Kenya: Religious leaders urge House to "shoot down" new anti-terror bill.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

July

Imams from western Kenya yesterday urged Narc [ruling National Rainbow Coalition] and opposition MPs to reject the anti-terrorism bill when it is introduced in parliament for debate.

The Muslim leaders said the bill should be shot down in the August House, claiming it was targeting members of a specific religion.

The leaders, under the umbrella of the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya (CIPK) said the bill in its present state was a tool to enhance the government's "witch-hunting of Muslims" on the whims of America and Israel.

CIPK western branch chairman, Shaykh Ibrahim Sadala, …