pumper Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 (edited) watched a documentary on Pol Pot last evening. realized there 'could be' a huge amount of parallel same same-ism between rise of Khmer Rouge & radical muslim-ism. Cambodia was a failed colony with a French cronie RULER.. Sihanouk WAS installed as the french left All of the mid east is a failed colony with western cronies installed .. THE Shah, sodomy insane, israel the Khmer Rouge gained strength as US Vietnam era bombing killed 150,000 in rural area Wahhabi Islam/ fundamental islam / hamas/ is gaining strength in the mid east as western post colonial policies are more & more military. the Khmer Rouge was a civil war hamas in Palestine & radicals in iraq = civil war although the above is far from identical & the concept certainly has weak points .. there is a parallel same same-ism. just occurred to me as I watched the Pol Pot documentary. Edited March 13, 2007 by pumper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirkGently Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 The rise of Pol-Pot and his merry men was a disaster, but it was borne from a political ideal. Islam is a hotch potch of ideals that contradict eachother. For example: All muslims are brothers. Yet they kill eachother at an astounding rate. I feel they are different. One was a failed political ideal and the other is a twisted cult. I shall allow you to decide which is which. The only thing they share is the death of innocent people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdinasia Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 No ... not similar ... and not about Thailand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acquiesce Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 There's a civil war going on in Thailand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robski Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 There's a civil war going on in Thailand. It's called 'General Topics' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pumper Posted March 13, 2007 Author Share Posted March 13, 2007 khmner rouge was a peasant communist movement originally to over throw imperialist's cronies whose membership was stimulated by imperialist bombings of innocents in rural areas re Thailand: the B52s took off from Korat & Udon? militant islam is unfortunately present in the south is a peasant un-religious (& political) movement stimulated by often forgotten imperialism one militant issue/ separatist issue in the south is the Thai - brit colonial agreement.. 1902? .. (without local input) that divided & assigned territory in the south thai / northern malay (trying to find a Thai muslim / pol pot thread relationship.. I guess Cambodia is not close enough .. uh, Siem Rep is claimed to be Thai by some.. maybe the area around Tonle Sap that was carpet bombed is thai .. is according to mid 18th century brit colonial maps.. no doubt both movements represent ideals less than kosher .. I see a vague similarity involving impearilist decrees & random bombing of innocents.. .. but then it was late when I watched the pol pot thing .. I kept looking at my un-reset, un-daylight saving, un-politically correct clock .. trying to decide if it was 10:30 or 12:30 .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywais Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Not really Thai related and topics like this tend to go south (pun intended) very quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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