{"id":15104,"date":"2016-04-01T06:55:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T06:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/?p=15104"},"modified":"2016-04-01T06:58:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T06:58:39","slug":"salah-farah-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/salah-farah-2","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Will Honor The Muslim Hero Who Died Protecting Christians In A Terror Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a6b39195b99473d6c9dd698db2668010\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:2px 0 2px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<center>\r\n\r\n<script type='text\/javascript'>\r\nfunction ShorterThan(widthMax) {\r\n                if (screen.width < widthMax) {return true;}  \r\n                else {return false}\r\n    }\r\nvar LimitWidth = 728\r\nvar MobileZoneID = 348996\r\nvar DesktopZoneID = 348995   \r\n<!--\/\/<![CDATA[\r\n   document.MAX_ct0 ='';\r\n   var m3_u = (location.protocol=='https:'?'https:\/\/cas.criteo.com\/delivery\/ajs.php?':'https:\/\/cas.criteo.com\/delivery\/ajs.php?');\r\n   var m3_r = Math.floor(Math.random()*99999999999);\r\n   document.write (\"<scr\"+\"ipt type='text\/javascript' src='\"+m3_u);\r\n   if (ShorterThan(LimitWidth)) {document.write (\"zoneid=\"+MobileZoneID);} else {document.write (\"zoneid=\"+DesktopZoneID);}\r\n   document.write(\"&nodis=1\");\r\n   document.write ('&cb=' + m3_r);\r\n   if (document.MAX_used != ',') document.write (\"&exclude=\" + document.MAX_used);\r\n   document.write (document.charset ? 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Kenya&#8217;s President decided to posthumously honor his bravery.<\/p>\n<h2>Honored &#8220;for his act of courage&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Speaking during the State of Nation address in Parliament, President Uhuru Kenyatta said that he was going to posthumously award\u00a0the Order Of The Grand Warrior to Farah. That is one of the highest honors in Kenya.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Salah exemplified the best of who we are as a country: a diverse people, united by our common love for liberty and peace, and above all our brothers\u2019 keepers. His actions epitomise the Nationalist Covenant we so desire to live by,&#8221; the President\u00a0stated. &#8220;I acknowledge Salah\u2019s family. I want to tell his children that their father\u2019s sacrifice will never be forgotten, and will be long admired.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15108\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15108\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15108\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/salah.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"700\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/salah.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/salah-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/salah-85x57.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.therakyatpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/salah.jpg\">source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Standing up for justice<\/h2>\n<p>The day of the attack, 60 people were traveling in a bus from Nairobi to Mandera when gunmen stopped the bus by firing shots.\u00a0Muslim women offered Christian women their scarves so they could look Muslim because, in previous attacks in the area, al-Shabab militants have spared Muslims and killed Christians. Farah, along with other Muslim passengers, confronted the gunmen.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cAs we argued, they shot me and [a] boy. One man who also came out of the bus and tried to escape to the bush was shot,\u201d Farah recalled during his stay at the hospital.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Salah Farah, who was the deputy head of the Mandera township primary school, died a few weeks later, during surgery to treat his bullet wound. He had five children.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15107\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15107\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15107\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/1200x-1.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"700\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/1200x-1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/1200x-1-600x371.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/1200x-1-85x53.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2014-11-27\/terrorists-sink-kenya-s-shilling-on-tourism-concern-currencies\">source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"story-body\">\n<div 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