Jihadis slaughters hundreds of Moslems in Egypt:
Militants killed more than 230 people at a mosque in North Sinai on Friday, detonating a bomb and gunning down worshippers in the deadliest such attack in Egypt's modern history, state media and witnesses said.
These particular Moslems follow a non-radical form of Islam called Sufi Islam. The jihadis can no more tolerate that form of Islam than they can tolerate Christians, Jews, or Hindus in their midst.
There continue to be Westerners who say that jihadis don't practice "true" Islam. These people ignore the fact that people define what religions believe and so if the jihadis win their civil war, their version of Islam will define their religion rather than more accommodating versions like the religion of the more than 300 Moslems killed and wounded after their Friday services.
We fight monsters. While monsters need to be killed to better protect people from mass murder, this is only the holding action until the Islamic world can resolve their civil war in a manner that encourages people to be more like the Sufis who were slaughtered rather than encouraging people to become like the jihadi killers.
It's a long war.
UPDATE: This is great in the short run:
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has vowed to respond forcefully after attackers killed at least 305 worshippers in a packed mosque in restive North Sinai province, the country's deadliest attack in recent memory.
But in the long run Egypt has to reform Islam locally as part of a broader effort to end the gruesome appeal of Islamism to Moslem young men.
