In another article on the topic the Globe's Nathan Vanderklippe writes: "Armed with machetes and a few guns, hundreds of people launched the assault. They fought under the banner of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, a fledgling insurgency led by a small group of Rohingya, based in Saudi Arabia, who claim religious sanction for their cause of employing violence to halt the persecution of Muslims in heavily Buddhist Myanmar. The militants sustained heavy losses that morning, but killed a dozen people."

How is a country supposed to react to an attack on its security by hundreds of Saudi-backed Islamist terrorists?

Maybe it's a disproportionate reaction but something needs to be done about global Islamist violence and oppression.