After the foiled suicide attack on the ancient temples of Karnak in Luxor, Egypt—a tourist designation—the Islamic State promised a “fiery summer” to the Christian Copts and Sisi government. The jihadi group vowed to unleash a number of suicide bombers—or “martyrs”—each to target the groups IS deem its enemies.
Abu Zayid al-Sudani, a leading member of the group, tweeted the following on his account: “The bombing of Luxor—a burning summer awaits the tyrant of Egypt [President Sisi] and his soldiers, and the worshippers of the cross. This is just the beginning.”