“The bomb was hidden in a pickup truck that was parked in front of a karaoke bar in a commercial district in Narathiwat province…the blast just after the lunch break also damaged rows of restaurants and shops in the predominantly Buddhist neighborhood.” Will the Islamophobia never end?
“Car bomb hits insurgency-plagued southern Thailand; 13 hurt,” Daily Star, February 20, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
HAT YAI, Thailand: Suspected Muslim insurgents in southern Thailand Friday detonated a car bomb that wounded 13 people and damaged buildings, police said. Two other bombs were defused.
The bomb was hidden in a pickup truck that was parked in front of a karaoke bar in a commercial district in Narathiwat province, police Col. Manit Yimsaai said. He said the explosion wounded two soldiers and 11 civilians, one of them seriously.
Manit said the blast just after the lunch break also damaged rows of restaurants and shops in the predominantly Buddhist neighborhood.
He said the pickup was reported to have been stolen on Thailand’s southern border with Malaysia and had been used in a previous rebel attack.
Suspected militants also threw a pipe bomb at a restaurant 50 meters from the first explosion, but the improvised device did not go off and was defused, police said.
Manit said an explosive ordnance disposal unit used water canon to successfully destroy another explosive device hidden in a motorcycle in front of a nearby grocery store.
Narathiwat is one of the three Muslim-majority southern provinces in Buddhist-dominated Thailand.
More than 5,000 people have been killed in the region since an Islamic insurgency erupted in 2004.
Sheri says
I’m sure OBAMA will blame it on the bad music coming out of the karaoke bar.
jihad me at hello says
Either that or Obama will blame Man-Bear-Pig.
Ayatrollah says
It is islamiphobic and a violation of shariah to report this story. How ever, the temple in the area announced it was going to do more outreach to Muslims in the area, modeled after programs in the USA.
Baucent says
This muslim insurgency into Southern Thailand could be snuffed out very quickly if the Malaysian government wanted to shut down their safe havens in Malayisa. It is a very similar situation to the Taliban in Pakistan crossing into Afghanistan.
Malaysia has an interest in keeping the border region unstable, as they have a long term territorial dispute with Thailand over the three southern provinces.
Angemon says
Since it’s not muslims being attacked by non-muslims, pretty much no one wants to know or care… It’s a sad, sad, world… 🙁
Jeff says
Wonder when the Thai military is going to let loose on these scum?