كينيا: غضب واسع لمداهمة الأمن مسجدا وقتل عدد من المسلمين داخله

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تشهد "كينيا" حالة واسعة من الغضب بعد قيام قوات الأمن بمداهمة "مسجد موسى" بمدينة "مومباسا" أثناء محاضرة لبعض الدعاة الشباب عن "الجهاد في الإسلام"؛ حيث ألقت القوات قنابل الغاز قبل مداهمته، وأطلقت النيران، ليسقط عدد من القتلى ويجري اعتقال الشاب الدعاة إلى جانب 130 آخرين و10 مفقودين.

وقد استنكر العديد من الدعاة والعلماء تلك الواقعة الإجرامية، مؤكدين حرمة مداهمة بيوت الله تعالى، وسفك دماء المسلمين الأبرياء، وتعجبوا من سماح قوات الأمن بالمحاضرة، ثم مداهمة المسجد؛ حيث أكد بعضهم أن المحاضرة لو كانت تشكل تهديدًا أمنيًّا لما سمحت بها السلطات أول الأمر؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Mosque Attack Stirs Kenya Muslims Outrage

Muslims in Kenya are still reeling in outrage and shock following a bloody and brazen attack on a major mosque in the coastal city of Mombasa by riot police that left several people dead, saying that attacking a house of worship was totally unacceptable.

“We do appreciate that the government has the primary responsibility of maintaining security in the country. But excessive and unintelligence application of force is unacceptable and futile in addressing the issue at hand,” Imam of Nairobi’s Jamia mosque Sheikh Muhammad Swalihu, who oversees the largest and most influential Muslim institution in Kenya, told OnIslam.net.

“Places of worship should be respected and remain sacrosanct under whatever circumstances. The way the police desecrated the mosque can never be justified,” he added.

The attack dates back to last Sunday when hundreds of heavily-armed police officers laid siege on Masjid Musa in Mombasa for several hours, seeking to break up a one-day seminar organized by youths in the mosque allegedly to discuss the Islamic rulings on Jihad.

Launching their attack, the police fired teargas bombs into the mosque, before storming into the building with guns blazing to arrest the youth, a move that was fiercely resisted by those gathered inside.

At the end of the unfortunate incident, a number of people lay dead, including one police officer, while several others injured.

The exact number of people who lost their lives in the bloody incident remains unclear; human rights groups insist that at least eight people died, contrary to police figures of three. At least 130 people were arrested, while at least 10 remain unaccounted for.

The police also claimed that they recovered a loaded AK 47 rifle from the mosque but this claim has failed to convince many Muslims in the country who believe the security forces may have planted the gun during the operation to justify their attack.

Muslim leaders from across Kenya were swift in their condemnation of the police handling of the incident, saying attacking a house of worship was totally unacceptable.

On his part, top Muslim scholar and legal expert Sheikh Ibrahim Lethome wondered why the police did not attempt to stop the meeting before it even started, if they considered it a "security threat."

“If they were opposed to the meeting, why did they allow it to take place the whole morning and only invade the mosque at midday, when people had come in for normal prayers? That would have prevented in unnecessary confrontation and loss of lives,” he told OnIslam.net.

“We cannot afford to keep silent on the fact that police used excessive force in disrupting the meeting, gross violation of human and children’s right. Whereas we do not support any illegal activity by any person whether Muslim or non-Muslim, the action by the police cannot be justified at all,” he added.