Egypt – Enemy of the Muslim World?!
Can some one explain this to me? Why would any branch of Al-Qaeda or any other terrorist organization want to blow up a resort in Egypt? Last I checked, Egypt wasn’t really doing anything to combat terrorism and they certainly weren’t claiming to be a bastion of freedom (remember how the most recent election was fixed and had a lot of coercion surrounding it). I don’t think anyone would claim that Egypt had some sort of animosity towards the “Muslim world,” so that’s probably not a motivation. If these people were trying to kill some Israelis without Israel’s security forces and army wandering around, I think they could have done it in a much less obtrusive manner. I honestly have no idea what prompted this bombing, which is weird because I like to at least pretend I have a vague understanding of the world.
Thank you for posting this link. This makes me very worried, as my boyfriend is an Egyptian tour guide in Egypt, I had no idea of this bombing! *runs away to a corner to brood and worry*
Is he OK? Have you heard from him since?
Terrorists are terrorists, I suppose. What do they care about life? Egypt is not the safest of places..the best guess I can give is: they bombed a resort–>they’re bombing tourists and probably westerners. That’s good enough reason for the people who do this kind of crap.
explanation..
With what little I know… it seems like the target isn’t Egypt, it is the people at the resort. Such people would be mostly rich, foreign, and western. Things they don’t like. The idea isn’t to hit Egypt, but to scare Americans or the British or whomever.
And it might be working… should i go to london? I dunno anymore.