History of the Jihad Against Indonesia

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History of the Jihad against Indonesia (1441 - Ongoing)

This site is dedicated to a factual and realistic analysis of the Islamic Jihad

Here you will read about the history of the Islamic Jihad from its beginnings at Mecca in 620

C.E. up to 9/11, and the lessons it has for us in todays challenging times. If we are tounderstand Islam, we need to understand the temperament of its founder Mohammed PBUH*,the way victorious Muslims have treated the subject people, and above all the reasons for the

victory of Islam.

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How the Indonesians fought against the Jihadis in the 15th century to finallysuccumb to the Jihad, and how today the Indonesian Christians in Malaku and

the Hindus of Bali are fighting a battle for survival against the IndonesianJihadis
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A pre-Islamic horseman.

The face-off between Islam and Buddhism is a study of extremely stark contrasts; contrastslike, actions followed by queer reactions followed again by counter reactions. Confusing is

it? Let us explain. Read on.

The universal non-violence of Buddhism pitted against the depraved Cruelty of Islam

The Buddhists teach their adherents to be extremely non-violent whatever the provocation,whileIslam teaches its adherents to be extremely cruel, murderous, deceptive (Taqiya) and

sadistic. When the Buddhists first encountered the Muslims in Central Asia andAfghanistan (remember the Bamiyan Buddhas?), the Buddhist reaction was no reaction at

all. The Buddhists tamely submitted to the Muslims. No they did not embrace Islam enmasse; they just gave themselves up for being slaughtered en masse by the Muslims. The

Buddhists were one of those few who accepted the Death Option from theMuslims offer of Islam or Death .

Hence the Buddhists simply perished in the first flush of Muslim onslaught against them.Many of the Buddhists never learned to resist the Muslims. Even when the Muslims raided

famous Buddhist Universities like Nalanda in Indias Bihar province, the Buddhists

died en masse when the Muslim swordsmen slaughtered them like hyena would devour aclutch of rabbits in a cage. The Buddhists also did not make any attempt to escape from

their murderers. They accepted death with an air of fatalism and destiny. And hence theyare not around today to tell their story!

But their mindless slaughter evoked another and extremely opposite reaction from anotherset of Buddhists. This was also the most dramatic one so far the Mongol invasion of

Iran and Iraq by Chengiz Khan and his son Hulagu Khan. These Mongols were Buddhistsby faith, whose homeland had been suffering the depredations of the Muslims for sixcenturies (from 651 C.E. to 1200 C.E.) when the Buddhist Mongols decided that enough

was enough and decided to pay back the Muslims with their own coin with due

premium added! The Mongols slaughtered the Muslims of Iran and Iraq with unremittingcruelty.

The Mongols laid waste the countryside, burnt down cities slaughtered the Muslimpopulation en masse, including the Caliph himself!.

It was only this unexpected reversal of attitudes of the Mongol Buddhists, that resulted in

the ravaging Muslims being ravaged themselves by a force that was infinitely morebarbarous than the Muslims. And only this could lead to the defeat of the Muslims. Thisfolks is the moral of our story when we try to understand the Muslim attacks on the

Buddhists of Indonesia and how the Muslims can finally be defeated in the ongoing War onTerror.

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The face-off between Islam and Buddhism is a study of extremely stark contrasts; contrasts like,actions followed by queer reactions followed again by counter reactions. Confusing is it? Let usexplain. Read on.

Physical science tells us that whenever there is an action, there is also an equal and opposite

reaction. In the world of human psychology, this rule generally becomes skewed depending onthe ethical-moral mindset of the parties involved. The Muslims have encountered varying levelsof resistance in their history of rampage spread across three continents of Europe, Asia andAfrica up to the 20th century. A rampage which spread in a dramatic manner to America (9/11)and Australia (Bali attacks) in the 21st century.

The Muslim marauders started their rampage (Jihad) by measuring their theologically inspiredmurderous mentality against the military valor of the Zoroastrian Persians in the 7th centuryfollowed by the military valor of the Byzantine Christians. Note here that it was the militaryvalor of the Persians and Byzantines that was pitted against the theologically inspired murderousmentality of the Muslims. This match itself was unequal as theologically inspired murderous

mentality can and did easily overcome military valor. The inspiration of the Muslims was todestroy their enemies, while that of the Persians and Byzantines was only to defeat and roll backthe Muslim invasion. It was in this battle of objectives itself that the Persians and the Byzantineslost out to the Muslims. To defeat the Muslims, our primary objective should be to destroy Islam.Only then can victory over Muslim be the result!

The Muslim mindset of unremitting violence, cruelty and murder finally defeated the militaryvalor of both the Zoroastrian Persians and the Byzantine Christians. Both the cultures fell beforethe advance of the murderous Muslim marauders. The Zoroastrian Persians perished anddisappeared from history altogether. But the Christians responded differently. After fourcenturies of unremitting barbarism from the Muslims who overran the Christian nations of the

Middle East (known today as Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Turkey) and the Christian nations inAfrica (Egypt, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia) as also in Europe (Spain for 800 years)France (for 30 years) Italy (for 8 years) the Christians finally decided that enough was enoughand determined to return the barbarism of the Muslims with even greater barbarism, tinged withdetermination to liberate the Holy Land from its infidel occupiers, singed as the Christians hadbeen with four centuries of Muslim horrors across three continents of Asia, Africa and Europe.

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Traditional Pre-Islamic Indonesian Warriors

The Indonesians (under their Shaliendra and Majapahit dynasties) resisted the Muslims,albeit briefly in the 15th century, only to lapse back to a defensive position and submit to

the Muslims Jihadis by the 16th century.

Before their forced conversion, the Indonesians themselves were Buddhists and Hindu byfaith till the 15th century under their kingdoms of Sri Vijaya (Malaysia and Aceh),

Majapahit and Shailendra (Indonesian archipelago). These kingdoms were ardent rivalsand were at war with each other and with their northern neighbor the kingdom of

Siam (Thailand) when the Muslim first appeared on the scene.

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On the other hand because of the change of strategy while fighting the murderous Muslims, theCrusaders were stunningly successful, and in their first rush itself overwhelmed the barbarousMuslim with even greater barbarism. The Crusaders not only slaughtered the Muslims, but went


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further to roast and eat the Muslims in a gruesome barbecue. An exercise that can today betermed as recycling the adversary!

Mind you, these Crusaders were not Head Hunting cannibals when the left Europe. They camefrom established civilizations in France, England, Germany, Spain, Italy in Mediaeval Europe.

But the relentless barbarism of the Muslims had built in the Christians an urge to put an end to itall, once and forever. The result was The Crusades, and the corollary of cannibalism that wascompelled upon the Crusaders by four centuries of near fatal depredations of their countries,culture and civilization. It was only this unexpected reversal of attitudes on part of the Crusadersof the ravaging the ravager Muslims with a force that was more barbarous than the Muslims,could lead to the defeat of the Muslims. This folks is the moral of our story when we try tounderstand the Muslim attacks on the pre-Muslim, Buddhists and Hindus of Malaysia andIndonesia..

The universal non-violence of Buddhism pitted against the depraved Cruelty of Islam

The Buddhists teach their adherents to be extremely non-violent whatever the provocation, whileIslam teaches its adherents to be extremely cruel, murderous and sadistic. When the Buddhistsfirst encountered the Muslims in Central Asia and Afghanistan (remember the BamiyanBuddhas?), the Buddhist reaction was no reaction at all. The Buddhists tamely submitted to theMuslims. No, they did not embrace Islam en masse; they just gave themselves up for beingslaughtered en masse by the Muslims. The Buddhists were one of the few who accepted theDeath Option from the Muslims offer of Islam or Death. Hence the

Buddhists simply perished in the first flush of Muslim onslaught against them. Many of theBuddhists never learnt to resist the Muslims. Even when the Muslims raided famous BuddhistUniversities like Nalanda in Indias Bihar province, the Buddhists died en masse when theMuslim swordsmen slaughtered them as a pack of famished hyenas would devour a clutch of

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A Samurai

Before the advent of Islam, Sri Vijaya and Majapahit were powerful empires from the 13thupto the 15th centuries. Both the Sri Vijaya and Majapahit kings followed an eclectic faith

made up of Hinduism and Buddhism. These kingdoms also had their illustriouscounterparts in Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia and Burma (Myanmar). They built

magnificent cities. The ruins of Angkor are the most dramatic surviving evidences of theirglory. Similar cities dotted Malaysia, and Indonesia in the 12 to the 15th centuries. Theirdecline began with the coming of Arab dhows (vessels) who carried not just merchandisebut also the sword of Islam. The king who first embraced Islam was named Parmeswaraand he became a victim of circumstances when he was tricked into becoming a Muslim.

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When attacked and massacred by the Muslims, the Buddhists initially did not make any attemptto escape from their murderers. They accepted death with an air of fatalism and destiny. Andhence they are not around today to tell their story. But their mindless slaughter evoked anotherand extremely opposite reaction from another set of Buddhists. This was also the most dramaticone so far the Mongol invasion of Iran and Iraq by Chengiz Khan and his son Hulagu Khan.These Mongols were some sort of Buddhists by faith, whose homeland had been suffering the


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depredations of the Muslims for six centuries (from 651 to 1200) when the Buddhist Mongolsdecided that enough was enough and decided to pay back the Muslims with their own coin with due premium added! The Mongols slaughtered the Muslims of Iran and Iraq with

unremitting cruelty.The Mongols laid waste the countryside, burnt down cities slaughtered theMuslim population en masse, including the Caliph himself!. The Mongols were matched in their

reaction to Muslim Barbarism, only by the Crusaders. And interestingly it was only the Mongolsand the Crusaders who defeated the Muslims in their own homeland in the last 1400 years of theexistence of the Muslims since 622 CE. Other minor aberrations that turned the tide of theMuslims werethe Franks at Tours,theSpanish Re-conquistadores, theHindus under their kingSivaji, theNubian marksmen andthe Thais reconquest of Sultanate of Pattanilate in theseventeenth century.

How Islam came to Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand

After this longish preamble, we shall see how the we shall see how the Indonesians resisted theMuslims, albeit briefly in the 15th century, only to lapse back to a defensive position and

embrace the religion of their tormentors after a century of resistance.The people of Indonesia themselves were Buddhists and Hindu by faith till the 15th centuryunder their kingdoms of Sri Vijaya (Malaysia), Shailendra and Majapahit (Indonesianarchipelago). These three kingdoms were ardent rivals and were intermittently at war with eachother and with their northern neighbor the kingdom of Siam (Thailand).

Interestingly, the entry of Islam in to South East Asia was facilitated by this rivalry andinternecine warfare of the three kingdoms of Thailand with SriVijaya of Malaysia and,Shailendra and Majapahit of Indonesia. But the ultimate reason for the conversion of the last SriVijaya king, Parmeswara to Islam was deception as we shall see below.

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Buddhist Warriors as depicted at the Bas-Reliefs at Borobudur (Big Buddha) in Indonesia

It was the Arab merchant-Jihadis who deceived the last Sri Vijaya king, Parameswara (oftodays Malaysia) to marry a Muslim damsel and converted him to Islam by promising

him help in his fight against his rivals from Thailand. From 1402 onwards Parmeswaraincreasingly became dependent on the Arabs to stave off attempts from the Thais and the

territorial ambitions of his other rival Majapahit of Indonesia. The Arab merchant-soldierswhose position became increasingly stronger at Parmeswaras court offered to send in

more forces to fight alongside him, if he converted to Islam. Initially Parameswara

scornfully refused this offer. But as the struggle with Thailand and Majapahit wore on, hisposition became more precarious. At this juncture the Arab merchants gifted him aprincess of Pasai who was a mix breed descendants from an Arab and Indonesian Nikah

Mutah Marriage. (A Nikah Mutah is a temporary marriages allowed for Muslims

by the Quran).

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Before the advent of Islam, Sri Vijaya, Shailendra, Mataram and Majapahit were powerfulempires from the 13th upto the 15th centuries. The Sri Vijaya, Shailendra and Majapahit kingsfollowed an eclectic faith made up of Hinduism and Buddhism. These kingdoms also had their

illustrious counterparts in Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia and Burma (Myanmar). They builtmagnificent cities. The ruins of Angkor Vat and Borobudur are the most dramatic survivingevidences of their glory. Similar cities dotted Malaysia, and Indonesia in the 12 to the 15thcenturies. Their decline began with the coming of Arab dhows (vessels) who carried not justmerchandise but also the sword and the murderous mentality of Islam.

The Indonesian-Malay Hindu king who first embraced Islam was named Parmeswara and hebecame a victim of circumstances when he was tricked into becoming a Muslim. Parameswara


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was a scion of the Sri Vijaya dynasty and ruled from Palembang. But during Parameswara's time,Sri Vijaya was in decline and Majapahit had become the overlord of Sri Vijaya. Parameswarahad a dispute with the Majapahit ruler and was forced to shift his capital from Palembang to therelatively safer Temasek island - now Singapore. There, during a skirmish with the forces ofMajapahit, Parameswara killed prince Temagi of Siam, who was allied with Majapahit This

angered the Siamese king, who threatened to capture and kill Paremeswara. This led to anotherstring of battles between Sri Vijaya against Siam and Majapahit, in which Parameswara wasworsted and he had to flee his new capital the Temasek island (Singapore) island, and seekrefuge first in Muar, before fleeing further on to Malacca and deciding to make it his new capitalin 1402.

Arabs deceive and browbeat the last Sri Vijaya king Parameswara to marry a Muslim Girland convert to Islam

Malacca was a trading port frequented by the Arabs, where they had established a colony. AtMalacca, the Arabs promised King Parameswara, help in his fight against his rivals from

Thailand. From 1402 onwards Parmeswara increasingly became dependent on the Arabs to staveoff attempts from the Thais to avenge the slaughter of their prince and the territorial ambitions ofMajapahit. The Arab merchant-soldiers whose position became increasingly stronger atParmeswaras court offered to send in more forces to fight alongside him, if he converted toIslam. Initially Parameswara scornfully refused this offer. But as the struggle with Indonesiawore on, his position became more precarious. At this juncture the Arab merchants gifted him aprincess of Pasai who was a mix breed descendant of the Arab and Indonesian Nikah MutahMarriages (A Nikah Mutah is a temporary marriage allowed for Muslims by the Quran).

Pasai, was originally known as Samudera-Pasai later renamed called Samudera Darussalam.Pasai was a thriving harbor kingdom on the north coast of Sumatra in the 13th to the 15th

centuries CE. Due to its wealth Pasai had attracted Arab merchants who in the course of timeintermarried with local women to create a Muslim community that was half Arab and halfIndonesian, as the offspring of these marriages were brought up as Muslims. The area of Pasai isin todays Aceh province of Indonesia.

Incidentally the term Pasai is believed derived from Parsi, or Parsee immigrants from thewest coast of India namely Gujarat, some of who migrated for mercantile activities to northernSumatra in today's Aceh province. Arab and Indian Muslims had also traded in Indonesia andChina for many centuries. A Muslim tombstone in eastern Java bears a date corresponding to1082. But substantial evidence of Islam in Indonesia begins only in northern Sumatra at the endof the 13th century. Two small Muslim trading kingdoms existed by that time at Pasai andPeureulak or Perlak

Coming back to this princess from Pasai, she was from among these half-breed Arab-IndonesianMuslims, and was a maiden of extreme beauty. The militarily weakened king Parameswara fellfor her, making his position even more precarious vis- -vis the Arabs. Parameswaraincidentally did not have any heir from his Queen but his new love told him, that she wascarrying his child. The lovelorn Parameswara who was becoming increasingly militarily weakwanted an heir desperately. In this desperation and his blind love for his new love, he proposed


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to her, only to be told that marriage was possible only under Muslim rites for which he needed toconvert to Islam . To get an heir Parameswara agreed and recited the Shahada before he couldbring his new love from the harem to his palace as his legitimate queen. But according to SriVijaya court records, in reality, the child which his Muslim harlot told him she was carrying wasnot his but was fathered by an Arab as Parmeswara was diagnosed as impotent by his medical

practioners. But the urge to become a normal person and have an heir was overwhelming forParameswara and that urge compelled him to abandon his ancestral religion and convert to Islam.

The Hindu kingdom of Sri Vijaya transformed itself in to the Sultanate of Malacca afterthe last Hindu king Parameswara, embraced Islam

Thus, in 1414, for reasons which were amorous and desperate in 1414, Parameswara convertedto Islam after marrying the princess from Pasai. After his conversion, he assumed the title SultanIskandar Shah. After his conversion, his half Arab Queen also encouraged his subjects toembrace Islam and this is how Malacca became a sultanate. Thus Malacca was the first to fall tothe Muslims.

This conversion led to waves of conversions in Malaysia and Indonesia, most of whose peopleconverted to the new faith, except in far off Bali which remained Hindu, as it is till this day. Thedescendants of Parameswara started the first Muslim dynasty and expanded the Sultanate ofMalacca. At its height the Sultanate encompassed most of modern day Peninsula Malaysia, thesite of modern day Singapore and a great portion of eastern Sumatra and Borneo. The governorof Borneo later seceded from Malacca to form the independent Sultanate of Borneo. For a longtime Malacca remained the center of Islam in the Malaysian and Indonesian archipelago (Aceh,Riau, Palembang and Sulawesi).

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It was from Malacca, where imams and ustazes went to all over Malaysia and Indonesia todiscuss religion and the like. Muslim missionaries were also sent by the successive Sultans ofMalacca to spread Islam to he Hindu and Buddhist communities in the Malay Archipelago, suchas in Java, Borneo, and the Philippines (Mindanao). Most of South East Asia at that time wasHindu-Buddhist, except for the Philippines where the population was animist.

In the 15th century the Sultanate of Malacca destroyed the other Hindu kingdom ofMajapahit in Indonesia, and weakened Thailand

The Sultanate's most important regional rivals continued to be Thailand in the north and thedeclining Majapahit Empire in the Indonesian archipelago (Aceh, Riau, Palembang and Sulawesi)in the south. But within the archipelago, Majapahit was not able to control or effectively competewith the Sultans of Malacca with their new found zeal of Islam, and ultimately came to an endduring the later 15th century. After the demise of Majapahit kingdom and the conversion of mostof its inhabitants to Islam, the Sultans of Malacca alongwith their Arab allies concentrated on theconquest of Thailand with the purported aim of converted the Thais to Islam. The Arabs based in

Malacca along with their new converts the Malay Muslims of Malacca repeatedly attackedThailand and for a time it seemed that they would go storming up the narrow Isthmus of Kra andpenetrate up to the Thai capital of Ayuthaya.

During much of the fifteenth century Ayuthaya's energies were directed toward the MalayPeninsula, where the great trading port of Malacca contested its claims to sovereignty. As theerstwhile Hindu-Buddhist states of Malacca along with other Malay states south of Tambralingahad become Muslim early in the century, a resurgent and aggressive Islam served as a symbol ofMalay solidarity against the Thais and for a time it seemed that the Thais would also have tosubmit to Islam. But from the 17th century successive Thai kings allied themselves with theseafaring Western powers the Portuguese and the Dutch and succeeded in staving off the

threat of Islam from the Muslim Malays and their Arab overlords.Islam in the Philippines

In the Philippines, the Muslims did get remarkable success in converting the population ofsouthern Philippines to Islam.

As far back as 1380, Makhdum Karim, the first Islamic Holy Warrior had brought Islam to thesouthern tip of Philippine Archipelago (Mindanao). But the efforts to convert the Filipinopopulation en masse to Islam gathered strength after the defeat of the Hindu kingdoms of SriVijaya (Malaya) and Majapahit (Indonesia). Around 1414, the war between the Sri Vijaya andthe Majapahit Empire ended in favor of the former with the conversion of the last Sri Vijaya kingParameswara to Islam. Following this victory, Muslim Holy Warriors (Jihadis) introduced Islaminto the Hindu-Malay empires and converted almost the entire population to Islam.

By the next century, these holy warriors had reached the Sulu islands in the southern tip of thePhilippines where the population was animistic and they took up the task of converting theanimistic population to Islam with renewed zeal. By the 15th century, most of Visayas (CentralPhilippines) and half of Luzon (Northern Philippines) and the islands of Mindanao in the south


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had become subject to the various Muslim sultanates of Borneo and much of the population inthe South had been converted to Islam.

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Borobudur Big Buddha. This temple complex is in Indonesia and dates back to the 8th

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Subsequent incursions of Muslim Malay Muslim Holy Warriors strengthened the stranglehold ofIslam among the frightened animistic pre-islamic Filipinos (todays Moros) in the extremesouth. By the early 15th century, Islam had been established in the Sulu Archipelago and spreadfrom there to Mindanao; it had reached the Manila area by 1565. There was sporadic resistancefrom the local population that was organized in to Barangays. Barangays was a kinship groupheaded by a datu (chief). Organized resistance to Islam began only after the coming of theSpanish in 1521. Till then, during the period 1380 up to 1521, a major part of the animistpopulation of Southern Philippines had been converted to Islam.

But Islam was not to be the religion of the Philippines, as it had become in Malaysia andIndonesia. A seminal event that was to halt the advance of slam was the arrival of FerdinandMagellan in the Philippines in 1521. After this the Filipino resistance to Islam received a newfillip. Magellan landed on the island of Cebu, claiming the lands for Spain and naming them Islasde San Lazaro. He established friendly relations with some of the local chieftains who had beenbattling the Muslims and converted some of them to Roman Catholicism. Over the next severaldecades, other Spanish expeditions were dispatched to the islands. In 1543, Ruy Lpez deVillalobos led an expedition to the islands and gave the name Las Islas Felipinas (after Philip II

of Spain) to the islands of Samar and Leyte. The name Philippines derived from Felipinas, waslater extended to the entire archipelago.

Permanent Spanish settlement was not established until 1565 when an expedition led by theConquistadores, Miguel Lpez de Legazpi, arrived in Cebu from Mexico (New Spain). Spanishleadership was soon established over many small independent communities that previously hadknown no central rule. Six years later, following the defeat of the local Malay Muslim ruler,Rajah Solayman, Legazpi established a capital at Manila, a location that offered the excellent


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In 1511, a larger Portuguese fleet from Cochin, India led by Viceroy Alfonso d'Albuquerquecame back to Malacca. The Viceroy made a number of demands - one of which was forpermission to build a fortress as a Portuguese trading post near the city. All the demands wererefused by the Sultan. Conflict was unavoidable, and after 40 days of fighting, Malacca fell tothe Portuguese on August 24.

Sultan Mahmud Shah was forced to flee Malacca. The sultan made several attempts to retake thecapital but his efforts were fruitless. The Portuguese retaliated and forced the sultan to flee toPahang. Later, the sultan sailed to Bintan and established a new capital there. With a baseestablished, the sultan rallied the disarrayed Malay forces and organized several attacks andblockades against the Portuguese's position.

Frequent raids on Malacca caused the Portuguese severe hardship. The raids helped convince thePortuguese that the exiled sultan's forces must be silenced. A number of attempts were made tosuppress the Malay forces, but it wasn't until 1526 that the Portuguese finally razed Bintan to theground. The sultan then retreated to Kampar in Sumatra where he died two years later. He left

behind two sons named Muzaffar Shah and Alauddin Riayat Shah II.Muzaffar Shah was invited by the people in the north of the peninsula to become their ruler,establishing the Sultanate of Perak. Meanwhile, Mahmud's other son, Alauddin succeeded hisfather and made a new capital in the south. His realm was the Sultanate of Johore, the successorof Malacca. But the Portuguese could not retain the possession of Malacca for long, as it wasconquered by the Dutch in 1641. Although Malacca changed hands, the saving grace was that thebarbaric Muslims were never able to sink their claws in Malacca and this enabled the straits toremain free for mercantile activities for the next five centuries. The fallout of the coming of theEuropeans was that Thailand was saved from the threat of Muslim conquest that was loomingover it in the 15th and 16th centuries.

The Thais launch a counter attack against the Muslims

Taking advantage of the weakened position of the Muslims. Taking advantage of the weakenedposition, the Thais attacked the Sultanate of Pattani and attempted to re-conquer the territoriesthey had lost to the Sultans of Malacca from 1414, when Parameswara the Sri Vijaya king hadembraced Islam and his successors had fought relentless campaigns against Thailand andMajapahit (Indonesia). While they were able to destroy Majapahit and absorb Indonesia (Aceh,Riau, Palembang and Sulawesi) in to the Muslim Ummah by converting the Indonesian Hindu-Buddhist population to Islam, they could not get comparative success against their other rivalThailand. The point to note here is that the entry of Islam in South East Asia was facilitated bythe rivalry and internecine warfare of the three kingdoms of Thailand with SriVijaya of Malaysiaand Majapahit of Indonesia. The proximate reason for the conversion of the last Sir Vijaya kingwas deception as we saw above.

In the 16th century, after fighting a single-handed battle against the Sultanate of Malacca for acentury, (the successor to the Hindu Sri Vijaya empire), the Thais were nearing the end of theirtether. But for the arrival of the Portuguese and Dutch in the 17th century, the Thais might havesuccumbed to the Sultans of Malacca as had their other rivals the Majapahit empire of Indonesia.


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In Indonesia, the Majapahit kingdom found itself increasingly unable to control the rising powerof the Sultanate of Malacca. Dates for the end of the Majapahit Empire range from 1478 to 1527.After a series of battles with the Sultanate of Demak, the last remaining courtiers of Majapahitwere forced to withdraw eastward to Kediri. Even this small state was finally extinguished at thehands of the Demak in 1527. A large number of courtiers, artisans, priests, and members of the

royalty moved east to the island of Bali which is still dominated by their descendants who stillpractise their original Hindu faith. But effectively Majapahit had ceased to be an imperial powerand by the early 16th century, the emerging Muslim power had eclipsed the once powerfulMajapahit kingdom and many of their subjects across the Indonesian archipelago had beenconverted to Islam.

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Angkor Wat

This temple complex in Cambodia is the signature of the Hindu-Buddhist dominance inSouth East before being supplanted by Islam.

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The Thais too could have been forcibly converted to Islam as were the Malaysians in the 15thcentury when the Sri Vijaya king was converted to Islam following which the Majapahitkingdom of Indonesia was defeated and destroyed by the Sultans of Malacca (successors to the

kings of Sri Vijaya who embraced Islam). Thus when Portuguese and Dutch came in to the scene,the Thais received a much needed breather and they gathered their fading strength to garnerenough courage to counterattack the Sultanate of Malacca three times, along with theirPortuguese allies and finally brought an end to the rogue infidel Muslim power of the Sultanateof Malacca as a threat to themselves (Thais) as well as to the emerging mercantile powers the Portuguese and the Dutch. The British gave a final end to the pretensions of the other

auxiliary Muslim sultanates, that had succeeded the fallen Sultanate of Malacca. These includedthe Sultanate of Pattani, the Sultanate of Johore, and the Sultanate of Borneo.


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In the 18th century, the Thais had an ambition to overrun both the Sultanate of Pattani and theSultanate of Johore and reclaim the entire Malay peninsula through the lost thai towns of Ligor(Nakhon Si Thammarat) and Kataha up to Singapore (earlier known as the island of Temasek)that they had lost to the Muslims when Parmeswara the last Sri Vijaya king converted to Islam in1441. But that was not to be however, the Thais checkmated the Muslim ambitions to overrun

Thailand and took the war in to Muslim territory as we shall see in the following paragraphs.

The Thais re-conquer the Sultanate of Pattani from the Muslims

In the 13th to the 15th centuries, Pattani intermittently was a part of the Buddhist kingdom ofSiam and the Hindu-Buddhist Sri Vijaya Empire. Siam and Sri Vijaya had a keen rivalry fordominating the Isthumus of Kra in order to be able to dominate the strategic straits of Malacca.The Sri Vijaya kingdom was located in Palembang and was a maritime confederation datingback to the 3rd century C.E. During the pre-Islamic era, Sri Vijaya dominated trade on the SouthChina Sea and exacted tolls from all traffic through the Straits of Malacca and the province ofTambralinga (know also as Nakhon Sri Thammarat). The growing power of Siam threatened this

lucrative monopoly from the 13th century. This led to a string of battles between the two empiresdespite close affinities in language, culture and religion. This conflict was the chink that allowedIslam to sneak in to South-east Asia in the 15th century.

After the conversion of the last Sri Vijaya king Parameswara to Islam through deception, and thetransformation of the Sri Vijaya kingdom into the Sultanate of Malacca, the rivalry withThailand became more acute, as the antagonists now belonged to different religions and withIslam, the erstwhile Sri Vijaya (now the Sultanate of Malacca) found greater zeal to pulverize itslong time northern rival Siam with the additional aim of converting the Thais to Islam.

Successive Muslim chieftains of Pattani who were surrogates of the Sultan of Malacca tried to

attack Thailand from the Isthumus of Kra.Four successive rulers of Pattani known as Ratu Hijau (The Green Queen), Ratu Biru (The BlueQueen), Ratu Ungu (The Purple Queen) and Ratu Kuning (The Yellow Queen) tried to conquerThailand from 1584 onwards. But the Pattani kingdom's economic and military strength provedinadequate to conquer Siam single-handedly and the Thais fought off four major invasions, withthe last one threatening the overrun Pattani itself. It was then that the Sultans of Patani alliedthemselves with the eastern Malay kingdom of Pahang and the southern Malay Sultanates ofMalacca and Johore. They jointly endeavored to subdue Thailand.

They got an unique opportunity to stab Thailand in its back when in 1563 a massive Burmeseattack from the north against the Siamese kingdom threatened to overrun the Thai capital ofAyutthaya. Seizing this opportunity the Sultan of Pattani, Muzaffar Shah took launched an attackon Ayutthaya from the South. The Thai however proved to be no mean opponents, and despitebeing weakened by their long drawn out war with Burma, they repulsed the Muslim invasion ledby the Sultan of Pattani, Muzaffar Shah who was himself slain during the battle.

But the Thais could not push their advantage to overrun Pattani, Johore and Malacca altogether,as they had to still grapple with the Burmese threat from the north of Thailand. The Burmese


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intermittently occupied the Thai capital of Ayutthaya. Throughout the 16th and 17th centuriesThais were engaged in constant skirmishes with the Burmese and in these see-saw campaigns,the Burmese occupied the Thai capital of Ayutthaya in 1767. The Thais shifted their capital toBangkok a few kilometers to the south and continued fighting the Burmese invasion. And in thesame year, the Thais finally retook Ayutthaya from the Burmese after a devastating campaign.

The city was almost entirely destroyed in this war and was rebuilt over the next few years from1782 onwards when the residence of the king and the royal family during the Rattanakosinperiod. Following this victory, the Siamese king Taksin succeeded in driving the Burmeseinvaders from the rest of Siam. His successor, Rama I, established the Chakri Dynasty, whichstill rules Thailand today.

With the Burmese threat having receded, the Thais turned on their old enemies the Sultans ofPattani, Johore and Malacca. As fate would have it, during this period in the 17th Century, theSultanate of Pattani had fallen into disarray and was in gradual decline especially during thereign of last queens who ruled Pattani.

Siezing the opportunity, Prince Surasi, Rama I's younger brother and vice-king, invaded Pattani.Pattani's Sultan Muhammad was killed in battle and his capital razed to the ground. According toPattani sources, about 4,000 Malay soldiers were enslaved as POWs and the most muscular ofthem were made to work on system of khlongs in Thailands new capital Bangkok. Tofurther humiliate Pattani, the symbols of its military strength the Seri Patani and Seri Negara

cannon - were brought to Bangkok. (The Phaya Thani is a prized cannon that once belonged tothe Sultan of Pattani This gigantic cannon has a length of 6 meters and today stands in front ofthe Thai Ministry of Defense in Bangkok. This cannon was confiscated by Thai troops after theirconquest of Pattani in 1785 and the defeat of Rattanakosin the Sultan of Pattani. This cannon wasbrought by the victorious Thais to Bangkok and was presented as war booty to the Thai kingRama I.)

But for the people of Pattani, this war has not ended. The Muslim converts never reconciled tothe reconquest of Pattani by the Thais and continued to terrorize the Buddhist populationintermittently throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. In the 20th and 21st centuries this rebellionhas taken the form of an insurgency. And even to this day there are terrorist incidents in Pattani,in which innocent students, teachers and Buddhist monks are routinely murdered.

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A Christian Girl beheaded in Indonesia by Muslims. Muslims consider it a holy duty to killChristians, Buddhists, Jews who refuse to abjure their religion and embrace Islam, as

commanded bythe Quran

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The Jihad against Indonesia today

Even in Indonesia, although most of the population has been converted to Islam, till today thestruggle of the surviving pre-Muslim Indonesians against the Muslims goes on in the Eastern tipof Indonesia (Bali) Even in Malaku - where the population is Christian, nuns, pastors, Christianschoolgirls are routinely murdered. Till today the Islam is a destablizing factor in Indonesia andfinds expression in the activities of Jemmah Islamiya led by the smiling terrorist, Abu BakarBashir, who along with other Al Qaeda linked Jihadis are plotting to transform multi-ethnicIndonesia into an Islamic Caliphate, and fomenting trouble in Southern Thailand.

So even though Indonesia is externally prospering, there is discontent simmering below thesurface. The Muslim Indonesians dislike their country being portrayed as a multi-ethnic nation.For them Indonesia is not a paradise where all are welcome. They would want to replace thecurrent regime with an Islamic Caliphate, where the Hindus and Christians are reduced to thestatus of second class Dhimmis. So although most of the population has been converted to Islam,till today the struggle of the few surviving pre-Muslim Indonesians in Bali and the substantialnon-Muslim Indonesians (ethnic Chinese and native Hindus of Bali) against Muslim dominationgoes on largely unreported.

Lessons from the struggle of Indonesian Buddhists and Hindus against Islam

The lessons from the continuing suffering of the Indonesian Christians, Buddhists and Hindus atthe hands of the Muslims of which only Bali and Malaku are in the limelight, is that the sneakyand ruthless tactics of the Muslims can only be outmatched by we being more sneaky and
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ruthless ourselves. The old English adage Everything is fair in love and war, holdsgreatest relevance while battling the Muslims. And only when we in the Non-Muslim worldrealize this and go into an overreach with subterfuge against the Terrorists (all of whom areMuslims), and use our still prevailing (but fast closing) edge of superior weapons against theenemy, can the Muslims finally be defeated in the looming Third World War.

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* For those uninitiated, PBUH expands to Perpetual Battle Upon Hagarism (Islam) founded by the mass -murderer and pedophile pretenderprophet Mohammed-ibn-Abdallah (Yimach Shmo May his name andmemory be obliterated).

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Select Bibliography

Samson Blinded: A Machiavellian Perspective on the Middle East Conflict, by Obadiah Shoher

Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st Centuries (Hardcover) by PaulFregosi

The Sword of the Prophet: History, Theology, Impact on the World by Srdja Trifkovic

Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest Growing Faith by RobertSpencer

Studies in Muslim Apocalyptic (Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam) by David Cook

Why I Am Not a Muslim by Ibn Warraq

Onward Muslim Soldiers by Robert Spencer

Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis by Bat Ye'Or

Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide by Bat Yeor

What the Koran Really Says: Language, Text, and Commentary by Ibn Warraq

Islam and Terrorism:What the Quran Really TeachesAbout Christianity, Violence and the

Goals of the Islamic Jihad by Mark A. Gabriel, Mark A. Gabriel

A Concise History of the Crusades by Thomas F. Madden

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) by Robert Spencer

The Great Divide: The failure of Islam and the Triumph of the West by Marvin Olasky
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The Myth of Islamic Tolerance: How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims by Robert Spencer

Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest Growing Faith by RobertSpencer, David Pryce-Jones

The Koran (Penguin Classics) by N. J. Dawood

Don't Keep me Silent! One Woman's Escape from the Chains of Islam by Mina Nevisa

Christianity And Islam: The Final Clash by Robert Livingston

Holiest Wars : Islamic Mahdis, Their Jihads, and Osama bin Laden by Timothy R. Furnish

The Last Trumpet: A Comparative Study in Christian-Islamic Eschatology by Samuel, Ph.D.Shahid

Unleashing the beast: How a fanatical islamic dictator will form a ten-nation coalition andterrorize the world for forty-two months by Perry Stone

Contemporary Muslim Apocalyptic Literature (Religion and Politics) by David Cook

Islam and the Jews: The Unfinished Battle by Mark A., Ph.D. Gabriel

The Challenge of Islam to Christians by David Pawson

The Prophetic Fall of the Islamic Regime by Glenn Miller, Roger Loomis

Prophet of Doom : Islam's Terrorist Dogma in Muhammad's Own Words by Craig Winn

The False Prophet by Ellis H. Skolfield

The Approach of Armageddon: An Islamic Perspective by Muhammad Hisham Kabbani

The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God by George Weigel

Infiltration : How Muslim Spies and Subversives have Penetrated Washington by Paul Sperry

Unholy Alliance : Radical Islam and the American Left by David Horowitz

Unveiling Islam : An Insider's Look at Muslim Life and Beliefs by Ergun Mehmet Caner

Perfect Soldiers : The Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It by Terry McDermott

Islam Revealed A Christian Arab's View Of Islam by Anis Shorrosh

Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out by Ibn Warraq


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The Origins of the Koran: Classic Essays on Islam's Holy Book by Ibn Warraq

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Unfortunately for humankind, the end of the death-seeking fiery cult of Islam can onlycome about through a fiery death-giving weapon. Ironically such nuclear mushroom clouds

would be the blazing hell-fire thatthe Qurantalks about and acknowledges will bringabout an end to Islam such that there will be no one across the globe to say Lah ilah il

Allah, Mohammed ur Rasoolallah (There is no god but allah and Mohammed is hisprophet).

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