A religious civil war is about to explode in Thailand. Without peeking at the answer, can you guess what radical religious group is involved:
The Islamic militants are trying to do some ethnic, and religious, cleansing in the Moslem south. The three southern provinces have a population of some 1.8 million, and only 360,000 of those are Buddhists (the religion of the majority of Thais, who are ethnically different from the Moslems, who are Malays). The terror campaign is having some success, as some ten percent of the southern Buddhists have left the south in the past six months. But many of the remaining Buddhists are arming and preparing to defend themselves, and stay in the south.
So you can now add Thailand to our list of countries where militant Islam is igniting ethnic bloodshed, civil unrest, and all out war. It joins Afghanistan, Bosnia, the Ivory Coast, Cyprus, East Timor, South Asia, Indonesia, the former Yugoslavia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Chechnya, Sudan, and of course Israel.
[Cross-posted to IsraPundit]
