Kenyan Muslim Who shielded Christians From Terrorists Dies
ICC Note: The man who defended Christians from al-Shabaab attackers during a December bus attack in northeast Kenya has died. Salah Farah sustained gunshot wounds that would take his life nearly one month later when he boldly told al-Shabaab gunmen that he would rather die than give Christians up to the slaughter just to save his own skin. Al-Shabaab has become notorious for the September 2013 bombing attack of Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya as well as the April 2 massacre at Garissa University where they separated Christians from Muslims and murdered 148 people, mostly followers of Christ.
By Ashley Fantz
1/22/2016 Kenya (CNN) – Kill us all or leave.
That’s what Salah Farah told Al-Shabaab gunmen who ambushed a bus he was riding in the Kenyan county of northeast Mandera in late December. The gunmen said they were going to kill Christian passengers.
“They told us if you are a Muslim, we are safe,” he then recalled to the BBC. But Farah and other Muslims on the bus stood up to the terrorists and risked their lives by shielding the Christians.
Farah was shot. Over the past several weeks, he has seemed in good spirits, talking to reporters and his family. But on Monday, during surgery, he died.
The school teacher’s words of peace and brotherhood are being praised this week in international news coverage.
“People should live peacefully together,” he told Voice of America earlier this month. “We are brothers. It’s only the religion that is the difference, so I ask my brother Muslims to take care of the Christians so that the Christians also take care of us. … And let us help one another and let us live together peacefully.”
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