al-Hasani
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I meant the largely desert areas in Sinai near the Gaza border, the southern part of Sinai has very little terrorist or no activity. Let's not forget that right now the majority of Arab Muslims support jubhat al Nusrah, which is Alqaeda. Go to the Jihadi forums and you will find that many Saudis are pro ISIL as well. ISIL have a chance to cause chaos wherever there is ground for it. Right now Egypt does that have ground. Of course there influence is limited for the most part, but they will continue their sabotage and attacks on vulnerable targets. And yes Egyptian also studies everything about Israel, unfortunately America tries to limit Egypts capability against Israel. They may be at peace, but they are still enemies.
And by beduins I don't mean all, but they are usually the first to be approached By ISIL. They are also easily influenced.
More than 95% of the entire Egyptian territory are desert lands, mostly flat land. More than any other Arab country. Outside of Mauritania I believe. Sinai contrary to all the other areas of Egypt outside of the small areas around the Nile and the fertile deltas has mountains, which nearly no other part of Egypt has. Egypt receives the least amount of rainfall of any Arab country I know of. The border regions of Sinai are not really desert areas and most of Sinai is mountainous anyway. Only the central areas are that.
Most of the Bedouins live in the Southern and Central Sinai. Most were traditionally engaged in pastoralism and tourism. Most of the trouble makers are members of groups originating from the mainland. So it has nothing to do with the people of Sinai so no need to single them out.
Yes, because you asked nearly 500 million of all those Arabs who and what they support? That's right. What has ISIS, an Iraqi phenomenon led by an Iraqi, to do with Egypt and Sinai once again? ISIS has even been "fired" from Al-Qaeda what is the chance for them to expand? They get their asses kicked everywhere and will ultimately destroy themselves because no sane person can find sympathy for them unless they are misguided severely which we all know that many people are. Has nothing to do with religion even. Just human behavior that often makes the wrong choices.
Those Bedouins or whoever lives in Sinai that approaches such groups mostly due it due to the current horrible economic situation. This obviously creates unemployment which attracts such groups to operate in vulnerable places. Successful people do not join such groups because why should they?
I don't frequent such forums and especially not when I am based abroad. The intelligence services are probably already monitoring your computer so that's a very bad idea.
It is not good to single out a whole region because of a few bad apples. You should know this already.