Egypt: Hundreds dead as mosque attackers gun down fleeing worshipers, NOV 2017

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At least 235 people were killed and another 109 injured in an attack on a Sufi mosque in Egypt's North Sinai region on Friday, Egyptian state-run media reported, in what appears to be the deadliest terror attack on Egyptian soil.

After at least two explosions, gunmen who were waiting outside the mosque opened fire at worshipers as they fled Friday prayers, state-owned Ahram Online said.

The attack targeted al Rawdah mosque, situated in the village of al Rawdah between Bir al-Abed and the city of al-Arish.
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Absolute horror...

[video=cnn;world/2017/11/24/egypt-mosque-attack.cnn]http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/24/africa/egypt-sinai-mosque-attack/index.html[/video]
 
Something going down in London as well
 
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/11/sinai-attack-egypt/546722/


The Distinctive Cruelty of Killing Worshipers

A mosque attack that killed at least 235 people in Egypt stands out for its ruthlessness, but not for the sinister targeting of the faithful.

State media described a multi-staged assault in which attackers detonated a bomb during Friday prayers, shot people trying to flee, and then shot at ambulances appearing at the scene . The New York Times summarized the significance: “Even by recent standards in Egypt, where militants have blown up Christian worshipers in church pews and gunned down pilgrims in buses, it was an unusually ruthless and deadly assault.”
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EGYPT'S MILITARY CONDUCT AIRSTRIKES IN THE MOUNTAINS

Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5114095/Dozens-feared-dead-bomb-gun-attack.html

Egypt's military has begun conducting air strikes around the area of North Sinai, security sources and eyewitnesses said.

The victims included civilians and conscripts praying at the mosque, with reports suggesting the terrorists detonated a bomb before firing on fleeing worshippers.

The strikes have been concentrated in several mountainous areas surrounding Al Rawdah mosque where militants are believed to be hiding out, the security sources said.

The suspected Islamic State attack took place at the Al-Rawdah Sufi mosque in Bir al-Abed, near El-Arish, during Friday prayers. Extremist Sunni jihadists have previously targeted Sufis - a mystical Islamic sect - for deviating from orthodoxy.

In a televised address the president said: 'The armed forces and the police will avenge our martyrs and restore security and stability with the utmost force.

'What is happening is an attempt to stop us from our efforts in the fight against terrorism, to destroy our efforts to stop the terrible criminal plan that aims to destroy what is left of our region.'


BBM
 
ZaZara said:
EGYPT'S MILITARY CONDUCT AIRSTRIKES IN THE MOUNTAINS

Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5114095/Dozens-feared-dead-bomb-gun-attack.html

Egypt's military has begun conducting air strikes around the area of North Sinai, security sources and eyewitnesses said.

The victims included civilians and conscripts praying at the mosque, with reports suggesting the terrorists detonated a bomb before firing on fleeing worshippers.

The strikes have been concentrated in several mountainous areas surrounding Al Rawdah mosque where militants are believed to be hiding out, the security sources said.

The suspected Islamic State attack took place at the Al-Rawdah Sufi mosque in Bir al-Abed, near El-Arish, during Friday prayers. Extremist Sunni jihadists have previously targeted Sufis - a mystical Islamic sect - for deviating from orthodoxy.

In a televised address the president said: 'The armed forces and the police will avenge our martyrs and restore security and stability with the utmost force.

'What is happening is an attempt to stop us from our efforts in the fight against terrorism, to destroy our efforts to stop the terrible criminal plan that aims to destroy what is left of our region.'


BBM
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From your link:

Some reports have claimed the bomb was set off in the children's kindergarten area of the mosque before the terrorists - in military uniforms and wielding black flags - slaughtered those who fled.
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Tears (again)...
 
IANAE but from what I know, Sufism is pretty much the direct opposite of wahhabism, which is the version of Islam practised/followed by Sunni militants such as the Taliban, Al Qaeda et al.

Sufism is a largely spiritual (rather than religious) path, using music, trance, dance and similar (the Whirling Dervishes are Sufi) as a way of directly experiencing or touching Allah.

It's an esoteric (inward-focused) path, mystical, contemplative and experiential, whereas mainstream Sunni Islam is exoteric (outward-focused) and much more concerned with right behaviour, following rules and suchlike.
 
Background info about the political situation in the area:


Jan Franke,@Franke_schrijft
Dutch journalist in the Middle East for @ADnl @Else4Weekblad @bnr and many more.

[video=twitter;934124978869604352]https://twitter.com/Franke_schrijft/status/934124978869604352[/video]


I was in #Sinai for more than 16 days this year for a big coverage of the local power dynamics with different Bedouin tribes and #IS for @juist_magazine.

Clear insights from arabist @ZaouguiChams at @NPORadio1 about the tribal situation in #Sinai. It is even more complicated. Within the Tarabin tribe there is disagreement over #IS.

The Tarabin is one of the largest tribes in #Sinai and extends into Saudi Arabia. Tarabin in South Sinai are against #IS, some in the north work together.

The division has to do with the management of smuggling routes in #Sinai towards #Gaza, but also with tribal rivalry. #SinaiAttack

#Egyptian government in Cairo has long tried to unite tribes in #Sinai against jihadists (such as the Sons if Iraq), but has little credit and friends. #SinaiAttack


BBM
 
MelmothTheLost said:
IANAE but from what I know, Sufism is pretty much the direct opposite of wahhabism, which is the version of Islam practised/followed by Sunni militants such as the Taliban, Al Qaeda et al.

Sufism is a largely spiritual (rather than religious) path, using music, trance, dance and similar (the Whirling Dervishes are Sufi) as a way of directly experiencing or touching Allah.

It's an esoteric (inward-focused) path, mystical, contemplative and experiential, whereas mainstream Sunni Islam is exoteric (outward-focused) and much more concerned with right behaviour, following rules and suchlike.
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THANK YOU. Good to know. Thanks for the info!!
 
[video=youtube;5m_KuN9ErG8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m_KuN9ErG8[/video]

Nile 1 TV
interesting at about 6 minutes in, identifies Turkey and Qatar as enablers. Other local interviews from Egypt in English with local experts' analysis on their site.
 
DPA International
http://www.dpa-international.com/topic/235-people-killed-attack-egyptian-mosque-171124-99-05068

So far, no group has claimed responsibility. Yet militants affiliated with the Islamic State extremist militia have claimed previous attacks, which have mostly targeted security forces and Egypt's Coptic Christian minority.

Extremists have also previously attacked mosques in northern Sinai's Sheikh Zuwayed town.

A security source near al-Rawdah town said the mosque was an easy target because it was outside the main cities of northern Sinai.

He added that the mosque was also targeted because it followed a Sufi sect. Islamist extremists consider Sufis to be infidels.

In 2016, Islamic State militants released pictures purportedly the execution of a 100-year-old Sufi cleric, who was accused of "witchcraft."


BBM
 
This is awful...it is getting worse and worse
 
Landmarks worldwide pay tribute to victims of Egypt mosque attack
ABC News
Nov 24, 2017, 11:34 PM ET

Egypt hunts down killers after 235 killed in mosque attack
CNN
Updated 2:55 AM ET, Sat November 25, 2017

[video=youtube;W__5jSokjoI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W__5jSokjoI[/video]

Egypt attack: President Sisi pledges forceful response
BBC News 48 minutes ago



Mosque attack in Egypt's Sinai 'kills more than 200'
France 24 2017-11-24
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Resident Ashraf el-Hefny said many of the victims were workers at a nearby salt firm who had come for Friday services at the mosque, which had contained some 300 worshipers.
[...]
The border reopened last Saturday for three days for the first time since the November 1 transfer of control of Gaza crossing points from the Islamist Hamas movement to the Palestinian Authority.
[...]


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The attack on a Sufi mosque, the war within, as it were, targets diversity as a threat, but more a of geopolitical pissing contest, marking territory and showing up Egypt as not up to the task of confronting the Brotherhood, AQ to ISIS continuum, nor Iran's influence as it happens, as things stand in relation to the Saudis, it seems entirely possible to me?

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Rumi, a Sufi said something like this:

“The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.”
 
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