Press Pakistan To Lift Woman’s Death Sentence
By: Asim Ahmad

Recently in Pakistan, a Christian woman, Asia Bibi, has received the death sentence because she supposedly denounced Prophet Muhammad, a violation of the Pakistani penal code.

Succumbing to the madness of clerics is not an isolated phenomenon in Pakistan. As one example, the government has also stripped, since 2012, the voting rights of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, which promotes a separation of mosque and state.

America, which considers Pakistan an ally against terrorists, must urge Pakistan to void Bibi’s death sentence and repeal laws that legitimize intolerance, extremism and denial of fundamental human rights. To ignore this problem will not only be unjust, but extremely dangerous.