Late last month, a court in Lahore rejected the appeal of Asia Bibi – the illiterate Christian farmhand accused of blasphemy and sentenced to death by hanging. Asia has already spent more than five years in prison and is perhaps the most high-profile victim of Pakistan’s blasphemy law. She now has one final right of appeal to Pakistan’s Supreme Court. Bibi’s case in particular highlights the problem in tackling the thorny issue of blasphemy and being able to reason it amid a growing tide of intolerance. She and her family have not been the only victims. Two senior politicians have paid with their lives for trying to highlight the injustice of her case and the wider need to reform a law that is being abused. Because the blasphemy law carries the death penalty, it te