THAILAND: AUTONOMY FOR MUSLIMS?

As Reliapundit posted here at THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS on January 14, 2008, Thailand is another of the fronts in the global jihad.

According to this item in the February 13, 2008 edition of the Washington Post,

Thailand is considering granting partial autonomy to its Muslim-majority southern provinces, which for the past four years have been the scene of a radical Islamic insurgency, the new interior minister said Tuesday.

More than 2,900 people have been killed since early 2004 in nearly daily drive-by shootings and bombings in the three provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, the only ones with Muslim majorities in Buddhist-dominated Thailand.

A recent escalation in violence presents a major challenge to Thailand's new government, which took office last week. Military and political measures imposed by previous governments had little success in curbing the violence.

While conceding that some degree of self-rule in the south "is a possibility," Interior Minister Chalerm Yoobambrung said independence for the region was out of the question.

Regional independence may be out of the question as far as the interior minister is concerned. But when Muslims are on the march, independence from the infidel government is what they have in mind and work toward as their goal. Granting jihadists "some degree of self-rule" will only serve to convince them that they are executing the will of Allah.

RELIGION OF PEACE STRIKES AGAIN IN THAILAND

IHT/AP:

YALA, Thailand: Suspected Muslim insurgents detonated a bomb hidden in a motorcycle near a morning market Tuesday in southern Thailand, injuring at least 20 people, police said.

At least seven people were wounded from the blast while others sustained injuries in the ensuing panic in the capital of Yala province, said police Col. Phumphet Phiphatphetphum.

He said the explosion occurred shortly after a young Muslim man parked the motorcycle near the busy market.

The attack occurred a day after suspected Muslim insurgents ambushed an army patrol in neighboring Narathiwat province, killing all eight soldiers in the group and then beheading one.

Entering its fifth year, the Muslim rebellion in Thailand's southernmost provinces has taken the lives of more than 2,800 people. Many in the predominantly Muslim area feel unfairly treated by the country's Buddhist majority.

DAWN:

Eight soldiers killed in Thailand blast


NARATHIWAT, Jan 14: Suspected Muslim insurgents killed eight soldiers and beheaded one of them in a bombing and shooting attack on Monday in restive southern Thailand, army and police officials said.

The soldiers were on a routine morning patrol in the Chanae district of Narathiwat province when a bomb hidden on the road exploded as their military vehicle passed, said the spokesman, Col Akara Thiprote.

After the blast, suspected insurgents attacked the vehicle with a barrage of gunfire, leaving no survivors, he said.

“One of the soldiers was beheaded. His head was found 50 meters away from the scene of the attack,” said police Lt-Col Chakkrote Nongmanee, who inspected the blast site.

An initial investigation indicates that about 20 suspected insurgents were hiding behind brush along the roadside, Chakkrote said.

• THE TARGETS WEREN'T JOOOOZE OR NEOCONS OR BUSHIES.
• AND THE PERP WASN'T A MORMON OR A BUDDHIST OR A BAPTIST.
• GLOBAL JIHAD IS REAL AND IT'S KILLED HUNDREDS OF THOUSAND SINCE 9/11 IN OVER 10,000 ATTACKS - WORLDWIDE.

• THERE ARE TWO WAY WE CAN HAVE PEACE:
• DO WHAT THE DEMOCRATS WANT AND SURRENDER - ALL AT ONCE OR IN BITS AND PIECES, BY APPEASING THE ENEMY - AND THEN LIVE IN SHAMEFUL DHIMMITUDE;
• OR WE CAN FIGHT BACK WITH ALL WE'VE GOT AND DEFEAT THE ENEMY.
• THE CHOICE IS OURS.

THE GREAT BENEFIT TO FIGHTING BACK IS THAT WE GET TO KEEP OUR FREEDOM.

JIHADISTS DAMAGING DEMOCRACY IN THAILAND AND PAKISTAN

These two nations are experiencing major political upheavals and disarray because of jihadists.

In Pakistan they were partly responsible for the Musharraf coup and are now destabilizing the government.

In Thailand they are partly responsible for the recent coup - (the ousted PM was a hawk and was ousted by appeasers) and their continued war in the south (in which thousands have been brutally murdered by the jihadist enemy) threatens to become a full scale civil war there.

Neither of these nation's problems with jihadists has anything to do with Zionism or Bush

They have everything to do with the proactive plan of the enemy: to reestablish a global caliphate under sharia.

Pakistan and Thailand are nations which occupy important strategic positions for the Free World and we must help them both defeat the religious fanatics/totalitarians who threaten them.

This is NOT USA hegemony - as the Left and the jihadists BOTH argue; it is standing up for universal human rights.

We all know about the instability in Pakistan because of the recent assassination of Bhutto.

Thailand is in nearly the same straits - and they appear to be getting worse. (More here and here and here.)

If the USA elects a Democrat than these two nations will most certainly NOT get the support they need to defeat the jihadists and the jihadists will stand a much better chance of winning in both countries - and thereby establish sharia totalitarianist states which would become safe havens and bases for expanding their jihadist hegemony.

That's why the future of the Free World depends on YOU AND ME WORKING OUR BUTTS OFF TO DEFEAT THE DEMS IN 2008.

We must do it for children and our children's children.

WHY NO INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE ON THAILAND TO CEDE TERRITORY?

SINCE 9/11, MORE BUDDHISTS HAVE BEEN SLAUGHTERED BY JIHADISTS IN THAILAND THAN ARABS KILLED BY ISRAELIS.

IHT (2/07):

Some are already calling it war, a brutal Muslim separatist insurgency in southern Thailand that has taken as many as 2,000 lives in three years, with almost- daily bombings, drive-by shootings, arson and beheadings.

It is a conflict the government admits it is losing.

AFP, TWO DAYS AGO:

No end in sight as south Thai rebellion enters fifth year

Brutal killings have reached unprecedented levels in Thailand's Muslim-majority south, experts say, as the region enters the fifth year of a separatist insurgency that is tearing communities apart.

A government policy of reconciliation in the region has backfired, analysts told AFP, with rebels beheading, mutilating and even crucifying victims to try to spark a backlash and create divisions between Buddhists and Muslims.

"They kill in such brutal ways: beheaded, hacked to death, set on fire ... the idea is to provoke a strong reaction of the Buddhist Thais against Muslims," said Sunai Phasuk, a Thailand consultant with Human Rights Watch.

"The Buddhist Thais feel that they have become subject of atrocities, and many of them even feel that ethnic cleansing is going on."

The pace of deadly violence has picked up since militants raided a southern army base on January 4, 2004, reviving long-running tensions and triggering an insurgency along the border region with Malaysia.

About 1,800 people were killed in the first three years of the insurgency. By the end of the fourth that has now risen to more than 2,800.

• WHY THE CONSTANT FOCUS IS ALWAYS ON ISRAEL AND WHY SHE MUST SURRENDER LAND TO JIHADISTS?
• WHY NOT FORCE THAILAND TO CEDE THEIR SOUTH TO THE JIHADISTS THERE?
• WHY NOT SEND DUBYA AND CONDI TO BANGKOK?

YEAH: IT'S JUST A RHETORICAL QUESTION, BECAUSE WE KNOW THE ANSWER:

• THAI'S AREN'T JOOOOZE, AND ISRAEL IS HELD TO A DIFFERENT STANDARD THAN THE REST OF THE WORLD - NO ONE ELSE IS EXPECTED TO CEDE TERRITORY TO JIHADISTS, ONLY JOOOOZE;
• ACKNOWLEDGING THAT THAILAND IS UNDER ASSAULT BY JIHADISTS WOULD MEAN THE MSM AND THE LEFT WOULD HAVE TO ADMIT THE EXISTENCE OF GLOBAL JIHAD.

UNLIKE THE SEEMINGLY INCOMPETENT THAI ARMY, THE IDF HAS THINGS UNDER CONTROL - FOR THE TIME BEING.

• THAT'S WHY THE USA SHOULDN'T BE FORCING ISRAEL TO DESTABILIZE THE REGION BY APPEASING ABBAS AND THE JIHADISTS.
• WE ARE NOT PRESSURING INDIA TO GIVE UP KASHMIR.
• WE ARE NOT PRESSURING IRAQ TO GIVE UP ANBAR.
• WE ARE NOT PRESSURING LEBANON TO SURRENDER TO HIZBALLAH AND SYRIA.
• WE ARE NOT PRESSURING ALGERIA TO GIVE UP THE THE GSPC.
• WE ARE NOT PRESSURING KARZAI TO SURRENDER TO THE TALIBAN.
  
• WE ARE NOT PRESSURING TURKEY TO SURRENDER THEIR EASTERN TERRITORY TO THE PKK.
• WE ARE NOT PRESSURING SARKOZY TO SURRENDER THE BANLIEUES.
• WE SHOULDN'T PRESSURE ISRAEL TO SURRENDER TO FATAH.
  
• BUSH IS GOING TO ISRAEL ON WEDS. I HOPE HE DOESN'T TAKE FATAH'S SIDE - AS CONDI HAS.

WE'LL SEE. STAY TUNED...

MORE JIHADO-TERROR IN THAILAND: I BLAME BUSH AND THE JOOOOOOZE!

IHT/AP:

Two bombs killed four people in Thailand's insurgency-plagued south Wednesday, as schools in the area mourned the loss of two teachers targeted by suspected Muslim rebels, officials said.

One powerful explosion took place as a police bomb squad inspected a suspicious object buried near a bridge in Pattani province, said Sub Lt. Attaphon Kullawongmanaso.

The blast killed three policeman, blowing two of them into a canal, Attaphon said. Another officer was seriously wounded.

In a separate attack in nearby Yala province, suspected Muslim insurgents attacked an army patrol truck with rifle fire and a bomb, killing an army officer and wounding two soldiers and three civilians, said police Col. Sompien Eksomya.

More than 2,600 people have been killed in Thailand's deep south — the overwhelmingly Buddhist country's only Muslim-majority area — since a long-simmering Islamic insurgency flared there in January 2004. The Muslims have long complained of discrimination by the central government.

IF THE "INSURGENCY" IN THAILAND AIN'T BUSH'S FAULT OR ISRAEL'S THEN WHAT IS IT!?

COULD IT BE GLOBAL JIHAD!?

YES, IT'S THE GLOBAL JIHAD, STUPID!

AND WE'LL NEVER DEFEAT THEM WITH JUST COPS AND LAWYERS.

MORE JIHADOTERROR IN THAILAND

BANGKOK INDEPENDENT:

SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: Thirty-two hurt in Yala market blast

Principal and teacher shot dead in Narathiwat's Rusoh district

Published on November 7, 2007

A powerful bomb exploded yesterday in a fresh market in Yala, injuring at least 32 people, while in nearby Narathiwat's Rusoh district, a gunman shot dead a principal and a teacher who had just completed their first day of school following the month-long break.

The bomb, estimated to weigh three kilograms, was placed near a food stall in the fresh market in Yala municipality. It was about 10 metres from a stall where a bomb went off last Friday, injuring 10 people.

Yala's deputy governor, Gissada Boonraj, said 26 of the 32 were admitted to the hospital for treatment. The victims included a four-year-old boy.

• THIS VIOLENCE - WHICH HAS CLAIMED MORE LIVES SINCE 9/11 THEN THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICTS - HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH BUSH OR THE GOP OR ISRAEL. AND EVERYTHING TO DO WITH RADICAL ISLAM.
  

• WW4 IS NOT A BUMPER STICKER AND CANNOT BE WAGED WITH COPS AND LAWYERS.

MORE PROOF FROM THAILAND: WW4 = GLOBAL JIHAD

GATES OF VIENNA:

Can we compare the effects of the Iraq and Thai insurgencies? Probably. The population disparity between the USA and Thailand means, in my opinion, that the impact on Thailand of a single death in the southern insurrection is almost five times as great as the impact on the USA of the death of a single US warrior in Iraq. If we multiply Thai deaths by 4.5 in order to show what is happening to Thailand, we can see how the suffering of the two nations actually compares:

USA: 2,619
Thailand: 9,363

Adjusting for population size allows us to get some insight into the true level of Thailand’s misery.

Now consider the duration of each conflict, remembering that the USA has been in Iraq almost a year longer than the violence in Thailand has persisted:

USA, actual deaths per month, four years: 55
Thailand, adjusted deaths per month, 37 months: 253

RELIAPUNDIT: THE THAI JIHAD IS MORE VIOLENT THAT THE IRAQ JIHAD. AND IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH JEWS OR ISRAEL OR HALLIBURTON OR BUSH OR NEOCONS... IT'S GLOBAL JIHAD, STUPID!

THE THAI JIHAD IS MORE VIOLENT THAT THE IRAQ JIHAD: AND YET, THE DEFEAT-O-CRATS, AND THEIR COMRADES IN THE EU AND THE UN, ARE SILENT. DO YOU WONDER WHY!? IT'S SIMPLE: NEITHER THE USA OR ISRAEL ARE INVOLVED. WHICH PROVES THE "ANTI-WAR" CROWD IS REALLY ANTI-AMERICA AND ANTI-ISRAEL.

RTWT.

THAILAND: More Proof That Appeasement Just Invites More Terror

CT: 6 Months After the Thai Coup, Islamist Insurgency is Raging

Last week a group of militants in southern Thailand threw a small bomb in front of a small passenger van, disabling it, opened the side door, and shot all nine passengers, including three women and a young girl, execution style. Though several suspects have been arrested, the attack was reminiscent of the savagery of Algeria or Kashmir, and portends a bloody year in the restive south. The attack was also the latest in a string of more audacious and provocative attacks from Muslim insurgents.

Few realize the extent of the conflict in the south. So many have bought into the Thai government’s complacency and general sense of denial. The conflict in southern Thailand dwarfs any other conflict in Southeast Asia. ... More than 2,100 people have been killed in 38 months, and the government has proven completely incapable of responding to the situation and stemming the violence. That has given the insurgents considerable momentum, and caused a greater number of moderate Muslim civilians to be more supportive of the insurgents. ...

While the justification and rationale for the coup is still debated, people across the political spectrum placed considerable hope that the Council on National Security (CNS) and the government that they installed would do a better job than the Thaksin administration in stemming the violence.

Yet, the exact opposite has been true: the daily average rate of killing has more than tripled in the past six months, from 1.6 people a day in 2006 to almost four per day. Over 400 people, roughly 19 percent of the 2,100 people killed since January 2004 have died since the coup. Attacks have become more sophisticated and coordinated. Sadly the junta leaders remain oblivious to the reality on the ground and show precious little resolve in dealing with the insurgency, they remain mired in petty political squabbles in Bangkok and blind to the reports from their field commanders.

Besides the dramatic escalation in the number of people killed, there have been six discernable trends since the coup.

RTWT. ROUND UP HERE.

THAILAND: NON-MUSLIMS STAGE COUNTER-ATTACK

AP/CNN :

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.