Yes, for those who have seen the news, there were bombings in the South that injured 60 people. In relation to my safety, Southern Thailand is almost 15 hours from when I am in now and not ETA are placed in the area. For further clarification, the Muslims groups on the border are separatist Muslims that believe in a more radical approach and the bombings were in retaliation of an insurgents walking into a mosque and opening fire. I just want to take a moment and clarify that these Muslim groups are the anomaly in Thailand and do not reflect the general attitude of all Muslims, analogous to violent attacks by radial Christians against Black Americans in the mid-sixties. At this very moments I am sitting outside a Thai Mosque in a coffee shop while the elderly Muslim men sit outside playing checkers, and I had Lentils and Roti at an Muslin Curry restaurant with the most adorable, possibly Malaysian because she did not speak Thai, woman who wanted to know if her Roti was delicious. The full article is below.
Malaysia, Thailand: Bomb attacks kill three in Sungai Kolok District, Narathiwat province
North Star Travel Media, September 15, 2011
From media reports: Reuters reported three people were killed and at least 60 others were wounded after three bombs exploded on Thailand's border with Malaysia on Friday. The attacks occurred hours after suspected insurgents walked into a packed mosque and shot dead two Muslims.
The first bomb, hidden on a motorbike, exploded outside an ethnic Chinese community organization in a border town of Thailand's Sungai Kolok District, in Narathiwat province.
That blast was followed by another motorbike bomb and a car bomb outside two hotels on a busy street lined with entertainment establishments.
Police said the dead included a tourist from Malaysia.
Earlier on Friday, a police officer and a defense volunteer were gunned down in a mosque in Yala province by four Muslims believed to be separatists.
