Muslim ideology fuels Thailand's southern violence

AP ^ | 5.4.04

[ambrose]

SUSO, Thailand - In the days before the attack, the soccer players would shout "suicide, suicide!" and "jihad!" when they missed a kick or got into an argument.

No one thought anything of it until last week when more than a dozen police outposts and checkpoints in southern Thailand came under attack from bands of men armed only with machetes.

[Hodar]

And somehow, this is all Israel's fault < /sarcasm>

[The Bronze Titan]

-"top security officials suspect Muslim separatists and say the region has all the makings for such a movement - poverty, historical slights and fundamentalist Islamic mentors."

This religion is on the verge (if not already) of being turned into a full-fledged 'cult', by the extremists who are not being confronted by their own 'moderates' within Islam - if there even are any.

[2banana]

"They recruit only Muslim extremists, who are poor and uneducated," he said.

The Muslims who flew the planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were mostly college educated from middle to rich families...