Shiites and Sunnis in Kuwait Pray Together After Mosque Bombing

In a show of unity and rejection of terrorism after the worst terrorist attack in decades, Shiites and Sunnis in Kuwait came together in the country's grand mosque for Friday prayers.

Reuters reports hundreds of members of both sects, the largest in Islam, joined together in rebuke of the Islamic State, which claimed responsibility for a mosque bombing last week at a Shia mosque in Kuwait City that left 27 dead and more than 200 maimed and injured.

The bombing was carried out by a man from Saudi Arabia who was supported by Kuwaiti nationals who picked him up at the airport, sheltered him until the time of the attack, and most likely provided the explosives he used to kill himself and the worshippers gathered in the mosque that day.

Since the bombing, around 90 people have been arrested for either their role in the attack or ties to radical Islamist organizations such as ISIS. The Kuwaiti authorities have also shutdown a charity that was believed to maintain close ties with radical elements fighting in the Syrian Civil War. Additionally, the parliament passed a law that gave the government the power to keep DNA records of every single person living in the country.

The Kuwait bombing was part of a spate of attacks that took place around the globe last Friday. In addition to the mosque bombing, a man in France beheaded his boss and crashed his car into an American-owned chemical plant in a failed effort to create an explosion and poisonous cloud. That man was arrested at the scene.

Tunisia suffered the worst, with its tourism industry coming under attack for the second time in three months. A gunman attacked a tourist resort, killing nearly 40 people on the beach and in the hotel lobby.