Kenya is set to deport a Jamaican-born Muslim cleric, who was expelled from Britain in 2007 after serving a jail term for inciting racial hatred.
Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal was arrested after attending evening prayers at a mosque in Mombasa last Thursday.
Immigration Minister Otieno Kajwang said he was being deported because of his "terrorist history" and not because he is a Muslim.
Muslim campaigners in Kenya claimed Islamic clerics were being targeted.
"It is wrong for this government to allow other scholars to come in the country and accept them and deport other scholars without any reason so far," one protester said.
 |  We are deporting him because of his terrorist history and the fact that he is on the international watch-list  Otieno Kajwang Immigration Minister |
Mr Kajwang was quoted by Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper as saying that Sheikh al-Faisal was on an international watch-list of terrorists and would not have been allowed in had he entered through one of the country's main entry points.
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