Pakistani Pol Assassinated for Trying to Help Condemned Christian Woman, Aasia Bibi

Salman Taseer listens to Aasia Bibi at a prison near Lahore, Pakistan.

When Aasia Bibi, a Punjabi Catholic mother of five from a rural village of Pakistan, was sentenced to death for reportedly insulting the founder of Islam and thus violating Pakistan's so-called "blasphemy" law, the governor of the Punjab Province, Salman Taseer, visited her in jail and asked Pakistan's president to consider granting her clemency.

On New Year's Eve, as terrorists were making their final preparations to bomb Saints Coptic Orthodox Church in Alexandria, Egypt, thousands of members of Pakistan’s religious parties in three cities protested Taseer's efforts to overturn Bibi’s conviction.

Today Taseer was assassinated, shot nine times as he left an Islamabad restaurant by a Pakistani policeman who reportedly told authorities he killed Taseer for campaigning to repeal Pakistan's blasphemy law.
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