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The Muslim South in the Context of the Thai Nation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2016

Robert B. Albritton
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The years since 2004 have been marked by a level of insurgency in the southern region of Thailand unknown for decades. An accurate perspective on this conflict requires a deeper understanding of differences between the Buddhist and Muslim Thais of the region than has been evident in public and academic discourse. This study utilizes data from a survey taken in 2006, of attitudes and political orientations across all regions of Thailand, including an independent sample of the southern region. The data indicate that southerners are different from the rest of Thailand, whether Buddhist or Muslim; that Malay-speaking Muslims are different from other Muslims; and that sympathy for the insurgency lies not in religion, but in defending practices associated with loyalty to specific forms of Malay culture that characterize the region.

Keywords

cultural assimilationinsurgencyMalay identitysocial cleavagessouthern Thailandunconventional participation
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Journal of East Asian Studies , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , April 2010 , pp. 61 - 90
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Copyright © East Asia Institute 

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