Study in Violence

Explosions are a common theme in relations between Thailand and its ethnic Malay Muslim minority in the country’s far south. A separatist insurgency has been raging here for five years, killing up to 3,500 people, most of them civilians. An unknown number of rebels are spread across four contiguous provinces, and the Thai government has…

Islam’s Orphans

In recent years, the Chams have become the beneficiaries of attention from wealthy Gulf states, fundamentalist Muslim groups, the US State Department and – perhaps most remarkably – their own government. With all that attention, things are looking up for Cambodia’s Muslims. (The National, December 26, 2008)