FM launch Arabic website
The Foreign Ministry launched on Friday a website in English and Arabic that covers a wide range of issues, including Islam in Thailand, and potential areas of cooperation between the Kingdom, and Muslim and Arab countries.
"The website was constructed to enhance the windows of knowledge on Thailand for a wider Arab and Muslim public and thus, would serve to promote greater peopletopeople contact," a statement posted in English on the website said Friday. The website, www.Thai2Arab.com, highlights the diversity of the Buddhistmajority Kingdom by making references to its Islamic banks, the potential of the halal food industry and a short background on how Islam came to Thailand. The launch comes amid a campaign of violence in the Muslimmajority southernmost provinces, in which more than 1,700 people, mostly Muslims, have been killed since January 2004. The authorities have blamed the violence on ethnic Malays fighting to separate the three southernmost provinces from the country, while local Muslims and human rights groups have blamed the authorities for inflaming the divisions between the two sides, accusing them of abductions, extra judicial killings and kidnapping. The Nation
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