Foreigners arrested for trying to spread Christianity in Libya (Spread of "Democracy" alert!)

reuters ^ | 2/16/2013 | staff

[tobyhill]

Four foreigners have been arrested in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on suspicion of being Christian missionaries and printing books about Christianity, a security official said on Saturday.

"They were arrested on Tuesday at a publishing house where they were printing thousands of books that called for conversion to Christianity," security official Hussein Bin Hmeid said.

"Proselytizing is forbidden in Libya. We are a 100 percent Muslim country and this kind of action affects our national security."

Hmeid said the government-affiliated security apparatus called the Preventative Security, for which he is a spokesman, had arrested an Egyptian, a South African, a Korean and a Swede who was travelling on a U.S. passport.

[allendale]

Ah religious tolerance...another fruit blossoming in the Arab spring. Made possible by a generous grant from The Obama Foundation, Hilary Clinton and other assorted players in the Obama clown parade.

[CondorFlight]

“Proselytizing is forbidden in Libya. We are a 100 percent Muslim country...”

Well, US dollars paid a lot for that “Arab Spring”, without which the country would still be under Khadaffi.

So, I think we have the right to have a little say about whether “free Libya” will have the basic human right of freedom of religion.”

[CondorFlight]

“We are still holding interrogations and will hand them over to the Libyan intelligence authorities in a couple of days,”

They will be in good company; they won’t be the first Christians to suffer martyrdom in North Africa; it’s been going on there since the first century.

[abclily]

Didn’t Joan Baez (or some other female hippie singer) get assurance from the federal government that none of her tax money would be used for the Vietnam War?

I want assurance that none of my tax money will go to a muslim country.