The “separatist insurgency that has claimed about 7,000 lives” is actually an Islamic jihad; the Muslims in southern Thailand do not accept living under Infidel rule. How can “the most vile of created beings” (Qur’an 98:6) rule over the “best of people” (Qur’an 3:110)?

“Two Buddhist monks shot dead after suspected Muslim rebels storm Thai temple,” The Independent, January 19, 2019:

Two monks were killed and two others injured when gunmen presumed to be Muslim insurgents stormed a Buddhist temple in southern Thailand, police have said.

The attack in Narathiwat province on Friday night was the latest incident in a recent upsurge of violence in the area, which since 2004 has been plagued by a separatist insurgency that has claimed about 7,000 lives.

Narathiwat is one of Thailand’s three southernmost provinces, the only ones with Muslim majorities in the Buddhist-dominated country.

Witnesses described seeing armed men arrive at the temple on motorcycles, open fire with automatic weapons and then storm inside where they shot the monks in their quarters, according to a Thai news report. One of those killed was the temple’s abbot.

The temple attack was one of several violent incidents in Narathiwat on Friday, including a roadside bombing that wounded five members of security forces, and a shootout between paramilitary rangers and five armed men that left one of the gunmen dead. The others escaped….