Kenyan Muslim who shielded Christians from gunshots dies

A Kenyan Muslim, who shielded Christians from gunshots last month, was succumbed to his injuries.

Salah Farah died while undergoing an operation on Monday. According to the report by International Christian Concern, Farah was riding a bus in December in northeast Mandera, a county in Kenya, when Al-Shabaab terrorists boarded the bus and told passengers they would kill the Christians.

The terrorists told the Muslims that their lives would be spared because of their faith, while Christians passengers would be gunned down.

However, the Muslim passengers, including Farah, chose to shield the Christian passengers from the bullets. Farah, who was a schoolteacher, was shot and hospitalized.

Farah's call for unity, peace and brotherhood has already earned praises from both the local and international media. In an interview with Voice of America, Farah said that people should be able to live peacefully together.

"We are brothers. It's only the religion that is the difference, so I ask my brother Muslims to take care of the Christians, so that the Christians also take care of us... And let us help one another and let us live together peacefully," he said in the interview.

Since his passing, donations have flooded in to an account set up to raise funds for his wife and five children.

Al-Shabaab, the group responsible for the crime, are notorious terrorists in the African country. The militants were behind countless slaughters, including the bombing attack in Nairobi in September 2013. The group was also responsible for the massacre in Garissa University in April last year, where they killed 152 people.


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