Help your children ditch Al Shabaab, urges Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya

The Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya (CIPK) Thursday appealed to parents whose children may have gone to Somalia to join Al-Shabaab to convince them to return and surrender to Kenyan authorities.

CIPK was responding to a 10-day amnesty offered by Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery for such youths. CIPK also spoke a day after Christian leaders accused mainstream muslims of being indifferent to fundamentalists' attacks and hostile propaganda against Christianity.