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Thailand: Islamic jihadists murder three, injure 55 with series of blasts

May 24, 2014 7:46 pm By Robert Spencer

ThaiblastsJihad against 7/11. But fear not: no “Islamophobia” was committed.

“Bomb blasts in Thailand’s restive deep south kill three, hurt dozens ,” Associated Press, May 24, 2014:

AT LEAST three people have been killed and 55 injured in a spate of bombing attacks in crisis-wracked Thailand’s deep south, where an Islamic insurgency has raged for a decade, the military and Thai media reports say.

Attacks were reported in Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat provinces, according to the reports, which also said gunfire was heard in at least one area.

Southern region military spokesman Colonel Piamote Prom-In told Thai television the attacks broke out in several places on Saturday evening.

“The explosions occurred in busy areas as people were shopping ahead of curfew,” he said, referring to a night-time curfew imposed since Thursday, when the kingdom’s army chief seized power in Thailand, deposing the civilian government.

“Explosions killed three and injured 55 people. Of those, five people were seriously injured.”

The Bangkok Post said at least 13 attacks erupted in Pattani province at about the same time, suggesting a coordinated offensive, at “three 7-Eleven outlets, the office of the Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA), an electricity facility and a petrol station in Muang district.”

Suspicion is likely to fall on Islamic insurgents in the Muslim-majority region, which borders on predominantly Muslim Malaysia.

The conflict pits shadowy insurgents in the Muslim Malay area against the security forces of mostly Buddhist Thailand.

But for the most part, it has been civilians caught in the crossfire of the regular bombings, shootings and sometimes beheadings.

The conflict has claimed more than 6000 lives, mostly civilians.

Thailand annexed the deep south more than a century ago.

The rebels want a level of autonomy, accusing Thai authorities of riding roughshod over their Malay culture and carrying out human rights abuses.

Observers say there has been an uptick in the violence in recent months following the suspension of peace talks between some rebel factions and Thai authorities.

The talks floundered as political turmoil in Bangkok engulfed the government of recently ousted premier Yingluck Shinawatra.

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  1. Jay Boo says

    May 24, 2014 at 8:02 pm

    After every attack the Obama immediately runs interference by criticizing the governments of the attacked nation and NPR follows up by parroting his statements with a heaping dose of NPR indignation added for good measure.

    • John C. Barile says

      May 24, 2014 at 8:15 pm

      I notice such a pattern, too–I’m getting sick of it.

    • miriam rove says

      May 24, 2014 at 8:15 pm

      exactly.m

    • Myxlplik says

      May 24, 2014 at 9:33 pm

      I’ve noticed the same thing.

      Imagine if every time a victim of rape got reported upon by the news, an opinion piece was included on the type of clothing the victim wore. Pretty soon the victims would shut up and just take it, out of fear of the system which raped them a second time in the court of public opinion.

      It’s what the press and our government hopes will happen to the victims of jihad, they’ll just shut up and die. They are sharia enforcers themselves.

    • bettina says

      May 24, 2014 at 11:16 pm

      JB, what’s this — a case of “I told you so, you should’ve been very nice to your muslims, or you wouldn’t be where you are today”?

      Other than after the Egyptians toppled Morsi and his MB, and Mobama started calling it a coup to reduce or cut off US aid, I don’t recall him dissing other governments who lost to the masses.

      • Jay Boo says

        May 25, 2014 at 1:58 am

        With all due respect bettina you appear to be having one of those asymptotic spasms that voeg mentions.
        TIMING
        Obama with NPR complicity finds something as an excuse to imply don’t dare counter attack after Islamic terrorism
        Nigeria (talk of sanctions but with an added against Boko Haram as if Boko Haram is a legitimate political entity) with Amnesty International criticism of the Nigerian government
        China unrest and Obama once again front and center with an excuse to pick a fight on trade issues
        Manama Muslims
        Russia, after Volgograd attack
        Crimea
        The list is endless

  2. cesar bento says

    May 25, 2014 at 8:48 am

    The third world war is in the way… All the world against radical muslims, as it was before everybody against Hitler and nazism….

  3. Oliver says

    May 25, 2014 at 4:55 pm

    The west ( and the east–in fact ALL nations where the cancer that is Islam is operating) have to adapt and follow Churchill (in WW2- during the Battle of Britain) ( I hope I have the number right, but if not, the meaning is still clear). FOR EVERY BOMB THAT FALLS ON LONDON, 10 SHALL FALL ON BERLIN.

    For every civilian killed (or,as in Nigeria, kidnapped)– KILL 10 or 20 or 50 Muslims. Does not matter if they were involved or not– if not, then the ‘decent” Muslims- to avoid being killed, will turn the slime in.

    My view.

    Note, in WW2- there were no progressives or lefty liberals (could it be because the Soviet Union was allied with the US?) to protest the bombings in Germany and Japan.

    We have to do the same now.

    My view.

  4. gravenimage says

    May 25, 2014 at 7:45 pm

    “Bomb blasts in Thailand’s restive deep south kill three, hurt dozens ”
    ………………………..

    Why is it that every nation with a sizable Muslim population finds that region “restive”?

    Of course, we know: islam has bloody borders…

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