IS silent on Egypt massacre decried even by supporters

CAIRO: The gunmen who massacred more than 300 worshippers in an Egyptian mosque made no effort to conceal their identity—they showed up raising the black banner of the self-styled “Islamic State,” authorities and witnesses said.

The group’s militants had previously warned the North Sinai mosque associated with Sufis to end the mystical practices IS calls heretical, even visiting the mosque in person a few weeks before the attack, a Sufi sheikh said.