Muslim Resistance in Southern Thailand and
Southern Philippines:Religion, Ideology, and Politics.
by Joseph Chinyong Liow.
Muslim Resistance in Southern Thailand and
Southern Philippines:
Religion, Ideology, and Politics.
by Joseph Chinyong Liow.
| This study analyzes
the ongoing conflicts in Southern Thailand and Southern Philippines
between indigenous Muslim minorities and their respective central
governments. In particular, it investigates and interrogates the
ideological context and content of conflicts in Southern Thailand and
Southern Philippines insofar as they pertain to Islam and radicalism in
order to assess the extent to which these conflicts have taken on a
greater religious character and the implications this might have on our
understanding of them. In the main, the monograph argues that while
conflicts in Southern Thailand and Southern Philippines have taken on
religious hues as a consequence of both local and external factors, on
present evidence they share little with broader radical global Islamist
and Jihadist ideologies and movements, and their contents and contexts
remain primarily political, reflected in the key objective of some measure
of self-determination, and local, in terms of the territorial and
ideological boundaries of activism and agitation. Furthermore, though both
conflicts appear on the surface to be driven by similar dynamics and
mirror each other, they are different in several fundamental ways.
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