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SIC warns of anarchy if blasphemy convict Pak-Christian woman pardoned | | The Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) has warned the Pakistan government of protests and 'anarchy in the country', if it decided to pardon Aasia Bibi, the Pakistani-Christian woman sentenced to death on charges of blasphemy. Demonstrators
marched onto the streets in Lahore after the most influential Sunni alliance in
the country urged the government not to grant clemency to the mother-of-five,
the Daily Times reported. A crowd of several hundred called for “jihad”, and pledged
to sacrifice their lives to protect the honour of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH),
in a rally organised by a subsidiary of banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), which the
United Nations has blacklisted as a terrorist organisation. “We will hold nationwide
protests if the government pardons the Christian woman,” the subsidiary’s chief
coordinator, Qari Yaqub, told the participants. “The pardon would lead to anarchy
in the country,” said the head of the Sunni Ittehad Council, Sahibzada Fazal Kareem,
adding, “Our stand is very clear that this punishment cannot be waived.” Politicians
and conservative clerics have been at loggerheads over whether Zardari should
pardon Aasia, who was sentenced to death after a district judge found her guilty
of having stated that insects had feasted upon the prophet Muhammad’s ear prior
to his death and that he married his first wife for wealth, and that the Quran
was written by man and not God. Aasia denied the accusations, claiming ignorance
of Islamic knowledge.
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