Posted on 11/24/2017 8:12:36 AM PST by Eddie01
At least 235 people have been killed in a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula, according to state media.
The attack took place in the al-Rawda village, west of el-Arish, shortly after Friday prayers.
Egyptian state media MENA provided the death toll, citing an official security source. It also said that 120 people were wounded in the attack.
The silence in Sinai: Covering Egypt's 'war on terror' Local media reports said that attackers planted explosives and then opened fire on worshippers while the sermon was under way.
Egypt has for years been battling an armed movement in the rugged and thinly populated Sinai Peninsula, which has gained pace since the military overthrew democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood in mid-2013.
In 2014, following a suicide bombing that killed 31 soldiers, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi declared a state of emergency in the peninsula, describing it as a "nesting ground for terrorism and terrorists".
Local media also reported the closure of the Arish-Rafah road, further east.
Is Egypt's security crackdown working? The attack comes a day before the Rafah border crossing, the main gateway for Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip to the outside world, was due to open for a three-day period.
The border opened briefly earlier this week.
Events like this are the reasons we restrict access to our country from particular areas of the globe.
And should deport the ones already here.
Most likely Sunni killing Shia or Sufi.
Islam is a death cult founded by a warlord, sex slave trader, slave master, rapist, pedophile, mass murder and genocidal maniac.
It is a feature not a bug.
Moderate Mooselips only want to kill Christians and Jews, radical mice want to kill moderates.
If they will do this to a mosque, just imagine what they will do to the First Baptist Church of Americaville.
Looks like the ISIS radicals exterminating the not as radical folks and purifying the religion of pieces...
I’m starting to think let’s just let them have at it for a couple of decades and eventually we’ll take on the winner.
And yet, there are still those that try to hinder Trump to safeguard the American people. These are as bad as the terrorists themselves.
And the winner will be the most experienced and efficient terrorist of them all. And it will be our misfortune that we will have not a Trump but another Obama in the White House. No, we must deal with them now while we have DJT.
Apolytikion of Great Martyr Catherine
Plagal of the First Tone
Let us praise the most auspicious bride of Christ, the divine Katherine, protectress of Sinai, our aid and our help. For, she brilliantly silenced the eloquence of the impious by the sword of the spirit, and now, crowned as a martyr, she asks great mercy for all.
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