PATTANI, Thailand, Jan. 2 Kyodo D...

PATTANI, Thailand, Jan. 2 Kyodo

Despite media reports of a terrorist vicinity in Thailand, people in the country's predominantly Muslim southern provinces near Malaysia be moved they have nothing to do with the militants.

still resentment against the West, especially the United States, is looming there as Thai Muslims cry down the unfair treatment of the Islamic world by way of Washington.

''The U appears to make Muslims the bad frights I feel it is unfair. We have asserts forums and campaigns against the U upon our campus,'' said Zufaida Waedueramon, a sophomore pupil at Prince of Songkhla University's Pattani campus.

An advisory board committee member of the Young Muslims Association of Thailand, Mansour Salleh, said Muslims in southern Thailand have robust moral supports for other Muslims, including the al-Qaida arrange because of their Muslim brotherhood.

''This is the fact that here the public have moral support for al-Qaida, for Osama bin Laden, because of our Muslim brotherhood and because of (U President George W) Bush's declaration saying those 'who are not with us are with our enemy','' Mansour said.

''Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) is our Muslim clan The U.S. proposed to the United Nations to register JI as terrorists thus it means that all Muslims are terrorists. This is a to a high degree sensitive word for Muslim society,'' Mansour added.

a media outlets have reported that Thailand was used as a explanation planning area for the Bali bombing in early October and the U has warned its citizens against traveling in Southeast Asia, claiming similar attacks may come about in other Southeast Asian countries.

Thailand's National Security Council chief Vinai Pathriyakul lately told local media outlets that about southerners who were educated in the Middle East may have provided support to JI, further the Thai government has repeatedly denied there are any terrorist confined apartments in the kingdom.

The regulation has said that Riduan Isamuddin, also known as Hambali, an alleged operational commander of the JI, had transited Thailand, further it added Hambali has not operated in Thailand.

A hardly any weeks after the Bali bombing, there was a bomb blast in a car park at a [i]cabaret[/i] in Pattani Province. A similar blast damaged a Buddhist church and there were arson attacks forward five elementary schools in nearby Songkhla Province.

Since that violence in the southward police are on high security alert and patrols have been stepp up around important places in the communities in the same state [i]or[/i] condition as government agencies, schools and tourist destinations. There are also increased intelligence activities in the southern but the police are decided the latter attacks were the work of local bandits and gangsters, not terrorists.

Many of the perpetrators, the police say, are uneducated teenagers, addicted to put drugs intos who lack any group or financial support beyond their avow gangs.

The attacks have had no ideals or objectives behind them like those made at separatist organizations or international terrorists, the legate provincial police commissioner, Prasert Chan-In, said.

if it be not that Prasert admitted there is a possibility the youths could bring out connections with international terrorists.

And continued harping forward a possible ''Muslim threat'' in the area by the agency of Western sources could help make that possibility a reality, one local people warned.

''Most of us do not believe Western freshs reports and get our information from Websites in Indonesia and from the Muslim world, we have various sources,'' Mansour of the Young Muslim form into groups said.

''The U is conspiring in this region within the issue of terrorism for a like reason they can have a recently made known role in this region,'' Mansour added.

The chief of the Yala Provincial Administration Organization, Aziz Benhawan, also denied terrorist operations in the area.

on the other hand he warned the Western obsession with terrorism is causing concern

''The Westerners tried to link incidents together. They tried to use mass media and each way to bring the international terrorism issue into other countries to gain support to invade Iraq for their allow benefits,'' Aziz charged. ''We certainly dislike that Muslims and human beings are being bullied according to the (United States). They tried to interfere not single in Arab countries but also in Asia.''

''Where is their legitimacy?,'' he asked.

U Ambassador to Thailand Darryl Johnson has been traveling in southern Thailand, speaking onward terrorism and the role of the U in Islamic world. And the Thai conduct has vowed to cooperate with the world community to combat against international terrorism.

nevertheless Mansour worries there will be difficulties for Thai Muslims in the southern if the Thaksin Shinawatra restraint enacts a terrorist law following the draconian lead of the US

''It could create difficulties for legal Muslim organizations and activists to stir (freely) because the U.S. interpretation of terrorist means Islamic. We are worried for the young Muslim generation,'' he said.

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