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Weeks after opening its arms to the Saudi teenager Rahaf Mohammed who faced death in her country because she renounced Islam, we Canadians are now hosting another woman escaping the Islamic World.

This time it’s a Christian mother from Pakistan who spent nearly ten years on death row for the crime of daring to drink from a cup of water reserved for Muslims. Her name is Aasiya Noreen also known as Asia Bibi.

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Asia Bibi’s daughters reportedly arrived in Canada before her and Bibi herself was believed to have arrived in Toronto on a Tuesday afternoon flight, the family reunited for the first time in a decade.

Asia’s travails began on June 14, 2009 on a hot June summer day in Pakistan’s Punjab in the village of Katanwala, near the holy town of Nankana Sahib, birthplace of the founder of the Sikh religion Guru Nanak.

Among the farm workers that day was Asia Bibi, a lone Christian among a group of Muslim women. Thirsty after working under the scorching sun, Asia took a break to quench her thirst from a community water dispenser. As Asia was drinking from the cup, other women — all Muslim — got enraged because supposedly she had contaminated the cup as Christians are considered “unclean.”