كينيا: مقتل داعية يثير حالة واسعة من الغضب بين المسلمين

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

لقِي الشيخ الداعية "أبو بكر شريف مقبوري" - إمام "مسجد كيساوني" - بالقرب من مدينة "مومباسا" الكينية - مصرعه بعد أن أمطره مجهولون بوابل من النيران أثناء انتظاره لوسيلة مواصلات بعد خروجه من إحدى المحاكم بعد الإدلاء بشهادته؛ مما أثار حالة واسعة من الغضب بين شباب المسلمين.

وقد نُشرت تصريحات سابقة للشيخ - رحمه الله - تشير لتوقعه قتله على أيدي الشرطة الكينية، التي تتهمه بلا دليل بدعم الحركات الإسلامية المسلحة، وهي الاتهامات التي نفاها وردها المقربون منه.

وتأتي هذه الجريمة لتصطف جوار مثيلاتها بعد مقتل بعض الدعاة بطريقة مشابهة الأعوام الماضية دون إلقاء القبض على أحد؛ مما أثار غضب المسلمين؛ حيث اتهم المسلمون السلطات بالمسؤولية عن مقتلهم، وهو ما رده المسؤولون؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Imam’s Death Shocks Kenya Muslims

Threatening revival of angry Muslim protests, a prominent Kenyan Muslim scholar has been shot dead in Mombasa on Tuesday, April 1, in the latest attack targeting Muslim imams on the Kenyan coast.

"Our brother Abubakar Shariff Makaburi has left us. He is dead," a preacher at a mosque in Kisauni, a Muslim-dominated area near Mombasa, said through a loudspeaker on Tuesday night, Reuters reported.

"May his soul rest in peace. He has died a brave death."

Makaburi, dressed in white robes, was killed as he left a court compound about 15 km north of the port city of Mombasa, police chief for Kisauni area Richard Ngtia told journalists.

Waiting to be picked up after attending a court hearing with another young man, another vehicle approached and the men were sprayed with bullets killing both men, Ngtia added.

"One of them is the body of Abubaker Shariff alias Makaburi," Ngatia told reporters, adding that family members had identified the body, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported.

"They were waiting for a car to pick them up when people in a passing car shot at them. We don't know who killed them and why. We shall conduct an investigation," he said.

After news of Makaburi’s death, angry youth appeared outside the police station where the body had been taken. Police fired into the air to push back furious supporters of the scholar.

Mohamed Ali, who described himself as a "long-time friend of Makaburi", said he was with the scholar during the shooting, which occurred outside a Mombasa courthouse.

"We were expecting to be picked up outside the court, when we heard sudden gunshots. We all went to the ground," he said.

Accused by the United States and UN Security Council of supporting the Somali rebel group al-Shabab, Makaburi had been listed by the UN as a recruiter for the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group.

The dead scholar has long denied such accusations of helping to finance al-Shabab and recruiting young men in Mombasa