Hassan Mahati Omar has dedicated his life to understanding Islam properly and teaching it to others. He has spent years studying the Qur’an and Sunnah. How did he come to misunderstand the Religion of Peace to which he has given so many years of study, and to misunderstand it in exactly the same way as do untold numbers of his coreligionists around the world, who all somehow get the Islamophobic notion that jihad has something to do with violence against unbelievers?
“Muslim cleric arrested with grenade in Eastleigh denied bail,” by Vincent Agoya for the Daily Nation, April 3 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):
A Muslim cleric and his wife allegedly found with two grenades during a swoop in Nairobi’s Eastleigh estate following a terrorist attack in which six people were killed have been denied bail.
The couple will be helping police with investigations to recover 20 other grenades said to be hidden in the city, the trial court ruled.
Mr Hassan Mahati Omar and his wife Ms Fardosa Mohammed Abdi were charged with being in possession of two hand grenades on April 1, 2014 at Madina Apartments in Eastleigh Section 7.
They were also charged with being members of an al Shabaab terrorist cell operating in Kenya.
The prosecution said the two are suspected to be involved in terrorism and that on April 1, “they were found to be members of the al Shabaab after being found in possession of the two grenades which were meant to be used for terrorism activities.”
While opposing their request for release on bond, prosecutor Isaiah Mwiranga told the court that the two were needed to help trace the hidden explosives and that they may interfere with ongoing investigations.
Their lawyer Chacha Mwita claimed the defence would prove the “grenades were planted on the suspects.”
The prosecutor said the recovered weapons were part of a larger cache being sought in an on-going probe.
The prosecutor objected to a suggestion by Mr Mwita that the suspects have so far been cooperative and would not abscond if released.
“They remain a security threat to this country and its citizens and the application for bail is meant to defeat justice,” the prosecutor said.
He said officers from the anti-terrorism police unit were not yet through with investigations.
Magistrate Elena Nderitu said there were sufficient reasons to compel the court to detain the suspects until such a time those investigations are complete and to prevent them from interfering.
The case will be mentioned on April 17.
The cleric and his wife were arrested after police mounted a security operation in Eastleigh following a terrorist attack on March 31.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Post-Kenyatta regatta to help float the dictator
Say, the hand grenade holy man is from Barack Hussein’s homeland,
naw, he was born in Jakarta, and anyway we now know he’s a liar,
we always sensed it, but now undeniable, falsehood with a heavy hand,
big talk, exploding pineapples, theocracy grapples, a rotten subverter.
Jay Boo says
There will be a flood of outspoken ‘moderate’ Muslims condemning all violence against non-Muslims soon.
Just wait
idir says
In Algeria, few years ago, one teenager of 15 blow himself in a coastal guard office. Everyone was surprised why a boy of that age would blow himself. His father said that his son changed completely when he started seeing an Imam and going to the local mosque. He used to play guitar and have a girlfriend. He left everything and dedicated himself to Allah. It took him few weeks before he was convinced that blowing himself is the best thing Allah wants him to do. How people can still doubt that Islam is the root of evil in Earth since it appeared 1400 years ago??
Shushi Banana says
I have advice for you Kenyans, English, Canada, America, my advice is anytime the religious Somalis move near you, you have to know you are not too safe, you and your family should move to different area of town.
dumbledoresarmy says
Is that a threat??
Why should those who were there first be forced to move out when Somali Muslims move in?
I have a better idea: the Kenyan non-Muslims, the Canadians, the Americans, the Australians, the Europeans, anywhere that Somali Muslims have moved in and are starting to basically behave like thugs, should *wake up*, get together, and *demand* 1/ that their governments stop admitting Somali Muslims into their (the non-Muslims’) countries and 2/ that said Somali Muslims be moved right back out…sent back to Somalia where they belong.
gravenimage says
Shushi, if Infidels give ground every time they are threatened by aggressive and violent Muslims, it will just embolden them and create more “No-Go” areas.
gravenimage says
Kenya: Muslim cleric arrested with hand grenades
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How many here are old enough to remember when the idea of the “holy hand-grenade” (famous Monty Python sketch) was just a puckish joke, and not a Jihad terrorist threat?
Oh, those innocent days…