Blasphemy: A Memoir

Blasphemy: A Memoir: Sentenced to Death over a Cup of Water is a book by French journalist Anne-Isabelle Tollet and Aasiya Noreen better known as Asia Bibi. It is about the real life story of Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman who was sentenced to death after being convicted of blasphemy by a Pakistani court, in 2010 and is in jail in solitary confinement. She was tried after a dispute over drinking water with her Muslim neighbours after she drank water from the same cup as her Muslim neighbours in a rural village in the Sheikhupura District of Punjab, Pakistan in which she was accused of allegedly insulting the Islamic prophet Muhammad, a charge she has denied. The book was dictated by Asia Bibi, an illiterate and mother of five, to her husband from jail.[1] In her book Bibi describes that judge who gave a death sentence received a standing ovation and she had refused convert to Islam stating "I will not convert. I believe in my religion and Jesus Christ."[2][3][4][5]

Blasphemy: A Memoir: Sentenced to Death over a Cup of Water
AuthorAnne-Isabelle Tollet ,Asia Bibi
LanguageEnglish
Published2011
Pages160
ISBN9781613748893

Reception

Kirkus Reviews found it to be "a passionate plea for help from a desperate woman who stands behind her pledge of innocence."[6] U.S. Catholic found the book "moving", and called it "an up-close account of the ugly effects of religious intolerance, vicious discrimination, and unjust blasphemy laws."[7]

References
  1. "Sentenced to death for a sip of water". New York Post. 25 August 2013. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  2. "Rita Panahi: We can't let Asia Bibi die for her Christianity in Pakistan". Rita Panahi. Herald Sun. 16 October 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  3. ""Please Don't Abandon Me"". Ashiq Masih. New York Times. 19 November 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  4. "Christian Mother Asia Bibi Sentenced To Hang In Pakistan For 'Insulting Prophet'". Huffington Post. 17 October 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  5. "Blasphemy in Pakistan: The case of Aasia Bibi". Zehra Abid. AL Jazeera America. 28 June 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  6. "BLASPHEMY". Kirkus Reviews. No. July 15, 2013. July 1, 2013.
  7. Scherer-Emunds, Meinrad (February 2014). "USC Book Club: Blasphemy". U.S. Catholic.


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