My weapons “Please accept me and millions of other Egyptians whose hearts are saddened by the bloodshed in Sinai as soldiers who will fight terrorism in Sinai. My weapons have always been my pen, my keyboard and the word. But I will now use the gun to protect my country.” Karim Abdel-Salam, Al-Youm Al-Sabei The inevitable battle “The heart of every normal Egyptian goes out to the martyrs of last Friday's terrorist crime. The bad news is that terrorism cannot be uprooted overnight. The battle requires patience and planning in order to succeed. We cannot expect to have a successful national project until we have won that battle.” Emadeddin Hussein, Al-Shorouk Look west “All eyes are on Sinai now. But perhaps it makes better sense to look to Libya given the incidents that took place before the Sheikh Zuweid attack, namely the cancellation of the Egyptian foreign minister's visit, the torching of the Egyptian embassy in Tripoli and the threats that the Libyan Mufti directed to Egypt vowing retribution for the Egyptian forces hitting some hardline sites in Libya. These events are indeed related to what happened in Sinai.” Mahmoud Khalil, Al-Watan Map of terror “The map of takfiri groups in North Sinai has changed since ousting Mohamed Morsi, it now comprises 11 takfiri groups including Ansar Al-Sharia and Jund Al-Islam, which merged in Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis after 30 June as well as Al-Tawhid wal Jihad.” Al-Watan FACEBOOK “May God Almighty forgive the dead and grant their families patience. It is a catastrophe by all means. Wise people wouldn't even wish it on their own worst enemies. I was sad the other day when I heard some ‘friends' calling for the killing of students protesting at universities and now I am shocked to find that others are indifferent to the death of our soldiers in Sinai.” Ghada Shahbender “In a short interview with the French Channel 5, a Tunisian farmer who was waiting in the voting queue said, ‘We staged the revolution to change our situation to the better. Unfortunately, our situation did not change. But we changed, perhaps, to the worse.'” Nour Farahat TWITTER Omri Ceren @cerenomri If #Hamas didn't want to get blamed for facilitating Sinai jihadism, they shouldn't have facilitated Sinai jihadism. #Egypt. Khaled Abu Toameh @KhaledAbuToameh Hamas' Musa Abu Marzouk: We're not stupid or blind to undermine security in Sinai. We condemn the killing of the 31 soldiers. The Big Pharaoh @TheBigPharaoh MB, stupid while in power and stupid while in prison. Their websites are still propagating theory that army soldiers died in Libya not Sinai. Nervana Mahmoud @Nervana_1 Found this on FB. Kyrillos Fadel, a young Coptic soldier died in Sinai a proof we are brothers in life & death Egypt.
