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  1. desynch

    desynch Die-Hard Conservative

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    http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCri...80070._CH_.2400

    Three Buddhist women dead in south Thailand attack by Muslim Separatists(Fundamentalists)

    BANGKOK, March 19 (Reuters) - Suspected separatist militants on motorbicycles killed three Buddhist farmworkers in Thailand's far south as they travelled to work on Monday, a local official said.

    Four gunmen ambushed a pick-up truck carrying 19 farmworkers in Pattani, one of three far south provinces where most of the separatist violence has occurred over the past three years, the official said.

    The attack took place as General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, Thailand's first Muslim army commander and leader of a September coup which ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, flew to the region where more than 2,000 people have been killed.

    His visit followed an attack by gunmen on an Islamic boarding school in nearby Songkhla province on Saturday in which three Muslim boys were killed.

    Police blamed separatist militants for the attack but angry villagers accused Thai army Rangers, saying they did not believe Muslims could have been responsible.

    On Sunday, attackers shot dead a man and two women, all Buddhists, in another part of Songkhla. The man, a rubber tapper, and a mother and daughter taking a break from work at a charcoal furnace were killed by gunmen on motorcycles, police said.

    The insurgency in the provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat -- an Islamic sultanate until annexed by Bangkok a century ago -- has shown no signs of abating since the coup and a government apology for Thaksin's hardline policies.

    Thailand's overwhelming Buddhist majority was incensed last week after suspected militants killed eight Buddhists in an ambush on a civilian minibus.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(desynch @ Mar 20 2007, 06:26 PM) [snapback]409202[/snapback]</div>
    The original article you cite does not target "Muslims" as the perps. The Reuters title is "Three Buddhist women dead in south Thailand attack"

    Government Should End Policy of ‘Disappearing’ Suspected Muslim Malay Separatists
    Thai security forces should stop using enforced disappearance as a tool against suspected Malay Muslim separatists in Thailand’s southern border provinces, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today
    http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2007/03/20/thaila15499.htm
     
  3. desynch

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    Who do you think they are referring to when they say SEPARATISTS? Al Queda for example?
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(desynch @ Mar 20 2007, 06:49 PM) [snapback]409249[/snapback]</div>
    I didn't read the article, but usually separatists mean they want a part of the country as their own. This is a common term used in Sri Lanka where a group of terrorists called the Tamil Tigers want a part of the country. The conflict has killed more than 65,000 people (civilians, soldiers and terrorists) over the last 20 years.

    P.S. - I am from Sri Lanka.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Michgal007 @ Mar 20 2007, 06:58 PM) [snapback]409256[/snapback]</div>
    Michgal, separatists are a big reason we're having such big problems in Iraq. They go around committing acts of terrorism in the name of their "gang" or in the name of "Allah".. Being from Sri Lanka, I'm sure you're more privvy to it than most of the liberals(sheep) around here that don't think the wolf exists.

    ps - I have a few friends from Sri Lanka.. they lost so much from the last big hurricane that hit it. So sad.
     
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    It seems so easy to read one thing, and assume that it all relates. It's all the same bad guys, right?

    The article says separatists, which as pointed out has nothing to do with the separatists in Iraq. In fact, the article mentions Muslims 3 times. And it never even says the word "fundamentalist". Lets count them here:

    Oh yeah, a Muslim in power. Sounds like it's time to invade!

    Wait, Muslims were the target of an attack? Does.... not.... compute.... your right leaning brain must be overheating on this one...

    OMG, the entire town where this occurred doesn't think Muslims were responsible? But lets just ignore them, shall we?


    Why is it the right always tries to twist something to fit into their preconceived notions? Stop trying to put such obvious spin on things and we might actually take you seriously.
     
  7. desynch

    desynch Die-Hard Conservative

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    You're such a liberal eagle.. and yes, that is a bad thing.

    Put it back into context, you word twisting liberal.. :

    "Police blamed separatist militants for the attack but angry villagers accused Thai army Rangers, saying they did not believe Muslims could have been responsible."

    Gee.. I think I'll believe the POLICE before I believe some angry towns people that are accusing the THAI ARMY RANGERS. The POLICE said it was Separatist Militants (FUNDIE MUSLIMS)..

    You don't know how to read? Or you just like to read what you want to see? If you don't think SEPARATIST MILITANTS are the MUSLIM TERRORISTS that we're fighting then you are a bigger fool than I thought.

    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(eagle33199 @ Mar 21 2007, 09:12 AM) [snapback]409492[/snapback]</div>
    Of course it doesn't compute with you.. you have not a freaking clue. The Fundie Muslims are killing EVERYONE regardless of their religion, because if you are NOT a FUNDIE MUSLIM, then you're an "INFIDEL"..

    It's really no surprise it "doesn't compute" with you. YOU'RE CLUELESS. In order to "COMPUTE" you have to have some knowledge or basis of FACTS in the first place..
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(desynch @ Mar 21 2007, 01:29 PM) [snapback]409629[/snapback]</div>
    If you would bother to read anything about the situation you're posting about you might understand how it is completely consistent to have both the police and muslim insurgents targeting the civilian population. But you don't seem interested in doing anything other than cherry-picking stories to smear all Muslims. Unfortunately for you, this particular story fails even that sniff test.
     
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    desynch, try this thought out, for just a minute... Not all Muslims are the same. Not all Muslims want to hurt/kill us. Even from those who are violent, not all of them are targeted on America.

    So quite trying to stir the pot and get everyone outraged at this. The days of sticking people into concentration camps based on profiling should be long over (Note: this is in reference to the camps we had for the Japanese-Americans back during WWII, not the camps in Europe)...