Masih surrendered to police and asked to be held in jail voluntarily after being the target of threats from the outlawed terrorist group Jamaad ud Dawa.
Source/Credit: World Net Daily
By Michael Carl | November 16, 2013
Pakistani preacher Adnan Masih says jail is safer than the streets of Lahore, Pakistan, and that’s why he asked to be put behind bars.
Masih surrendered to police and asked to be held in jail voluntarily after being the target of threats from the outlawed terrorist group Jamaad ud Dawa.
Members of the group are reported to have filed a blasphemy charge against the 25-year-old teacher and preacher. They allege that Masih blasphemed Muhammad by writing in a book that was on sale in his brother’s store.
Angry mobs surrounding the courthouse forced the cancellation of Masih’s most recently scheduled court appearance.
International Christian Concern Asia specialist William Stark says he’s not so sure that jail is safer for the street preacher.
“Whether he is safer in police custody or in hiding is debatable. In hiding, Adnan could be discovered by extremists and murdered. In police custody, he will be held in jail away from the extremists in Pakistan’s society, but will be exposed to the extremists that are in the prison system,” Stark said.
He said sometimes it’s more dangerous in prison.
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