'Need the WALL, need the BAN! ' Trump Renews Call to Ban Immigrants from some Muslim-Majority Nations after Condemning Terror Attack in Egypt (which isn't on the list)
SOURCE: DAILY MAIL
BY: DAVID MARTOSKO
President Donald Trump has renewed his call for a wall on the Southern U.S. border and a ban on incoming travelers from a half-dozen terror-prone countries that are majority Muslim.
His latest demands – made via Twitter as usual – followed a massacre in Egypt‘s North Sinai region in which one militant Muslim faction killed at least 235 people at a mosque affiliated with another branch of Islam.
Trump was set for a 3:00 p.m. call with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi ‘to discuss the tragic terrorist attack, with so much loss of life,’ he wrote.
‘We have to get TOUGHER AND SMARTER than ever before, and we will. Need the WALL, need the BAN! God bless the people of Egypt.’
The attackers are thought to be part of an ISIS cell operating inside Egypt, which is not among the nations covered by the Trump-ordered ban that’s tied up in federal court.
President Donald Trump used the occasion of Friday’s deadly mosque bombing in Egypt to demand the implementation of his eight-nation ‘travel ban’ – which doesn’t cover Egypt
Trump also tied in his demand for a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, reacting to an attack half a world away that left 235 dead, almost certainly all Muslims
Militants struck the Al Awrah Mosque near the provincial capital of El-Arish during Friday prayers, in Bir al-Abed
The state-run MENA news agency says the bombed Al Rawdah mosque in the town of Bir al-Abed is frequented by Sufis, an Islamic sect that revere saints and shrines.
That makes them targets for jihadis who consider those practices a form of heretical idolatry.
Egyptian security forces have battled a stubborn ISIS affiliate in the largely desert region since at least 2013.
The group has mostly attacked government troops and police, along with Christian churches.
In addition to the 235 confirmed dead on Friday, about 130 people are injured, making it the worst terror attack in Egypt’s modern history.
Militants reportedly detonated a bomb in the mosque’s creche – a Christian-inspired Nativity scene – before firing on fleeing worshippers while blocking escape routes with burnt-out cars.
Egypt’s military has begun conducting air strikes around the area of North Sinai in retaliation.
Police said militants in four off-road vehicles bombed the mosque and fired on worshippers during the sermon segment of Friday prayers
‘The armed forces and the police will avenge our martyrs and restore security and stability with the utmost force,’ el-Sisi said in a televised address.
‘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.’
Trump hasn’t tweeted about his travel ‘ban’ since September 15, when a crude bomb exploded on a subway train in London, injuring 30 people.
‘The travel ban into the United States should be far larger, tougher and more specific,’ he tweeted at the time, ‘but stupidly, that would not be politically correct!’
The U.S. Department of Justice this week asked the Supreme Court to allow the implementation of the third version of Trump’s travel ban, which he issued in September.
The policy affects a total of eight countries: Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen. All but North Korea and Venezuela are Muslim nations.
