Kenya: Moderate Muslim Cleric Shot Dead

The Chairman of the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya, Mohammed Idris, has been shot dead in Likoni, Mombasa county. The sheikh had been accused of being against Jihad and a government sympathiser.

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Sheikh Mohammed Idris was the Imam of Sakina mosque for at least 30 years.

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