22 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:

The Royal "promulgation" of a new Constitution on Chakri Day might also be a cause? 

"Residents in the deep South rejected the charter draft in the August 7 referendum. Analysts said they disagreed over perceived religious discrimination as the charter gave too much favour to Buddhism."  

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30311688

19 hours ago, Srikcir said:

How would you grade Islam in terms of potential social impact that accounted for 28% of the world population at 2.14 billion in 2016

http://muslimpopulation.com/World/

and growing faster than any other religion so that by 2050 the number of Muslims will nearly equal the number of Christians around the world?

http://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/religious-projections-2010-2050/

Intended or not, Islam needs to be seriously considered as a major social force throughout the world, how it can be peacefully integrated into society and how non-Muslim societies might themselves be adjusted.

 

1.  Very High (extreme) level of social impact potential.

2. Yes scary isn't it.

3. I am not sure there is one.  If not there willl be planetary wide religious war with extreme Christians & extreme Muslims vying to bring  on "The end of the world" so "they alone" can go to THER heaven.  There is likely to be a huge imbalance of the sexes in the Mulim heaven with 72 virgins plus the various wives of each male Muslim.  (According to some interpretations of th holy books.)   Only what I read.  I admit that thankfully I am not an expert on this so please do not bother stampeding to correct me.

On 4/9/2017 at 3:34 AM, Srikcir said:

The insurgents have insisted that one of their conditions for peace negotiations is that the issue of secession (having been forcibly integrated into the Kingdom of Thailand) be recognized as a national agenda. They wanted assurance that any agreement would not be discarded by subsequent changes in Thai government. The military steadfastly refuses. The military has approached the insurgency as simply a local civil problem with thugs and organized criminal gangs - essentially denying that there is a challenge to Thai sovereignty, ie., an insurgency.

Why were they "integrated" into the Kingdom of Thailand?

1 hour ago, lvr181 said:

Why were they "integrated" into the Kingdom of Thailand?

To remove any trace and affiliation with their former Islamic sovereignty with loyalty only to the Buddhist Kingdom of Siam/Thailand.

41 minutes ago, Srikcir said:

To remove any trace and affiliation with their former Islamic sovereignty with loyalty only to the Buddhist Kingdom of Siam/Thailand.

Ummmm..................so they were a part of Malaysia? How did Malaysia lose them to Thailand?