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Kenya to deport 'hate preacher' Kenya 'expels race-hate cleric'
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Kenya is set to deport a Jamaican-born Muslim cleric, who was expelled from Britain in 2007 after serving a jail term for inciting racial hatred. Kenyan police say they have deported a Jamaican-born Muslim cleric notorious for preaching racial hatred but have declined to say where he has gone.
Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal was arrested after attending evening prayers at a mosque in Mombasa last Thursday. Abdullah al-Faisal had been sent to a "friendly neighbouring country" despite trouble finding a country to take him, a police spokesman told the BBC.
Immigration Minister Otieno Kajwang said he was being deported because of his "terrorist history" and not because he is a Muslim. But a Muslim group later insisted Faisal was still in Nairobi.
Muslim campaigners in Kenya claimed Islamic clerics were being targeted. Kenyan officials have said Faisal was being deported because of his "terrorist history".
"It is wrong for this government to allow other scholars to come in the country and accept them and deport other scholars without any reason so far," one protester said. He has served four years in a UK prison after being convicted of soliciting the murder of Jews and Hindus.
We are deporting him because of his terrorist history and the fact that he is on the international watch-list Otieno KajwangImmigration Minister But the authorities have since given mixed signals over Faisal's whereabouts.
Mr Kajwang was quoted by Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper as saying that Sheikh al-Faisal was on an international watch-list of terrorists and would not have been allowed in had he entered through one of the country's main entry points. Some reports say Kenya has failed to deport him because no other country is willing to have him.
Al-Faisal had entered at the Lunga Lunga crossing point with Tanzania, Mr Kajwang said, adding: "He deliberately entered by road at a border point not linked to our computer system." Other reports quote officials as saying he was sent by road to Tanzania on Monday night.
The immigration minister admitted they had no charges against him, but said: "We are not deporting him because he is a Muslim. We are deporting him because of his terrorist history and the fact that he is on the international watch-list." Terrorist 'watch-list'
He said he had signed the deportation order on Sunday and "he will be deported back to his country at the earliest opportunity". Police spokesman Eric Kiraithe told the BBC there had been difficulties with deporting him because no-one wanted to grant him a visa even for transit.
Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal was born Trevor William Forrest in St James, Jamaica, and left the island for Britain 26 years ago. Mr Kiraithe confirmed only that Faisal had left Kenya and that his final destination was Jamaica.
His parents were Salvation Army officers and he was raised as a Christian, but when he was aged 16 he went to Saudi Arabia - where he is believed to have spent eight years - and became a Muslim. We are not deporting him because he is a Muslim Otieno KajwangImmigration minister
Shortly afterwards, Al-Amin Kimathi, of the Muslim Human Rights Forum, insisted that the authorities had not managed to expel him.
Faisal was arrested after attending evening prayers at a mosque in Mombasa last Thursday.
Muslim campaigners in Kenya have claimed Muslim clerics were being targeted.
"It is wrong for this government to allow other scholars to come in the country and accept them and deport other scholars without any reason so far," one Muslim protester said.
But Immigration Minister Otieno Kajwang said Faisal was on an international watch-list of terrorists.
The minister, quoted in Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper, admitted they had no charges against him, but said: "We are not deporting him because he is a Muslim.
"We are deporting him because of his terrorist history and the fact that he is on the international watch-list."
African connection
Faisal was born Trevor William Forrest in St James, Jamaica, and left the island for the UK 26 years ago.
His parents were Salvation Army officers and he was raised as a Christian.
At the age of 16 he went to Saudi Arabia - where he is believed to have spent eight years - and became a Muslim.
He took a degree in Islamic Studies in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, before coming back to the UK.He took a degree in Islamic Studies in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, before coming back to the UK.
Al-Faisal spent years travelling the UK preaching racial hatred urging his audience to kill Jews, Hindus and Westerners. Faisal spent years travelling the UK preaching racial hatred urging his audience to kill Jews, Hindus and Westerners.
He was jailed for seven years in 2003 for soliciting the murder of Jews and Hindus, and deported from the UK to Jamaica in 2007. A year after being deported from the UK in 2007, he was preaching in South Africa.
A year later, he was preaching in South Africa. Mr Kajwang said that Faisal had recently "arrived in Nigeria, passed through Angola, Mozambique, Swaziland and Malawi," before crossing from Tanzania into Kenya on 24 December.
Mr Kajwang said that Al-Faisal had recently "arrived in Nigeria, passed through Angola, Mozambique, Swaziland and Malawi," before crossing from Tanzania into Kenya on 24 December.