From TNA, with thanks to Peter in Bangkok: Cambodian Muslims flock to Thailand’s troubled South SA KAE0, May 19 (TNA) – Thai immigration officials on the Thai-Cambodian border have reported an unusual rise in the number of Muslim men from Cambodia travelling to Thailand’s three southern border provinces. More than a hundred Cambodian Muslims a […]
Thai militants ‘use al-Qaeda training’
It’s an “insurgency, not jihad.” Never mind those, uh, Al-Qaeda military training CD’s. From AFP, with thanks to Skeetstreet: MUSLIM separatist militants in Thailand’s southern provinces are using al-Qaeda military training CDs, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said today. “On May 19 authorities searched Jihad Witaya or Ponoh Jihad (Islamic school) and found ammunition, evidence of […]
Three Bombings in Muslim Southern Thailand
From CNN, “Three bombs explode in Thai south,” & Two Stellas: YALA, Thailand – Three bombs exploded in Thailand’s restive Muslim south on Thursday, police said, wounding at least nine people in a region where more than 600 people have died in 17 months of violence… The largely Malay-speaking southern region, where separatists fought low-key […]
Thailand: Muslims sabotage “good neighbor” outreach effort
“Blast injures four in Thailand’s restive south,” from China View, with thanks to JS: BANGKOK, Four soldiers were injured Monday in a blast in Thailand’s Muslim-dominated South, less than 24 hours after three bomb rocked the region, sources to Xinhua said. In Yala, one of the three southernmost border provinces in the kingdom, an explosion […]
Bombings disrupt Thai train services
More evidence of the ineffectiveness of origami. From UPI, : Bangkok, Thailand, Dec. 9 (UPI) — Three simultaneous bomb explosions on railway tracks in southern Thailand disrupted train services Thursday, but caused no casualties, railway officials said. The head of the State Railways of Thailand, Chitsanti Dhanasobhon, said four bombs had been planted on tracks […]
More Bombs Explode in Thailand’s Troubled Muslim-Dominated South
From VOANews, with thanks to Twostellas: Two more bombs went off in Thailand’s Muslim-dominated south Friday morning injuring at least 20 people during a week of continuing violence. The blasts come as Thailand’s prime minister prepares to address the nation on his government’s deadly handling of a Muslim protest Monday. The first bomb exploded Friday […]
Thailand’s PM: Islamic teachers brainwash students
Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin, like Western politicians who pontificate about Islam, is not a Muslim. How does he know their interpretation of the Qur’an is wrong? Where can the correct interpretation be found? It is staggering how many people of influence repeat the mantras about Islam is peace and militant Islam is a hijacking of […]
Muslim rebels light fuse in Thailand
This report on the jihad in Thailand considers and then downplays religion as a motivating factor in the violence. But to say that the Thai jihadists are not linked to Al-Qaeda, and that many Muslims there are not radicalized, or even that one of the TR Sports players dropped out of a madrassa, actually proves […]
Ex-Policeman Killed, Camp Attacked in Thai South
From Reuters, with thanks to Twostellas: BANGKOK (Reuters) – Gunmen killed a Buddhist former policeman and fired three grenades into an army outpost in two separate incidents in Thailand’s restive Muslim south, police said on Sunday. The attacks came hours after Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra vowed to restore peace in a month in the troubled […]
Islamist schools are blamed for bloody uprising in Thailand
Thamarak Isarangura Just as Pakistan’s schools are laboratories of jihad, so also in Thailand. From the Independent, with thanks to Nicolei: Hidden a few kilometres down a remote country lane in the heart of Thailand’s troubled deep south – where a Muslim separatist uprising has left more than 200 dead this year – is the […]