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CONFLICTS BETWEEN RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY PART V
Posted on July 25th, 2010 No commentsCONFLICTS BETWEEN RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY PART V
(THAILAND/RELIGION/DEMOCRACY)
AND GENERAL CONCLUSIONS
This is then my final volume of my series about democracy, politics and religion. When I set out to spend time to look further into this important topic I wrote this preamble in volume I: The majority of the last decades have offered the World an increasing number of wars, terrorism and violence initiated with backgrounds in extreme beliefs and escalating conflicts between religion, politics and social structures. In Denmark we have increasing problems with the integration of Muslims, often violent clashes and in Thailand we witnessed an amount not witnessed before of violence and escalating problems at the southern part of the Kingdom with the Muslims resulting in more than 4000 deaths. For many years I have wondered why did we get so far, what has happened? So I have started to dig into this question as stated above in order to try to understand at least the fundamentals and then express my conclusions in the form of essays on my blog.
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CONFLICTS BETWEEN RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY PART IV/B THAILAND
Posted on July 6th, 2010 1 commentTHAILAND AND DEMOCRACY
THE KINGDOM WITH MANY CONFLICTS
INTRO
My first visit to the Kingdom of Thailand dates back to 1970. In 1996 I moved here from Singapore and in between 1970 and 1996 I have paid numerous visits mainly for business purposes working for Danish companies with subsidiaries in the Kingdom resulting in a certain knowledge (in all modesty) about the region even from a distance. What I have done is to compare the developments between Malaysia, independent since 1963 and Singapore, which became independent in 1965. However it must be noticed that Singapore got partly independent from United Kingdom (British Commonwealth) in 1959 but along with Malaysia and then in 1963 it is on its own.
