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Somali's Al-shabab terrorist who attacked Nairobi's Westgate mall arrived with a set of religious trivia questions. The assailants used a high-stakes game of 20 Questions to separate Muslims from those they consider infidels.
According to news24, numerous survivors described how the attackers from al-Shabab shot people who failed to provide the correct answers.
A 14-year-old boy saved himself by jumping off the mall's roof, after learning from friends inside that they were quizzed on names of the Prophet Muhammad's relatives. Another survivor said, ""They asked the name of the Prophet's mom. They asked them to sing a religious verse".
A 31-year-old Jewish businessman who was cashing a check inside the local Barclays branch when he heard the shooting said, the people there ran to the back and shut themselves in the room with the safe, switching off the lights. They learned, via text messages, that the extremists were asking people to recite an Arabic prayer called the Shahada.
"One of the women who was with us got a text from her husband saying, they're asking people to say the Islamic oath, and if you don't know it, they kill you," said the businessman, who insisted on anonymity out of fear for his safety.
He threw away his passport. Then he downloaded the Arabic prayer and wrote it on his palm.
The Associated Press reported that, the question and answer session marked the final notch in a transformation within the global terror network, which began to rethink its approach after its setbacks in Iraq. Al-Qaeda has since realized that the indiscriminate killing of Muslims is a strategic liability, and hopes instead to create a schism between Muslims and everyone else, whom they consider "kuffar," or apostates.
However, scores of Muslims were still killed in the attack.
