“Thailand has a domestic jihad going on in the far south of the country bordering Malaysia where Muslim live. This bombing is probably related to that.”
It might well be, it is an obvious point of examination.
However, the Islamists are not the only source of political violence and instability in Thailand and it is reasonable to check out other sinister characters.
Thailand is not the sweet, innocent “Land of Smiles” that many western tourists think it is.
Yeah, I know about the long running political crisis, I travel to the region regularly. The thing is, the non-Muslim Thai people would never bomb a Buddhist temple or kill foreigners in a dispute among themselves. Only Muslims would do something like this. And the Thais are getting pissed.