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Kenya: Madrassa students and teacher arrested on way to join jihad terror group

Jun 16, 2014 6:19 pm By Robert Spencer

Al-shabaab-13Now wait a minute. Madrassa students spend the bulk of their time studying and memorizing the Qur’an. So according to the conventional wisdom, they’re the last people who would be interested in joining a jihad terror group, because they know well that Islam is a Religion of Peace that eschews violence. So how did they, of all people, come to misunderstand Islam so spectacularly? Or could it be that the conventional wisdom is wrong, and Islam is not a Religion of Peace? Naah — that can’t be it. To think that would be “Islamophobic.”

“Kenya: Five Arrested On Their Way to Join Al Shabaab,” by Calvin Onsarigo, The Star via AllAfrica.com, June 14, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

DETECTIVES are holding four Mombasa students and a Madrassa teacher arrested on their way to Somalia to join al Shabab. The four and Saidi Sheikh Amin, the madrassa teacher, were arrested in Baragoni 25km from Mokowe jetty in Lamu last week.

Two of the suspects are form two students from Kizingo in Mombasa. Yesterday, their school deputy principal Juma Abbassaid the two disappeared almost two weeks ago.

Abbas said they were average students and never showed any indication of extremism.

However, oolice [sic] said one of the two was among youths who were arrested when officers raided Masjid Musa (now Masjid Shuhadaa) to break up an alleged Jihad convention on February 2.

Abbas said the parents of one of the boys informed the school when he went missing. The parents said he had gone swimming in a Nyali beach but never returned home.

“We are not aware what might have prompted them to abandon studies and head to Somalia. We have not received an official statement from the parents and security agencies,” said Abbas.

Mombasa county CID boss Henry Ondiek said the case is being investigated by senior detectives and anti-terror police officers in Lamu.

“We have a team that is investigating the radicalisation in mosque, madrasas and now in schools. It’s about vulnerable youth falling prey to a nasty subset of religious ideology,” he said.

Senior anti-terror police officers investigating the case said the fourth youth arrested is believed to have undergone training in Somalia and had returned to recruit more youths to al Shabaab group.

Mombasa TSC county director of education Ibrahim Rugut said they are concerned over the rate of radicalisation in schools.

“We have issued a circular to all schools heads to be vigilant and monitor their students’ unusual behaviour. The financiers are around with huge money to recruit and train our students,”said Rugut.

He said head teachers have instructions to report extremist behaviour to education officials and security agents. Rugut said some of the signs are when students demand to grow long beards and to dye them.

Schools have also been ordered to profile all students by taking their photographs and family backgrounds.Police said students from poor background are the main targets for radicalisation.

Their families are paid monthly upkeep of more than Sh100,000 and Sh50,000.

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  1. sidney penny says

    Jun 16, 2014 at 6:45 pm

    “Madrassa students spend the bulk of their time studying and memorizing the Qur’an. ”

    Yes that is what I thought too.

    Am I wrong now?

  2. Jaladhi says

    Jun 16, 2014 at 7:36 pm

    Jihad is a holy duty of all Muslims. This what is taught in madrassas and in every mosque. A Muslim is not a Muslim unless he is involved in jihad against non-Muslims. Even the so called peaceful Muslims do that – stealth jihad!!

  3. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jun 16, 2014 at 10:16 pm

    These guys are ethnic Somali Muslims. Devout, orthodox Muslims taking Islam fully to heart.

    Kenya needs more Muslims like it needs a hole in the head.

    Kenya should let them go…tailing them all the way to the border, to make sure they’ve *gone* …then annul their Kenyan citizenship. Then, as known jihadis, if they come back over the border they should be viewed as declared enemies…to be shot on sight.

    They belong in Muslim Somalia, not in majority non-Muslim Kenya which will get on a whole lot better without ’em (the fewer mohammedans in Kenya, the fewer security headaches, trouble and expense for all non-Muslim Kenyans and for all non-Muslims who want to *visit* Kenya and enjoy its magnificent scenery, beaches and wildlife, Mt Kilimanjaro, etc).

    If their “community” and their family wants to be with them, Somalia is just across the way.

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    Jun 17, 2014 at 1:45 pm

    As for those people who come out of those Islamic mind programming centers which are known as madrassas. The information from the book SECRETS OFTHE KORAN by Don Richards on pages 69,70. gives the reader more insight about such places. For it reads under the subtitle “Danger in the Madrasas”
    it informs the reader that “The world needs to be warned. At last 40 million Muslim youth in the world’s religious schools, called madrasas, are avidly memorizing the entire Koran plus a generally extremist body of related traditions -the hadiths….these schools become breeding grounds for potential terrorists…When male students, isolated from famly and friends in madrasas, reach pubuerty,and their hormones become active, there are no girls to date. Instead, Muslim clerics easily shift to focusing the male student’s attention on Koranic verses that promise sex in heaven with dark-eyed houris. Students can only fantasize about matrydom followed by the sexual release Muhammad promised. This is an unspeakably cruel brainwashing technique, and the Koran is its perfect guidebook.”

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