The jihad in Thailand is ongoing, but it gains little media attention in the West. After all, what is there to report? Without stories of Muslims being persecuted and falling victim to “Islamophobia,” what is there to attract the interest of the mainstream media?
“Explosions in Southern Thailand Kill 1, Wound 24,” from the Associated Press, April 6 (thanks to Kenneth):
Suspected Muslim insurgents in southern Thailand launched a wave of attacks Sunday that killed one person and wounded 24 others.
The violence took place in the city of Yala, where at least four explosions were reported, said police Col. Prayong Khotsakha.
The most serious of the assaults was a car bomb that detonated in front [of] a furniture store, triggering a blaze that burned nearby homes and caused numerous casualties, he said.
Other explosions were reported in the city. One bomb was hidden on a motorcycle, and another blew up an ATM.
More than 5,000 people have been killed in Thailand’s three southernmost provinces since an Islamic insurgency erupted in 2004.
While the militants target mainly security forces, others are also targets, including teachers, who are perceived as representatives of the government in predominantly Buddhist Thailand.
brian murphy says
these terrible murders by Muslims are ongoing for years in Southern Thailand as the Muslim extremists murder innocent Thais, to force them leave and then the Muslims can seize their property. The Muslim fanatics are clearly supported from the nearby Muslim state of Malaysia and Indonesia. Lately the murders have been more horrific as the the Muslim killers murder Thai mothers and their children and behead them all. I saw recent photos on the internet of women and girls who were beheaded and it shocked me that human beings could be so evil and inhuman. It shows how evil the Muslims are and that they are really a Satanic cult of evil who worship the devil. The Thais are mainly Buddhist and peace loving who show understanding to all beliefs and to persons with disabilities and mental illnesses. I have witnessed this myself but in the presence of many Muslims one senses the sinister and wicked spirit of the devil, who controls persons to murder and hate everyone.
Jay Boo says
The Islamophobia lobby groups are in place and standing by at the ready to feed the puppet MSM stations with any reports of Buddhist who defend themselves.
Stephen Poole says
… Five aces, JayBoo …
jewdog says
Usually the media stories describe the “restive” South, where Muslim separatists battle against what they perceive as discrimination, so they are sort of like Thai civil rights campaigners who get a little carried away when they bomb or behead people. And if you are unsympathetic, then you are a racist dog or maybe an Islamophobe, or maybe a dog who has hydro-islamophobia and should be put down.
Mazo says
China has traditionally supported the Malay Sultanates and China was the one who forced Thailand to give up its overlord status over the Malay peninsula. Thailand use to have the entire Malay peninsula as their vassals, with Thailand attacking and forcing the local Malay chiefs into tribute status before China ended it.
The reason Pattani is in Thailand is because of the following-
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/02/indonesia-armed-muslim-mob-blocks-construction-of-church/comment-page-1#comment-1013083
Most of the Sultanates in southeast asia were peaceful until provoked and invaded by the colonialists, Moros started raiding the Philippines only after Spain started attacking them.
In fact they were mosly on the receiving end of violence. Thailand (Ayutthaya) had long dominated the Malay states by attacking them, and reducing them to vassal status, forcing Malay Kings to acknowledge the Thai King as their lord and pay tribute. Around 1400, Parameswara converted to Islam, changed his name to Iskandar Shah and paid tribute to China, asking the Chinese for help against Thailand. The Chinese then placed the Malacca Sultanate under Chinese protection and forced the Thai to give up their overlord status over the Malays.
The Portuguese too were reknown for their piratical activities by the Chinese. The Portuguese conquered the Malacca Sultanate in 1511 and brutally sacked the city, massacring thousands of civilians and enslaving people. They then tried to enter relations with China, but the Malay Sultan sent a letter to China about the Portuguese invasion. After that, China imprisoned and executed the Portuguese delegation, defeating the Portuguese twice at Tamao, and wiping out Portuguese pirates along the coast of China, demanding that the Portuguese restore the Malay Sultan to his throne.
Thailand was free to resume its attacks on the Malays again after the fall of Malacca. Again, Thailand reduced Malay Sultanates like Pattani and [Kedah] and Kelantan to vassalage, forcing the Malay Sultans to pay alleigance to Thailand. After several Malay rebellions against the Thai, the Thai split Pattani into several vassal Sultanates. The British in 1909 demanded that the Thai cede Kedah [and Kelantan] to Thai rule, after signing a treaty with the British, the Thai then directly annexed Pattani as a province instead of being just a vassal state, since they didn’t want the British taking anymore, that is why there is an insurgency in Thailand today.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/03/western-media-condemns-terrorist-attacks-that-happen-at-their-door-but-show-sympathy-to-terrorists-killing-people-brutally-in-china/comment-page-1#comment-1016978
The reason Thailand annexed Pattani, is because of the Anglo Siamese Treaty in 1909. Ayutthaya (Thailand) traditionally dominated the Malay peninsula [before the year 1400], after invading and defeating the local Malay chieftans/princs and forcing them into vassalage. One of these Malay Princes, Parameswara, converted to Islam, [around 1400] became Iskandar Shah, founded the Malacca Sultanate asked China for help and protection, and Ming China forced Thailand to give up its vassal and grant Malacca independence, Malacca then became a Chinese protectorate and tributary.
After the Portuguese conquered (pillaged and massacring civilians ) Malacca in 1511 (China later punished Portugal for their act), Thailand resumed its attacks on the Malays and forced the Malay Sultanates into vassalage. Again.
These Malay vassal Sultans has to acknowledge the Thai King as their lord and pay tribute. Thailand’s Malay vassal Sultanates included Pattani, Kedah, Kelantan, etc. Pattani rebelled against Thai overlordship, and Thailand responded by dividing Pattani into several vassal Sultanates.
Then the British came, turned the Malay Sultanate of Johor into a protectorate, and then forced Thailand to hand over their vassals in Kedah and Kelantan to British Malaya. That was what the Anglo Siamese Treaty in 1909 was about.
The Thai then directly annexed Pattani as a province, abolishing its vassal state status, in order to prevent the British from taking Pattani too.
So you see, the reason Pattani is in Thailand, is because the Thai wanted to keep the British out, not because the Malays launched a sneak attack in 1909 while Thailand was fighting Burma, which I’ve seen you guys claim.
The reason Pattani is directly controlled by Thailand, is because Thailand wanted to shut the British out and stop them from adding another Sultanate to British Malaya.
If the British never came, Pattani, Kedah, and Kelantan would just continue to be Malay Sultanates and vassals to Thailand, like the princely states in the British Raj.
Since China was not active overseas anymore during the 19th century, the Malays could not call China again for help to free them from Thai vassalage, like they did in the 1400s when they converted to Islam under Parameswara and asked China to free them from the Thai.
Mazo says
When Portugal invaded the Malay Malcca Sultanate in the bloody 1511 conquest, after the Malay Sultan Mahmud Shah appealed to China for help, (since Malacca was a protectorate of China) China first ordered Thailand to help the Malays fight off the Portuguese.
After Thailand blatantly ignored the order (still being sore over the fact that China forced Thailand to give up the entire Malayan peninsula as its vassal), China took direct action against the Portuguese themselves. The Portuguese delegation under Tome Pires was arrested, and China attacked and defeated the Portuguese fleets twice at Tamao, sinking their ships and capturing Portuguese cannon. China then executed the Portuguese delegation after consulting Sultan Mahmud Shah over their fate.
John says
Nothing to see here folks just a bunch of nobody Buddhists killed and maimed by “separatists” (MUSLIM TERRORISTS) now into their tenth year of “lawful Sharia” backed slaughter. My recommendation to the Thai Government is to hand over two of these three “troubled” provinces to the misery Muslims. Withdraw all Non Muslim Thais from these provinces and withdraw all Muslims from the rest of the country and let them live in the southern two provinces. Build an Israeli style wall around the common borders with the northern ones, cut off all communication and Governmental support for the southern provinces and let the “separatists” figure out the rest. The Buddhists withdrawn from the south can occupy ex Muslim properties and businesses everywhere else in Thailand and vice-versa in the south. This was done in the 1920’s in Greece and Turkey where they exchanged Muslim Greeks for Christian Turks respectively. Deploy the necessary military to guard the wall and deal with anyone that comes across without permission. Bearing in mind these provinces and Malaysia to the south as well as Indonesia etc were all Buddhist/Hindu kingdoms all the way back before the advent of Islam in the seventh century, the actual sovereignty of these areas is clearly in Non Muslim’s favour and so this should be considered by the Muslim separatists as a good deal.
Kepha says
The anonymity of the southern Thai terrorist groups, the failure of any politician linked to them to challenge the governing parties at hustings (which occur in the Kingdom of Thailand periodically) and relative absence of terror attacks elsewhere in Thailand (where Muslims are common in the transport business) leads me to suspect that maybe the Pattani separatists might not have that strong of a popular base among the people for whom they claim to be fighting, and cannot count on the support or approval of their co-religionists elsewhere in the country.
And if anyone accuses Gen. Sonthi of going soft on his coreligionists when he was in charge of fighting the separatists, none of the Buddhist generals who had the same job were any rougher. My suspicion is that the Royal Thai Government simply didn’t want to get anyone but the bad guys–while avoiding making separatists of people who were formerly either loyal or simply acquiescent.
Mazo says
There is a game army officers in third world countries play, called “lets embezzle as much funds as we can by prolonging the war so we can build our own mansions and buy ourselves fancy cars”.
This is what happened in the Philippines with the Communist insurgency. philippine army officers like the embezzle out of war funds and they have absolutely no incentive to cut off their money source by actually fighting the insurgents, so they can buy fancy sports cars.