Islamic torture school in Kenya. This one leaves me speechless. (Hat tip: a lot of people emailed about this, but Phil from the UK was first.)

Eleven teenage boys have been rescued from an Islamic correction centre in Nairobi where they were chained, tortured, and indoctrinated with violent anti-Christian ideas. Armed police raided the school in a rundown Nairobi neighbourhood after Guleed Ahmed, a 16-year-old from Leicester, faked an illness to escape and raise the alarm.

Inside they found 10 other boys, from Kenya, Sweden and Ethiopia, chained by their hands and feet and confined to a dark, foul-smelling room.

“It was really terrible,” Guleed said yesterday. “They locked my hands and legs like this” – he clasped his ankles and wrists together – “all day, every day, even when I sleep. It lasted eight months.”

Abdi Noor, a wiry 13-year-old from northern Kenya, nodded furiously. “Even when we go to the toilet, we go jumping,” he said. “They would only unlock us at the door.”

The school, the Khadija Islamic Institute of Discipline and Education, was in Eastleigh, a rough and dangerous neighbourhood dominated by ethnic Somalis. As police led the boys out last Monday, an angry crowd pelted them with stones, forcing officers to fire warning shots in the air. …

Relatives had sent the teenagers to Khadija Institute to learn about Islam. Little did they know the sub-prison conditions to which they were subjected them. Schooling involved study of the Koran, with some lessons in English, Arabic and maths, always with their arms bound in chains. Sport was impossible.

Meals were spartan and usually accompanied by a thrashing. “They cane you on the head, back, legs, bottom, everywhere,” Guleed said. “How many times, it was impossible to know many. They called it ‘the medicine’.” …

Hashim Ali, 16, who lived in Stockholm for 12 years before an uncle enrolled him in Khadija last June, said the killing of Christians was glorified in the school. “They told us it’s called jihad,” he said. “They said if you enter a church with bombs and kill yourself, you will go to heaven.”