Then there is the essentially nonexistent Southern border, where over two million illegal migrants entered the country in 2021. Since it’s a migration free-for-all at this point, surely there is room for one more, a man who is being hunted and is in imminent danger of death unless he finds refuge. Why not in the country that up until recently had been known far and wide as the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave?

UCA News reported back in November 2020 that “posters offering a reward of 10 million rupees (US$62,860) to kill a Pakistani Christian,” Faraz Pervaiz, “for posting anti-Islam content on social media have appeared in Karachi in southern Pakistan.” Since then, Pervaiz told me Sunday, the bounty has grown to $375,000 and has followed him halfway around the world, to Thailand, where he is being actively hunted by Muslims who are enraged at his alleged “blasphemy.”

According to UCA News, it’s all because he spoke out against jihad activity: Pervaiz “has been receiving threats since speaking out for minority Christians after the 2013 attack on Joseph Colony of Lahore by a mob that looted and destroyed 116 houses and two churches. He led protests demanding action from the police and ran a blog in which he challenged both the politics and theology of Islam, presented his own interpretations of the Quran and criticized the Prophet Muhammad. He fled Pakistan in 2014 after radical Muslims grew enraged by caricatures, statements and videos he and his father, a political leader, posted on various accounts.” But fleeing didn’t end Pervaiz’s torment.

I am receiving continuous threats by phone. I cannot go out, because Pakistani Muslims in Thailand want to kill me. The lucrative bounty on my head has attracted even good people to try to kill me. Since the threats that were issued against my life throughout 2019 and 2020, including by Taha Cheema and Saira Ishmail, among other fanatics, our lives continue to hang in the balance.

We have a very precarious situation, which is impacting my health and also my mother’s health. There remains a lucrative bounty on our heads, in the vicinity of $375,000 USD, which makes it attractive to harm us. I was attacked here by Sunni Muslims, and some Muslim refugee women disclosed my location.

In seeking aid and refuge, Pervaiz has encountered only indifference: “It is also worth noting that the Pakistani government issued an arrest warrant for me last year, but the United Nations never helped me. Only some people in the Christian world know about me, and jihadis will celebrate my death.” There is more.