@sanjay
Do you even know what is happening in south Thailand, or is every crime committed by any Muslim is somehow an implication of the entire Muslim community in that. Here are some facts about Thailand that you should know.
The majority of the Thailand's Muslims (82%) live outside the insurgency area with their biggest concentration being in Bangkok.
The insurgency is in the south in Malay majority areas. There is a 40-50 year history of Malays in this region demanding autonomy and independence. The Thai govt. increasingly cut off autonomy proposals including removing Malay language and forcing Thai language and culture in the southern provinces. A little like the Tamils in Sri Lanka who wanted to retain their Tamil heritage. Here is the map for your perusal on the malay majority areas in Thailand. This area of Pattani was also a separate kingdom about 200 years ago when it was annexed by Siam (presentday Thailand)
In 2006, Thai Army Chief Sonthi Boonyaratglin, himself a Muslim, suggested that former communist insurgents might be playing a role in the unrest. Many police officers who were killed by the insurgents were also Thai muslims.
So now that you know the historical context, if there is an insurgency in south Thailand that has going on for a long time, and has been mostly around Malay Muslims who had taken a communist leftist stance and only recently has taken the Islamist tinge while the majority of the Thai muslims are not part of the insurgency, doesn't your post seem a bit out of place?
Do read up here on the Thai insurgency here
South Thailand insurgency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
and Islam in Thailand here
Islam in Thailand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There is no excuse for innocent to be killed in any shape or form. Even if this was about a legitimate demand for Malay autonomy. Just like there is a legitimate demand for Tamils to get autonomy and their cultural rights in Sri Lanka but their insurgency and later attacks on civilians could not be justified. But still we can understand that the root cause of the problem in Sri Lanka was not because Tamils were Hindus and Hinduism was the main issue, but because the Sri Lankan govt. had consistently denied political and cultural rights to Tamils that they rightly deserved. This is the same situation in Southern Thailand were you have Malay majority provinces who happen to be Muslims. And just how when you have COIN operations going on, there is a great possibility of HR abuses, like what the Sri Lankan army did to Tamils, the same thing is happening in southern Thailand which creates a cycle of violence.
The title is completely misleading because Thai Muslims have not protested against Buddhist schools or anything of that sort. The news linked mentions a shootout but unknown gunman possibly insurgents who have killed not only non-Muslims but also Muslims in the region who want to negotiate with the government. Pretty much like how the LTTE killed Tamils who would negotiate with the govt. or side with them. Just like for example insurgents in Kashmir killed recently a Ahle-Hadees cleric who condemned stone pelting and supported the elected govt.
To compare this with Banerjee - who does not even represent except the fringe of Hindus in Cannada and is a known malinger of Sikhs and Muslims there - just doesn't make any sense. Here you have a full fledged ethinic insurgency where innocent people are killed by insurgents both Muslims and non-Muslims while there are HR abuses by the COIN forced.
@Teshring22
I am really surprised by your post, I thought you were one of the reasonable ones. Coming up with a theory and trying fix up "proofs" on the basis of that is really no proof at all. In fact, anyone who has an idea of world politics would be scratching his head on what you have written. Entire Islamic community has problem with UK Australia, really? Now that some Hindus have been beaten up there, does that mean Hindus have a problem with Australia too? In every Muslim country, non-Muslims have right to practice their religion. There are Hindu and Sikh temples in Bahrain, Oman and UAE. There are Jewish Synagogues and Zorastrian temples in Iran and so on. The only exception is Saudi Arabia and personally I think even that has to change eventually. Not allowing non-Muslims to practice their faith is in itself UnIslamic.
Here is a thought experiment for you but only if you are brave enough to do it. Consider that Muslims are people just like yourself. With the same diversity of opinion and hopes and aspirations. With both extremists and moderates among them. And then see if you can understand their pov. The problem happens when you consider Muslims as the "other" who are just not good enough and should be looked down upon.
Insurgencies for ethnic and linguistic groups to establish their own nation state happens around the world. There are plenty in Africa where non-muslims insurgents in sub saharan Africa fight brutal wars with child soldiers too. There is the same case of FARC rebels in Latin America. The PKK in Turkey is fighting for a Kurdish state even though they are Muslims. In India we have similarly Tribals fighting for a separate state as well. Similarly many of the conflicts that have only recently got an "Islamist" tinge post the 1980s worldwide training of such group in Afghanistan have had these conflicts going on as secular nationalist movements for many years. The PLO and struggle in Palestine for their own nation state did not start as an Islamist struggle. Yasser Arafat always used a leftist language and talked about Arab and Palestinian nationalism. His wife was a Palestinian Christian. Again it was only in the 80s where you had HAMAS become more powerful and in some cases was encouraged by Israel to cause a split in the PLO movement that you had an Islamist tinge to the Palestinian struggle take place.
I hope you look at this other perspective because you do seem to be intelligent and I enjoyed reading some interesting analysis from you and so hopefully you would be able to see a more broader perspective rather than just that "Muslims have a problem with everybody" thought.