Posted on 09/14/2006 11:14:06 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim
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CHULABHORN NAVAL BASE, Thailand (AP) -- "When you pull the trigger, you've got to keep steady," the instructor sternly told the elementary school teachers. "If your hand is shaking you can't shoot."
Teachers have one of the deadliest jobs in southern Thailand, with 44 killed by the bombs and bullets of an Islamic insurgency since 2004.
So the teachers are learning how to shoot back.
The Chulabhorn naval base, on the Gulf of Thailand in Narathiwat province, opened its heavily guarded gates on a recent weekend to a training course for 100 public school teachers, mostly Buddhist men and women who say bringing a gun to school has become essential.
"You'd never see a teacher anywhere else in Thailand carrying a gun," said Sanguan Jintarat, head of the Teachers' Association that oversees the 15,000 teachers in the villages and towns of the restive south. "But, we need them, or we'll die."
That teachers -- not to mention Buddhist monks, bank tellers and motorcycle mechanics -- have become targets in the insurgency illustrates how badly law and order has degenerated in southern Thailand since the violence flared in January 2004.
At first insurgents targeted mainly civil servants, soldiers and police officers. Attacks then spread to businesses that serve soldiers: restaurants, outdoor markets, garages. And now come attacks that seem to have no rationale at all, such as the murder last month of an elephant trainer who was shot seven times by gunmen who had lined up with children to buy tickets for a show.
More than 1,700 people have been killed across Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat -- the only Muslim-majority provinces in this otherwise peaceful, tourist-friendly Buddhist country.
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Thailand ?
....of course it's always a good idea.
Appears to be the story from a few days ago but now picked up Awful Press / Communist News Network.
Funny how this piece never once mentions that the 'insurgents' are a bunch of head-hacking radical muzzies.....
IBTT .... oooops, not.
Anybody know how Islam spread to Indonesia Thailand the Phllipines etc etc
Long way from the middle east
"Long way from the middle east"
Spice trade.
Muslim traders.
http://history-world.org/islam7.htm
Arabs. By boat.
He who controls the Spice, controls the Universe.
YES! Mohammedan violence is endemic in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific islands. For some odd reason, it doesn't get the same press as mohammedan violence in the Near East. This is most unfortunate ... we are involved in a truly global war on mohammedan terrorism.
Carolyn
Proposed: "Islam produced one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever known. While Europe wallowed in the mire of the Dark Ages, Islam produced advances in science, mathematics, literature, medicine, architecture, religion as well as many other fields of discipline. Islamic cities such as Baghdad were the premier centers of learning and folks flocked there from all over the world to study."
Refutation: "Despite revisionist history, the muslims had a barbaric civilisation of slavery and cruelty. The occasional fountain and palace were enjoyed by only the very very few. Books of Greek learning were translated into Arabic by Christians in Lebanon. So it was that they had books by Ptolemy and Aristotle and Galen on Medicine, Algebra, Geometry. But they never added any new knowledge or improved upon it. A handful of Greeks invented more in a few years than billions of muslims ever did in centuries."
From LINK
For your consideration. Who knows the truth and can separate the revisionism from what actually happened.
Good trick. David Copperfield?
Hackensack.
The cult of the uneducated at it again, and again and again.
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