If they could only send this one back to Kenya, too...
Posted on 01/11/2010 5:39:22 PM PST by La Lydia
NAIROBI - A radical Jamaican-born Muslim cleric who led a British mosque attended by convicted terrorists was flown back to Kenya on Sunday after an attempt to deport him failed, officials said. Nigerian authorities refused to grant a transit visa for Sheik Abdullah el-Faisal and instead sent him back to Kenya. Al-Amin Kimathi, head coordinator for the Muslim Human Rights Forum, said el-Faisal was now being held in a Nairobi prison. He said el-Faisal had been invited to Kenya by Muslim youths to give lectures. Kenya deported el-Faisal on Thursday, as Immigration Minister Otieno Kajwang said the cleric posed a serious threat to the country's security.
Kajwang said the cleric had chosen Gambia as a destination, and Gambia accepted, after attempts to fly him to Jamaica failed. Britain, South Africa, Tanzania and the U.S. have declined to grant el-Faisal a transit visa that would allow him to connect to flights to Jamaica...
El-Faisal served four years in Britain for inciting murder and stirring racial hatred by urging followers to kill Americans, Hindus and Jews... At a news conference Sunday, on speaker phone ... a man who identified himself to journalists as el-Faisal said he was being held at a prison in Nairobi's industrial area and described the conditions as "horrible."...
Kenyan officials have said el-Faisal had traveled to Kenya from Nigeria through Angola, Malawi, Swaziland, Mozambique and Tanzania.... El-Faisal arrived in Kenya on Dec. 24, but immigration officials at a border point did not know who he was because a database that has the watch list was shut down while new software was being installed. Kenyan authorities realized he was in the country after a week...
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He was finally impeached? Terrific.
Oh, wait, wrong one.
Dangnabbit!, you beat me to it.
Sounds like muslim human rights are something special compared to the regular garden-variety human rights. So typical for the little dears.
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