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Fishead soup · Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Location: Korea

The sign said " No Arabs to sit down or cunsume alcohol or talk with ladies. We respect your belief in Islam.

I wonder if they really respect their religious beliefs or they just don't want them as customers.

chris_J2 · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Location: From Brisbane, Au.

Several years ago, Arab passengers in a Thai Airways flight, claimed they didn't know alchohol was served on flights. They kept ordering, & got very drunk. Rather than blame themselves, they blamed Thai Airways. All flights originating from the Middle East are now 'dry'.

And Arabs head straight for Patpong, & the girlie bars, when they arrive in Bkk. Just a hint of hypocricy?

crusher_of_heads · Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 6:06 pm Post subject: Re: Alchohol

chris_J2 · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Location: From Brisbane, Au.

Pattaya is a sleazy 'Itaewon on the beach', as well.

Crusher. My point was that Arabs don't take responsibility for their own actions.

mrsquirrel · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

endo · Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Location: Seoul...my home

soviet_man · Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Location: Seoul

indytrucks · Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Location: The Shelf

I wonder if there's an expat Arab community in Pattaya that has its own Internet message board.

samd · Joined: 03 Jan 2007

travel zen · Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Location: Good old Toronto, Canada

Dude,

The sign is racist. There is no reasoning other than hate to put that sign up.

What other signs of hate has anyone seen? No Americans?

pkang0202 · Joined: 09 Mar 2007

Shimokitazawa · Joined: 14 Dec 2007 Location: Seoul

chris_J2 · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Location: From Brisbane, Au.

samd wrote:

BTSskytrain · Joined: 11 Oct 2007

beer bar owners can choose to serve and not serve whomever they please. we're talking about thailand here, not the politically correct U.S. of A.
quit trying to fit the western square peg into the eastern round hole. if i saw a sign saying NO WHITES ALLOWED i'd just keep walking. why on earth would i want to go where i am obviously not welcomed? and who cares if the motive is racially driven. there's racism all over the place and it's high time we just accept it for what it is and stop trying to perpetuate the foolish notion that any society can actually attain some phoney baloney homogenous, harmonious means of existence. i say let the cards fall where they may.

itaewon on the beach? i like that analogy and will continue to frequent both places. however i must argue that the goods along the coconut bar far surpass the goods on hooker hill.

skytrain

chris_J2 · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Location: From Brisbane, Au.

Thailand is also having massive problems with separatist Muslims in the south (Pattani. Yala, Naraithiwat). Many thousands have been killed over the past 5 years, with thinly veiled threats to bring the carnage right into the centre of Bkk / Pattaya, similar to what happened in Bali, in 2002.

Thais are normally a very tolerant people, but can't say I blame them for their reaction to the violence.

Remarks like this, reinforce my earlier claim, that many Muslims refuse to accept responsibilty for their own actions:

"If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it ... whose fault is it, the cats or the uncovered meat?

"The uncovered meat is the problem." "If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would have occurred." "women were "weapons" used by "Satan" to control men".

This, in response to series of brutal pack rapes by Muslims, on Australian women. The author, Hilaly, was rightly condemned for his irresponsible remarks.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20646437-601,00.html