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Muslims Riot In Kenya After Killing Of Al Shabab Linked Imam
October 4, 2013
Youths burn church, riot in Kenya's Mombasa after imam killed
"Young Muslims set fire to a church, burned tires and clashed with police in Kenya's main port city of Mombasa on Friday, after the killing of an Islamic cleric his followers blamed on security forces.
Sheikh Ibrahim Omar's death ignited religious tensions in the commercial and tourism hub in east Africa's largest economy, two weeks after Islamist militants killed at least 67 people in a raid on Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall.
The imam was shot dead in Mombasa on Thursday night, police said. He preached at a mosque that has in the past been linked to the Somali al Shabaab Islamists who claimed responsibility for the shopping center attack..."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/04/us-kenya-shooting-idUSBRE9930C420131004
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