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| Thai terrorists target Malaysian sex tourists | |
| 2011-09-24 | |
| There are no guarantees in Asia’s bloodiest Islamic insurgency, a jihad in southern Thailand that has cost nearly 5,000 lives. But there are a ground rules. In their self-proclaimed “holy war” to carve out the world’s newest Muslim state on the Thai-Malaysia border, jihadis consider soldiers, cops, Buddhist monks, government teachers and their Muslim collaborators as fair game. Backpackers partying just a short distance up the coast are usually left alone. Less mercy is offered to a different sort of tourist: Malaysian men, many fellow Muslims, border-hopping into insurgents’ territory for paid sex. Now, after a bloody bombing spree in their favored brothel town, Malaysia’s government is warning its men to stay away. Shortly after sunset on Sept. 18, in the gritty Thai border town of Su-Ngai Golok, a series of explosions erupted on a busy street with hotels, food stalls and karaoke bars. Five were killed in the bombings, four of them Malaysian. Roughly 110 were injured, some severely. A 3-year-old Malaysian boy was among the dead, as well. The attack was a shock, even from insurgents known for beheading Buddhist monks and torching village leaders in the street. Though Malaysian tourists have been targeted before, such strikes are rare and have never caused so many foreign deaths in one night. Worse yet, the attacks demonstrate the jihadis’ heightened brazenness and have ended the possibility of peace talks.
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| Posted by:ryuge |
| #2 Now, after a bloody bombing spree in their favored brothel town, MalaysiaÂ’s government is warning its men to stay away. No doubt that entire section of Malaysia will be the healthier for it, but yet another source of independence for those not bound to the jihadis will be lost. the attacks demonstrate the jihadisÂ’ heightened brazenness and have ended the possibility of peace talks Peace talks never would have accomplished peace. The jihadis' goal for peace talks was stepwise surrender of the population's legal rights to Sharia law, and the stepwise surrender of the territory to their rule. That,s how jihad is traditionally done. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-09-24 22:17 |
| #1 " Thai terrorists target Malaysian sex tourists" Maybe that ain't so bad. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2011-09-24 02:10 |