Two bits of news
(1) Knew it was only a matter of time. 'Protecting the islamis in Buddhist Thailand by declaring Buddhism is not the national religion.' Thailand's islami leader of military coup planning a "We are secular" too (later to become a minorities-first drama a la India)?
And/or are others also fishing in Thailand's troubled waters? Missionaries are hard at work in the country and one knows they find it hard going in Thailand (as they did in Nepal before their communist friends took over there). What does King Rama the nth have to say? He's a Buddhist.
At this rate, not a single Asian country will be allowed to be anything but islamic, communist, christian (Phillipines) or 'secular' (India, Nepal and the like). It's clear that unless you're a christoislamic majority or communist-ruled Asian country, you are not allowed to have a state religion/ideology.
Gee, I wonder who all have to gain from this...
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070630/19/13v8w.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Saturday June 30, 03:10 PM
<b>Thai charter drafters reject Buddhism as national religion</b>
Photo : AFPÂ
<b>Thailand's constitution writers have rejected a plea to name Buddhism as the national religion, a drafter said Saturday, despite protests and hunger strikes by campaigning monks.</b>
The Constitution Drafting Assembly (CDA), appointed by the junta that seized power last year, on Friday voted 66-19 not to include Buddhism in the new charter, which replaces a 1997 version torn up by the coup leaders.
"Religion is a very sensitive issue, which has never before been mentioned in the constitution, so we are afraid that it will be divisive," said Wuthichart Kalayanamitra, a CDA member.
<b>About 95 percent of Thais are Buddhist, but critics of the proposal had warned that naming a national religion could inflame tensions in the Muslim-majority south, where a separatist insurgency has raged for three years.</b>
(I see Thailand has its own active pseudosecularists. Not wrong in suspecting that they might well be in the pay of Big Brother too.)
Buddhist monks had campaigned fiercely for its inclusion, with 3,000 rallying outside the Thai parliament earlier this month. A similar protest in April saw the monks bring nine elephants marching through the streets of Bangkok.
Five saffron-clad monks on hunger strike also spent more than a week in June lying in open coffins outside the national parliament building.
Buddhist activists reacted angrily to the CDA decision, with a group of monks on Friday tipping over a huge replica alms bowl outside parliament.
Thongchai Kua-sakul, chairman of the Buddhist Network of Thailand, said that members had called off their protests, but warned that they would now campaign against the charter, which goes to a referendum on August 19.
He said Buddhist organisations would campaign at 30,000 temples throughout Thailand and urge people to vote 'no' in the kingdom's first ever referendum.
"We will campaign vigorously," he told AFP.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->I hope they (the protesting Buddhist monks) will succeed where India and Nepal have failed.
Thailand is a Buddhist nation.
(2) http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story....jectid=10448813
<b>Police find two car bombs in London</b>
June 30, 2007
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/a...720935.ece
<b>Range of extremist groups in the frame</b>
29 June 2007
Iraqi-style car bombs. Fortunately found before they could do any damage. Number 1 suspect is AQ - but investigators are keeping their minds open.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/a...721237.ece
<b>Bomb bid has echoes of earlier terror plot</b>
30 June 2007
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Mr Clarke also specifically mentioned nightclubs as a potential target.
Plotters in another terror cell - known as the "fertiliser bomb plotters " or the "Bluewater plotters" - were convicted earlier this year. They had discussed targeting the Ministry of Sound nightclub with an explosive device.
Mr Clarke noted that thousands of people were leaving West End nightspots at the time the vehicle was found in Haymarket today.
Central to Barot's plans was the "gas limos project", the main part of which was uncovered in Pakistan.
[...]
He said Barot travelled to Pakistan in early 2004, with the "obvious inference" being that the purpose of the trip was to present the plans for approval and funding.
He said: "The principal attack involved packing three limousines with gas cylinders, explosives, shrapnel and the like and then detonating the devices in underground car parks."
Barot, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to murder, wanted to "emulate" the Madrid train bombings, which killed almost 200 people, Mr Lawson told the court, adding: "The gas limos project might be seen as the culmination of Barot's murderous plans."
Barot also planned to detonate a dirty bomb and to cause an explosion on a Tube train while in a tunnel under the River Thames.
<b>The gas limos project</b> document was found following a raid by the Pakistani authorities in Gujarat, Pakistan, in July 2004.
<b>Barot, a 34-year-old Muslim convert, from north London, was jailed for a minimum of 40 years.</b>
<b>Omar Khyam led the fertiliser plotters</b> in a plan to use more than half a ton of chemical fertiliser to bring terror to the UK.
The plan was foiled by intercepted internet chatroom conversations, surveillance and the discovery of the fertiliser in a storage depot in west London.
<b>One of the plotters was heard to say that blowing up women at a nightclub would be fair game because no-one could be blamed for killing innocent people, only "those slags dancing around".</b>Â
<!--emo&:o--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ohmy.gif' /><!--endemo--> (Who said islam didn't respect women?)
[...]
<b>Barot wrote:</b> "This project forms the main cornerstone (main target), of a series of planned attacks that have been prepared for synchronised execution on the same day, at the same time."
<b>"That is to say projects are planned to be co-ordinated back to back as they were with 9/11, thus forming another memorable black day for the enemies of Islam and a victory for the Muslims (Inshalla) by the mercy of Allah." </b>
The discovery of Barot's plans proved the "trigger" for his arrest.
Once detectives realised what Barot was plotting, they decided it was simply too dangerous to leave him out on the streets.
They resolved that the next moment he reappeared on the radar, he would be arrested.
The Met's Mr Clarke said at the Scotland Yard briefing: "In one previous case we heard talk of nightclubs potentially becoming targets.
"And in the Barot case we saw reference to vehicles being filled with gas or fuel in order to create an explosion.
"Obviously, we are aware of that but at this stage it is too soon to draw any conclusions.
"I have referred to some facts, some features of what has happened which resonate with previous plots, and I would not at this stage like to speculate." <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
(1) Knew it was only a matter of time. 'Protecting the islamis in Buddhist Thailand by declaring Buddhism is not the national religion.' Thailand's islami leader of military coup planning a "We are secular" too (later to become a minorities-first drama a la India)?
And/or are others also fishing in Thailand's troubled waters? Missionaries are hard at work in the country and one knows they find it hard going in Thailand (as they did in Nepal before their communist friends took over there). What does King Rama the nth have to say? He's a Buddhist.
At this rate, not a single Asian country will be allowed to be anything but islamic, communist, christian (Phillipines) or 'secular' (India, Nepal and the like). It's clear that unless you're a christoislamic majority or communist-ruled Asian country, you are not allowed to have a state religion/ideology.
Gee, I wonder who all have to gain from this...
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070630/19/13v8w.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Saturday June 30, 03:10 PM
<b>Thai charter drafters reject Buddhism as national religion</b>
Photo : AFPÂ
<b>Thailand's constitution writers have rejected a plea to name Buddhism as the national religion, a drafter said Saturday, despite protests and hunger strikes by campaigning monks.</b>
The Constitution Drafting Assembly (CDA), appointed by the junta that seized power last year, on Friday voted 66-19 not to include Buddhism in the new charter, which replaces a 1997 version torn up by the coup leaders.
"Religion is a very sensitive issue, which has never before been mentioned in the constitution, so we are afraid that it will be divisive," said Wuthichart Kalayanamitra, a CDA member.
<b>About 95 percent of Thais are Buddhist, but critics of the proposal had warned that naming a national religion could inflame tensions in the Muslim-majority south, where a separatist insurgency has raged for three years.</b>
(I see Thailand has its own active pseudosecularists. Not wrong in suspecting that they might well be in the pay of Big Brother too.)
Buddhist monks had campaigned fiercely for its inclusion, with 3,000 rallying outside the Thai parliament earlier this month. A similar protest in April saw the monks bring nine elephants marching through the streets of Bangkok.
Five saffron-clad monks on hunger strike also spent more than a week in June lying in open coffins outside the national parliament building.
Buddhist activists reacted angrily to the CDA decision, with a group of monks on Friday tipping over a huge replica alms bowl outside parliament.
Thongchai Kua-sakul, chairman of the Buddhist Network of Thailand, said that members had called off their protests, but warned that they would now campaign against the charter, which goes to a referendum on August 19.
He said Buddhist organisations would campaign at 30,000 temples throughout Thailand and urge people to vote 'no' in the kingdom's first ever referendum.
"We will campaign vigorously," he told AFP.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->I hope they (the protesting Buddhist monks) will succeed where India and Nepal have failed.
Thailand is a Buddhist nation.
(2) http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story....jectid=10448813
<b>Police find two car bombs in London</b>
June 30, 2007
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/a...720935.ece
<b>Range of extremist groups in the frame</b>
29 June 2007
Iraqi-style car bombs. Fortunately found before they could do any damage. Number 1 suspect is AQ - but investigators are keeping their minds open.
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/a...721237.ece
<b>Bomb bid has echoes of earlier terror plot</b>
30 June 2007
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Mr Clarke also specifically mentioned nightclubs as a potential target.
Plotters in another terror cell - known as the "fertiliser bomb plotters " or the "Bluewater plotters" - were convicted earlier this year. They had discussed targeting the Ministry of Sound nightclub with an explosive device.
Mr Clarke noted that thousands of people were leaving West End nightspots at the time the vehicle was found in Haymarket today.
Central to Barot's plans was the "gas limos project", the main part of which was uncovered in Pakistan.
[...]
He said Barot travelled to Pakistan in early 2004, with the "obvious inference" being that the purpose of the trip was to present the plans for approval and funding.
He said: "The principal attack involved packing three limousines with gas cylinders, explosives, shrapnel and the like and then detonating the devices in underground car parks."
Barot, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to murder, wanted to "emulate" the Madrid train bombings, which killed almost 200 people, Mr Lawson told the court, adding: "The gas limos project might be seen as the culmination of Barot's murderous plans."
Barot also planned to detonate a dirty bomb and to cause an explosion on a Tube train while in a tunnel under the River Thames.
<b>The gas limos project</b> document was found following a raid by the Pakistani authorities in Gujarat, Pakistan, in July 2004.
<b>Barot, a 34-year-old Muslim convert, from north London, was jailed for a minimum of 40 years.</b>
<b>Omar Khyam led the fertiliser plotters</b> in a plan to use more than half a ton of chemical fertiliser to bring terror to the UK.
The plan was foiled by intercepted internet chatroom conversations, surveillance and the discovery of the fertiliser in a storage depot in west London.
<b>One of the plotters was heard to say that blowing up women at a nightclub would be fair game because no-one could be blamed for killing innocent people, only "those slags dancing around".</b>Â
<!--emo&:o--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ohmy.gif' /><!--endemo--> (Who said islam didn't respect women?)
[...]
<b>Barot wrote:</b> "This project forms the main cornerstone (main target), of a series of planned attacks that have been prepared for synchronised execution on the same day, at the same time."
<b>"That is to say projects are planned to be co-ordinated back to back as they were with 9/11, thus forming another memorable black day for the enemies of Islam and a victory for the Muslims (Inshalla) by the mercy of Allah." </b>
The discovery of Barot's plans proved the "trigger" for his arrest.
Once detectives realised what Barot was plotting, they decided it was simply too dangerous to leave him out on the streets.
They resolved that the next moment he reappeared on the radar, he would be arrested.
The Met's Mr Clarke said at the Scotland Yard briefing: "In one previous case we heard talk of nightclubs potentially becoming targets.
"And in the Barot case we saw reference to vehicles being filled with gas or fuel in order to create an explosion.
"Obviously, we are aware of that but at this stage it is too soon to draw any conclusions.
"I have referred to some facts, some features of what has happened which resonate with previous plots, and I would not at this stage like to speculate." <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->