AND NOW SCHOOLS ARE SAID TO BE RECRUITING AL-SHABAAB ...A new report seems to have confirmed the worst fears of Nairobians that there are probably hundreds of terrorists being prepared for attacks across the nation. Prominent secondary schools in Nairobi are radicalising young Muslims for jihad (holy war), a leaked report of the National Intelligence Service says. The report gives a list of the schools and further says they have been identified by al-shabaab as carriers of their mission. The schools include Moi Forces, State House Girls’ and Limuru Girls’. Security agencies have identified some secondary schools in Nairobi as some of the schools where the militant organisation, Al-Shabaab, is in a recruitment spree. Al-Shabaab recruitment is ongoing in various secondary schools in Nairobi where students are being radicalised, introduced to Jihad. They are then facilitated to commit terror acts aimed at damaging the economy, assassination of political and security leaders, and attacking western interests and tourists. According to a leaked report of the National Intelligence Service ( NIS), besides mosques “recruitment is ongoing in schools, especially in Nairobi Technical School, Highway Secondary, Eastleigh High and Sheikh Khalifa in Mombasa.†The report says that: “Islamic scholars with extremist tendencies have also been conducting programmes in schools such as Moi Forces, State House Girls, Limuru Girls, St George’s Secondary, Aga Khan and Eastleigh High within Nairobi.†The report alleges that it is in some of these schools where students have demanded to be allowed to put on the hijab (veil for girls). On November 1, 2010, a Kenya High School student sued the institution seeking orders on behalf of fellow Muslim students to force the school to comply with a directive by the then Education PS, Karega Mutahi, to schools to allow students wear religious dresses, especially the hijab for Muslims. The case was filed by the student’s mother while other affidavits were sworn by Muslim scholar Sheik Khalfan Kamisi and one Fatuma Hirsi Mohamed. In a previous interview, Sheikh Ahmed M Athman, the Imam of Jamia Landhies Mosque, said wearing of hijab for women is an edict of the Quran and is mandatory.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 07:47:51 +0000
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