This year, the holiday begins as the world mourns the innocent victims of barbaric terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom and Egypt, acts of depravity that are directly contrary to the spirit of Ramadan.

Such acts only steel our resolve to defeat the terrorists and their perverted ideology.

Those of you who protest the 100 or so civilians we just killed in Mosul need to remember that the cost of terrorism is high. We may have to keep killing civilians at an ever higher rate, and you can be sure that if we kill enough civilians terror will become a thing of the past.