The point is....every Friday that there are "demon-strations" from Jamia Mosque,the traders at city market loose business.
This happens quite a lot.Unfortunately,Friday is the most important day for the business people there and they have decided not to sit back and make losses anymore.
During the "erections" of 07,the meat guys in dago felt the same and were ready to stop the "demon-strations" at all cost.
For sure, this chaps must style up as they seem to be alienating themselevs with this behaviours.
Take coast for eg.with no tourism,the coast guy is buried.Forget the port because they cannot offload even a pencil from the table.Better defined as laziness.
Now the capture ship (as their core business...are paid 525 million on their latest),sell guns in eastleigh,bring duty free cargo for unscrupulous traders etc etc,....
They go to upmarket areas abd buy oall the plots for double the price and we just look agape.haaa !
hey... now they hawk meat in small vans illegally from buffe park to homes.
They want to operate above the law.
This must end otherwise somethings brewing.
U can turn a blind eye but alas,am not a prophet...

@Murenj & Wakanyugi... Lets be honest gentlemen.. or is it ladies? I don't get how you managed to read the 'animosity towards muslims of somali origin' into fridays events. Wananchi's reactions were against a group of muslims whose actions were seen as being totally unjustified and ridiculous... causing a breach of peace on a totally bogus premise. I bet no mwananchi took notice of whether they were somali, kikuyu, turkana or whatever tribe - this was just a bunch of guys who were being a nuisance and when majority of the observers got fed up the reaction was spontaneous - shut them up by whatever means.

Kind of reaction you would have with someone who's being painfully unreasonable and annoying - you want to give them a resounding slap...

@Wakanyungi

Granted, advocating for wholesale hatred may not be a neat thing to do.

But then, how easy is it to love fellows who advocate that Kenya continues to host a suspected terror agent, in the league of Osama?

Further, if you were in Kenya from Friday through to today, you will have noticed that the 'demonstrators' had some very interesting characters in their midst with other agenda over and above Al faisal.

We saw hoods, Military fatigues, Writings in Arabic, Al Shabab flags, Taunts to Kenyans - to slit throats etc.
Those are fellows bringing war to Kenyans' door step.
However hard we try, it will remain very difficult to embrace such characters of people.
As the matter raged, we never heard any of the moderate Muslims raise a finger and or discourage their brothers.

What they are saying so belated, is what they ought to have said right from the word go.

Talk of locking the stable after the Horse has bolted.
We must learn to confront some os these ills head on and stop the pretence at good culturedness in the face of a terrorist minded goons.

Looo! @Njung'e I see the policeman who was shot is still alive on my TV

Just read what has been happening in Jos Nigeria for the last 3 days. Looks like Nairobi is heading that way.