Viet-Justice

Terrorists have murdered over 2000 Buddhists in Thailand. In its usual fashion the religion of peace has been bombing, shooting, and beheading the Buddhist majority. To be quite inflammatory the terrorists are targeting the symbols of Buddhism. This would be similar to burning churches or defacing religious statues though they are not just leaving their destruction at religious symbols.

“Buddhist monks have been hacked to death, clubbed to death, bombed and burned to death,” said Sunai Phasuk, a political analyst with the Human Rights Watch monitoring group. “This has never happened before. This is a new aspect of violence in the south.”

I began to dismiss this a typical behavior for Muslims, but something else caught my attention.

Some Buddhist and Muslim villages have begun sealing themselves off from one another. People say that old friendships and patterns of cooperation are being undermined by mistrust.

What I think this group of terrorists is up to is simple anarchy. By tearing down the basic components of civilization they will be keeping civilization in ignorance. An ignorant society can be more easily preyed upon by religious zealots and their brainwashing.