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In a time of "paranoia" should Jamaica take everyone who is being deported? Seems this is the second deportation to Jamaica.
Source: BBC
<span style="font-weight: bold">Kenya to deport convicted race hate Muslim cleric </span>
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.
Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal was arrested after attending evening prayers at a mosque in Mombasa last Thursday.
Immigration Minister Otieno Kajwang said he was being deported because of his "terrorist history" and not because he is a Muslim.
Muslim campaigners in Kenya claimed Islamic 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 protester said.
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.
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."
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."
He said he had signed the deportation order on Sunday and "he will be deported back to his country at the earliest opportunity".
Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal was born Trevor William Forrest in St James, Jamaica, and left the island for Britain 26 years ago.
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.
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.
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.
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Edited: To Removed misleading title.
Source: BBC
<span style="font-weight: bold">Kenya to deport convicted race hate Muslim cleric </span>
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.
Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal was arrested after attending evening prayers at a mosque in Mombasa last Thursday.
Immigration Minister Otieno Kajwang said he was being deported because of his "terrorist history" and not because he is a Muslim.
Muslim campaigners in Kenya claimed Islamic 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 protester said.
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.
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."
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."
He said he had signed the deportation order on Sunday and "he will be deported back to his country at the earliest opportunity".
Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal was born Trevor William Forrest in St James, Jamaica, and left the island for Britain 26 years ago.
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.
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.
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.
Read the rest at BBC
Edited: To Removed misleading title.
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