The news is coming in that there has been an explosion and gun attack at a mosque in Egypt that has claimed the lives of at least 230 people. Sky News has reported that the attack, currently being attributed to ISIS, was on a Sufi mosque in the Sinai area of the country.
Sky News said:
At least 235 people have been killed and dozens more injured after a suspected Islamic State bomb and gun attack on a mosque in Egypt.
The country’s government has declared three days of mourning following the assault on al-Rawdah mosque, which has wounded around 130 people, according to state media.
The mosque is in Bir al-Abed in the volatile northern Sinai Peninsula, around 25 miles from the provincial capital of el-Arish, which has been regularly targeted by IS militants in recent years.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack – which came as worshippers took part in weekly Friday prayers – but state news agency MENA reports that it “appeared” to have been carried out by IS.
We in the West keep getting told by our politicians that ‘Islam is a religion of peace’ but as we see so often this statement is revealed to be a lie. Islam is not a religion of peace, it is a violent death cult which cannot even tolerate pluralism within its own ranks. With every one of these Muslim on Muslim attacks we start to see the violent essence of Islam being brought into public view and we should ask ourselves: If this is how they treat each other, then how on earth can we trust them to treat the rest of us with any dignity or respect?
