Tremors Along Global Islamic 'Fault Lines'
ATHENS, Greece — The same day Dutch mourners gathered outside a crematorium for a final goodbye to slain filmmaker Theo Van Gogh (search), police on the other side of the world made a horrific discovery in a hut: the decapitated body of a Thai laborer.
The two events — in settings as different as tidy and prosperous Holland and a tropical rubber plantation in southern Thailand (search) — bear similarities that suggest new flash points in the global struggle against radical Islam.
A note impaled on Van Gogh's body by the alleged Muslim killer threatened further attacks against Dutch politicians in the name of Islam. The body of the 60-year-old Buddhist worker in Thailand also was found last week with a message: "More will be killed" in revenge for the deaths of 85 Muslim protesters last month in a region with a mounting Islamic insurgency.
