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Thai jihad update from Reuters, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
BANGKOK, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Four Thai soldiers and a teacher were killed by suspected militants in Thailand's restive Muslim south where nearly 900 people have been killed in 21 months of violence, police said on Tuesday.The soldiers, riding on two motorcycles, were shot dead by militants armed with pistols and AK-47 assault rifles near a school in Yala, one of three troubled provinces bordering Malaysia.
"There was an ambush about 500 metres from the school. The militants sprayed bullets from the jungle and all four died at the scene," Police Lieutenant-Colonel Mustopa Mani told Reuters.
In a separate incident, a teacher was shot dead in his car in the province of Pattani. Teachers are often targeted by insurgents as symbols of government authority.
Posted by Robert at September 29, 2005 6:56 AM
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Our government just has to help Thailand take on these Islamic bastards.
The Western searchlight must shine wherever the Muslim incursions threaten.
Read part of recent issue of Time - defeatist and leftist coverage of Iraq - if this is the mainstreammedia we are in trouble.
Thank goodness for radio and the Internet.
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at September 29, 2005 7:45 AM
"....suspected militants in Thailand's restive Muslim south...."
Don't you just love Al Reuters reports?
"Suspected militants"...
The PC comes oozing out of my computer screen when I see that....
Sick!
Posted by: sheik yer'mami at September 29, 2005 8:02 AM
dgene:
If you aren't familiar with Christopher Hitchens, you might enjoy these two items. One is a blogger writing about Hitchens, the former darling of the left, who is ringingly pro-regime change and finds his inspiration in George Orwell. The other comes from the horse's mouth himself on the "anti-war" protests of last weekend:
Understanding Christopher Hitchens:
http://outsidethewhale.blogspot.com/2005/09/understanding-christopher-hitchens.html
Anti-war, my foot:
http://www.slate.com/?id=2126913&nav=tap2/
True the pro-regime change forces on the "left" are in the minority, but they more than make up for it with intelligence and articulation.
I hope you enjoy.
at September 29, 2005 9:38 AM
I truely feel sorry for the Thai people. The ones I've met are kind and caring human beings and their good nature doesn't lend itself very well to defending themselves against a barbaric jihad. Their problems (islamofascists) are never going to go away and infact as we've seen in just over the last year, will only worsen.
at September 29, 2005 7:11 PM
The media often says that schools and teachers are attacked because they are symbols of authority, but that really is not true. They are attacked because they teach the Thai language not Arabic or Malay, and because the schools allow boys and girls to study together. State schools bring Muslim Malay children closer to understanding and harmony with peoples of different races and religions, which is not acceptable to the Muslim Malay.
The south is a poor area, it is true. But most of rural Thailand is very poor and we don’t see this kind of murderous behavior anywhere else but in the south. Hill Tribes, Issan people, Lao and Vietnamese people, all the other minorities get along even in poverty. Only the South is different.
There is much corruption and many police are gangsters in Thailand, it is true. But that is true everywhere in Thailand and still it is only the South where we see this kind of violence.
The Muslim Malay in the south simply do not want to be a part of a broader society, but want to exclude others not like themselves from their midst. Malaysia, which discriminates against non Muslims in an institutional manner, has frankly been helping them achieve their goal.
The Thai government is not yet able face the fact they must choose to undertake a massive resettlement of non-Malay Muslims to the south to create a heterogeneous society. As long as the population there remains mostly Muslim and Malay the brutal genocide of Thai and Chinese will continue, because they are minorities and easy targets.
Expect no support but rather loud opposition from Western NGOs, media like BBC and the UN agencies who hate Thailand for its perceived closeness to America. They are silent over the murder of Chinese and Thai school children and Buddhist monks but go into fits of hysteria and criticism whenever the military of police try to defend the people or themselves against organized attack. They even portray the Muslim Malay as victims even though they are the perpetrators.
Unless the percentage of Muslim population is reduced by organic growth of other peoples to create a multicultural society, like in the rest of Thailand, the Muslim Malay will continue murdering those who are different until there is no one else left to kill. As of yet, no one here has the political will to come out and say that obvious truth.
at September 29, 2005 9:26 PM
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