Our friends from the Religion of Peace celebrated the New Year by setting off eight bombs in civilian areas in Thailand.
Bombs in Bangkok via Hot Air.
Eight bombs went off, total, in shopping centers, supermarkets (Tesco is a British chain, FWIW), and a river pier, with a ninth found and defused. Thai police sent everyone home from New Years’ parties which may have saved a few lives. At this point (2:37 PM Pacific) the toll is two dead, thirty injured.
There’s a reasonable argument to be made that this is about domestic politics. Thailand suffered a military coup earlier this year, and the Bangkok Post describes some ongoing resistance to them of the pyromaniacal persuasion.Official Thai policy is to deny the obvious, blame anyone other than Islamofascists for the violence, and mislead the public about the true nature of the threat.
The notion that Thaksin voters or idealistic proponents of representative democracy are eager to murder civilians at random is insane. If Muslims are not behind yesterday’s bombings, then Thailand harbors a network of sophisticated sociopathic mass murderers whose motives and goals are inconceivable.
The only faction in Thailand with the means, the will and the desire to slaughter innocent people is the Islamofascist underground.
