If am not wrong Islam has never been about violence,the elements burning the church are some other breed of peeps who have a different agenda but truth be told this thing is getting out of hand and its being aired everywhere,what kind of tourist would want to come to coast at the moment we are loosing big time a s a country we havent even recovered from PEV we are fighting something else and my biggest worry is that the elections arent even near,lets brace ourselves for some tough times ahead,we never learn,we have the thickest of heads...

I agree with @alma on one thing: we MUST abstain from blaming Muslims and Islam for the violence at the Coast. Now @pariah might ask, isn't this refusing to call a spade a spade and dealing with the problem head on? The answer to this is simple. We need national cohesion. Across religions, races and tribes. We know the weaknesses of tribes, races and religious groups but we mustn't go around rubbing in some of these things. This is important if we don't want to see the country burn.

Thus, as much as it is almost certain that the goons involved in the skirmishes are Muslims, we must avoid blaming Islam and demonising the Kenyan Muslim community. Some here know how bad it feels to be branded Mungiki just because you are Kikuyu or Jaluo Jinga just because your tribesmen uprooted the railway.

But, maybe that's where my concurrence with @alma ends. The govt must now move decisively the way it did with Mungiki. They knew the sect members were not from Samburu or Kisii or Mwingi. They knew the target groups. In this case, we know who the target group is. The govt should be allowed to 'break a few rules' like it did with the ngiki and SLDF.

Now my worry is the numerous groups fighting for the rights of Muslims in Kenya. We didn't have Kikuyu and Sabaot NGOs fighting for the thugs who met their deaths at the hands of security officers. I can't remember demonstrations after that.

Wow Mkyei.Could you be the person I was talking to this evening on my way home?
I provoked him into a discussion about what is happening to kill boredom and dude was like hurricane katrina waiting for right moment.
He talked from Nile to Tana! about insecurity in kenya,hs view on MRC etc.I learned a lot.
Nway what really caught my attention were his thoughts on human right groups in Kenya.
They have been given too much power.
When Michuki set out to clean the country of goons,they called it extra judicial killings.
Whenever the cops set out to do their jobs the Human rights watchdog come out in force to lay blame.
In his view the so called Human rights groups are responsible for this insecurity we are experiencing.They have even rendered the powers that be helpless.
Damn we didn't finish.

Ati human rights guys are responsible for insecurity?kweli guys can really pass the buck,so its true we've been blinded by thika road.What good will it serve us if we're not there to use it..only maybe to flee to our respective shags when s*** hits the fan?

To some extent they are, aren't they the first ones to run to the courts when a suspect is held, even when its clear that they are involved in some s**t?