article_snippet.sent: Everyone at Kenya's Garissa University College suffered in some way when a handful of Al-Shabaab gunmen stormed the campus early this month.
article_snippet.sent: This tactic of separating non-Muslims from Muslims mirrors what Al-Shabaab attackers did in December at a quarry in the Kenyan village of Kormey, where at least 36 were killed, according to the Kenyan Red Cross.
article_snippet.sent: One of Al-Shabaab's explicit aims is to turn Somalia, Al-Shabaab's home base, into a fundamentalist Islamic state, according to the Council of Foreign Relations.
article_snippet.sent: But that's not Al-Shabaab's only apparent goal, as the group has increasingly branched out -- including into neighboring Kenya, which is 80% Christian -- to inflict pain and terror.
article_snippet.sent: After the the Kenya university attack, which left nearly 150 people dead, Nadif Jama, Garissa's regional governor, dismissed Al-Shabaab's claims that Al-Shabaab only kills non-Muslims as "a tricky way of doing business."
article_snippet.sent: The fallacy and satanic mindset of Al-Shabaab's is that, in Somalia, Al-Shabaab's kill Muslims and Somalis," Jama said, claiming the group's militants are "bent on nothing but destruction.
highlights_snippet.sent: Al-Shabaab has singled out non-Muslims to kill non-Muslims, as at a Garissa University College .