MUSLIM PREACHERS TARGETED IN KENYA

The Muslim Human Rights Forum is deeply perturbed by an emerging trend where Muslim preachers in Kenya and especially those involved in preaching their faith are being targeted for deportation. Over the past few months, Muslim scholars involved in the propagation of Islam in the country have been subject of strict state surveillance and those from foreign countries but legally living there have been targeted for deportation. The latest victim of such action is Sheikh Mohammed Yunus Kamoga who was detained for a week and deported back to Uganda last week, in unclear circumstances. Sheikh Kamoga had been legally living in Kenya for almost 30 years now where his main activity has been propagation of Islam. He has not been involved in any other activity save for this, and we believe that this is the main reason for his deportation. Not long ago, another scholar, Sheikh Ibrahim Shariff Atass of Al-Manaar Welfare Organisation, was also deported to the United Kingdom. He is a young propagator who was born and brought up in Kenya and had been legally living in the country with his Kenyan family.