Islamic extremists shoot man for being Christian

Islamic extremists shoot man for being Christian

JILIB, Somalia — Islamic extremists from the rebel group Al Shabaab in Somalia publicly shot a young man to death after identifying him as a Christian, sources said.

The insurgents in Jamaame district in southern Somalia had been monitoring 28-year-old Hassan Hurshe since his arrival from Kenya in 2010 and determined that he had become a Christian while in Kenya, area Muslim sources said.

Al Shabaab members brought Hurshe to a public place in the town of Jilib on June 7 and shot him in the head, they said.

A leader of the Somali underground church in Kenya who had  heard of the murder said Hurshe converted to Christianity in 2006, married in 2008 and fathered a baby boy in 2009.