{"id":183611,"date":"2010-01-15T10:46:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T15:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1045835"},"modified":"2010-01-15T10:46:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T15:46:31","slug":"kenya-police-shoot-hate-cleric-al-faisal-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/183611","title":{"rendered":"Kenya police shoot hate cleric al-Faisal supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"
One person has died after Kenyan police fired live rounds at supporters of a Jamaican-born Muslim cleric notorious for preaching racial hatred.<\/p>\n

Police also fired tear gas at hundreds of stone-throwing protesters calling for Abdullah al-Faisal to be freed.<\/p>\n

Faisal is in detention in Nairobi after Kenya failed to deport him.<\/p>\n

Kenya wants to expel him citing his "terrorist history". He was jailed for four years in the UK for soliciting the murder of Jews and Hindus.<\/p>\n

Sources at the Kenyatta Hospital have told the BBC that one person has died, while seven others sustained bullet wounds. Doctors say their lives are not in danger. <\/p>\n

\nIslamist flag?<\/p>\n

Muslim youths began the protest match after Friday prayers at the Jamia Mosque in the centre of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.<\/p>\n

They wanted to present a petition to Immigration Minister Otieno Kajwang and Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s office.<\/p>\n

But police had banned the march and intervened.<\/p>\n

One banner read: "Release al-Faisal, he is innocent", reports the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n

Some reports suggest that the protesters were waving flags of Somali Islamist group al-Shabab.<\/p>\n

Reuters news agency reports that some people joined the security forces in attacking the protesters.<\/p>\n

Faisal was arrested on 31 December 2009, a week after he is believed to have arrived from Tanzania.<\/p>\n

Mr Kajwang says The Gambia has agreed to take him in but Kenya was unable to send him there because airlines in Nigeria refused to carry him.<\/p>\n

Tanzania has also refused to let him re-enter its territory.<\/p>\n

Faisal was born Trevor William Forrest in St James, Jamaica – though he left the island 26 years ago, initially living in the UK.<\/p>\n

His parents were Salvation Army officers and he was raised as a Christian.<\/p>\n

Map of Africa<\/p>\n

But at the age of 16 he went to Saudi Arabia – where he is believed to have spent eight years – and became a Muslim.<\/p>\n

He took a degree in Islamic Studies in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, before coming back to the UK.<\/p>\n

Faisal spent years travelling the UK preaching racial hatred urging his audience to kill Jews, Hindus and Westerners.<\/p>\n

A year after being deported from the UK in 2007, he was preaching in South Africa.<\/p>\n

The Kenyan authorities said Faisal had arrived in Kenya on 24 December 2009 after travelling through Nigeria, Angola, Mozambique, Swaziland and Malawi and Tanzania.<\/p>\n

News from: http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/africa\/8461425.stm<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One person has died after Kenyan police fired live rounds at supporters of a Jamaican-born Muslim cleric notorious for preaching racial hatred. Police also fired tear gas at hundreds of stone-throwing protesters calling for Abdullah al-Faisal to be freed. Faisal is in detention in Nairobi after Kenya failed to deport him. Kenya wants to expel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1090,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1090"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}