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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Continuing Muslim-on-Muslim violence in Thailand

From the "How Muslim is Muslim Enough" file comes this article about the ongoing violence against Muslims by Muslims.  It is not just the non-Muslim, polytheist, animist, Jew, Christian or atheist who are targeted by Islam, it is also those Muslims who just don't appear pious enough receiving the hatred. 

Thailand, as reported here is beginning to experience the full fury of Islam, soon it will fall under the spell of Muhammad unless we quit hitting the snooze button and wake up.  Notice in the piece there is not one use of the words jihad, Islam or anything else which would identify the perpetrators.  The only signpost we have is the reference to the "restive Muslim south", the people are only talked about as "separatist rebels" and "insurgents".  It must be nice and fuzzy to write about Islam using descriptors defining nothing but confusion.  No need to actually think or research if your in journalism today.


From Reuters March 22

Insurgents kill 3 Muslims in south of Thailand

YALA, Thailand - Suspected insurgents shot dead three villagers, including a paramilitary guard, in Thailand's restive Muslim south, police said on Wednesday, the latest violence in the region bordering Malaysia.

At least 10 gunmen, believed to be separatist rebels, stormed a house in Narathiwat province on Tuesday night and opened fire on a Muslim couple and their neighbor as they watched television, Police Lieutenant Pairat Kiatjaroensiri said.

Among the victims was a 33-year-old defense volunteer, one of hundreds trained by the government to provide security in villages across Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani provinces, where ethnic Malay separatists are waging a bloody rebellion against the Thai state.

The paramilitary guards are often viewed as government spies and are prime targets for assassination by insurgents.


Who are the insurgents, and why are they angry?   

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