This has been coming for years, and now that it has arrived in Yala, it will not end. Now will come the jihad to impose Sharia upon the rest of Thailand as well.
“Alarm over enforcement of Sharia in southern Thailand,” UCA News, January 5, 2021:
Islamists in the southern Thai province of Yala have reportedly joined forces with local police to enforce strict Sharia rules in what rights activists see as a worrying development.
The prime targets of Islamists include young unmarried couples who show any forms of affection in public, such as holding hands, and violators of the Muslim moral code of Sharia face the prospect of religiously prescribed punishments.
Those found guilty in the predominantly Muslim province could also face criminal prosecution on grounds that they have violated laws against obscenities committed in public.
Unmarried men and women could potentially be detained simply for speaking to each other in private without anyone else present.
“We are not preventing people from communicating or talking. But if they are talking, then there should be a third party,” Sutimat Mahamad, the imam of the Yaha Central Mosque, told Thai news media.
“If there is a third party, we will not get involved at all. But if they are talking one on one, the police will arrest them.”
One couple were detained for talking in public and taken to the mosque where they were scolded for their allegedly “immoral” conduct.
“They were talking on a balcony, just whispering between the two of them. We told them not to do it again,” Sutimat said.
Such draconian enforcement of Sharia law is virtually unheard of in Thailand where most Muslims, who number around 3 million in a predominantly Buddhist nation of 70 million, practice socially moderate streams of their religion….
“Our objective is to teach youths to act within religious traditions and rules, far away from drugs, and decrease their risk from being led by those with bad intentions,” said Anucha Waedayi, a member of the Yala Central Mosque’s committee….
St. Croix says
Social control. It seems to be the theme these days, not just in Islamic countries and regions. And it’s interesting, isn’t it, that this is how it starts. Islam, the mother of all tyrannies? Not as in Islam spawned all social control and Big Brother, but it is truly the poster child for all of it.
As has been pointed out here by commentators, what’s happening in the U.S. right now with the lists, the arrests, the de-platforming and harassment to those who don’t conform to the “new” social woke norms, looks like a page ripped right out of the Islamic protocols and applied to secular-woke-jihad.
This is how it starts! Social media has given the greatest tool yet for mass enforcement, for control of the masses and the minds. The “likes” and the “dislikes” were but a softening up tool. Now comes the crackdown. New rules. Arrests. Dhimmi treatment, character assassination, financial penalties, of those who won’t conform, or eventually, outright arrest, attack and assassination.
I’m not THAT old! But I remember books like 1984 and Brave New World and The Diary of Anne Frank being on the high school curriculum. What about The Gulag Archipelago? Have the lessons of history been lost?
SKA says
The Buddhists of Thailand need to take a lesson from the Buddhists of Myanmar and make of clear to their Muslims that law in Thailand is in the hands of the Buddhist majority. If their Muslims want Shari’ah let them make Hijra to neighboring Malaysia or Indonesia.
Infidel says
You beat me to it! Burma saw itself losing the Rakhine province and took action, and kicked out its muslims back to Bangladesh! In this, all of Burma’s political parties have been unanimous – be it the ex junta, Ahn San Syu Ki or Dr Thet, the new opposition leader. Burma no longer has a muslim issue. Thailand needs to similarly kick muslims out of Yala and into Malaysia, or else, not only will they completely lose Yala, but muslims will keep encroaching on more territory
St. Croix says
Yes they will keep encroaching. There is only pause, or advancement for them. Letting them be, and gathering strength and numbers will not be beneficial, except to jihad.
Ade Fegan says
islam …. stamping out affection of the grounds that it is obscene …. to hell with sharia
James Lincoln says
A table published by Pew Research in 2017 put the muslim population in Thailand at 5.8%.
I remember a port call in Pattaya Beach, Thailand back in the mid-1980s which at the time was mostly touristy with the predominant religion being Buddhism.
How did the southern Thai province of Yala become muslim majority?
https://www.pewforum.org/chart/interactive-data-table-world-muslim-population-by-country/
Infidel says
It’s right next to Malaya, and the Thai don’t have a wall. Maybe they could build a canal along their Malayan border which could double as a wall, and also enable shipping b’w the Gulf of Siam and the Nicobar Sea
James Lincoln says
Much thanks for the reply, Infidel.
gravenimage says
Thailand: Muslims and police in Yala enforce Sharia, unmarried couples can be arrested even for private conversation
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Doesn’t this violate the laws of Thailand?
Fred van de Bunt says
The imam probably refers to the unofficial police, like the local “village volunteer police” they have, to keep some order in non-urban places. This “police” of locals might be willing to take orders from this sharia imam in the highly concentrated Muslim community in these southern parts of Thailand.
In no way the official police force is going to take sharia orders from the imam, apart from the police that appear in this imams wet dreams, in which dreams he is the totalitarian sharia overlord.
European pagan says
How can this happen in a Buddhist country? Thai people should do the same like in Myanmar before it’s too late.
Infidel says
Both Sri Lanka and Burma have been doing the right things. Burma has purged Rankhine province of muslims who have no loyalty to Burma, which is all of them, and Sri Lanka has done a series of measures – banning cow slaughter (which only muslims do in that country) and more recently banning burials of dead people, and making cremations mandatory. Muslims who want to be buried – Sri Lanka has worked out a deal w/ Maldives for the latter to bury then in their territory. Thailand needs to follow their example
European pagan says
I didn’t know that about Sri Lanka, but it’s good. Why is it so important to muslims to be buried? Dead is dead. Or Allah has something problem again..
Infidel says
EP, that is hilarious – Dead is dead, but more seriously, I wouldn’t like it if I were buried instead of cremated. Sure, I wouldn’t know, I’d be dead, so… ?
That said, normally I support dead people being disposed of as per the rites of their religion. However, in the case of muslims, it doubles as a territory marker, in that sometimes, muslims visit the grave sites of people they consider great, and those become shrines in their own right. And it’s not in the same spirit that one would visit Arlington or other such sites: it would be treated like a quasi mosque. I therefore support what Sri Lanka has done, even though I’d oppose it if they did that to Christians