KENYA: Christian students were stabbed with machetes and beaten by Muslims for refusing to convert to Islam

Several Christian students were knifed and beaten at a high school in Nairobi, Kenya, after they refused to recite from the quran and convert to Islam, with clashes leaving 35 students injured. Yet, in Kenya, the Muslim population is ONLY 11.1 percent. The majority are Christians.

Morning Star News  h/t Thereza B (via Christian Post) reports that the brawl took place last week at Jamhuri High School. Several Muslim students apparently complained of discrimination, as the boarding school had designated separate bathrooms and library sections for Christians and Muslims, because of increasing hostilities between the two groups.

A source who wasn’t named explained that a number of those Muslim students attempted to force Christian students to recite the Islamic creed for conversion and undergo Muslim cleansing rituals on Jan. 23, which sparked the fight.

“Some Muslim students forcefully tried to induct Christian students into their Islam faith, and those who refused were knifed, while others were physically beaten,” the source said. “The knives and machetes used are alleged to have come from outside the school.”

The resulting brawl between the two groups left 35 students injured, both Muslims and Christians, who had to be treated in the hospital for stab wounds and dislocated bones. Jamhuri High School Principal Fred Awuor also had to receive hospital treatment after being injured.

Kenya Broadcasting Corporation reported on Tuesday that the high school remains closed, with security guards denying people entry at the compound. 

There were a number of violent incidents started by Muslims at Kenyan schools last year, including attacks by Al-Shabaab terrorist group. One Christian teacher at Fafi Primary School in Fafi was shot dead when the Islamic radicals attacked.

Kenyan Christians have been specifically hunted down and killed by the Somali-based jihadists, who back in April 2015 slaughtered nearly 150 students, most of them followers of Christ, at Garissa University College. Al-Shabaab, which last year was named the deadliest terror group on the continent by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, killed as many as 4,000 people in 2016 alone.

Jamhuri High School temporarily closed after attacks on Christian students.