Seems like the natives are tired of the muslim violence and the muslims are getting some pay back. What we will soon here are the cries of 'victimhood' from the muslims.

This is the same thing that has happened in other lands - when the locals get tired of the muslims murdering them - they start firing back. And soon the wails and gnashing of teeth from the muslims will be heard. They become incensed when all the locals don't behave as proper dhimmi.

And when the non-muslims were being murdered - all those masses of 'moderates' didn't do a thing. I wonder what the masses of 'moderates' will do now. I wonder.

Posted by: R_not at May 6, 2007 8:08 AM

"A 15-kilogram (nine pounds) bomb..."

15 kilograms = 33 pounds, not nine.

Then again, maybe Agence France-Presse meant a nine pound bomb? But that would mean it weighed approximately four kilograms.

Life is cheap. Attention to detail is not.

Posted by: Aiken Bryce at May 6, 2007 8:53 AM

'The Muslim-majority provinces were once an autonomous sultanate, until the region was annexed by mainly Buddhist Thailand a century ago.'

- from the linked article.

As usual, in Muslim minds, land once part of dar al-Islam is forever part of dar al-Islam.

Posted by: Dane at May 6, 2007 9:10 AM

Those provinces border Malaysia? I wonder if any of this violence is officially (though deniably) supported by the Malay government, and is thus an act of war against Thailand. Or is that too crazy to suggest?

Posted by: aynrandgirl at May 6, 2007 9:19 AM

aynrandgirl,

Ummah News Links is replete with articles that suggest the same thing you are thinking. Here are just a few:

Investigation suggests Malaysia link to Thai bombings

THAILAND: MALAYSIA WON'T BE INVITED TO MEDIATE IN MUSLIM SOUTH

Malaysia fears Thai 'terror camps'

Thai leader calls for a security wall along Malaysia border

Posted by: Aiken Bryce at May 6, 2007 9:55 AM

Also, why is it that immediately after the OIC chief was briefed concerning Thailand's south, the government of Thailand proposed amnesty for these Islamic killers?

The OIC and Saudi Arabia have been and still are supportive of the Islamic killers in the Philippines, so why shouldn't they support the jihad in Thailand?

Posted by: Aiken Bryce at May 6, 2007 10:16 AM

Yahoo, people, Sarkozy won! (France)

Posted by: darcy at May 6, 2007 2:09 PM

Buddhism's passivity didn't work too well in Afghanistan.

The Bamiyan Buddhas were the last sign of the exterminated Afghan Buddhists to be erased.

Pacifism is essentially surrendering the moral and existential highground to ANY other more violent belief.

12 million "pacifists" were killed by Hitler when they allowed him to round them up and slaughter them with almost no resistence (the Sobibor revolt, and a few other minor uprisings excluded).

Buddhists need to grasp the fact that you do not let tigers enter your home and eat your children and you should not bow to human tigers who try the same.

Self-defense is more moral than letting the immoral rule.

Otherwise you cede all of the fruits of your intelligence to the fool, just because the fool is more brutal.

Which is somewhat unintelligent.

The bodily immune systems know how to fight off disease.

The body, as a whole -and its created societies- must have the same wisdom as their cells.

Fight off infection.

Or jihad.

Posted by: profitsbeard at May 6, 2007 2:23 PM

Yahoo, people, Sarkozy won! (France)

Posted by: darcy at May 6, 2007 02:09 PM

Countdown to the car-B-Qs in the banlieues (as predicted by his despicable opponent)...3, 2, 1...

Posted by: Dane at May 6, 2007 3:14 PM

Well, Dane, the PC "NYT" has the story, now. I knew about his win before because I went to the "Le Parisien" website - et voila!

No violence reported yet. On verra (we'll see). Whether there is or there isn't - TRES BIEN, SARKOZY'S ELECTED!

People, this is a man who in 2005 called the Muslim rioters in the Paris 'burbs "scum." HE REFUSED TO APOLOGIZE AND NEVER DID! And now he is Monsieur le President de la France!!!

Obviously, the French people are SICK of the barbarians at their gate. They elected someone who has said he will do something about it.

Same reason the English voted Labour out and the Tories back in: Muslims. It's obvious. Both countries elected conservatives - it's completely obvious why, though the PC Media won't report it as such.

Posted by: darcy at May 6, 2007 4:33 PM

"profitsbeard" - you said "Self-defense is more moral than letting the immoral rule."

The 19th-early-20th-century German writer Thomas Mann has a quote that neatly echoes that:

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

Posted by: darcy at May 6, 2007 4:36 PM

Did I hear someone say death to Islam? At least that would solve part of the problem. After all Nazism is for the most part not a threat at this point in history.

Posted by: Barry at May 6, 2007 5:21 PM

Greetings (especially to 'profitsbeard'):

Accorind to the 5 May 07 issue of "The Economist" the Buddhists in Thailand are beginning to demonstrate for the inclusion of their orientation in any new constitution. ( "Monks on the March" on page 56).

Regrettably, the overall tone on the article was not supportive to the initiative mentioning concerns about "inflaming the separatist insurgency in the Muslim-dominated south."

The article also mentioned that 95% of Thailand's 64 million people are Buddhists.

Brits preaching the acceptance of dhimmi-tude is not helpful.

Posted by: 11B40 at May 6, 2007 6:07 PM

darcy-

I've only read some Mann short stories, but I know his mindset, and it harmonizes with mine.

Along the lines of Edmund Burke's: "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

The best aphorist, even if you disagree with his overall thrust, is Nietzsche. He became more and more ill during his adult life and ended up with blinding migraines for days, so he finally had a hard time writing longer pieces, thus the pithy form became a phsycial necessity:

"Not by wrath does one kill [false ideas], but by laughter."

And:

"The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the dimishing of ill temper."

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11B40-

I like The Buddha's central vision.

"Wake up, be compassionate." is essential.

But it doesn't follow from this, to my mind, that you then permit those who are still sleepwalkers and somnambulists to trample you to death out of "compassion" for their inner confusion.

This permits the triumph of sleepers by default.

I prefer to preserve the achievements of our struggle against chaos, even if it means warring with the hypnotized.

I feel sorry for them, but that doesn't mean I'll let them kill me. Or destroy our Civilization.

Posted by: profitsbeard at May 6, 2007 9:43 PM