Recent al-Shabab attacks in Kenya clearly have been aimed at sowing divisions between Christians, who make up 83 percent of Kenya's population, and the 11 percent of Kenyans who are Muslim, according to a 2009 census. Several Kenyan Muslims reportedly were involved in the Garissa attack, in which most victims were Christian. After 28 non-Muslim passengers died in November in the al-Shabab hijacking of a bus ferrying school teachers in Mandera, teachers refused to return to school out of security fears. The pre-eminent Muslim organization in Kenya, the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims, has called for citizens to resist religiously based provocations.
"Kenya must step up its counter-terrorism security programs, but it must also be very careful not to overreact and target innocent" Kenyans of Somali origin, said Carson, a senior advisor to the president of USIP. A failure to adopt a measured approach "will only increase local resentment and enable greater al-Shabab recruitment efforts among disaffected Kenyan Somalis, and also among non-Somali Muslim Kenyan citizens living in Mombasa and along the coast."
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