In southern Thailand the Sunni Islamic insurrection continues and given the fact that Buddhists are deemed to be infidels, then the situation is dire for the minority Buddhist community in southern Thailand.
In May this year you had yet another brutal attack whereby the followers of Islam were in rapture and reciting the Koran while beheading a Buddhist child and killing many family members. The web-link below shows the graphic reality of southern Thailand and how Buddhists are deemed to be subhuman and worthy of slaughter by the followers of Sunni Islam.
http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/thailand-muslims-behead-a-9-year-old-boy-warning-graphic-images/ (Warning: this video is very disturbing because it shows a young child beheaded and another family member hanging)
If you turn the clock back several hours before the butchering began then you can imagine how this family was laughing together and just bonding like most families do. Images of the Buddha will probably have been on show and this family was not at war with anyone. However, in the eyes of Sunni Islamic insurgents in southern Thailand they were un-pure and subhuman because they followed the Buddhist faith.
Therefore, this family went from joy and having a future into the gates of Sunni Islamic hell where they were tortured, beheaded and hung. At no time will any compassion have entered the head of these Sunni Islamic fanatics. Instead, they believe that killing innocents will set them on their way to paradise and even if killed while trying to kill non-Muslims; then they would face their Islamic heaven of lust and having sex with untold number of virgins which is stated in Islamic texts.
Since 2004 the bloody Sunni Islamic insurrection continues to ebb and flow into periods of high activity and then periods of low activity. Overall, more than 4,000 people have been killed in barbaric ways and this applies to beheading Buddhist priests and doing the same to children.
Zachary Abuza, who is the author of A Conspiracy of Silence, highlights the complete hatred of pamphlets which are used in order to intimidate the local Buddhist community.
Document 22 states “Dear every Siamese Buddhist Thai who lives near the police stations……I’ll give you three days for you to leave my land. Otherwise, I will kill, burn, destroy all Buddhist Thai property……The Buddhist Thai will never live in peace. If you leave the house, travel or go to work, you will die violently. I will wait for you for 24 hours, in every direction.” (Page 241)
Document 23 states “The Islamic warriors of Pattani announce the purpose that we will never stop killing the Siamese kafir (infidel) and will never stop destroying army weapons, the economy, politics, education and the Siamese kafir society until we regain the land of Pattani and establish the state of Pattani Darulslam. I ask for Muslim Malays to be the witnesses.” (Page 242) – A Conspiracy of Silence
Zachary Abuza in his book called Militant Islam in Southeast Asia (Crucible of Terror) also highlights the role of the madrasas (Islamic schools). He comments that “In their pursuit of the creation of Islamic states, many Southeast Asian jihadis established Islamic schools to indoctrinate, propagate, and recruit. The leaders of many militant groups in Southeast Asia, including the Laskar Jihad, Kampulan Mujahidin Malaysia, and Jemaah Islamiya, returned from Afghanistan and established a network of madrasas as the base of their operations and recruitment.”
Zachary Abuza also comments that “While the government has recently pledged more development funds for the restive south, the insurgency has never been about development. Sadly, as long as the conflict remains confined to the southernmost provinces, it will remain a low priority for the government, consumed with elite political machinations in Bangkok. And while Southern Thailand remains the single most lethal conflict in Southeast Asia, it remains a low priority for America and its allies in the region.”
B. Raman (Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi) comments about the role of Thai Muslims within the Islamic jihadist movement and the role of the Islamic madrasas.
B. Raman comments that “The external inspiration has so far been mainly from Bangladesh and Pakistan, the main motivating organizations being the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), which has a presence both in Bangladesh and Pakistan, and the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET), which has a presence only in Pakistan and not in Bangladesh. The extensive media reporting in Pakistan on the presence of foreign students in Pakistani madrasas, which followed the reports of the involvement of three British citizens of Pakistani origin in the London explosions of July 7,2005, has revealed the presence of nearly a thousand Pattanis in the Pakistani madrasas.”
It is apparent that Islamists in southern Thailand desire a homeland whereby all Buddhists will be cleansed and then Islamic Sharia law will hold sway over southern Thailand. At the same time it is abundantly clear that Islamic indoctrination from outside of Thailand is a serious issue and the same applies to the international nature of the global Islamic jihad. Therefore, the government of Thailand faces both an internal threat and the reality that external networks are fueling the fire.
