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Border walls rise across Mideast as jihad threat shakes nations

Jul 23, 2015 5:14 pm By Robert Spencer

tunisian-armyWill the UN denounce these security barriers as “apartheid walls”? Or does only Israel come in for such treatment?

“Border walls rise across Mideast as jihad threat shakes nations,” Bloomberg News, July 23, 2015:

CAIRO — As they confront the rising threat of modern jihadist violence, many of the nations most at risk are retreating behind one of the oldest forms of defense.

Tunisia became the latest to invest in a border barrier after dozens of foreign tourists were killed in two attacks by Islamist militants trained in neighboring Libya and armed by smugglers. The fence and watch towers ordered by Prime Minister Habib Essid will for now stretch 100 miles inland from the coast along the most vulnerable stretch of the shared frontier.

From Morocco to Saudi Arabia, boundaries are being fortified at a rate not seen since the months following the Sept. 11 attacks.

Most walled region

“The Middle East and North Africa is now the most walled region in the world,” said Said Saddiki, a professor of International Relations and International Law at Al-Ain University of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi. They range from “fences inside cities to antimigrant walls and separation barriers to counterinsurgency” barricades, he said.

The builders have often been spurred by fear of Islamic State, after its conquests in Iraq and Syria and the group’s ability to inspire Muslim extremists elsewhere, or concern over failed or failing nations next door. The jihadist group has built its own walls to fend off attackers and keep people from escaping, including around the Iraqi cities of Tal Afar and Mosul. Syria’s embattled government has placed concrete shields around areas of government support in Homs….

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  1. Wellington says

    Jul 23, 2015 at 5:58 pm

    “Most walled region,” per above, PRECISELY and ONLY because of the most awful religion.

    • Joseph says

      Jul 23, 2015 at 6:24 pm

      Wellington
      And they have the steely pair to call us Islamophobic? I (sorry to say) find it weird that the master is afraid of what the master has created. If they are true Muslims what have they to fear? Is reality setting in that their very heroes are now the ones to be feared? When will the cry come for the USA(the great Satan) and NATO to save them? What ever happened to the all for one and one for all cry.

      • Wellington says

        Jul 23, 2015 at 9:59 pm

        Agreed, Joseph. Muslims fearing other Muslims says a lot. My God, what a messed up religion Islam is. I’m convinced it cannot be reformed, only abandoned. Till then many will pay, both Muslim and non-Muslim alike.

        • Huck Folder says

          Jul 24, 2015 at 12:41 am

          My god! Mary Shelley got the idea for Dr. Frankenstein from islam!

        • Goat Pimp says

          Jul 24, 2015 at 9:04 am

          “As they confront the rising threat of modern jihadist violence, many of the nations most at risk are retreating behind one of the oldest forms of defense.”

          What a bunch of ISLAMOPHOBES!!! Sarc/off

        • Whiskey and Pork Rinds says

          Jul 24, 2015 at 9:08 am

          Good point Goat Pimp.

          The a-holes call us Islamophobes for fearing Islam and its unfettered violence, like there is something wrong with that.

  2. Angemon says

    Jul 23, 2015 at 6:18 pm

    “The Middle East and North Africa is now the most walled region in the world,” said Said Saddiki, a professor of International Relations and International Law at Al-Ain University of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi. They range from “fences inside cities to antimigrant walls and separation barriers to counterinsurgency” barricades, he said.

    Muslims barricading themselves from other muslims deemed not muslim enough. Isn’t the ummah wonderful? Truly, a shining example of solidarity for the whole world!!! sarc./off…

  3. mccode says

    Jul 23, 2015 at 6:34 pm

    If only they would all stay within those walls……..

  4. jayfrann says

    Jul 23, 2015 at 6:57 pm

    Only Israel has to justify its self defence.No other state or power in the region is held to the same standards by the leftist hypocrites of the West.

  5. Susan B says

    Jul 23, 2015 at 6:59 pm

    “They range from “fences inside cities to antimigrant walls and separation barriers to counterinsurgency”

    So when is Europe going to build walls to keep out migrants? Even muslims realize how dangerous islam is.

  6. marken says

    Jul 23, 2015 at 7:51 pm

    There are at least several notable security fence companies in the Middle East that claim millions of kilometers of security fence construction but when the Saudis built their 600 mile southern border fence to prevent raids by fellow-Mohammadans, they hired the infidels, a high-tech Texas company, to do the job.

    • Godwin says

      Jul 24, 2015 at 5:28 am

      The Saudi created an ideology to conquer the world but this “ideology” comes back to attack its creator who has spent billions of USD in weapons n warplanes n needs to get American protection n who has to build wall after wall to protect his kingdom..

      • Godwin says

        Jul 24, 2015 at 5:35 am

        The Saudi had built the security wall in the north first to protect against ISIS attacks before building wall at the southern flank.

  7. Sam says

    Jul 23, 2015 at 8:27 pm

    This is for security reason which has nothing to do with Islam. It is funny Islam has nothing to do with anything but it is all over the place creating havoc everywhere. What screwed up times we are living in.

  8. Godwin says

    Jul 24, 2015 at 5:13 am

    China was the first country to build walls to stop the barbarian invaders from the North. But with relentless onslaught n with the assistance of the corrupt officials the barbarians were able to breach the walls at times n invaded the country.
    As for the US n Europe now, there is no need any walls as you have compliant (maybe corrupt) leaders, who are assisting the enemy n oppressing their own citizens.

  9. Rita says

    Jul 24, 2015 at 7:27 am

    “Will the UN denounce these security barriers as “apartheid walls”? Or does only Israel come in for such treatment?”

    As sponsor/godfather of HAMAS/IS/and other Terrorist Groups (just have a look at what ghastly arses are parked on the UN benches) – the UN (Central station for Human Rights Violators) will, of course, continue to fight Israel on behalf of the Islamists and assorted Jew-haters.

  10. slcocker says

    Jul 24, 2015 at 8:41 am

    Israel nor America can build border security fences, that would be discrimination against a Satanic religion’s caliphate that has nothing to do with Islam! I just wish we could get a US president that has nothing to do with Islam. Saudi will reap the destruction that they have sown by financing terrorists throughout the world including 9/11.

    Let’s fight back against the Islamic enemies that are not to be named as having anything to do with Islam!

  11. duh_swami says

    Jul 24, 2015 at 9:01 am

    Walls…Ancient walls are all over the planet…Power struggles within the ummah are common. The walls are not to keep out Islam, but to keep out the power hungry ISIS who threatens their comfort zones.

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