Posted on 12/31/2006 10:37:08 AM PST by PRePublic
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idCategory=33&idsub=122&id=7227&t=Thailand%3A+Two+Buddhist+teachers+killed+in+south
Friday, December 29, 2006 by Asia News | Tags: thailand, terrorism, islam
Suspected Islamic militants this morning shot dead two Buddhist teachers and then set their bodies ablaze near the school where they used to teach in southern Thailand, local police said.
The charred remains of the bodies were found 100 metres from the school entrance, near the pickup truck they were driving when the militants attacked.
One of the victims, Chamnong Koopathanaphong, was the principal of the school in Yala province and the second man Manoo Sornkaew, was a teacher at the school. Police said they believed the two were dead before their bodies were set on fire.
The southern region of the country is a battleground of bloody clashes between the Muslim and Buddhist communities. The region, which borders Malaysia, was an independent sultanate until it was annexed by Thailand in 1902. Now a group of Muslim militants is seeking independence once again from Bangkok through violent means. Since January 2004, clashes have already claimed 1,700 victims.
Thailand's new military-installed government, which came to power following a pacific coup in September, has made a number of offers to leaders of the insurrection in a bid to make peace in the region, but so far they have been turned down.
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Teachers and schoolgirls butchered by the world's worst belief system.
Agreed.
Imho, Thai Buddhists are particularly fierce in defense of Buddhism. Will be interesting to see how they respond. Especially with the new head of the Military being Muslim. Curious.
Indeed.
Nor with their boss, satan.
And did you read
"To most Americans, bin Ladin's declaration is a trvesty, a gross distortion of the nature and purpose of the US presence in Arabia. They should also be aware that for many, prehaps most Muslims, the declaration is an equally grotesque travesty of the nature of Islam, and even it's doctrine of jihad."
Th Crisis of islam
(Holy War and Unholy Terror)
Page xxxii
I trust the moderate Muslims of the world will protest this atrocity......just as they protest serious affronts against Islam, such as cartoons and disallowing veils for license and passport photos....
</sarcasm>
Muslims will continue to push the envelope of murder and mayhem, until the suffer justifiably horrible consequences in their own nations and on our streets..
Semper Fi
That's why FR has a keyword called "rop" i.e. "Religion Of Peace", because "peace" is the most ironic term one can find.
My hopes.
Mine, too.
Though I hate turmoil in that largely peaceful place.
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