This Is Appalling

An Islamist has threatened to kill Asia Bibi, the woman who fled to Canada after being released from death row in Pakistan where she spent years jailed on false blasphemy charges. 

In a harrowing video threat posted on Facebook which has since been removed, the unnamed man said he had ‘reached’ Canada to give her a ‘terrible death and send her to hell’.

‘I will make sure to bring a terrible end to the blasphemer Asia Bibi,’ he said, according to a translation by the British Pakistani Christian Association.

The man did not show his face in the video but filmed his shirt instead. 

He said he had gone to Canada to ‘stop’ her from saying ‘blasphemous’ things against Islam again. 

Bibi, a devout Christian in her early 50s, was jailed in 2010 after being accused of speaking against the Prophet Muhammad during a heated argument with Muslim women. 

She denied the claims, insisting she had not, and her conviction was overturned last year, a decision which prompted protests from Taliban supporters. 

She was freed in Pakistan and held in a remote location until being offered refuge by Canada earlier this month. 

Authorities in Canada have not yet commented on the validity of the video threat or on her safety. 

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