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Posted by: jeremytoday 2 years agoThree bombs exploded almost simultaneously at two department stores and a hotel in the southern Thai town of Hat Yai on Saturday, wounding several people, police and the army said.
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stephen-johnson
Sept. 16, 2006, 2:11 p.m."Last year's bomb at the airport was one of very few attacks outside the three far south provinces, where most people are Muslim and speak a Malay dialect, since the violence erupted there."
The "religion of peace" strikes again
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AmpLee
Sept. 16, 2006, 2:50 p.m.hmmmm...now who could be responsible for this...now I didn't read the article yet, so don't spoil it for me...let me think....hmmmm...I got it! Jehovah's Witnesses!
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Locky12
Sept. 16, 2006, 3:06 p.m.And the Pope apologized for reading a passage that said Islam is violent because......?
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stephen-johnson
Sept. 16, 2006, 3:28 p.m.buckfush: "Remember Beirut 1985? In 1985, the CIA and British intelligence bllew up a car bomb in Beirut that killed 80 civilians wounding more than a hundred people....Blowback all over again!"
Those two are connected??!!
I'll have some of what you're smoking.
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stephen-johnson
Sept. 16, 2006, 3:49 p.m.gordonbjoy: "Don't rekon the bookies will be offering large adds against it. Spot on"
To the 9/11 "truth" tinfoil hat brigade, this is a small connection to make
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Rabbi
Sept. 16, 2006, 4:42 p.m.This is a nation of prostitues, slaves and fascists. All Buddhist nations have a penchant for violence before you preach. Each of your coups was worse than the other with unprecedented bloodshed against civilians. Japan is also Buddhist what they did in WW2 is documented and unparalleled. Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Korea, Cambodia, Viet Nam and Laos, you people are the pits and are perhaps the lowest form of human life there is.
Sirikit is herself a hore . She lifted her skirt to many an American actor from Bob redford to Sinatra when she dioscovered only Bhumibol could have that fun. A nation with a prostitute as Queen needs to be reformed even if with bombs.
There were 3 Jewish families, Sephards who lived in Yala who were massacred by Thais in the early 1960's non one ever cared or was brought to justice for it. They worked well with the Malay Thais in the region and were warned by the military against educating them. Marshall Phillips and Jacob were two of those teachers.
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xPoeticSoulx
Sept. 16, 2006, 4:55 p.m."Last year's bomb at the airport was one of very few attacks outside the three far south provinces, where most people are Muslim and speak a Malay dialect, since the violence erupted there."
No where in this article did it mention Islam or Muslims until it refered to an incident last year. It did not say anywhere in this article that it was a Muslim who detonated these bombs. So hold your horses Stephen Johnson.
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Locky12
Sept. 16, 2006, 5:04 p.m.Listen to xPoeticSoulx, it never said that a Muslim detonated those bombs, but I'll say this... the people that detonated those bombs were either Muslim, or followers of Islam, or followers of the Prophet Mohammed, or the type that faces Mecca when he prays, celebrates "Death to America Day", etc, etc.
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xPoeticSoulx
Sept. 16, 2006, 5:25 p.m.Locky12:
Uhm.. Followers of Islam, followers of the Prophet Mohammed, people who face Mecca when they pray are Muslims, so there's no "or" in that discussion. There are over 20,000 Muslims in the American Army right now fighting against terrorism. There are Muslim-dominate countries in the Middle East, such as Jordan, that are allies of the United States. So putting the "celebrate death to america day" under Muslims is wrong. Believe it or not, there are people all over the world who hate America, and let me tell you not all of them are Muslim. So maybe next time you leave a comment on a post you should try to put in the entire facts, and not slant the real world to fit what you are trying to portray.
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xPoeticSoulx
Sept. 16, 2006, 5:27 p.m.Locky12:
"The people that detonated those bombs were either Muslim..." so are you saying the only people capable of detonating bombs are Muslims? What about the thousands of rockets and bombs that killed thousands of Lebanese Christian and Muslim children in Lebanon this past summer war? Were they not Jews? Oh wait, I'm sorry, I can't say anothing bad about Jews or I'm an Anti-Semite! My bad. Let me just lie to myself and say the Muslims blew up their own country. Right.
It makes no sense for the Muslims in that Southern Thai Town to blow up places near their own town. The majority of deaths would have been Muslims and I doubt that's what they would want. So it could just be someone trying to plant bombs and blame it on the Muslims.
That's what that Jew who was caught with explosives at an Airport had been planing to do.
I just feel sympathy for you for one reason: You're willing to generalize a group of people and let the real criminal run free.
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xPoeticSoulx
Sept. 16, 2006, 6:03 p.m.I feel that we as Americans should be more concerned with the possibility of bombs being detonated here in our own homeland:
http://news.netscape.com/story/2006/09/16/teens-plans-terrorise-school-in-green-bay
All we can do is thank God that they had not succeeded. America should be more preoccupied with its own problems and as soon as we have our own country under control, that is when we have the right to help other countries.
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Locky12
Sept. 16, 2006, 6:21 p.m.xPoeticSoulx, I was making a pun, I am well aware that all of those people I described are one in the same, but I am talking about the Islamofacists, not the peace-loving Muslim (however, those peace-loving Muslims should do more to root out the evil ones and let it be known that they don't act in their name, but we hear alot of silence, don't we?)
Secondly, I would believe it was a Jew if we were talking about a military target, but no, we're talking about a hotel. This has Muslim fingerprints all over it of ISLAMOFACISM.
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Locky12
Sept. 16, 2006, 6:30 p.m.This is what I'm talking about:
A HARDLINE cleric linked to Somalia's powerful Islamist movement has called for Muslims to "hunt down" and kill Pope Benedict XVI for his controversial comments about Islam.
Sheikh Abubukar Hassan Malin urged Muslims to find the pontiff and punish him for insulting the Prophet Mohammed and Allah in a speech that he said was as offensive as author Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses.
We need those "peace-loving" Muslims now more than ever, wouldn't you say?
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echn111
Sept. 16, 2006, 8:06 p.m.The people responsible are almost certainly Muslim seperatists.
Islam has a long, proud history as a hugely successful, expansionist religion. It was and still is a strong, aggressive religion promising many benefits to it's followers. It is not a weak religion - the concept of honour is more important than their own lives, or the lives of innocents for that matter. It's followers are are proud to be Muslims because it is not a weak religion.
Westerners should not delude themselves by imposing western values of good or evil (or peaceful/warlike) on cultures they do not understand. Whether a proud, honourable (depending on your viewpoint) and aggressive religion is good or bad is entirely subjective and therefore meaningless. Whether there are good or bad individuals who are Muslims is likewise meaningless.
The fact is that Islam is dangerous to non-Muslims. And the sooner the rest of the world realizes it, the sooner they will see that they are being destroyed from within.
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motivator911
Sept. 16, 2006, 8:40 p.m.buckfush
said = Remember Beirut 1985?
In 1985, the CIA and British intelligence bllew up a car bomb in Beirut that killed 80 civilians wounding more than a hundred people.
The CIA car bomb factory
motivator =
what are you a blooming Idiot ?
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motivator911
Sept. 16, 2006, 8:51 p.m.poeticsoul
said = ..." so are you saying the only people capable of detonating bombs are Muslims?
no poetic i heard on cnn bush and cheney dawned wet suits swam the pacific crossed the med and hiked the rest of the way those bastards.
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motivator911
Sept. 16, 2006, 8:57 p.m.froggy57
I'm almost on board with ya but lets see if we can convince a few of these cry babies to go thier on vacation just before we pull the trigger.
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echn111
Sept. 16, 2006, 9:21 p.m.Decent analogy with the Matrix bit. Most of the world still has it's eyes closed, and then there's the virus...
But if this is an infection, the nuke solution just doesn't work.
Firstly, it gets you instantly dismissed as a raving loony right wing nut. And secondly, an infection is 'internal' not external so the West nuking other countries actually doesn't help. For example, until recent crackdowns, "Londonistan" was one of the biggest contributors of Islamic terroism in the world.
There are solutions, but they're fairly nasty, especially on the patient.
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stephen-johnson
Sept. 16, 2006, 10:42 p.m.xPoeticSoulx: "No where in this article did it mention Islam or Muslims until it refered to an incident last year. It did not say anywhere in this article that it was a Muslim who detonated these bombs. So hold your horses"
What do you expect from Al-Reuters? After all, they won't call Islamofascists terrorists.
Maybe this link is clearer:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4122863.stm
Friday's blast came after a top security official warned of the danger of an upsurge in attacks next year, and police said they were ordering an extra 2,000 officers to reinforce security in the southernmost provinces.
Thousands of teachers in the south went on indefinite strike on Thursday, urging the authorities to do more to protect them from attacks by *****Muslim***** militants.
Comprende, amigo?
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Locky12
Sept. 16, 2006, 11:14 p.m.Oh yeah, xpoeticsoulx, as for the rockets that the Isrealis fired during this summer's war, you see, that was Hezbollah being in violation of international law by placing their munitions and ordinance in and near civilian homes.
Israel had no choice. It's in a war for its survival and that joke of a band-aid of the United Nations is only going to fall apart sooner or later since they don't want to offend Hezbollah either.
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stephen-johnson
Sept. 16, 2006, 11:25 p.m.Rabbi: "This is a nation of prostitues, slaves and fascists. All Buddhist nations have a penchant for violence before you preach."
With an intro like that, it's hard to take the rest of what you say seriously.
I have known a number of Buddhists - including several devout ones - and have found them to be good people for the most part. And although they will invite you to explore their beliefs, they won't try to force them on you - they have too much respect for the individual
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Rabbi
Sept. 17, 2006, 5:25 a.m.Stephen Johnson you idiot. The Soutth was infested with Chinese communists fighting an insurgency against both Thailand and Malaysia since 1956 after the assassination of Sir Henry Gurney Governor blamed on the MCP (Malayan Cmmunist Party). It was later revealed that Sir Henry Gurney was assassinated on the orders of Lt. gen Peter Wlls as part of the counter insurgency only after which britain decided with Australia to send in more troops and arm the Malayans. Sound familiar Moron? had nothing to do with the Malay muslims of the South.
If you find it hard to believe thats fine. No one is on a mission to convert a self inflicted with ignornace moron.
What the west has done in one fell swoop even the prophet could not achieve in 500 years and that is to unify the Muslims and to radicalise and make them a fomidable force. They too have the Nukes remember and they will use it. You and I are tongue tied because our constitutions are interfered with by morons who won't face the truth.
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stephen-johnson
Sept. 17, 2006, 6:50 a.m.Rabbi: "had nothing to do with the Malay muslims of the South"
You must not be able to read. Let's try again:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/thailand2.htm
"A wave of attacks in southern Thailand forced the government to stop blaming "bandits" and acknowledge, for the first time in decades, that separatist militants were operating in the country. On 05 January 2004 Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra declared martial law in most of the affected region, the provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala. Defence Minister Thamarak Isarangura authorised Fourth Army Region commander Lt-General Phongsak Aekbansingha to place six districts in Narathiwat, three districts in Yala and four districts in Pattani under martial law. This followed a deadly arms raid and arson attack which re-ignited security concerns in the majority Muslim provinces of Southern Thailand."
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stephen-johnson
Sept. 17, 2006, 7:03 a.m.Con't
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/19/opinion/edweiss.php
No tuning out Thailand's Muslim insurgency
Stanley A. Weiss International Herald Tribune
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2006
"The starkest contrast, however, was the televised tranquility of Buddhist life in the north compared to Thailand's Muslim south, where a stubborn insurgency has killed more than more than 1,200 people. Now in its third year, the southern insurgency is one story line the prime minister, a one-time police officer, can't seem to control."
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