined a throng that shouted abuse and beat&nbsp;Asia. In a fit of rage and disgust and no doubt huge outrage that her kindness had been met with such hatred,&nbsp;Asia uttered the fateful words that would deprive her of her freedom and the five children, she now barely meets. She said;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0070c0;\">&#8220;My Jesus died for me, what did Muhammed do for you?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1d1b10;\">Her fate was sealed, but she would not know this yet. She still had to fight for survival, as the women on the field told the Muslim men that&nbsp;Asia had blasphemed. the men beat her severely then took her to a storeroom and gang-raped her. They then took&nbsp;asia to her home to punish her family too for good measure and molested her daughters. Despite the savagery and brutality of the attack no other person was arrested<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #1d1b10;\">.&nbsp; In&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: #1d1b10;\">the eyes of the law the evil words of&nbsp;Asia&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #1d1b10;\">were&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: #1d1b10;\">d<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #333333;\">eserving of a death sentence,<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #333333;\">&nbsp;a crime much more heinous<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: red;\">!&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #333333;\">&nbsp;Asia has served over 5 years of her life sentence and survived various attempts to kill her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #333333;\">I arrived at my destination and was by now really excited that I was going to meet with Ashiq, a man who exhibited great courage in agreeing to meet with me. This was the third time the&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: red;\">BCPA<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #333333;\">&nbsp;had organised interviews with him. A previous interview with BBC Asia Network was aired in December, BBC Radio 4 aired an interview in January and now it was the turn of the &#8216;Church Times,&#8217; probably the most influential Christian newspaper in the Anglican community. Red there article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2015\/20-february\/news\/world\/bibi-release-expected-but-ready-to-flee\">(click here)<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #333333;\">After translating an interview for Madeleine Davies of the Church Time&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #333333;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2015\/20-february\/news\/world\/bibi-release-expected-but-ready-to-flee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" style=\"color: blue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: underline;\"><span>(click here)<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #333333;\">,<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.8em; text-align: justify;\">I took an opportunity to ask some questions of Ashiq Masih, for the BPCA.I asked Ashiq, what impact the loss of Asia Bibi, had on his family?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 5pt; font-size: 12pt; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 5pt; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #333333;\">Ashiq Masih explained that he missed his w<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #1d1b10;\">ife every day, they had lived a very contented existence despite their poverty.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #1d1b10;\">He<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #1d1b10;\">&nbsp;advised me that it was breaking his heart that they were being kept apart. He described the pain his children felt, they had had to grow up quickly without a mother to support them. the youngest had been only 10 when&nbsp;Asia was imprisoned. He said;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #0070c0;\">&#8220;My family and I have suffered great sorrow, the children saw their mum beaten before their eyes and then could not visit their mother for over a year, the security risk was phenomenal. We all miss her a lot especially the younger girls who have been bereft of the passion and guidance that only a mother can give. It has been hard for all of us.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 5pt; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; color: #1d1b10;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">I asked Ashiq what support he had received from the government of&nbsp;Pakistan?<\/p>\n<p>Ashiq explained that the government of&nbsp;Pakistan had been extremely supportive. they had always encouraged Ashiq and his family and had provided a lot of security to keep his family from harm. He said;<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #0070c0;\"><br \/>\n&#8220;Governor Salman Taseer and Shahbaz Bhatti the former federal Minister of Minorities, met with us and publicly declared&nbsp;Asia&#8217;s innocence. They lost their lives speaking up for us and we are extremely grateful. They had great faith in the legal system of&nbsp;Pakistan and we fully believe the Supreme Court will release Asia Bibi on appeal. We believe in a mighty God who will set&nbsp;Asia free.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 5pt; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; color: #1d1b10;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 5pt; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; color: #1d1b10;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">I asked Ashiq what conditions were like for&nbsp;Asia in prison?<\/p>\n<p>Ashiq said;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #0070c0;\">&#8220;I thank God&nbsp;Asia is fine, prison staff are extremely cooperative and caring and she has had no attempts on her life for a long while. She is allowed to pray and talks with God daily.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I asked if&nbsp;Asia&#8217;s faith in God had&nbsp;been&nbsp;dented, as a consequence of her ongoing incarceration?<\/p>\n<p>Ashiq clarified in no uncertain terms, that&nbsp;Asia is still very strong in her faith. he said; <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #0070c0;\">&#8220;Asia believes she will be set free and her face is unquestionably, unshakeable! She is extremely proud of her Christian faith and would never deny the God.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 5pt; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; color: #1d1b10;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 5pt; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #1d1b10;\">I asked Ashiq about the support he was getting from different organisations?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #1d1b10;\">Ashiq replied;<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #0070c0;\">&#8220;We have been greatly enthused by the huge international support. Many people have taken up our banner and stood with us in the hour of our need.&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">This&nbsp;<\/span>support gave us great strength and we thank&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">them<\/span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #0070c0;\">all. I am highly disappointed with organizations who are making money out of wife&#8217;s name and are not giving us a single penny.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 5pt; font-size: 12pt; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">I wanted to know if the family faced any persecution before the incident took place?<\/p>\n<p>Ashiq spoke somberly of the life they spent being discriminated against, insulted and mocked in their home town, which was a very rural village, where only three Christian families lived. he said;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 5pt; font-size: 12pt; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.8em; text-align: justify; color: #0070c0;\"><br \/>\n&#8220;Pakistani Christians know what it is like to carry a cross. We suffer great ignominy and have to learn to forgive daily. Christians are treated like the dirtiest creature.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><br \/>\nI asked him to tell me his opinion on the Blasphemy laws of&nbsp;Pakistan?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 5pt; font-size: 12pt; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 5pt; font-size: 12pt; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Ashiq answered;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #0070c0;\">&#8220;I think the blasphemy laws are being misused in&nbsp;Pakistan. People use them to settle personal grudges, so they are a weapon for the oppressor. the laws must be amended.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I asked what Ashiq felt the British government should do in regard to this case?Ashiq replied;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 5pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #333333;\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;I want the British government to negotiate with the Pakistani government and sort out possible ways to free&nbsp;Asia. It has been almost six years for her in <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #1d1b10;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">p<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><\/span><\/span>rison, how much longer must she stay locked up?<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #333333;\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 5pt; font-size: 12pt; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In closing I asked what life&amp;nbsp;Asia can expect after being released?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 5pt; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #333333;\">Ashiq answered;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #0070c0;\">&#8220;Asia cannot stay in&nbsp;Pakistan for a single second after her release, her enemies will kill her. I hope that the&nbsp;Pakistan&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">g<\/span>overnment will protect my family when she is free and allow us to leave for a safer less hostile location. We have received offers&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">of&nbsp;<\/span>asylum in several western nations, and I will not regret leaving&nbsp;Pakistan the land of my ancestors, as we have seen&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">too<\/span>&nbsp;much animosity here.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #0070c0;\">We will leave with no regrets.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 5pt; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #1d1b10;\">On<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #1d1b10;\">&nbsp;completion of the interview I was extremely sad to have to leave, I knew&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Ashiq<\/span>&nbsp;would be travelling in the shadows to get home. A life of watchfulness and great fear&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">is&nbsp;<\/span>all he and his family will know until&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">safe<\/span>&nbsp;refuge is found in a new country. I prayed for&nbsp;Asia and her family several times on my journey home and&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">I<\/span>&nbsp;ask that you all pray for justice and freedom for a mother of five, who has been imprisoned far too long.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">We have re-initiated our appeal for the family of Asia Bibi. We intend to pay for safe travel for the children to meet their mother in&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">prison<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; color: #333333;\">&nbsp;regularly, and to cover their general costs of living. This family have been through one of the most traumatic experiences any of us could ever imagine. Moreover their fight is not yet over.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: arial;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; line-height: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"margin: 0px;\"><span class=\"592294414-02082013\" style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span class=\"850211017-02082013\">If you would like to donate towards support for the family of Asia Bibi, then please use these<\/span>&nbsp;bank details:<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; line-height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; line-height: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\nSort Code: 20-67-90<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; line-height: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Account number: 63468976<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; line-height: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bank: Barclays<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Ref: &nbsp;Love for Asia Bibi<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; line-height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; line-height: 24px;\">\n<div style=\"margin: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Alternatively if you would like to send a one off donation please use the pay-pal facility on the top right hand corner of our blog<span class=\"079020516-02082013\" style=\"color: blue;\">,<\/span>&nbsp;or simply send a cheque made payable for the&nbsp; BPCA<span class=\"079020516-02082013\" style=\"color: blue;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>to our address<span class=\"079020516-02082013\" style=\"color: blue;\">;&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;57 Green Lane, Ilford, Essex, IG1 1XG.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; line-height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; line-height: 24px; margin: 5.25pt 0in 0.05in; vertical-align: baseline;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; text-align: justify; font-weight: 700; line-height: 24px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333333;\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333333;\">With your support we hope to change the lives of millions of Christians in Paki<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333333;\">stan.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashiq Masih believes God will set his wife Asia Bibi free! 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