Wait. That doesn’t sound right.

But it is! Fed up with the governments inability to control radical Islamists, Buddhist in Thailand’s troubled south have been conducting tit for tat raids on Muslim communities. Unused to violence from Buddhists, the Muslims are concerned to put it mildly:

“Romali Jehheng, a 51-year-old Muslim in Ban Bala, said he had no idea whether vengeful Buddhists shot the three Muslims, but he is “afraid of everybody.” He said he has stopped visiting teashops — popular gathering places that have become terrorist targets.

Army spokesman Akara said 38 Muslim families, fearing revenge by Buddhists following a shooting incident, abandoned their homes in Yala province’s Bannang Sata district in February, and returned only after the authorities remonstrated with their suspicious neighbors.”

Even more surprising is that the Buddhist were seemingly given the go ahead to crack some heads by the Queen herself!

In 2004, revered Queen Sirikit bluntly urged people to defend themselves, and she sponsors arms training programs that cater almost exclusively to Buddhists. After the attack on the van her military aide, Gen. Napon Bunthap, quoted her as saying: “We have to help people there to survive. If they need to be trained, train them. If they need to be armed, arm them.”

No Democrats in Thailand I see. Doctor Bulldog’s got the whole story.