Posted on 03/14/2009 7:12:48 PM PDT by LSUfan
In 2002, former CIA director R. James Woolsey called the war on terrorism “World War IV.” To this day, we believe that this name is far more appropriate than any other name we have seen or heard.
Why?
Because “World War IV” is descriptive and accurate. Militant Islamists are conducting offensive Jihad around the world to impose Shariah and eventually re-establish a caliphate.
These Jihadists are far from homogenous and often at odds with one another, however, they are united in their hatred of the West.
An example of one forgotten theater in this war is Thailand. Southern Thailand has been wracked by a Jihadist insurgency for some time, with intense combat since 2004. 3,300 people have been killed in the Jihadist insurgency there, which the Thai military has been hard-pressed to contain.
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Obama will be trying to contact the “moderate” Jihadists in Thailand. He is eager to talk to them.
Thailand?
The Thai Gov. is doing their best to control the situation down there but to much support for terrorist's is coming in from Malaysia. Particularly bad group that for some reason take to beheading Rubber plantation workers, Buddist Monks and Teachers.
When the Thai's take a aggresive stance toward them the World screams that they are abusing their ??RIGHTS?? and files all kinds of International complains against them. Sheeze!
“...look upon them as you would a unknown Snake.”
In fairness wouldn’t it be more accurate to label the insurgency in Southern Thailand “separatist” rather than “jihadist”? The southern provinces are largely Malay in population rather than Thai and were only incorporated into Thailand in the last century.
I am not for one moment minimising the threat of militant Islam but I don’t regard the Thailand business as part of the global jihad.
Yes and no. They are using Terror tactic's to acheive their goals and this acts put them in the Jihad catagory.
The southern provinces are largely Malay in population rather than Thai and were only incorporated into Thailand in the last century.
Could this not be said about the SW United States and Mexico?
Well, simply using terrorist tactics doesn’t per se make one a jihadi or the IRA and ETA would also be described as “jihadi”. I am making no value judgement on whether the southern provinces belong to Thailand or not I’m merely making the point that the insurgency there is not necessarily linked to the global jihad, indeed I read somewhere that the separatists have actually rejected assistance from external Islamic terror groups.
They’re a vicious bunch of SOB’s down there, I don’t disagree but I’m not convinced they’re necessarily jihadists,
I personally feel it is a melding of the two.
Either way innocent people are being killed to make political/social/seperatist/religious statements.
So would I.
they’re doing the same thing in Mindanao here in the Philippins.
The separatist movement has been taken over by the abusayyif who is Alquaeda...
the government, under US and other pressure, actually signed an agreement to give them a large area that included a lot of Christians who have lived there for generations, and some traditional tribes who predated Muslims. These non Muslims would have lost their rights, and been forced to live under local sharia law.
When some protested, the courts overturned the agreement, and so some “rogue” groups attacked a bunch of villages, leading to half a million Christians fleeing...
what makes it worse is that the press ignored it, but when the army tried to attack back, the NYTImes/International hearld tribune had a long article highlighting one Muslim family who was displaced when the rebels hid out in their village.
Obama is loved here by the elite, who hate the government because of corruption, but he has pretty well ignored the Filippine people, except that the US stimulus package will give a grant to Pinoy vets of WWII...what that has to do with stimulating the US economy, who knows, but it made some people happy.
My wife took a client to lunch at the Thai Bar-B-Cue in Chino Hills. Half way through the clients says "I really like this. I have never had Taiwanese food before."
“no doubt due to their proximity to Indonesia”
They are nowhere near Indonesia, they are on the border with Malaysia and are in fact Malays themselves having been incorporated into Thailand in the last century.
Did the fighting ever stop? I was within feet of a “separatist” bomb blast at the Indra Shopping Center in Bangkok 20 years ago.
In talking to local Thai Buddhist monks, most of the Monks in S. Thailand have been relocated because they are targeted by the Muslims there. Yeah! The Religion of Peace.
If I had a 5 baht coin for everytime I have heard this in the States refering to my first Thai wife I would be rich.
A company I did contract work for has been there for about 5 years under a US contract. Know full well what is going on there.
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