BY
ADOW JUBAT
The al-Shabaab militia who ambushed Nairobi bound
bus from Mandera and killed 28 passengers has lectured to Muslim faithful in the
bus before they were released to foot 15 kilometers to Arabia center.
They were told to stop being “cowards” and defend
Islam in order secure “tenant” in the highest paradise in heaven.
The militia men told the travelers in their lectures
that last between 15-20 minutes that the Kenya government has declared a war on
minority Muslim in the country through its successive actions, which included,
but not limited to profiling of Muslim with the lasts closure of 3 mosques in
coastal city of Mombasa.
“A true Muslim who has the dream of entering the
paradise has been given an opportunity by infidels’ state of Kenya by closing
famous Muslim mosques (Sakina, Musa and Swafaa). There is no better time dying
for a course Allah and secure an easy ticket to the paradise. We must fight those
prosecuting Muslim and closing our places of worship like rats found in a
granary” One of the lecturers who was referred to as Amir (the leader) by his
colleagues is reported to have said.
A 25 years passenger, Ibrahim (requested to be
referred with one of his names) said the heavily armed attackers opened fire on
the speeding bus at a several junction along the road as the driver struggled
to safe his passengers by speeding.
“The driver managed to escape about three ambushes,
but later he succumbed to showers of the bullets after hit one of the
passenger. He feared that, many of the passengers will die if he keep on
speeding since the chances of escape was made minimal by the subsequent
ambushes ahead on the road” he said.
Ibrahim said, one of the passengers who were hit by
the indiscriminate gun shot during the driver’s escape of the previous ambushes
died inside the bus, while the other 27 were executed later after they were
picked out of the others in a parade to identify people allegedly based on
their perceived faith.
“After the
bus came to abrupt halt due to the showering bullets, all passengers were put
into two groups. One for those they thought was Muslim and those they thought
were not. They then started lecturing to the Muslim group extensively quoting verses
in surah Al- Tawabah in noble Quran. Some of verse they quoted states.
“Would you not fight a people who broke their oaths
and determined to expel the Messenger, and they had begun [the attack upon] you
the first time? Do you fear them? But Allah has more right that you should fear
Him, if you are [truly] believers. Fight them; Allah will punish them by your
hands and will disgrace them and give you victory over them and satisfy the
breasts of a believing people”
“It is not for the polytheists to maintain the
mosques of Allah [while] witnessing against themselves with disbelief. [For]
those, their deeds have become worthless, and in the Fire they will abide
eternally. The mosques of Allah are only to be maintained by those who believe
in Allah and the Last Day and establish prayer and give zakah and do not fear
except Allah, for it is expected that those will be of the [rightly] guided.
The survivor said two of the passengers who had been
categorized in the side of the non-Muslim get escaped death on a razor edge
after they told the attackers they were converts. “The two protested that they
were Muslim to the menacing militia. They were given oral test where they were
asked about procedures of prayers and to recite the Surah Fatih, a common verse
in all Islamic prayers.
Ibrahim who said he was among those standing inside
the bus since he could secure a seat and he was to travel, the militia has
praised Muslim cleric and youth in the coastal region whom they described that
are brave Muslim who has embraced the true teaching of Jihad and urged Muslim
in other region to stop cowardice and support the course of Islam.
He said the assailants were comfortable speaking
English and Kiswahili interchangeable and cried as they recite verses
from the Holy Quran. He said majority had had the physical features that are not Somalis. "These people looked more of people from other regions of Kenya and not pure Somalis" he added.
“They told us to join the cause of Allah like our
brothers from Mombasa. They claimed that AMISOM soldiers led by KDF were
abusing Muslim Somali ladies as documented by intentional human right bodies
and Muslim were being prosecuted in
Kenya. Don’t die as cowards” were they parting shots he added
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