Kenya jails radical Muslim teacher Salim Mohamed Wabwire

{A Muslim school teacher and preacher has been sentenced to 20 years in prison by a court in Kenya for radicalising children.}

Children testified that Salim Mohamed Wabwire taught them that Christians should be killed.

Contrary to earlier reports, the court in Mombasa city acquitted him of being a member of militant Islamist group al-Shabab, and recruiting for it.

The group, which is linked to al-Qaeda, has increasingly targeted Kenya.
It killed 148 people in an assault on Garissa University College in north-eastern Kenya in April.

Wabwire was a primary school teacher, and an Imam at the Jihad Mosque in a rural area north of Mombasa.

A convert from Christianity, he was previously known as Samuel Wanjala Wabwire.
While some of the children testified against him, one tried to cover up for him, the court said.

Source:BBC:[Kenya jails radical Muslim teacher Salim Mohamed Wabwire->http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35252033]

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