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Message: <blockquote data-quote="III Reich" data-source="post: 10477704" data-attributes="member: 317593">කියවලා බලලා කියන්න කවුද කොලේ වහලා ගහන්නෙ කියලා <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/dull.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":dull:" title="Dull    :dull:" data-shortname=":dull:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/dull.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":dull:" title="Dull    :dull:" data-shortname=":dull:" />Buddhists account for about 95% of the  population of Thailand and most foreigners refer to it as the ‘Land of  Yellow Robes.” Buddhism has been the established ‘religion’ or spiritual  force in Thailand for many centuries, according to some historic  sources, since the 9th century, and therefore has had a marked influence  on the lives of the people of Thailand. Buddhism has been the main  spring from which flow its culture and philosophy, its art and  literature, its ethics and morality, and many of its folkways and  festivals. There are more than 21,000  Buddhist shrines and monasteries scattered throughout the country.  Thailand is a country where the king is constitutionally stipulated to  be a Buddhist and the upholder of Buddhism. All the Thai kings in the  recorded history of present-day Thailand have been adherents of  Buddhism. Thailand is one of those rare countries in South and Southeast  Asia which was not under European colonial powers at any time in its  history and therefore not subject in the past to the influence of  Catholicism or Christianity. A SMALL MINORITY OF MUSLIMS Muslims account for a mere 4.6% of  population. About two-third of Muslims in Thailand are ethnically Malay  and the balance consists are those who have migrated to Thailand from  China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Cambodia, Myanmar and Bangladesh.  The Malay Muslims of Thailand are concentrated mostly in the  southernmost provinces of Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat, Songkhla and  Chumphon. Their language is a dialect of the Malay language. Most of the  non- Malay Muslims are scattered here and there in Thailand with a  concentration in Bangkok. Northern Thailand is home to some Burmese,  Pakistani and mixed Muslims. In the far North and in some Central and  Southern urban centres there are some Thai Muslims of Chinese Hui  origin. Most of Thailand’s Muslims consider themselves to belong to the  Sunni branch of Islam and about 99% of mosques are associated with Sunni  Islam. However, the Islamic faith in Thailand has become integrated  with many beliefs and practices not integral to Islam. In the South,  animistic practices indigenous to Malay culture are mixed with lslam.  There are 3,494 mosques in Thailand with the largest number in Pattani  province in the South. There are more than 200 Muslim schools in  Thailand. ISLAMIC SEPARATIST INSURGENCY An ethnic separatist insurgency is  taking place in Southern Thailand particularly in the pattani region  made up of the three southernmost provinces of Thailand. Muslim  terrorists or separatists have rallied against the central government of  Thailand. They accuse the government of corruption and ethnic bias on  the part of government officials. There has been increased occurrence of  violence in the South, which has been spilling over into other  provinces as well. The Islamic jihadists of Thailand desire a separate  Islamic state in Southern Thailand for Muslims who form the dominant  community here. Their goal is the complete Islamization of Southern Thai  government by eliminating all Buddhist and Buddhist temples from the  southern region. In recent times some Islamic fanatics have been  spreading fear among the indigenous Buddhists of the region, using  violence and brutality. They have randomly killed Buddhists, including  school teachers and Buddhist monks. Also, they have murdered Muslims  working in public institutions in Southern Thailand and those who are  suspected to be supportive of the Thai Government and Members of the  Thai Military forces. Although separatist violence has occurred for  decades in the southern region, the campaign escalated in 2004. The  death toll has increased to 2,579 by mid- September 2007 and surpassed  3000 in March 2008. By the end of 2010, insurgency-related violence had  increased. In the first few weeks of January in 2011 nine Buddhists have  been killed by Islamic terrorists of Southern Thailand. In a separate  attack four members of the armed forces of Thailand have been killed.  Many Buddhists have left their traditional home in Southern Thailand in  order to escape the ongoing Islamic insurgency. INVOLVEMENT OF FOREIGN MUSLIM NATIONS In the last decade, there has been  evidence that Islamic institutions of foreign Muslim nations have been  involved in promoting Islamic radicalization and the doctrine of Islamic  Jihad in Thailand. Over 4300 lives have been lost since the year 2004  owing to Islamic insurgency. Buddhist monks have been beheaded, children  killed and civilians attacked. More than 500 people have been killed in  2004 in there southern Thai provinces. Professor Thitinan Pongsudhirak,  a professor of International Relations at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn  University says “The gruesome fashion of beheading of Buddhists by  Muslim assailants .. is not normal violence..” it is driven by deep  animosity and hatred.” Muslim extremists believe that violence,  including killing civilians, is justified as a means to restore sharia  or Islamic law and maintain Islamic cultural identity. According to the  adherents of this brand of Islamist activism, they are engaged in a  jihad or a holy struggle against Islam’s enemies, Including even fellow  Muslims who have abandoned what the extremists view as ‘true” Islam.  According to Michael Scott Doran, a Professor of Near Eastern Studies at  Princeton University, this brand of Islamist extremism is not a new  phenomenon. The basic sentiment of today’s Muslim extremists has  flourished in the Islamic world for decades. In recent decades the  newfound wealth of the oil-rich Middle Eastern Islamic countries and  massive immigration of Muslims to the West, Islamic fundamentalism has  been <a href="http://www.dhamsara.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/thailand1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.dhamsara.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/thailand1-300x218.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>on  the rise and the dormant spirit of Jihadism has been rekindled once  again. This fervor has been translated into various forms of upheavals  and terrorism and world peace has been put in jeopardy. In 2001 it was  reported that of the 28 terrorist organizations in the world, 11 are  Islamist and that there were thousands of Islamist terrorists in more  than 60 countries. HATE LITERATURE AGAINST BUDDHISTS One approach that these extremists use  in Southern Thailand is the distribution of hate literature in the form  of pamphlets, against the Buddhists. They are meant to intimidate the  local Buddhist community. They are also used a warning mechanisms. One  such Document states “Dear every Siamese Buddhist Thai who lives near  the police stations… I’ll give you three days for you to leave my land.  Otherwise, I will kill, burn, destroy all Buddhist Thai property.. The  Buddhist Thai will never live in peace. If you leave the house, travel  or go to work , you will die violently. I will wait for you for 24  hours, in every direction” (Pamphlet No. 22). Another states “The  Islamic warriors of Pattani announce the purpose that we will never stop  killing the Siamese kafir (infidel) and will never stop destroying army  weapons, the economy, politics, education and the Siamese kafir society  until we regain the land of Pattani and establish the state of Pattani  Daruslam. I ask for Muslim Malays to be witnesses.” (pamphlet No 23). MUSLIM MADRASAS INDOCTRINATE THE YOUNG Another approach that these extremists  use is enumerated well by Zachary Abuza in his book titled Militant  Islam in Southeast Asia (Crucible of Terror). It highlights the role of  Islamic schools called Madrasas in indoctrinating the younger  generation. The author comments that “In their pursuit of the creation  of Islamic states, many Southeast Asian jihadis established Islamic  schools to indoctrinate, propagate, and recruit, The leaders of many  militant groups in Southeast Asia, including the Laskar Jihad, Kampulan  Mujahidin Malaysia, and Jemaah Islamiya, returned from Afghanistan and  established a network of madrasas as the base of their separation and  recruitment.” These radical Islamic madrasas, with unrestricted material  support from foreign Muslim countries, have begun to recruit and  brainwash many Muslim children and youth in Islamic Jihadist movement  and Islamic fundamentalism. This is a dangerous trend and a great threat  to peace and security of Thailand. THAI MUSLIMS TRAINED IN FOREIGN MADRASAS The extensive media reporting in  Pakistan on the presence of foreign students in Pakistani madrasas,  which followed the reports of the involvement of three British citizens  of Pakistani origin in the London explosions of July 7, 2005, has  revealed the presence of nearly a thousand Thai Muslims from Pattanis,  in the Pakistani madrasas. Until the Pakistani media gave an estimate of  the number of Thai students in their madrasas, the world was not aware  of the large number of Thai Muslims in Pakistani Madrasas. It is now  known that madrasss in Bangladesh also contain large numbers of Thai  Muslims. Many of these Thai Muslims have enrolled themselves in the  madrasas of the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Baluchistan,  which are the hotbeds of the activities of the Taliban and the  Wahhabi-Deobandi organizations of Pakistan. Some of them have also  undergone training in the jihadi training centres of the Taliban and  Gulbuddin Heckmatyar’s Hizbe Islami (HEI) and have been participating in  the current Taliban-HEI-Al Qaeda offensive in Afghanistan from  sanctuaries in the NWFP and Balochistan.” South Asia Analysis Group–  Terrorism in Southern Thailand by B. Raman, Paper No. 1501, 15/08/2005.  Thai authorities are investigating possible links between separatist  groups and Islamic terrorist organizations such as Jemaah Islamiyah,  which seeks a pan- Islamic state in Southeast Asia. It’s blamed for  attacks including the 2002 bombing in Bali that claimed 202 lives.  Extremist Muslims in particular appear to dislike all ‘infidels’ –  Buddhists, Christians, Hindus and Jews, Also, there is evidence that  some Muslims hate each other and murder each other. Sunnis slaughter  Shias, Shias slaughter Sunnis, both Shias and Sunnis join together to  slaughter Ahamediyas. Bloodshed, mass murder, terrorism and violence  appear to be a part of Muslim culture then and now (Islamic Terrorists  Kill more Buddhists in Southern Thailand, Assyrian International News  Agency- Posted 1-27-2011, http:// leejaywalker, wordpress.com). The  history of Islam is a story of constant war and suppression of other  peoples in the world. The constant inclination of Islam has been to wage  war and capture foreign lands. Prophet Mohammad himself led military  expeditions and killed people with his own hands. The Arab Empire was  won and consolidated by Islamizing its peoples using the fury of its  faith in god who desires everyone to submit to him. Most of the Koran is  replete with passages that call for war on unbelievers and venomous  hate of those who would not acknowledge its god. The following quotation  from the Koran will illustrate the mentality of Prophet Mohammed. “Let  those who would exchange the life of this world for the hereafter fight  for the cause of god, whoever fights for the cause of god whether he  dies or triumphs, we shall richly reward him… The true believers fight  for the cause of god but the infidels fight for the devil. Fight then  against the friends of Satan…. EXTREME ATTITUDES AND ACTIONS According to Lee jay Walker  (<a href="http://www.theseoultimes.com" target="_blank">www.theseoultimes.com</a>) writing to The Modern Tokyo Times, under the  title “Islamic Terrorists kill more Buddhists in Southern Thailand,”  states that Southern Thailand resembles modern day Afhanistan and  Somalia because in both these nations the radical Sunni Islamists show  their extreme intolerance of other faiths. In addition to Buddhists,  moderate Muslims are also being killed by radical Sunni Islamic fanatics  of Southern Thailand. The methodology of killing is intended to spread  fear to all who oppose the Islamization of Southern Thailand. The  intention of Thailand’s radical Sunni Islamists is to have a land with  no Buddhist and to create an Islamic Sharia State. The usual beheadings  of innocents is deemed to be justified on the grounds that non-Muslims  are infidels in accordance with the Koran and Hadiths. This applies to  the Koran for 9:29 states “Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the  last day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and  his apostle nor acknowledge the religion of truth of the people of the  Book (Jews and Christians ) until they pay jizya (tax on non-Muslims)  with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.” Verse 9:73 in the  Koran also states ‘O Prophet ! Strive hard (wage war) against the  unbelievers and the Hypocrites and be firm against them. Their abode is  Hell,… an evil refuge indeed.” While the Hadith 9:4 says “Where ever you  find infidels kill them; for whoever kills them shall have reward on  the Day of Resurrection.” Zachary Abuza, the author of “Militant Islam  in Southeast Asia,” states that Buddhists have been forced to flee in a  “de facto ethnic cleansing.” He further continued by stating that ‘The  social fabric of the south has<a href="http://www.dhamsara.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/thai3.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.dhamsara.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/thai3-300x216.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>  been irreparably damaged.” Meanwhile Sunai Phasuk, a political analyst  at Human Rights Watch, comments that ‘Buddhist monks have been hacked to  death, clubbed to death, bombed and burned to death,” Therefore, it is  clear that this Sunni Islamic insurgency is following a path that  involves the destruction of all non-Muslim elements within society or  the complete subjugation of all non- Muslims by the rule of fear. The  most notable movement in the region is Jemaah Islamiya which is often  linked with Al Qaeda and this Sunni terrorist Islamic organization  desires to create more chaos and hatred in order to spread its influence  and obtain its ultimate objective. This objective, just like the  radical Sunni Islamic objective in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia,  and other nations, is to create an Islamic Sharia state and enforce the  slavery of non- Muslims by a policy of total subjugation based on fear.  They have threatened parents to not send their children to any school  but the private Islamic schools. They have forced businesses closed on  Fridays. Suffis and moderate Sha’afis have been routinely targeted.  Also, it is noticeable that more women are covering up in purdah.  Overall, it is clear that elements within Southern Thailand desire a non  Buddhist land. The younger generation of Muslims are being brainwashed  against Buddhists. This hatred and alienation of the younger generation  began after many studied at international universities throughout the  Middle East and clearly some funding from the Middle East is being used  to spread radical Sunni Islamic versions of Islam. The hidden war in  Southern Thailand by radical Sunni Islamists is being aimed at moderate  Muslims and Buddhists alike. However, the Buddhists it is feared face  complete annihilation and one day Southern Thailand may end up like  Afghanistan, Central Asia, and other areas which once had thriving  Buddhist communities. It would appear that Islamization is now a reality  and in time the Buddhist minority will continue to dwindle and the only  saving grace at the moment for Buddhists is the military of Thailand.  Dr. Daya Hewapathirane(Adviser to the  the President of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka  )<a href="http://www.dhamsara.org/?p=201" target="_blank">source</a></blockquote>

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