Thailand Jihad Update: Jihad against teenage boys and a fruit-trader. "Three killed in Thailand's south," from Agence France-Presse, October 17 (thanks to Dumbledoresarmy):
Suspected separatist insurgents have shot dead two teenage boys and a man in Thailand's Muslim-majority far south, police said.
Two 15-year-old boys were killed and another teenager critically injured in a drive-by shooting in Pattani province on Thursday afternoon, police in the restive region said.
In a separate attack in the same province that evening, a 32-year-old fruit trader was killed in a teashop.
More than 3,400 people have been killed since separatist unrest erupted almost five years ago in the far southern region.
Tensions have simmered since Thailand annexed the mainly ethnic Malay sultanate in 1902.
But that annexation was the result of aggression on the part of that same Malay sultanate. More on that can be found here.
Suspected separatist insurgents..."
-- from the article above
They are not "separatists" if by that term one means the Muslims would be satisfied with autonomy, or with an independent south. What they want from the non-Muslims of Thailand is whatever they can get, including an independent state (and nowhere are the Muslims a majority except in a very small part of the south), and then to renew their claims, for the claims of Muslims are not to "part" of this state or "part" of that one, but, ultimately, to the whole world, and any granting of what those "separatists" preumsably want would not "solve" anything, but merely delay the next demand by Muslims, and the next. Any surrender, of any kind, by non-Muslim states to Muslims within those states, leads only to a whetting, not a sating, of Muslim appetites. There is no counter-example to this; there is a world full of evidence to confirm it.
bullies will be bullies
The mainstream media's inattention to the events taking place in Thailand is a disgrace.
Thailand's dealing with Islamic aggression doesn't get the attention that it deserves. But bringing attention to Thailand is important because it plainly illustrates that the Islamic aggression is based upon motives that are greatly under-reported and/or misunderstood.
Coincidentally, the Center for Vigilant Freedom sent me a newsletter with a link to this video:
Lessons From the Thai Jihad which illustrates Hugh's points.