As Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has said, the ban is a "great gift to extremists" and "aids terrorist recruitment by deepening fault-lines exploited by extremist demagogues".
Even Turkey's Western allies worry that the censorious climate is deepening national fault lines and damaging the prospects of peace.
But as the economic crisis deepens, fault lines are emerging across the Continent, where borders may be porous but national identities remain fixed.
On the eve of the civil war in the mid-1970s, thescalatingng violence had deepened the fault line between the Maronite Christian and Muslim communities, symbolized in turn by the increasing power of the Christian Phalangists, led by Pierre Gemayel (see Gemayel family), and the predominantly Muslim Lebanese National Movement (LNM), led by Kamal Jumblatt.
Africa's Anglican leaders expressed fury on Monday at the consecration of a gay bishop in New Hampshire, renewing their intention to break from the American church and deepening an ideological fault line that crisscrossed the world.
Assad poured scorn on the idea that a U.S.- and Russian-sponsored peace conference planned for Geneva next month would end fighting that is deepening the sectarian fault lines between Sunnis against Shi'ites across the Middle East.
But even protesters themselves acknowledge the way sectarian tensions have deepened, especially along fault lines of Sunni and Alawite communities, as in Homs, especially in its countryside.
Furthermore, fault models with southeast deepening direction of the moment solution can reproduce the observed tsunami waveform relatively well.
For most of the past decade, Serbia's disgraced tyrant, Slobodan Milosevic, told his compatriots that their deepening poverty and isolation were entirely the fault of a malicious West.
Huntington's book was about "fault lines" dividing various "civilizations," and I was just making the general point that if we think of, say, Japanese people as radically different from Americans — as Huntington's book, I believed, encouraged us to do — we were more likely to treat Japan in ways that deepened any Japanese-Western fault line.
