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2004-05-10 Southeast Asia

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Posted by tipper 2004-05-10 02:29|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Sounds like the Muzzys are headed for the receiving end of a butt-kicking there as well. Is there anyplace where Muslims DO get along with their neighbors?

Posted by mac 2004-05-10 8:19:49 AM|| 2004-05-10 8:19:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 "The south is the country's poorest region and was once wracked by a guerrilla insurgency agitating to set up an independent Islamic state. The militants, who often hid in neighboring Malaysia, were not widely supported, but their cause reflected the resentment and sense of marginalization that many Thai Muslims felt."

Do you see a pattern? Why is it that the Muslim areas are always the poorest, wherever? Of course, it is not because there is any relationship between the tenents of the Muslim religion and lack of economic success or inability to compete. The answer lies in Sharia - if everyone was under Sharia, then all would be under equal footing - except the infidels, of course. Under universal Sharia, Muslims would thrive. Is it that simple?

Posted by Sam 2004-05-10 9:58:19 AM|| 2004-05-10 9:58:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Under universal Sharia, Muslims would thrive.

No, under sharia, no one would thrive, but non-Muslims would be in worse condition than Muslims.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-05-10 10:18:43 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-05-10 10:18:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I've long held the feeling that Thais are exceptionally dangerous as a people. Unlike most in Southern Asia, the Thais have that "undefeated" quality, that makes for a really bad choice in an enemy.
Psychologically, the best example of this is both their attraction to their peculiar brand of methamphetamine, and the way in which they deal with both its users and abusers.
Ultraviolence is predicted.

Posted by Anonymoose 2004-05-10 10:35:05 AM|| 2004-05-10 10:35:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Thais are very nationalistic and loathe muslims.

Posted by Phil B 2004-05-10 10:41:03 AM|| 2004-05-10 10:41:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Putting my chips on the Thais....

Posted by Frank G 2004-05-10 10:43:51 AM|| 2004-05-10 10:43:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Do the Thais need anything else?

Posted by Mr. Davis 2004-05-10 10:50:04 AM|| 2004-05-10 10:50:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Remember the Buddhist monument razed in Afghanistan by one-eyed Jack Omar?

It's payback time in Bangkok!

Posted by BigEd 2004-05-10 11:43:08 AM|| 2004-05-10 11:43:08 AM|| Front Page Top

Lest we forget the savagery of the Talibanis

As a non-Buddhist it is obvious to me that Buddhism has more of a claim to the title, "Religion of Peace" than Islam ever will.

Posted by BigEd 2004-05-10 11:47:17 AM|| 2004-05-10 11:47:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Big Ed, do you consider Buddhist countries run by Communists to be athiests or Buddhists. The death counts are pretty astounding in the Cultural Revolution and Cambodia.

Posted by ruprecht 2004-05-10 12:53:58 PM|| 2004-05-10 12:53:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Pol Pot was a Communist mini-Hitler.

That has nothing to do with what I have seen of the average Buddhist adherant. Another comparison being to compare Easter Orthodox Christianity and Stalin. Lutherans and Hitler. The only thing they have in common is Geography.

The Cultural Revolution and Mao had nothing to do with Buddhism either. It was just a murderous Communist thug on a grand scale.

All of the above were athiests, except Hitler, who followed the Norse pantheon of gods.

Posted by BigEd 2004-05-10 1:10:06 PM|| 2004-05-10 1:10:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 If you go back a bit, even the Buddhists were pretty bloody. A few hundred years ago, the Buddhist monks of Japan used to come down off their mountains and burn the local towns when they got irked. Kept up until Oda Nobununga or the Taiko, I forget which, burned them and their monastaries. Every religion contains the fatal flaw of "God is on my side, so I can do no wrong."

Posted by Mercutio 2004-05-10 2:19:50 PM|| 2004-05-10 2:19:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Every religion contains the fatal flaw of "God is on my side, so I can do no wrong."

Not those people who follow the "Peacock King" or whatever they call him. As I understand it, they figure Satan's more active -- possibly even the victor -- so they suck up to him.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-05-10 2:49:52 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-05-10 2:49:52 PM|| Front Page Top

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