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Foreigners arrested for trying to spread Christianity in Libya
by Rishi Sun Feb 17, 2013 12:34 am
BENGHAZI, Libya — 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 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 traveling on a U.S. passport.
"We are still holding interrogations and will hand them over to the Libyan intelligence authorities in a couple of days," Hmeid said, without giving further details.
The Preventative Security apparatus is a parallel security body created during the 2011 war that ousted Moammar Gadhafi and made up of several rebel brigades that fought in the conflict.
Libya's central government has yet to impose its authority on a myriad of armed groups that have yet to lay down their arms and with skeletal national security forces, it often relies on them for security.
http://news.msn.com/world/foreigners-arrested-for-trying-to-spread-christianity-in-libya
Looks like Muslims are more secular than Hindus who whine about conversion through deceit.
"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 traveling on a U.S. passport.
"We are still holding interrogations and will hand them over to the Libyan intelligence authorities in a couple of days," Hmeid said, without giving further details.
The Preventative Security apparatus is a parallel security body created during the 2011 war that ousted Moammar Gadhafi and made up of several rebel brigades that fought in the conflict.
Libya's central government has yet to impose its authority on a myriad of armed groups that have yet to lay down their arms and with skeletal national security forces, it often relies on them for security.
http://news.msn.com/world/foreigners-arrested-for-trying-to-spread-christianity-in-libya
Looks like Muslims are more secular than Hindus who whine about conversion through deceit.
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