Introduction: Asia's bloodiest insurgency

Global Post ^ | July 27, 2011 | Patrick Winn

[americanophile]

PATTANI, Thailand — Dawn smolders above this seaside city in Thailand’s southern borderlands. Troops already occupy the streets in force. Skinny conscripts with assault rifles patrol through the fog. German Shepherds sniff for bombs in the brush.

This is the hour of paranoia. Come mornings, gunmen slip through curtains of jungle foliage lining the roadside. They kill cops. Army officers. Teachers traveling to class. Kids sometimes. To stoke maximum horror, they decapitate Buddhist monks with machetes.

As oblivious backpackers party up the coast, an Islamic rebellion roars on with no end in sight. The attackers’ prey? In local jihadi parlance, “Siamese infidels” and their “Muslim running dogs.” In lieu of familiar screeds against Jews, Christians and the “Great Satan” America, these mujahideen call for the heads of Thai Buddhists.

Islamic guerillas here vow to wrench free a Connecticut-sized chunk of Thailand and create the world’s newest Islamic state. With Muslim separatist movements in the Philippines and Indonesia largely tamed through peace agreements, this Islamic insurgency is now Asia’s bloodiest.

[americanophile]

"Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."

- Manuel II Paleologus

[americanophile]

ISLAMIZATION PING LIST:

Infidels: freepmail me if you want on or off this list.

[Mariner]

I've spent considerable time in Thailand.

As elsewhere the elimination of Islamists is the only answer.

Total war.

[americanophile]

As have I, and have visited the provinces along the Malaysian border that are now under assault. The Thais are wonderful, peaceful people, I feel for them. Islam as always, brings death, disharmony and war.

[thouworm]

bookmark...and thanks for posting.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Muslims would make good punching bags for the Thai kick boxers. It would be th emost useful contribution to Thai society Muslims could make.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Muslims would make good punching bags for the Thai kick boxers. It would be th emost useful contribution to Thai society Muslims could make.

[Cronos]

Thais are peaceful if you’re good to them. If you want to declare war then they can be incredibly blood-thirsty. And I agree with them. You don’t want to live peacefully but want to attack them? Then expect heck...

[Tzimisce]

I don’t care if I sound harsh.

For years conservatives in America have been warning the people of the world about extremist Islam.

And the Buddhists of South East Asia have sneered and talked down to us and lectured us about how we’re the problem and Islam is a religion of peace and “cowboy diplomacy” is so evil and etc, etc, etc.

well - I’m glad their principles are so good and glorious, because now they can die for them.

[americanophile]

Yep, they’re fierce when pushed.

[expatguy]

Sorry FRiend but I think you are mistaken as to who has been sneering at the United States - it ain't SE Asia.

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An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[gaijin]

Any country on Earth is subject to the forces of history, sure.

But what is the only group on Earth able to say it has managed to turn average Thais and Norwegians into reactionary *militants*?

Because that is very, very hard to do. If you can pull THAT off, you could pull it off ANYWHERE.