One small victory for reason over theocracy, Asia Bibi a Pakistani Woman who was charged with "blasphemy"and sentenced to death, has been released from prison where she has been held for the last 8 years. Upon the announcement of her acquittal there were many violent protests, religious zealots throughout the country called for her immediate execution, as they seem to love to do in that country. It's worth remembering that her only crime was that a bunch of Muslim Women refused to drink water from the same cup as her (she's a Christian) and later accused her of defaming the prophet Mohammed. It's well known that in Pakistan people often use the claim of "blasphemy" as a way of settling trivial personal disputes.
Asia is now on her way out of the country and hopefully to a new life somewhere more enlightened and less medieval, we wish her luck.
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