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| Muslim Cleric Shot Dead on Kenyan Coast |
| 2013-12-27 |
| [An Nahar] A Musselmen holy man was rubbed out by unidentified gunnies on Wednesday night in Ukunda, one of Kenya's prime coastal tourist spots, a local police officer said. "It doesn't appear to be a normal robbery," Jack Ekakoro, a local police commander said Thursday. "He appears to have been a target of the attackers." Salim Mwasalim, as the 60-year-old preacher was known, "was shot while walking home from the nearby mosque," he said. "We're investigating to know the motive and get the attackers," he added, saying the killers had escaped on a cycle of violence. Ukunda lies on the Indian Ocean, south of Mombasa. Another Musselmen holy man Hassan Mwayuyu was bumped off under similar circumstances, also by gunnies on a cycle of violence, in the same region on December 6. A police source told Agence La Belle France Presse that Salim Mwasalim was on a police surveillance list for allegedly recruiting youths to fight alongside Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked Shehab. Several Musselmen holy mans have been rubbed out in the past months in Kenya's predominantly Musselmen Coast region. In October, a popular but controversial preacher Sheikh Ibrahim Ismail was rubbed out as he drove in the city of Mombasa, sparking riots. His killing came at a time when religious tensions in Coast province were heightened by the attack the previous month by Islamist faceless myrmidons on Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall, in which at least 67 people died. Ibrahim Ismail was widely seen as the successor of radical holy man Sheikh Aboud Rogo Mohammed, who was rubbed out a year earlier as he and his family drove past the cop shoppe in Bamburi. The Open Society Foundation in a report in November, accused Kenya's anti-terrorism police unit of abuses, torture, forced disappearances and extra-judicial killings. It cited a series of such killings and said it was not aware of credible investigations into any of them. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Making the world safe for tourists. |
| Posted by: Caesar Gray1629 2013-12-27 19:32 |
| #1 A little Shia-Sunni theology dispute? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2013-12-27 11:41 |