The Qur’an says: “And never is it for a believer to kill a believer except by mistake” (4:92). However, by working for the non-Muslim Thai government, these Border Patrol Police officers had rendered themselves unbelievers in the eyes of the jihadis in Thailand, and thus they could lawfully be killed in accord with Islamic law.
“Part of the insurgents’ strategy has been to seek to scare Buddhists into leaving the area…”
“And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy…” (Qur’an 8:60)
“2 Border Police Shot Dead in Yala Mosque,” Associated Press, April 6, 2019:
YALA — Two Border Patrol Police officers in the south were killed Friday while praying in a mosque in the latest violence believed linked to a Muslim separatist insurgency, police said.
Police Col. Pariwat Kwanmanij, the chief of Than To police station in Yala province, said four attackers slipped into the mosque and shot the officers at point-blank range in the head.
Pariwat said the attackers, who fled after the shooting, were suspected of being part of an insurgency that flared in 2004 and has claimed about 7,000 lives in predominantly Buddhist Thailand’s three southernmost provinces, which have Muslim majorities.
Part of the insurgents’ strategy has been to seek to scare Buddhists into leaving the area, but many Muslims cooperating with the authorities have also been targeted….