Islam, radicalism and violence in southern Thailand

SUGUNNASIL Wattana

Islam, radicalism and violence in southern Thailand - 2006

The main argument of this article is that the separatist struggle which was initially based on a malay national liberation struggle has taken on undertones of a radical Islamist ideology and the discourse of the separatist struggle has significantly shifted to that of radical Islamist politics by calling for a jihad against the Thai state.


POLITICS--THAILAND POLITICS