Monthly Archives: March 2009

Libya Tortures Four Christian Converts from Islam

By | 2009-03-09T14:33:00-04:00 March 9th, 2009|Press Releases|

Other Christian converts on the run fearing for their lives. WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 9, 2009) - International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Libyan intelligence officials have detained and tortured four Christians for converting from Islam. The Christians have been imprisoned for the past seven weeks in Tripoli, Libya's capital.

U.N. May Try to Criminalize Criticism of Islam

By | 2009-03-08T16:26:00-04:00 March 8th, 2009|Op-Eds|

UNITED NATIONS -- For the last nine years, the U.N.'s annual ban on defaming Islam has been non-binding. In March, the United Nations may try to impose its view on Islamic blasphemy on all of its member nations -- including the United States -- thus making criticism of Islam a crime. In December, the U.N. General Assembly, as it has every year since 1999, passed a resolution titled "Combating Defamation of Religions."

The victims of the ICC warrant

By | 2009-03-07T19:23:00-04:00 March 7th, 2009|Op-Eds|

The International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Al-Beshir, though expected, has lit a fire under Arab and African leaders whose own despotic regimes may very well find themselves on the wrong end of the ICC stick — with no carrots in sight.