Al Amin Kimathi, the Executive Director of Muslim for Human Rights Forum, has said his life is in danger.

Vocal Human Rights Activist Al Amin Kimathi

Speaking in a press conference on Thursday, Kimathi, who was held in solitary confinement in Kampala's Luzira Maximum Security Prison in 2010 after terror attacks in Kampala, said officials from  human rights organizations told him  he is on the “next to be killed” order after Sheikh Abubakar  Shariff Alias Makaburi.

He also quoted an Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU) official based at Pangani who said Al Amin Kimathi will be the next high profile person the death squad will be looking for.

“During a chat at the police station, at some point (he) (the ATPU officer) started talking about Mombasa and Makaburi. Then he commented that the next high profile person they will be looking for is Al Amin Kimathi,” he said.

“I am not worried because I must die one day and if it is to die for my ideals and the position I have adopted in my work, I will gladly do so,” Kimathi said.

Last week, Kimathi was publicly heard calling for revenge for Makaburi’s killers.

“We can no longer tolerate what is going in this country you must defend your rights even if it means paying the ultimate price,” he said.

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Another radical Muslim cleric has taken over the mantle of leadership at the infamous Masjid Shuhadaa Mosque replacing the late Sheikh Abubakar Sharif, aka Makaburi, who was murdered in cold blood last week.

The troubled Masjid  Shuhadaa also known as Masjid Musa during a police carried out a raid recently

The Imam only identified as Sheikh Amir, alias Mahboob, was named the de facto leader of Masjid Shuhadaa and installed last Friday before the supporters of Makaburi who had flocked the mosque after prayers ready to riot.

Sheikh Mahboob immediately declared war against non-Muslims, telling radical Muslims who were ready to demonstrate to calm down as he will organize a bigger and better revenge against non-Muslims for killing Makaburi and Rogo. He also called for killing of any Muslim shying away from killing non-Muslims, terming such Muslims as ‘kaffirs’.

The fiery cleric moved to prove to his followers that he would live to ideologies of the late Makaburi and Aboud Rogo and renewed the wave of radicalization teaching in full glare of police forces and journalists amid applause from flowers who shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is Great).

Mahboob enjoys support from majority of radical Muslims youths and is quoted several times in the past praising terrorist attacks in Kenya. This has run a pang of shock amongst Muslim leaders in Kenya as they deem such utterances as evils that will perpetually taint Islam with permanence.

The police in Mombasa led by Commissioner Nelson Marwa said they are still profiling the fiery cleric before they can take action. Marwa confirmed that they got the recording of the Friday’s sermon by the radical cleric and are analyzing it before they can decide the next course of action.

Sheikh Mahboob’s call of annihilation and disemboweling of non-Muslims can be heard in the video below.

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It is finally emerging that slain Islamic cleric, Sheikh Abubakar Shariff Ahmed alias  Makaburi was not assassinated by the Government as many Kenyans had been forced to believe.

 

Police pick the body of slain fiery Muslim cleric Sheikh Makaburi outside Mombasa Shanzu Law Courts

According to intelligence reports from Kenyan, British and American detectives, Makaburi was a victim of a power struggle within the Al Shabaab.

The report which was published in the Mirror , a UK based newspaper o Saturday, said it was Samantha Lewthwaite (the white widow) who ordered the killing of the radical Islamic cleric.

The information comes a day after top Muslim leaders and clerics accused the Jubilee Government of being behind the killing of the fiery cleric who advocated for the killing of Christians (/Kafirs/) at the coastal city of Mombasa.

The London based paper says Makaburi was killed due to his refusal of becoming a senior Al Shababab leader in Kenya and Uganda.

Sources say Samantha, who is hiding in a remote village in an Al Shabaab controlled region in Somalia, ordered the killing of Makaburi terming him a “betrayer of Muslims”

This may be cemented by news that those who shot Makaburi on Tuesday evening were men wearing white robes (Kanzus) and Muslim caps.

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