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Muslims complain of harassment
Riot after arrest of terror suspect
The arrest of a Muslim leader who has been implicated in the bombing of US embassies in East Africa caused a new outbreak of religious violence in Kenya.

Police held Sheik Ahmed Hassad Sweiden incommunicado for several days after he was arrested in the town of Mandera, on the Somali border. Muslim leaders protested the detention, saying that the police had arrested the wrong man. A group of Muslim organizations in Nairobi claimed that the man being held had actually been working for several years as the director of a Muslim center in Mandera.

The Islamic leaders complained that government authorities were engaged in systematic harassment of Muslims, and seeking to close down Muslim institutions. Those complaints prompted some young Muslims to engage in violent protests, including arson and looting. At least one Catholic church was torched as the rioting spread.

Dissident “Catholic” group launches condom campaign
UN officials join effort
A dissident “Catholic” group based in the United States has announced that it is launching a campaign in Kenya to criticize the Catholic Church’s teaching that the use of condoms is immoral.

“Catholics” for a Free Choice (CFFC), the group that has tried to have the Holy See removed from representation at the United Nations, said it will place billboards and advertisements throughout Nairobi saying “Banning Condoms Kills.” CFFC’s president, Frances Kissling, said the campaign was first launched on World AIDS Day and includes initiatives throughout the world to convince Catholics that they should ignore the teachings of the Church. Kissling also blamed the Church for thousands of deaths due to AIDS.

CFFC—a group which has been repeatedly condemned by Catholic bishops, and is funded primarily by pro-abortion foundations—was joined in the Kenyan effort by United Nations agencies. Peter Piot, the UN’s head of AIDS-related programs, said: “We are not asking the Church to promote the use of contraceptives but merely to stop banning its use.” Other countries to be targeted in the CFFC campaign include Belgium (the seat of the European Union), South Africa, Zimbabwe, Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, and the Philippines.

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