THAILAND: NON-MUSLIMS STAGE COUNTER-ATTACK

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Attackers hurled explosives and opened fire on an Islamic school in southern Thailand, killing three students and sparking a riot by angry Muslim villagers, officials said Sunday.

Shortly after the attack, three Buddhists were shot dead in the same district, raising fears that a festering insurgency that has already taken more than 2,000 lives could erupt into open combat between the Muslim and Buddhist communities.

Attackers hurled explosives and sprayed dozens of bullets into a dormitory of the Bamrungsart Pondok boarding school, where about 75 boys were sleeping, killing a 12-year-old and two 14-year-olds, police Col. Thammasak Wasaksiri said.

Seven other teenagers were wounded in the attack in the Sabayoi district of Songkhla province, he said. ...

The southern Muslim provinces have hundreds of religious Islamic schools, and authorities have accused some of them of harboring insurgents and serving as a training ground for violence.

Lt. Gen. Wirot Buacharun, the army commander in charge of the restive provinces, said security forces had recently raided an Islamic school and confiscated an M-16 assault rifle, bullets, a computer containing suspicious material and other documents believed to be linked to the insurgency.

"This leads us to believe that religious schools are involved with the ongoing violence," he said Sunday, adding that he would urge the government to revoke subsidies for the schools or close some of them.

WHEN THE GOVERNMENT FAILS TO PROTECT PEOPLE FROM JIHAD, THEY WILL EVENTUALLY TURN TO VIGILANTISM.

THE THAI JUNTA WHICH OVERTHREW THE LEGITIMATE THAI GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN ENGAGING IN APPEASEMENT OF THE JIHADIS. IT HAS FAILED. AND THE PEOPLE KNOW IT. NOW THEY ARE ACTING ON THEIR OWN.