THAILAND: Muslims are only a tiny minority but are wreaking death and destruction on Buddhists

In Thailand’s Muslim-dominated south, an increasingly violent insurgency is behind the nearly daily beheadings, murders, arson, and drive-by shootings in an attempt at ethnic cleansing.

While the majority of Thailand’s 65 million people are Buddhists, around 1.3 million ethnic Malay Muslims live in the south. Most identify more with Muslim Malaysia and the Melayu language than with Thai Buddhists. The shadowy insurgents have never identified themselves nor made any public demands. Officials and analysts widely believe they want to establish a separate Islamic state.

The insurgents attack symbols of the government, including the armed forces, schools, businesses, workers in critical industries such as rubber, and places deemed un-Islamic, like bars that serve alcohol. They also kill Muslims viewed as government collaborators.The insurgents, however, primarily target Buddhists in what is believed to be an attempt to drive them from the region. Officials estimate tens of thousands have fled. Many of the Buddhist temples here have closed and all are heavily guarded.

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2 comments on “THAILAND: Muslims are only a tiny minority but are wreaking death and destruction on Buddhists

  1. Muslims should all be treated like Lepers. or killed by their own barbaric methods, sparing only children 13 and under. Islam should be declared a Plague by the UN, a Plague that will spread throughout the planet unless stopped by killing the organism. There are no good and gentle Muslims, if there were, they would be fighting the openly Evil ones. Instead, the so called good Muslims send money to fund terrorist operations ,and hide behind a set of rags. The problem is that the UN is run by Muslims, and its not likely they will vote to kill themselves, so it will take volunteers across the world to rid the planet of this evil organism, Islam.

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