The police in Kenya on Tuesday raided an Islamic school, arresting teachers and over 100 children.
The police have detained these teachers and school children in what they say is a counter-terrorism operation involving foreign law-enforcement agencies.
The school in Likoni, south of the port city of Mombasa has been described by the police as a centre for indoctrinating young men and children with militant ideology.
Reuters reported that a source told it that the school “has been monitored for a long time,”
A senior official in the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya (CIPK), Sheikh Hassan Omar, told journalists in Mombasa that “A group of local and foreign police officers raided the madrasa (Islamic school) where the pupils were sleeping and took them with their teachers,”
Kenya, mostly a Christian nation also has larger Islamic population but officials fear Islamic extremism could threaten the country’s peace.
Source: Africafeeds.com
