After a hideous terroristist attack on a mosque in north Sinai, which killed at least 305 people on Friday, Egypt's strongman president, Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, issued a characteristically tough warning. The gunmen reportedly bore Islamic State flags. President Trump decried the attack on "innocent and defenseless worshipers" and used the occasion to again denounce extremist Islamist ideology. Horrible and cowardly terrorist attack on innocent and defenseless worshipers in Egypt. In 2015, the Islamic State's Sinai branch claimed responsibility for downing a Russian passenger jet full of tourists leaving the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, killing all 224 people on board.

Source: Washington Post November 27, 2017 06:00 UTC