Thailand: Muslims murder seven, including 11-month-old girl

Will the Islamophobia never end? "Insurgents kill 7, including 11-month-old girl, in attacks in southern Thailand," from The Associated Press, December 11 (thanks to Kenneth):

PATTANI, Thailand - A baby girl was among seven people killed Tuesday by suspected Islamist separatists, police said, as a nearly 9-year-old insurgency in southern Thailand that has killed thousands of people shows no signs of letting up.
Five people were killed and another four wounded in a drive-by shooting at a tea shop in Narathiwat province's Ra-ngae district, said local police chief Col. Jiradej Prasawang. The dead included 11-month-old Efahni Samoh, while the wounded included a 10-month-old boy, Muhammad Yaena.

Jiradej said the shop may have been targeted by the gunmen, who were firing AK-47 assault rifles, because the owner is a village official. Officials and teachers, as representatives of the state, are prime targets for the insurgents, whose terror tactics are also thought to be aimed at scaring Buddhist residents fleeing the region.

In a separate incident, five attackers shot dead a principal and a teacher at a school in neighbouring Pattani province's Mayo district before stealing a pickup truck as they fled, said Mayo police chief Col. Kong-art Suwannakham. The total number of school personnel killed in such attacks is now 157, according to the regional teachers association.

More than 5,000 people have been killed in the three Muslim-dominated southernmost provinces of Buddhist-dominated Thailand since an Islamist insurgency erupted in January 2004.

Meanwhile, the Brussels-based International Crisis Group counsels surrender:

"Successive governments have opted to muddle through Southeast Asia's most violent internal conflict, deploying tens of thousands of security forces and spending billions of dollars to little effect," the Brussels-based International Crisis Group think-tank said Tuesday as it released a report on the conflict.
"Insurgents have withstood and adapted to the military's tactics, growing more proficient and daring in the process," it said. "While there is greater pressure on leaders to reduce violence and seek a resolution, political infighting and bureaucratic inertia continue to impinge on a comprehensive approach."

The group recommended that Thailand's government "reverse the militarization of the southernmost provinces, lift the Draconian security laws and end the security forces' impunity, all of which help stimulate the insurgency."

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dumbledoresarmy | December 12, 2012 6:06 PM | Reply

Local Thai news here - Bangkok Post.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/security/325668/toddler-two-teachers-among-six-killed-in-brazen-shootings

Toddler, two teachers among six killed in brazen shootings

The attack on the school is described in a little more detail than AP gave:

"Gunmen attacked a school in Mayo district, killing the school director and a teacher.

"Police said at least five men **in police uniforms** {my emphasis - i.e. 'war is deceit'...dda} burst into Ban Ba-ngo school in tambon Panan of Mayo district.

"They shot and killed Tiyarat Chuaykaew, the school director, and Somsak Kwanma, a teacher, before stealing a pickup truck belonging to a teacher and speeding away in it..".

Murder *and* theft.

And they will probably use the pickup truck to commit *more* murders, whether they turn it into a truck bomb, or whether they prowl the road in it, carrying out drive-by shootings of defenceless civilian travellers.

My deepest condolences to the families of the murdered schoolteachers, Tiyarat Chuaykew and Somsak Kwanma (whose names suggest Thai Chinese ethnicity). Being a teacher - especially an Infidel teacher - in southern Thailand is a very dangerous occupation these days.

dumbledoresarmy | December 12, 2012 6:40 PM | Reply

Thailand has been placed 8th on the list of countries affected by terrorism.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/security/324682/thailand-rank-no-8-globally-of-country-impacted-by-terrorism

Thailand 8th on global terrorism list

"In Southeast Asia, Thailand ranks No.1 on the list, followed by the Philippines, Indonesia, Myanmar, Malaysia and Cambodia. Laos have not experienced terrorism over the past decade, according to the report.

{Note: it's a safe bet that the majority of terror attacks carried out in Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Myanmar and Malaysia have been carried out by Muslims. - dda}

"According to the index, Iraq sits at the top, followed by Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Yemen.

{Note: and except for the Maoists in India, who operate in addition to the Muslims, one may again safely conclude that in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Yemen, the terror raiders are...MUSLIMS - dda}.

"Terrorist attacks worldwide have quadrupled in the past 10 years, according to the report."

Rewrite: 'Terrorist attacks worldwide, most which are carried out by Muslims against non-Muslims and against other Muslims deemed insufficiently-Islamic, have quadrupled in the past 10 years...".

dumbledoresarmy replied to comment from dumbledoresarmy | December 12, 2012 6:50 PM | Reply

And yet a high-ranking Thai politician is deep, deep in denial:

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/security/324871/chalerm-no-terrorism-in-thailand

Chalerm: No terrorism in Thailand
Published: 6/12/2012 at 04:19 PM

"There is no terrorism in Thailand, just political demonstrations and the insurgency in the deep South, Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung said on Thursday..".

Click on the link, scroll down and read the comments. People just cannot believe that he said what he just said.

And more:

"Thailand is not yet the land of terrorism because we're a Buddhist country, we don't take sides and we're friends with everyone."

But Muslims, Mr Chalerm, will never make friends with *you*.

Muslims are forbidden to make friends with non-Muslims (except temporarily, either to protect themselves from Infidels who are momentarily too strong to be subdued, or with a view to suckering said Infidels into the Ummah Gang).

You are a Buddhist, Mr Chalerm. You offend Muslims merely by breathing-while-Buddhist. No matter what you do, no matter what you say, so long as you remain a Buddhist, you are classified as their enemy...and as Prey.

Take a look at Afghanistan, which used to be a Buddhist country; take a look at so-called Nuristan, which used to be called Kafiristan, but was violently converted to Islam a century or so ago; *that* is what orthodox Muslims intend to do to Buddhist Thailand. And take a look at the Bamiyan Buddhas, to know what hard-core orthodox Muslims fully intend to do to every Buddhist temple in Thailand, if once they get the chance.

dumbledoresarmy | December 12, 2012 7:00 PM | Reply

And the shopworn old 'poverty causes jihad' canard is being trotted out, predictably, and the Thai government is being cajoled - and threatened - into throwing more money into the bottomless pit that is its Islamised southern provinces:

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/security/325500/intelligence-points-to-revenge-attack-surge

Intelligence points to revenge attack surge

..."Peerayos Rahimmula, a Democrat list-MP {and, judging from his surname - rahimmula - a MUSLIM, playing the classic mohammedan 'moderate muslim' goodcop to the jihadists' badcop - dda} said he had learned {how? from whom? - dda} that new extremist groups were being formed every year and were drawing up ever-more violent strategies.

{In other words: Peerayos Rahimmula is issuing a threat at second-hand - dda}.

"One major factor contributing to the rise in militant numbers was the high level of unemployment in the deep South, he said.

{Suuure, 'poverty causes Jihad'...RUBBISH. ISLAM causes *both* poverty *and* Jihad; and then, too, by its ceaseless upheaval and destruction of people and infrastructure, such as by repeated bombing of train tracks, Jihad causes poverty...dda}.

"The Interior, Labour, and Social Development and Human Security Ministries should work with local administrations to empower unemployed people by providing them with occupational training, Mr Peerayos said.

{All you'll get is richer, cleverer jihadists paying more zakat which can pay for better weapons..- dda}.

"If the government fails to prevent unemployed people from joining the insurgent movement, the southern unrest will only worsen, Mr Peerayos added {wink, wink, nudge, nudge...that is a veiled threat if ever I saw one - dda}.

And making cleverer Muslimahs...which could backfire, as well

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/security/325676/women-academy-aims-for-leadership

Women's academy aims for leadership

"A leadership academy for Muslim women launched at Government House yesterday is aimed at preparing women to take on more prominent roles in the troubled [sic: JIHAD-WRACKED - dda] region.
The academy was developed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Ministry of Social Development and Human Security...".

Mo' jizya, mo' jizya, or else...

dumbledoresarmy | December 12, 2012 7:11 PM | Reply

And in this article,

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/security/324720/narathiwat-to-close-hundreds-of-schools
Narathiwat to close hundreds of schools

we see that Islamisation proceeds apace, as the assassinations of government-employed Buddhist teachers at state schools leads to a/ temporary closing of hundreds of state schools (and these sorts of closures are happening regularly, disrupting the education of thousands of children)

"...Almost 380 schools in Narathiwat will close for two days, starting Thursday, following the shooting of two teachers in the southern border provinces this week"...

and b/ proposals to pull out Buddhist teachers from these schools

"...All Buddhist teachers in high-risk areas will be transferred to schools in safer locations, Mr Sanguan said...".

and c/ worst of all, proposals for ...government-funded **Islamic studies** in those same state schools...

"Chinnapat Bhumirat, secretary-general of the Office of Basic Education Commission, said an Islamic studies programme should be introduced in more schools in the South.

{AAARGH! this is *exactly* the wrong thing to do..- dda}

"The intensive course has been introduced in 350 secondary schools and the feedback has been satisfactory.

"The course aims to help students gain a better understanding of Islam.

{Hmm. Is it being taught by Muslims or by anybody? What does it contain...or not contain? If it is taught by Muslims, will the classes be monitored periodically? - dda}.

"A request for the course to be made more widely available, including in primary schools, will be submitted to the minister, he added.

"Mr Chinnapat, however, acknowledged that **a shortage of teaching staff has prevented the government from offering Islamic studies in more schools** {my emphasis - dda; and I can only say, thank goodness for that...}..".

I wonder who is providing the study materials? The Saudis?

Memo to the Thai government. The cure for the ills produced by Islam is *never*... Islam. The Muslim kids in those state schools need *less* Islam, not more. Ask Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

To introduce 'improved' Islamic studies in these schools - to Islamise the schools - is to surrender to the Jihad. it will not result in fewer jihadist terror raiders, but in more and more and more of them.

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