Bangkok Pundit is a current affairs blog that deals with issues in southern Thailand.

Southern Thailand, as is widely known, is plagued by sectarian tensions and violence, one of the “bloody borders of Islam” a la Samuel Huntington, and hence is of interest to students of Indonesian Islam.

The Bangkok Pundit’s most interesting post of late concerns the situation in the southern Philippines, specifically the granting of limited autonomy to the majority Muslim areas of the country in the form of the “Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM)” and the implications of this experience for similar measures proposed in the Muslim area of Thailand.

He lists three main problems in the southern Philippines:

Only some militant groups support the ARMM

A new minority was created, Christians

Fighting goes on

All in all a very well researched piece.
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