{"id":2515,"date":"2014-06-11T10:41:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T03:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2515"},"modified":"2014-06-11T10:41:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T03:41:33","slug":"muslim-cleric-has-been-shot-dead-in-mombasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/muslim-cleric-has-been-shot-dead-in-mombasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim cleric has been shot dead in Mombasa"},"content":{"rendered":"

A moderate Muslim cleric has been shot dead in Mombasa, the latest killing of a preacher in the Kenyan city.<\/p>\n

Sheikh Mohammed Idris, chairman of the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya, was killed close to a mosque near his home by a group of gunmen.<\/p>\n

Reports say he had previously been threatened by radical Muslim youths and had said he feared for his life.<\/p>\n

He is the fourth prominent Muslim cleric to be shot dead in the city since 2012.<\/p>\n

The others were accused of links to the al-Qaeda linked Somali Islamist group al-Shabab and their supporters accused the government of being behind their killings – charges the authorities denied.<\/p>\n

‘Big blow’<\/p>\n

Mr Idris had apparently urged the police to deal with militant elements at his mosque, leading some to brand him a traitor…<\/p>\n

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A moderate Muslim cleric has been shot dead in Mombasa, the latest killing of a preacher in the Kenyan city. Sheikh Mohammed Idris, chairman of the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya, was killed close to a mosque near his home by a group of gunmen. Reports say he had previously been threatened by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[300,250],"tags":[258,256,497,499,496,4695,4688,430,495,257,494,498,254],"class_list":["post-2515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-east-africa","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-al-qaeda","tag-al-shabab","tag-council-of-imams-and-preachers-of-kenya","tag-east-africa","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-mombasa","tag-news","tag-sheikh-mohammed-idris","tag-somali-islamist","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}