NO SURPRISE HERE: The BBC rounds up a bunch of other Leftist NGO types and gets quotes favoring the coup which deposed the elected PM and replaced him with a Muslim who favors appeasing the jihaodterrorists who have murdered 2000 Thai's since 2004. TWELVE MORE THIS VERY WEEK. Yet the BBC portrays these developments as positive:
10/19/06 UPDATE: MORE PROOF APPEASEMENT DOESN'T WORK:
Already there are signs of a change in policy from that of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The new government has signalled a willingness to talk to the Islamic rebels who are behind the violence - something Mr Thaksin always refused to do.So, these Leftists who run the BBC - (and who tirelessly run biased propaganda for anti-Semitic jihadists in the Middle East) - are now openly and explicity praising miltary juntas which appease jihadoterrorists in SE Asia. This once again demostrates the very deep affinity that Leftists have with jihadism: Both are elitist and anti-individualist, and both are pro-statist utopianistic. They use each other, and that's why I have often said: to defeat the jihadist enemy abroad we must defeat theLeftist enemy at home. The Leftists who dominate the MSM are Public Enemy #1.
10/19/06 UPDATE: MORE PROOF APPEASEMENT DOESN'T WORK:
Gunmen attack military station insouthern Thailand -I wonder if and when the MSM will report these islamoterrorist attacks - and how they will blame Bushitler and the Joooooooze?!
A group of gunmen attacked a military station in southern province of Yala Wednesday morning, killing one soldier and injuring another four, a military source told Xinhua. The attack took place ... in northeastern Yala, one of the three Muslim-dominant southernmost provinces in Thailand, where insurgency-related violence has claimed more than 1,700 lives since it reemerged in January 2004. ... In nearby Pattani province, suspected insurgents burned a strategically located police outpost with Molotov cockails in Waeng district late Tuesday night.
Is there an updated timeline for jihadist attacks in Thailand? I have read the claim, on the Reconquista blog, that jihadist attacks in Thailand are down since the Muslim general seized control of the country. Is that in fact still true?
ReplyDeletein the bbc article i linked to: "The litany of bombings and shootings has continued, with more than 12 people reported dead in the past week."
ReplyDeleteanotherthing i find fascinating is the fact that the REAL appeasers are actually fascistic, while the REAL defenders and extenders of liberty and democracy - BUSH & Co - are CALLED fascists by the Left.
ReplyDeleteorwell has a word for this.
more of the same form the Lefties of the NYTIMES (excerpts; * added):
ReplyDeleteAlthough daily killings by insurgents continue here, just a few hundred kilometers from the country's tourist-filled beaches, the new government is showing a softer touch, agreeing to peace talks with Muslim insurgents and working to revive a system that allowed local politicians and religious leaders to take part in setting policies.
Thailand also appears to be encouraging a rapprochement with neighboring Malaysia on the issue of the insurgency, which at times has divided the two countries.
"The attitude of the new government is certainly much more positive toward dealing with the south, not through the use of force but through having a dialogue, a discussion," said Mahathir bin Mohamad, the former Malaysian prime minister who was frequently critical of the previous Thai government's handling of the insurgency.
Muslim leaders in Thailand are debating proposals that would give them a *****special status in predominantly Buddhist Thailand. Nimu Makaje, a Muslim scholar in this violence-racked southern city, enthusiastically tells a visitor that *******the time has come to implement an Islamic legal system in southern Thailand. ...
While experts remain skeptical that the country will ever fully embrace *******Sharia law in its troubled southern provinces, the open discussion of it signals *****greater level of confidence and recognition among the southern Muslim minority.
Many saw Thaksin's chief executive officer-style governing style as *******one of the sparks that reignited the centuries of animosity between Bangkok and its Muslim-Malay provinces, some 1,200 kilometers, or 745 miles, south of the capital.
The coup leader, Sonthi Boonyaratglin, a Muslim who has extensive experience in the south, has been instrumental in steering Thailand in its U- turn from Thaksin's iron-fisted, Bangkok-knows-best policies.
Muslims have been given key positions in the new administration. ...Sonthi said earlier this month that he would begin negotiations with insurgent leaders, another shift from the policy of Thaksin, who shunned official talks, although he tolerated secret negotiations held in Malaysia sponsored by Mahathir.
The notion that Muslims in southern Thailand are being showered with more attention as a consequence of terrorist bombings and killings leaves some analysts worried that the insurgents' violent campaign is being rewarded.
*******The insurgents were one of the main winners of the coup in September, said Srisompob Jitpiromsri, a political science professor and associate dean at Prince Songkla University in the southern city of Pattani.
"They showed they can remove a government," he said, referring to Thaksin, who is now in political exile in London.
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Although daily killings by insurgents continue here, just a few hundred kilometers from the country's tourist-filled beaches, the new government is showing a softer touch, agreeing to peace talks with Muslim insurgents...
cnn/ap also reports appeasement as good/couip is good angle:
ReplyDeleteBANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Thailand's new prime minister says he will use peaceful means to resolve the Muslim insurgency in his country's south -- a clear reversal of the previous government's iron-fisted strategy.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/18/thailand.pm.ap/index.html