Sorry, I didn’t complete my thought. The cousin we called has a son and DIL who worked a couple of years as teachers in the South but left after their school was burnt down and they were threatened. There have been dozens of schools burned by the Islamist who want nothing but Islamic schools and won’t let their kids learn Thai. Quite a few school guards and teachers have been killed.
The three provences that are majority Muslim are the three most southern. In the North, the Muslim college students and teens from Muslim enclaves do some protesting and “menacing” but that’s all so far.
Such a peaceful religion...