- Today from the Global Lane,
Pakistan Supreme Courtupholds Asia Bibi's acquittal.
But just how safe is the Christian mother
who was jailed for blasphemy?
Globalists and the media against Trump.
How it may affect youand the American economy.
University of Georgiabias against Chick-fil-A,
and this teacher says someWhite people must die.
And I drive it home on the latest push
to remove God from Congress.
And it's all right here, rightnow, from the Global Lane.
After more than nine years inprison and many legal appeals
Asia Bibi is finally a free woman.
The Pakistan Supreme Courtacquitted the Christian mother
of blasphemy charges late last October
But her freedom remainedin jeopardy after Islamists
filed the legal challengeagainst that decision.
Now the court has upheldits earlier ruling.
Chief Justice Asif Khosa evensaid some of Bibi's accusers
should receive life in prison
for committing perjury against her.
Pakistani Christians arepraising the high court ruling
saying it advances equalityand justice in their country.
Well joining us with more from London
is Wilson Chowdhry, he's Chairman
of the British PakistaniChristians Association.
So, Wilson, momentous daythis decision reaffirming
the high court's acquittal of Asia Bibi.
It's really unprecedentedin Pakistan, isn't it?
Tell us what happened.
- Well it was a verylong kind of court case.
They really were expecting it to be
a simple dismissal of a petition.
But the judges took extreme care to ensure
that anybody who heard thecourt judgment afterwards,
the ruling, and read the papers
would understand inexplicably
that Asia Bibi is an innocent woman.
They went through everydetail of the case,
a rarity for a petitionand hearing in a court.
More to the point as well,and after the judgment,
the judges said a verybold statement saying that
the accusers of Asia Bibi should be
taken through the courtprocess and they suggested
that they should now begiven life sentences.
And so a judgment like that,
if ever it did come tofruition, would ensure
that innocent victims like Asia Bibi
would become few and far between.
- It sends a strong messagedoesn't it to others?
- Of course, and this issomething I think Christians
have been championing for a long time.
It strikes us as bizarrethat those accusers who,
in essence, destroy thelives of innocent victims
such as Asia Bibi, suchas --, and many others
get away scot-free without any prosecution
of their own perjury in court,and I think a step like that
would definitely be a stepin the right direction
and hopefully would remove
this whimsical applicationof the Blasphemy Law.
- So how are Muslimsreacting, those Islamists
who really support the Blasphemy Law?
I know police thwarted mass protests.
What are the Islamistssaying and doing now?
- Already there are shouts andhollering outside the courts.
There's been rioting, it'sminor rioting at the moment
because most of the --leaders have been put away.
More than 3,000 leadersof the previous rights
have been imprisoned.
However the expectationis that you'll have
mass riots across Pakistanwhich will include
vandalism of governmentproperties, sit-ins,
and we expect the country to be brought
to a similar standstill.
We're praying and hoping this doesn't turn
into violence againstChristian communities.
You can imagine the intolerancein Pakistan is so steep
that it's easy to trigger people towards
opportunity to violenceagainst Christians.
Now, a case Asia Bibi wheremajority of the country,
I'd say 90% of Muslims still believe
that she's a guilty blasphemer,it strikes as very possible
that we could see another attack similar
to the attack in -- in 2009,the attack that triggered
the creation of the BritishPakistani Christian Association.
- And how are Asia andher family doing, Wilson?
I'm sure they're relieved,
but she's still in danger, isn't she?
- For every minute that AsiaBibi remains in Pakistan
her life will be under threat.
We are talking about millions,not hundreds of thousands,
millions of irate, extremelyvolatile, intolerant,
and excessively angryMuslims ready to kill her.
And when Asia Bibi is out of Pakistan,
without a doubt, she'll havean opportunity of freedom,
the type that she's neverexperienced in Pakistan.
- [Gary] But, Wilson,she'll also, if she ends up
in a Western country like Canada,the U.S., Australia, U.K.,
she'd still be under threat there.
They have quite a network of Islamists
that would like to kill her.
- Yes, there will bea threat but countries
like Australia and Canadahave a much slighter
risk of danger for Asia Bibi than a place
like Britain, France, or Germany.
- And finally, Wilson,what can our viewers do?
How should we pray for Asiaand her family, for Pakistan?
- Well Asia has obviouslybeen incarcerated now,
in isolation, for over9 years, close to 10.
This woman has been bereft of her family,
has been away from any friends,
her conversations would havebeen minimal with the cleaner
that may have passed by for five minutes,
so you can imagine her mentalstate is not going to be
the same as it was previousto her incarceration.
We need to pray that sheis given time to heal
and that the Lord restores her completely
so that she can now start toenjoy her life and her family.
And we need to pray forher to be able to, again,
overcome the difficultiesof suddenly being
in an environment whereshe isn't on her own
and where she does haveto interact with people,
her husband, her daughters.
So again, there will be some adjusting
that needs to take place.
We need to pray for the family's safety
in the country they goto and in that country
for the government that takes care of them
to ensure that adequateprotection is provided,
and I would say throughoutthe remainder of their life.
The risk, I don't think,will ever dissipate entirely,
but will be much reduced.
And again, just pray for other Christians.
We cannot forget that thereare over 40 blasphemy victims
still incarcerated in Pakistan,
18 of those who we've listedon our website are Christians.
That's almost 50%.
We need to pray for these victims and pray
that they receive an exonerationas speedily as possible.
- Okay, Wilson Chowdhry,British Pakistani Christians,
thanks so much for being with us.
- Thank you, Gary.
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A new government reportestimates that $12 trillion
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What might it mean foryou and your household?
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host of the radio program,Financial Issues, Dan Celia.
Dan, good to see you again.
So we're already at $21 trillion,
what will an added $12 trillion mean
for the average Americanand the U.S. economy?
- Well one would have to believe, Gary,
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- And, Dan, if we increase taxes though,
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We won't see that growth that we've seen.
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- But, Dan, we're seeing representatives
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Kamala Harris saying Medicare for all.
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- Dan, before we leaveyou I've gotta ask you,
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and why is it happening?
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It started from Davos last week,
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- Yeah, they can't have success.
Okay, Dan Celia, thanks somuch for joining us today.
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- Chick-fil-A is under attack again.
This time at the University of Georgia
where a socialist environmental group
wants it banned for being quote,
"A White supremacist capitalist cult."
Also at UGA, Facebook removeda teaching assistant there
for making racist remarksand advocating violence.
Well joining us to fill us in
is Campus Reform's Emma Meshell.
So, Emma, what's going on atUGA first with Chick-fil-A?
- Well there is a studentgroup going after Chick-fil-A
calling it White supremacistand a capitalist cult,
but we know that that's really not true
and we can tell exactlywhat this group is doing.
They're not actuallyfighting for the environment,
because if they were they would be
going after Panda Express on campus,
they would be going after Starbucks
'cause both of those groupsdon't use sustainable packaging.
And yet they're choosingto go after Chick-fil-A
and what this really isis it is a poorly planned
smear campaign against a company
that's owned by Christians.
- And, Emma, this isn't the first time
this has happened on campus, has it?
Remind me of what happenedrecently at Rider University.
- Right, well I was onyour show to talk about
Rider University saidthat they cannot stand
with Chick-fil-A and allowit to come to campus,
even though studentsvoted that they wanted
this restaurant to come to campus,
and they said that Chick-fil-A'svalues had not progressed
along with those of Rider University.
And really what this showsis a pattern on campus
against companies thatare owned by Christians.
This is a vendetta that these schools have
against companies withChristian, conservative values.
- Well I was going to sayreally at the root of this
it's a spiritual issue, is it not?
A anti-Christian issue?
- It seems that there is a large
anti-Christian sentiment on campus,
and it can be shown by groups
like this Earth Strike group at UGA,
and plenty of other campusesthat we've reported on
at the LeadershipInstitute's Campus Reform
are against things like displaysthat show religious symbols
during Christmas time and evenagainst once during Hanukkah.
No dreidels are allowed, noChristmas trees are allowed.
And really what this isis it's the college system
coming against religion and against people
who practice Judeo-Christian values.
- And I don't see themdoing that against Muslims,
or Hindus, or Buddhists.
But back to UGA, what aboutthis teaching assistant now?
Who is he, what did he say?
- So this is a teaching assistant
in the Philosophy Departmentand he has made repeated calls
for violence and violentaction against White people.
He has made some truly racist statements
and his one that got him in trouble
with Facebook over the weekend,
he said that some Whitepeople may need to die
in order to advance Black communities.
And we know on both sides that that
is absolutely racist rhetoricand that is not the way
to find unity betweendifferent communities.
Yet he's made theseother statements as well.
He said that Whitesoutherners are autistic.
He has said that fightingWhite people is a skill,
and as I mentioned before,this is coming from
a philosophy teaching assistant
and it really raises the question,
how could this man possiblybe fair in grading papers
of students he knows are White
when he has time and timeagain come out with statements
saying that he needs to fight White people
with every chance that he gets.
It really raises into question his ability
to be a good educator.
- And Facebook has kicked him off,
this doesn't happen too often, or does it,
unless someone complains?
- Well Conservatives know that Facebook
and social media companies in general
seem to really pick on the right
and nitpick the things that they say.
A lot of Conservatives have said that
the way that they censor peopleon their sites are unfair.
But Facebook, for once, is standing up
to violent speech from the left.
So Facebook is sayingthat this is too violent
for our community, this doesnot belong on our website,
and UGA is also examiningwhether this type of speech
has a place on their campus,
which that's why we do what we do
at the LeadershipInstitute's Campus Reform,
we are just fighting for accountability
so that people in theseinstitutions can examine things
and see how they wantto go about fixing it,
the taxpayers and theadministrators at these colleges.
- I always say, what's good for the goose
is good for the ganders, sowhether it's left or right,
if they're advocating violence,
Facebook needs to take action.
I think they need to be praised for this.
Now back to UGA, it hasn't taken
any disciplinary action against him.
What should they do?
- UGA, I can't say what theyshould be doing as a school
because it really is up to them.
It's up to the taxpayersthat fund the school
since it is a public school,
but really what Campus Reform works to do
is shine a light on thesethings that are happening.
We're here to share thefacts, share the information,
and let the schools, letthe taxpayers of Georgia,
who read our work, let them decide
what they think should be done.
But ultimately, I think we can all agree
that speech like thisdoes not have a place
with someone who is educatingpeople in the classroom.
- Okay, Emma Meshell from Campus Reform's
Leadership Institute,always good talking to you.
Thanks for joining with us.
- Thank, Gary.
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- I don't know how manyswearing ins you've witnessed,
but I've seen quite a few in my years
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and as a child I remember watching
my first Presidential Inaugural.
It was President John F. Kennedy.
- Preserve, protect, and defend
the Constitution of the United States.
- So help you, God.
- So help me, God.
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- A great moment, wasn'tit, I'll never forget it.
56 years later, it wasDonald J. Trump's turn.
- Preserve, protect, and defend.
- [John] The Constitutionof the United States.
- The Constitution of the United States.
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- There you have it,their hand on the Bible
our presidents have alwayssaid, "So help me, God."
That's because the burdenof the presidency is heavy.
Our presidents have known they've needed
God's help to make good decisions.
Some members of Congresswanted to end that tradition.
According to Fox News, the House Committee
on Natural Resources consideredremoving the requirement,
not for presidents, but for witnesses
appearing to testify before their panel.
Instead of swearing in to tellthe truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but thetruth, so help me, God,
witnesses would've been required
to tell the truth withoutsaying "So help me, God."
I guess they didn't think witnesses
needed God's help to tell the truth.
Well the Committee finallyvoted on the proposal
and they decided to keep the oath as is.
A majority must have wondered,where does our belief
in telling the truth comefrom if not from God?
Didn't Moses receive theNinth Commandment from God?
Do not bear false witness,don't lie, tell the truth?
If we're not ultimately accountable to God
to tell the truth, whoare we accountable to?
Who or what demandsthat we tell the truth?
Congress?
Perhaps those who supported the change
felt witnesses should startsaying, "So help me, Congress."
Yes, Congress can send us to prison
for lying to that institution.
We've seen indictments inthe Russia investigation
against some people for doing that.
I don't know about you, but if I lie
I fear God's judgment more than I fear
the consequences of lying to politicians
in the U.S. Congress.
I guess lying's okay forthem, but not for anyone else.
So folks, we're on anotherslippery slope here
and it's time to wake up.
But it was just anotherexample of the ongoing attempt
of leftist Democratsand others to remove God
from every aspect of our pubic life.
When we do that, we end up with laws
like the one recently enacted in New York
which allows babies to be murdered
just moments before birth.
Whatever happened to the U.S.Declaration of Independence
and our commitment as a nation to life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
I guess life and happinessapplies to everyone
except for unborn babies justseconds before their birth.
Like it or not, our nation was founded
on Judeo-Christian principles.
It is one reason why we've been blessed
to become the greatest nation on earth.
Can I say that?
A great country?
Alexis de Tocqueville said,
America's great because America is good.
America's good because we believe in God.
We look to Him for guidance, direction,
His provision for our people.
De Tocqueville said, ifAmerica ever stops being good
it will cease being great.
Now if we continue down this road
of removing God from our public life,
if stop acknowledging Him,
yes, America will cease to be good.
Life and truth will have no meaning.
Those who advocate life andtruth will be persecuted.
We need to be watchfuland resist this insanity.
So help me, God.
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