Thai relatives outraged
By Lex, On May 1st, 2004
That’s the headline today in my San Diego Tribune. The article discusses a team of 19 soccer players from a Muslim village in southern Thailand – good kids according to their relatives: athletic, hard working, pious.
So one night they get together with about a 100 like-minded friends and, well let Reuters stringer Nopporn Wong-Anan tell you what they did “Three days after defending their annual county soccer title, the “All Stars” team of Baan Susoe village near the Malaysian border mounted nine motorcycles and rode 23 km through the night to launch a dawn attack on a security checkpoint.”
“On that night he came home from his wife’s with a suitcase and told his mother that he would go on a Dahwah,” Pitaya said, referring to an Islamic religious mission.
You know, a religious mission. Sort of like building shelters for poor kids in Mexico, which is what my church’s youth group did last year.