Muslim group says 'who cares' if US militants involved in Nairobi attack

Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed has said two or three Americans were among the attackers

One of the most prominent and controversial Muslim-American advocacy group has said 'who cares' if American jihadists were involved in the Nairobi mall massacre.

Ibrahim Hooper, communications director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), told The New York Post that it did not matter who was involved in the shopping mall siege, which killed nearly 60.

He said that terrorism is terrorism, whether it is Americans involved or anyone from any nation or background. Who cares?

Hooper said that the American-Muslim community has repeatedly and consistently condemned all acts of terrorism, in whatever form they take and wherever they occur.

Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed has said two or three Americans were among the militants from the al Qaeda-linked group al-Shabab who attacked the mall, hunting down and killing non-Muslims.

The American jihadists were 18 to 19 years old and of Somali or Arab origin and came from Minnesota and another place in the United States, he said.

According to the report, stressing that Islamic extremists from the United States or around the world are merely a tiny minority of Muslims, he insisted that American Muslims are not being radicalized in American mosques or American Muslim communities.