Heroes repeatedly demonstrate that Islam preaches peace

Passengers on a Mandera-bound bus thwarted Al-Shabaab’s attempt early this week to single out Christians for slaughter, by refusing to be segregated on religious grounds. Instead, they rubbed the gunmen’s noses in dust by telling them off and daring them to kill them all.

It was an extra-ordinary act of courage, and an expression of defiance to what has now become a pattern of their attacks. In the July 2015 massacre in Mandera town a landlady, Mrs Naima Mohamed, firmly stood in the way of the gunmen who attempted to slaughter her tenants. They gunned her down, and proceeded to mow down 14 Christian tenants.