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Kenya: Jihad attack that murdered 60 was led by “white man speaking fluent British English”

Jun 18, 2014 1:32 pm By Robert Spencer

Mpeketoni_2946164bThis will be awkward for the British mainstream media narrative that “Asians,” i.e. Muslims, are victims of racism from “whites,” and if the “whites” would just behave better and be less xenophobic, the problem of jihad would evanesce like the morning dew. The fact is that the problem of jihad has nothing whatsoever to do with race; it stems from a complex of beliefs that can be and are held by people of all races. The question now arises of where this “white man speaking fluent British English” learned his Islam; is anyone looking into that over in Britain, or would that be “not conducive to the public good”?

“Kenya al-Shabaab attack ‘was led by white man speaking fluent British English,'” by Mike Pflanz, Telegraph, June 18, 2014:

A white man speaking “fluent British English” led suspected al-Shabaab commandos who ransacked towns in northern Kenya leaving 60 people dead, witnesses have said.

Several people in Mpeketoni, which was attacked by as many as 40 Islamist gunmen on Sunday, told The Telegraph that the gang’s leader was pale-skinned and spoke English and Arabic.

One of the witnesses is a primary schoolteacher who speaks good English, unlike many people in the remote corner of Kenya near the Lamu archipelago that earlier this week became the country’s latest terror target.

The accounts strengthened suggestions that the attackers were part of a well-trained team sent by al-Shabaab under the co-ordination of an experienced foreign jihadi now working with the Somali Islamists.

“I saw a white man who was speaking in fluent British English commanding the rest of the attackers,” said Mary Gachoki, who lives in Mpeketoni.

Another woman, who did not want to be named for fear of al-Shabaab reprisals, said: “There was a white man among them, he was commanding them and was shouting now and then.

“I saw him ordering them to carry out the attacks, he could be heard speaking frequently and at one point he spoke in Arabic but most of the time in English,” she said.

James Mwangi, another witness, was talking with a friend when he heard the first gunshots.

“I saw a group of armed man standing then dividing themselves into groups, one went to the police station, one towards the town centre to attack the banks and businesses,” he said.

“All were commanded by someone who was white or an Arab,” he said.

The claims echoed similar allegations made during the Westgate terror massacre in a Nairobi shopping centre last September, when witnesses said they saw a white woman among the attackers.

This prompted suggestions that Samantha Lewthwaite, the world’s most wanted woman who is said to be living in al-Shabaab territory in Somalia, was involved.

CCTV footage has since shown these reports were false.

The larger of the two most recent raids happened on Sunday night, when gunmen took control of Mpeketoni town and went door-to-door asking people if they were Muslims. They executed those who were not. Sixty people died.

There were further clashes on Monday night, when as many as 15 more people were killed. So far, no one has been arrested.

Kenya’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta, shocked many when he claimed the raids were the work of local politicians trying to stir up ethnic hatred against his Kikuyu tribe, and not al-Shabaab.

This was despite the fact that the Somalia-based al-Qaeda army had already claimed responsibility.

Benson Maisori, the region’s deputy commissioner, denied that a white man had led the raid and said a German man who lives with his Kenyan wife in Mpeketoni may have been mistaken as one of the attackers.

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  1. John C. Barile says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 1:44 pm

    Many venomous heads, one thoroughly evil heart.

  2. Charli Main says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 1:48 pm

    This is quite possible. While working in the Middle East, in years past, I have seen many ” white skinned, blue eyed ” Arabs. I just assumed that they were mixed race folk, having European mothers.
    To be fair, I always found them to be polite and they were good workers.

  3. Reality Check says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 2:08 pm

    “This will be awkward for the British mainstream media narrative that “Asians,” i.e. Muslims, are victims of racism from “whites,” and if the “whites” would just behave better and be less xenophobic, the problem of jihad would evanesce like the morning dew.”

    Excuse me but normally people become xenophobic when certain minorities show no respect for the law and the moral values of their host country and want to transform it into something completely different. Isn’t that a respectable enough reason to be mistrustful and unwilling to deal with certain violent cockroaches that don’t care that they make life as miserable as hell for the indigenous population?

    • Uri says

      Jun 18, 2014 at 2:28 pm

      It certainly is.

  4. BLOODFART says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 3:04 pm

    Even ne the Brits play the race card… Muslims are the PROBLEM,they’re the ones who need to be going to HATE and TOLERANCE meetings…

    • Littlenan says

      Jun 18, 2014 at 3:55 pm

      Exactly!

  5. The Islamist says

    Jun 19, 2014 at 1:41 am

    I heard that this attack was done by born again christian opposition politicians, according to the christian president. Kuffar are below the beasts.

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