Thai Islamists Murder Four; Wound 25 In Ongoing Jihad

That's not how the headline reads in the Reuters piece, but it should. This is how Reuters ran the headline:

Bomb kills 6, wounds 25 in Thai Muslim south

There's no reason for a passive sentence structure in the headline, which fails to convey who actually detonated the bomb. The bomb didn't go off by itself. Someone set it - and in this case it was an Islamic suicide bomber. The Reuters report also suggests that Southern Thailand is solely Muslim. That is wrong:

According to the last census (2000) 95% of Thais are Buddhists of the Theravada tradition. Muslims are the second largest religious group in Thailand at 4.6%. Some provinces and towns south of Chumphon have dominant Muslim populations, including many ethnic Thai.[verification needed] Often Muslims live in separate communities from non-Muslims. The southern tip of Thailand are mostly ethnic Malays and they are mostly concentrated in the south, where they form a strong majority in four provinces. Christians, mainly Catholics, represent 0.75% of the population. A tiny but influential community of Sikhs and some Hindus also live in the country's cities. There is also a small Jewish community in Thailand, dating back to the 17th century.

The details of the latest attack are familiar:

A motorcycle bomb exploded outside a busy restaurant in Thailand's rebellious Muslim south on Tuesday, killing six people, including two boys, government officials said. Two Muslim men died instantly when the bomb, left in a motorcycle parked in front of the restaurant, exploded in Pattani, one of four southern provinces where more than 2,600 have been killed in nearly four years of insurgency, an army spokesman said.

"We suspect the two dead men might have been the bombers who failed to escape before the bomb exploded," Acra Tiproch said by telephone from the Muslim south.

Two women and two boys died at the hospital where 25 wounded people were being treated, Pattani's deputy governor Vinai Kruvanapat told reporters at the hospital.

The southern violence is centred in the region bordering Malaysia, a Malay-speaking former sultanate annexed by Thailand about a century ago.

The Islamists have been seeking an Islamic state in Southern Thailand and have been receiving ongoing support from Malaysia. The Thai government has been unable to put down the Islamists, and appeasement did not work either. So, the bloodletting continues.

(HT: Ringo the Gringo at LGF)

UPDATE:
Fixed the headline to reflect the fact that the Reuters report included the two suicide bombers in the tally of those killed. I repeated that error in the original headline.