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Kenya: Jihad suicide bomber was recruited for jihad by a Muslim cleric at a mosque

Jan 22, 2019 9:00 am By Robert Spencer

This is odd, right? After all, we all know Islam is a religion of peace. How did Aboud Rogo and the other people at the Masjid Musa come to misunderstand the religion they were dedicated to living out properly? Surely the learned imam Pope Francis is on his way to Kenya now in order to explain to those who attended this mosque that authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Qur’an reject every form of violence.

“Homegrown terrorist: The humble beginnings of suicide bomber in Riverside attack,” by Enock Sikolia, Citizen Digital, January 21, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

The terrorist who blew himself up before the attack on the 14 Riverside complex in Nairobi has been on the police list of the most wanted terror suspects since 2014.

Despite his photos having been advertised and strategically placed in Mombasa, Mahir Khalid Riziki managed to sneak out of the country in 2014 and back in 2019 to participate in an attack in the country’s capital Nairobi.

Mahir was born and brought up at Majengo estate in Mombasa.

He apparently used to attend prayers at the Masjid Musa mosque situated a few metres from their family house and he was said to be a close friend of the late controversial Muslim cleric, Aboud Rogo.

It is believed that it’s during his time at Masjid Musa that Mahir was brainwashed and radicalized.

At the time, the 25-year-old was a Tuk – Tuk driver in Mombasa.

But his journey to officially join the Al Shabaab terror group would begin in February 2014 the day, security forces raided Masjid Musa Mosque with an aim of flushing out radical elements.

The late Abubakar Shariff alias Makaburi, a controversial cleric was in charge of the Mosque.

On the day police raided Masjid Musa, Mahir was among the youth who clashed with law enforcers and was arrested as a suspected Al Shabaab insurgent.

According to the government in 2014, Masjid Musa had turned into a breeding ground for terrorists and it was time to remove radical elements at all cost.

During the melee, Mahir broke his leg and was hospitalized at Coast General Hospital under the watchful eye of the police. But tight security was not enough to keep Mahir tied on the hospital bed as he mysteriously escaped from hospital into thin air.

Later that year, Mahir got married and moved to Bakarani estate in Mombasa, an estate where talking about him and his life is scary.

According to police, in 2014, Mahir was part of an assassination cell tasked by Al-Shabaab to kill security personnel at the Kenyan coast.

In October 2014, he was involved in the killing of a police officer at Royal Court Hotel. The team was led by Ismael Mohamed Shosi alias Ismael Mmanga, a former resident of Bondeni….

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  1. mortimer says

    Jan 22, 2019 at 9:11 am

    The grand TAQIYYA of Western mullahs is still working in the minds of many Western POLLYANNAS who believe ‘niceness’ will win Muslims over to a MODERN, MULTICULTURAL WORLDVIEW. It will not. Muslims ‘know’ that they have a duty to subjugate the LEFTARDED POLLYANNAS and force them to live under DISCRIMINATORY Sharia law.

    The denial of the Western LEFTARDS must be among the most severe cases of self-inflicted delusion and wishful thinking in psychological history. The LEFTARDED POLLYANNAS simply IGNORE EVERY JIHAD ATTACK and every statement of TERRORIST MOTIVATION by the jihadists with a simplistic dismissal of ‘madness’. Leftarded POLLYANNAS cannot comprehend a religion with commandments to murder infidels because they are infidels.

    Ayatollah Khomeini rebuked the Pollyannas of the religion-of-peace crowd:

    “Those who know NOTHING of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those [who say this] are WITLESS. Islam says: KILL ALL the unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Does this mean that Muslims should sit back until they are devoured by [the unbelievers]? Islam says: Kill them, put them to the sword and scatter [their armies]….Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The SWORD IS THE KEY TO PARADISE, which can be opened only for the Holy Warriors! There are hundreds of other ayahs and hadiths urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all this mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I SPIT UPON those foolish souls who make such a claim.”

    -Ayatollah Khomeini

  2. Mac-101 says

    Jan 22, 2019 at 9:13 am

    I have yet to read of an ole dying Cleric/Inman/Ayatollah what have you, bein a suicide bomber. Didn’t Mohammad once say he wasn’t even sure if he would go to heaven? You’d think that a dyng one who believed this murderous Satanic stuff would go out kill a bunch of infidels instead of dyin in his bed!
    .
    Instead they send others out!

  3. Bob Smith says

    Jan 22, 2019 at 10:43 am

    Recruited at a mosque!

    Why not shut down the mosques? Why not arrest the mullah who “recruited” the jihadist?

    Islam can be defeated. All it takes is courage and knowing where to hit it.

    No mosques, no mullahs, no jihad money – NO JIHAD.

    Read it all at: http://rico-m3.blogspot.com/

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 22, 2019 at 12:17 pm

    In Nairobi, Kenya that jihadist just after his Islamic suicide /homicide bombing attack right after he died ,to his shock and horror, he found himself trapped and suffering in the fires of an awful place the Bible calls “hell.” Luke 16:19-31. That jihad minded Muslim of ISIS was dangerous to self and others because that he was indoctrinated with and likewise believed in the doctrine found in the Quran, 44:54. 55:56. 78;31.,of a lust –filled sex paradise with many virgins, in in for his use only, because he died as a “martyr” for the cause of Islam. That jihadist will discover the hard way that he was instructed in and put his faith in a false doctrine that is from a false religious book of false religion .This doctrine of a paradise for the jihadist who died fighting for Islam was only an enticing religious story of fiction. The Bible does give warning against giving “heed to fables…” First Timothy 1:4. [N.K.J.V] As for in a murderous jihad attack, in spite, of the Muslim clerics falsely calling it a “martyrdom operation.” That jihadist after in dies in a jihad murder attack, and learn too late, the truth of Bible with informs its reader that a murderer “will not inherit the Kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:21.

    In addition, such false teachers, as those imams and mullahs, who teach and ingrain false yet enticing doctrines as that a lust /sex fill place with virgins into the hearts and minds of others had been predicted in the Bible. For it is written, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine , but according to their own desires , because they have itching ears , they will heap up for themselves teachers ; and they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables.” Second Timothy 3,4.

  5. walters m says

    Jan 22, 2019 at 3:39 pm

    people are now leaving islam

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 22, 2019 at 8:22 pm

      I wish more of them were leaving Islam.

      • Walters m says

        Feb 26, 2019 at 1:57 pm

        Stats show, they’re leaving in numbers.

  6. Ole Pederson says

    Jan 22, 2019 at 4:44 pm

    Funny thing. Cover up the lower part of his face especially the lips and the guy looks like Obama.

  7. gravenimage says

    Jan 22, 2019 at 8:26 pm

    Kenya: Jihad suicide bomber was recruited for jihad by a Muslim cleric at a mosque
    …………………..

    This should surprise no one–Mosques are regularly used for plotting violent Jihad.

    This Mosque should be shut down immediately, and its Imam and parishioners investigated.

  8. Vicky King says

    Jan 23, 2019 at 6:31 am

    All mosques (Islamic JIhadi HQs) plaguing the landscape of America must be destroyed.

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