Jihadists Behead Buddhist Ice Cream Vendor

[quote][b]AN ice cream vendor was killed and his headless body left sitting on the bicycle seat of his cart in Thailand’s rebellious Muslim south today, police said.

The vendor, a 45-year-old Buddhist originally from the country’s northeast, was shot three times in the back of his head while riding his cart into a Muslim village in Pattani, one of the three provinces hit by the violence, police said.

“They chopped his head off and walked away with it, leaving his body sitting on the ice cream bike’s seat,” a Pattani policeman said by telephone.[/b]
“Under current circumstances, he shouldn’t have ventured into such a village,” the policeman said.

The man was killed just hours before Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont flew to the region where 2000 people have been killed in a three-year insurgency.

A police colonel was also shot in the head by a sniper while a security team was visiting a village Surayud and Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn were to visit, police said.

He was seriously wounded and rushed to hospital.

Nobody has claimed responsibility for the violence which has seen almost daily gun and bomb attacks in the three predominantly Muslim southern provinces bordering Malaysia.

Thailand’s military-appointed Government has embarked on a peace drive in the Malay-speaking region, an independent sultanate until the Buddhist-dominated Bangkok government annexed it a century ago.

But the attacks have continued. [/quote]

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Will the Zionist Islamophobia never end?

Thailand, what a tragic shit show.

I’m amazed more hasn’t been more made of those New year’s Eve bombs. The military claim the bombs were made by muslims in the south and dropped off by Thai restaurant workers from Malaysia. Of course, since the bombs only served the interests of the junta, no one really believes them.

Meanwhile, another poor bastard eking out a crumb from Issan loses his head.

HG

Schoolkids, monks, old men. They are disgusting pieces of shit.

It’s a shame that this part of Thailand has zero political importance, otherwise the governments would actually do something.

Although I don’t advocate engaging with them on any level, (once you have hacked a monk to pieces, you shouldn’t be ‘rewarded’ by having your grievances legitimised), Thaksin’s ‘no quarter’ policy didn’t really get the south very far.

I would personally like to see the Muslim part of Thailand secede. What right does Thailand have over them, other than accidents of history and sheer power?

And although I otherwise like Buddhism, I would smile to learn that Thai Buddhist monasteries had been set aflame. They deserve no respect or sympathy.

(You already know what I think of Bhumipon, their king.)

Well, looks like they might be getting Sharia law.

But how do you think seccession is going to help anybody? Seems to me the underlying problem, as always, is economic.

HG

[quote]Thailand considers reintroducing some Sharia law
Last Updated 25/01/2007, 05:49:37
Thailand is considering introducing elements of Sharia law in the troubled Muslim-majority south in an effort to quell the bloody insurgency.

Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont says his government wants the justice system in the three provinces of Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani to be more in line with Islamic law.

He rejected suggestions that the unrest in the provinces bordering Malaysia was connected to an international terrorism movement, but admitted that the militants had used religion to galvanise support.

Almost 2,000 people, both Buddhist and Muslim, have been killed in the southernmost provinces since the latest insurgency broke out three years ago. [/quote]

[quote=“Screaming Jesus”]I would personally like to see the Muslim part of Thailand secede. What right does Thailand have over them, other than accidents of history and sheer power?

And although I otherwise like Buddhism, I would smile to learn that Thai Buddhist monasteries had been set aflame. They deserve no respect or sympathy.

(You already know what I think of Bhumipon, their king.)[/quote]

I personally, would like the murderers to grow souls and stop brutally killing innocent people.

I’m not going to discuss whether it’s ok to hack another person to death for any reason, screaming jesus. Knock yourself out, though.

Why?

Ouch. What’d they do?

[quote=“Buttercup”]Schoolkids, monks, old men. They are disgusting pieces of shit.

It’s a shame that this part of Thailand has zero political importance, otherwise the governments would actually do something.

Although I don’t advocate engaging with them on any level, (once you have hacked a monk to pieces, you shouldn’t be ‘rewarded’ by having your grievances legitimised), Thaksin’s ‘no quarter’ policy didn’t really get the south very far.[/quote]

My sentiments exactly.

I suspect a thieving lady boy.

HG

I suspect a thieving lady boy.

HG[/quote]

Huh?

[quote=“Screaming Jesus”]
And although I otherwise like Buddhism, I would smile to learn that Thai Buddhist monasteries had been set aflame. They deserve no respect or sympathy. [/quote]

Dropped on your head at birth, eh?

i feel powerless, so i’ll just go and kill someone even more powerless than me just so i feel stronger. that’ll put my cause in a good light.

geez, who can i pick on this time? an old man selling ice cream? a school full of kids? a chicken catcher in a deserted rubber plantation? a village headman: that’s a bit harder. OK, maybe if there’s ten of us.

cowards.

it does not justify the sometimes barbaric response of the thai army, such as killing those youths rounded up in a raid last year by piling them up in the back of trucks, but it does not advance their cause on any moral grounds one iota.

Maybe he was just out of the killer’s favorite flavor?

But killing an ice cream guy? Oh, the humanity. That’s got to be a whole separate category of war crime.

It’s true that the Muslim areas would be richer as part of Thailand rather than Malaysia, or independent. Taiwan would be richer as part of Japan, but nobody around here seems to agree that that’s a good idea.

It’s interesting and perhaps inconsistent of me–I like and support the Tibetans, but not the Sinhalese (I root for the Liberation Tigers) and Sri Lanka’s monks are on the gung-ho anti-Tamil side, none of this Thich Nat Hanh nonsense. Thailand’s monasteries are "established’ and an arm of state power in pretty much the same way. To them, a monk is a nationalist symbol. If they were more purely religious (or like the Tibetans, symbolic of a side I agreed with) I wouldn’t be so interested in seeing them get their comeuppance.

as an atheist once escaped from a childhood of catholicism, i am an antichristian (not the antichrist), but i wouldn’t smile to see a church burn. praps i’m mad…

destruction of property and even lives does not in turn signal any loss of power from the organisation, unless you wipe out the whole organisation and all its followers in one fell swoop… and even then the memory reverberates for a long time and sympathisers usually spring up to take their place. that’s why the war on terror means nothing unless the reasons for people becoming terrorists are addressed (and i just don’t mean simplistically by walking away and giving them what they want).

on the other hand, bigoted deep-rooted opinions are hard to beat out of people.

double post

triple post.

WINNER!