The persecution of Asia Bibi was a particularly ugly chapter in the history of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and its enforcement of Sharia blasphemy laws. Asia Bibi, a Christian woman, was falsely accused of blasphemy against Islam, sentenced to death, imprisoned for eight years, and then when she was acquitted by the Pakistani Supreme Court, mobs all over the country began rioting, baying for her blood, and hunting house-to-house for her.

She made it out of the country. But Christians who are still in Pakistan live a precarious existence under near-total enforcement of Sharia.

“Christians still fearful in Pakistan, says Aasia Bibi,” Tribune India, February 1, 2020: