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Author Bibi, Asia.

Title Blasphemy : a memoir: sentenced to death over a cup of water / Asia Bibi
Published Chicago : Chicago Review Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (162 pages)
Contents Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Foreword; 1 -- A Black Hole; 2 -- Blasphemy; 3 -- I Can No Longer See the Stars; 4 -- Death by Hanging; 5 -- The Christian Minister; 6 -- Happy Christmas; 7 -- The Pope's Message; 8 -- They Kill the Governor; 9 -- They Kill the Minister; Afterword; Back Cover
Summary Asia Bibi bravely tells her shocking and inspiring story from the prison cell where she resides today awaiting the result of her appeal against the death sentence she was given in 2009. On June 14 of that year, this Pakistani mother of five was picking fruit in the fields when at midday she went to the nearest well, picked up a cup, and took a drink of cool water. She then offered it to another woman and suddenly, one of her fellow workers cried out ""Blasphemy!"" The water belonged to Muslim women, she said, and Bibi, who is Christian, had
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Subject Blasphemy (Islam)
Christian women -- Pakistan -- Biography
Christian biography -- Pakistan
Women death row inmates -- Pakistan -- Biography
Death row inmates -- Pakistan -- Biography
Religious discrimination -- Pakistan -- History -- 21st century
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
Women.
Christianity.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
Law.
Blasphemy (Islam)
Christian biography
Christian women
Death row inmates
Religious discrimination
Women death row inmates
Pakistan
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
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