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| Kenya riots over race-hate cleric | Kenya riots over race-hate cleric |
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| One person has died after Kenyan police fired live rounds at supporters of a Jamaican-born Muslim cleric notorious for preaching racial hatred. | One person has died after Kenyan police fired live rounds at supporters of a Jamaican-born Muslim cleric notorious for preaching racial hatred. |
| Police also fired tear gas at hundreds of stone-throwing protesters calling for Abdullah al-Faisal to be freed. | Police also fired tear gas at hundreds of stone-throwing protesters calling for Abdullah al-Faisal to be freed. |
| Faisal is in detention in Nairobi after Kenya failed to deport him. | Faisal is in detention in Nairobi after Kenya failed to deport him. |
| Kenya wants to expel him citing his "terrorist history". He was jailed for four years in the UK for soliciting the murder of Jews and Hindus. | Kenya wants to expel him citing his "terrorist history". He was jailed for four years in the UK for soliciting the murder of Jews and Hindus. |
| Sources at the Kenyatta Hospital have told the BBC that one person has died, while seven others sustained bullet wounds. Doctors say their lives are not in danger. | |
| Islamist flag? | |
| Muslim youths began the protest match after Friday prayers at the Jamia Mosque in central Nairobi. | Muslim youths began the protest match after Friday prayers at the Jamia Mosque in central Nairobi. |
| They wanted to present a petition to Immigration Minister Otieno Kajwang and Prime Minister Raila Odinga's office. | They wanted to present a petition to Immigration Minister Otieno Kajwang and Prime Minister Raila Odinga's office. |
| Kenyan authorities say Faisal was on an international terrorist watch-list | |
| But police had banned the march and intervened. | But police had banned the march and intervened. |
| One banner read: "Release al-Faisal, he is innocent", reports the AFP news agency. | One banner read: "Release al-Faisal, he is innocent", reports the AFP news agency. |
| Some reports suggest that the protesters were waving flags of Somali Islamist group al-Shabab. | Some reports suggest that the protesters were waving flags of Somali Islamist group al-Shabab. |
| Faisal was born Trevor William Forrest in St James, Jamaica - though he left the island 26 years ago, initially living in the UK. | |
| His parents were Salvation Army officers and he was raised as a Christian. | |
| But 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. | |
| Faisal spent years travelling the UK preaching racial hatred urging his audience to kill Jews, Hindus and Westerners. | |
| A year after being deported from the UK in 2007, he was preaching in South Africa. | |
| The Kenyan authorities said Faisal had arrived in Kenya on 24 December 2009 after travelling through Nigeria, Angola, Mozambique, Swaziland and Malawi and Tanzania. |