Egyptian cowards

The other day, I suggested that the adjective coward doesn’t really fit the suicide bomber in Manchester:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2017/05/concerning-manchester.html

But those who opened fire on an unarmed busload of Christian pilgrims in Egypt on Friday, killing twenty-nine and wounding many more, really do deserve description as, among many other contemptible things, cowards:

“Egypt shooting: ISIS claims massacre of 29”

(See also “Who are Egypt’s Coptic Christians?” and “Egypt Retaliates for Coptic Bus Massacre with Airstrikes on Libyan Terrorist Camps.”)

For the life of me, I cannot see how they can justify such unprovoked murder of innocents from the Qur’an or the biography of Muhammad.  And, as I’ve said before, if these attacks (e.g., on little girls at a concert in Manchester and on unoffending religious pilgrims near Minya, in Egypt) had been carried out by avowed enemies of Islam, they could not possibly have been more effectively designed to poison the image and reputation of Islam in the minds of many non-Muslims.