Dispatch from Mombasa

The quiet of a Sunday afternoon in Majengo Mombasa was shattered by the sound of gunfire and depending on where you looked at it from, the aggressors had done it again. For the police, they had come to keep peace by “ejecting” Muslim youth who were congregating in Masjid Musa to listen to a “ radical extremist” sermon. They knew this because they saw black flags that had gun drawings draped on the minarets of the mosque. Pix: Courtesy of  The Star Newspaper On the other hand, local youth, leaders both political and clerical saw it differently.  The youth were exercising their constitutionally guaranteed religious rights and the police should not have attacked them. In fact they claimed the police transgressed on the rights of the youth and according to area MP Abdulswamad Shariff Nassir on his Facebook page that was a “terror act”. As accusations and counter accusations flew, two people lay dead , either felled by the police or injured by the youth. Many others were i...