Thailand: Misunderstanders of Islam launch wave of bomb attacks

5,206 people have been killed and 9,137 wounded in the Thai jihad, and counting. "Muslim separatists launch wave of bomb attacks in Thailand," by Surapan Boonthanom in the Independent, August 31 (thanks to Twostellas):

SUSPECTED Muslim separatists launched a wave of bomb attacks in Thailand's south on Friday in a rare show of coordination in a usually low-level insurgency in the predominantly Buddhist country.

Police say "bomb-like" devices were found in at least 60 locations in Narathiwat and Pattani, two of three mainly Muslim provinces bordering mainly Muslim Malaysia, along with scores of Malaysian flags.

Most of the devices were fake, but at least a dozen exploded and wounded two soldiers.

A shadowy separatist insurgency by ethnic Malays resurfaced in January 2004, after simmering for decades. Since then, 5,206 people have been killed and 9,137 wounded, according to Deep South Watch, an organisation that monitors the violence....

The coordination and scale of Friday's action were "extremely rare" and intended as a rebuttal of the government's handling of the eight-year conflict, said Srisompop Jitpiromsri of Deep South Watch, who is also a lecturer at Prince of Songkla University in Pattani.

Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat have seen almost daily gun fights and bomb attacks since January 2004. The three provinces were once part of an independent Malay Muslim sultanate until annexed by Thailand in 1909.

The placing of Malaysian flags was intended to antagonise the Thai government and cause friction with Malaysia, Pramote Prom-in, an official at the Southern Internal Security Operations Command told a news conference in Narathiwat.

He asked authorities to be vigilant and said the attacks would not affect Thai-Malaysian relations.

The attacks came on the anniversary of Malaysia's independence from British rule.

Leaked television footage of a fatal roadside ambush by militants on four Thai soldiers a month ago triggered widespread public scrutiny of the government's handling of the long-neglected south.

The government had ruled out peace talks but the government had a change of heart and said this month talks were under way.

Successive governments have spent more than 160 billion baht ($5 billion) over the past eight years to quell the violence....

And let's not forget the origami.

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Bu...bu... but remember kids, islamophobia!.

A wave of attacks by religious extremists has some Tunisians worried about the state of democracy.

Read more: http://www.maghrebchristians.com/2012/08/31/tunisians-fear-growing-salafist-violence/#ixzz258SurS6I

Youssef

Islam=violence.
M

"5,206 people have been killed and 9,137 wounded in the Thai jihad, and counting. "

The army and police should be out every day vigoriously hunting for the terrorists...every day...

I think the US military was even down there training with the Thai soldiers - were they eating scorpions!

To say that the south is neglected... no one can get down there. These militants are beheading Buddhist monks and are on motorbikes carrying out machete attacks on schools.

Nevermind the roadside bombs, explosions and ambushes that have become the norm.

It's a little Afghanistan!!

There is a video about - on just catching a train in that region - there is so much security.

Ironically - Gaddafi's son - the surviving one - was down there a few years ago - in all his Islamic resplendence - raising the issue of the supposed human rights abuses against Muslims in the South!! [Oh, the irony!!]

And human rights groups are calling on the US administration - not to support the Thai government with military funding. Offering no alternative solution.

What is to stop this insurgency from spreading?


Called separatists - these Islamic gangsters always want an Islamic state - and it is always what the controlling state doesn't want to give them - so for these and many Muslims - this becomes the default 'oppressed' position.

And of course - Islam calls for followers to fight against their 'oppressors'!

despite the security of Phuket, its distance from the southern rebellious provinces, the islamic agenda is hitting here too.
Veiled girls (locals told me it's a recent improvement), separate eating areas in the universities (pork stinks) and outside Phuket the separation of villages between the two religious grup (guess who's creating the divide), masjiid are built everywhere but i dunno who are the donors (i guess not thai muslim, usually not among the wealthiest).
Let's hope something is going to make those bigots to open their eyes soon.
PS Great job Robert! I wish you all the best in your mission imposaible!

On Friday.

Of course.

As an old Thai hand, I am deeply saddened--especially when I hear about the Muslims complaining about how pork stinks. Traditionally, the Thai equivalent of "It's a piece of cake" was "Ben Muu"--"It's pork".

As a Christian, I don't hold any candle for Buddhism, whether the Theravada of Thailand or the Mahayana in which my wife was raised. But I will readily admit that Thailand, despite its Theravada establishment, is a country that has treated its religious minorities rather well over the years--and one where conversion from the established religion is permitted.

However, I strongly suspect that the Thai majority will get pretty riled up before too long. Maybe the official press and PeeCee elements will try to paper things over, but sooner or later, reports from Buddhists fleeing the southern violence or the tales of soldiers on leave back home in the Phak Klaang and Isaan will spread around. Given that the troubles are on territory that everyone's recognized as Thai for a long time, and involve insults against the country's cherished institutions, I strongly suggest that the easygoing, "Mai pen rai" attitude for which the Thai are either famous or notorious will probably hit its breaking point before long.

And it's my prayer that Thailand will pull through this trouble. May God forgive me, but I felt a certain amount of Schadenfreude over the report of that Iranian would-be bomber who blew his own legs off, for I thought such an act was highly abusive of a very hospitable people's hospitality.

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