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. “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.
Culled from: NBC News
It's a relief that they didn't do more than arrest the 'missionaries'. Back then before the war, things like that were liable to get you shot. . . now, with the war and tensions and paranoia on the high, you could get a limb hacked off if you're not careful. . .
. . . What were they thinking?!
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