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Southeast Asia
Bangkok to sponsor 350 Thai pilgrims for Hajj
2004-12-07
" 'Cos our moose limb population ain't, y'know, pious enough!"
The Thai government is financing for the first time the pilgrimage of 350 citizens. They are part of 10,100 Thai pilgrims who will perform Haj this year, according to Thai Consul General Sukasem Yothasamutr. "The total number this time marks an increase of 3,100 over last year," he told Arab News during a reception he hosted to mark his country's National Day on Sunday. The first group of 420 Thai pilgrims will fly in on Dec. 13. Phuket Airline, Thai Airways and Royal Brunei Airline are transporting 95 percent of the pilgrims. The rest will come by other carriers.
Posted by:Seafarious

#12  What a capital idea! Let's send a few hundred members of our already agitating Muslim population to visit the seat of radical Islamism for weeks of intensive training as jihadis. Then we'll bring 'em back home and gape in astonishment as even more unrest occurs.

Buncha fricking maroons.
Posted by: Zenster   2004-12-07 10:43:25 PM  

#11  Human birds of peace fluttering down on the rock.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-12-07 11:52:39 AM  

#10  thanks phil :)
Posted by: MacNails   2004-12-07 8:43:54 AM  

#9  Phuket is a variation on Bukit, the Malay word for hill. It's pronounced somewhere between poo-ket and boo-kit
Posted by: phil_b   2004-12-07 8:32:48 AM  

#8  always makes me chuckle that the two most popular destinations for westerners is phuket and bangkok , but then again my humour can be fairly limited and self explanitory :P
Oh and pres tell how they are pronounced for the sake of me being stoopid .
Posted by: MacNails   2004-12-07 8:00:19 AM  

#7  Now tell 'em how it's pronounced, .com!
Posted by: Sheik Abu Bin Ali Al-Yahood   2004-12-07 6:51:43 AM  

#6  BTW, Phuket Air is rather new - and so is its fleet. Compare to some domestic carriers in the US, heh. I've flown ON Phuket TO and FROM Phuket several times. I'd worry far more about United and American... If I'd known how you'd get off on the name, I'd have brought you back a t-shirt, heh.
Posted by: .com   2004-12-07 2:30:43 AM  

#5  LOL! Too funny, phil!
Posted by: .com   2004-12-07 2:24:03 AM  

#4  Indonesia has recently launched a new airline called Paradise Airways - I kid you not.
Posted by: phil_b   2004-12-07 2:22:39 AM  

#3  This is just stupid. There are people in need of clean drinking water, medical care and facilities, decent housing, etc. -- and they're gonna fly a handful Mulims to the hajj? Though the final price tag isn't given, Toxin should pull the plug on this boon-doggle.
Posted by: .com   2004-12-07 2:21:59 AM  

#2  why don't they send them in origami planes--run by feelgood airlines--a division of appeasement r'us industries of bangacock
Posted by: SON OF TOLUI   2004-12-07 2:07:08 AM  

#1  Phuket? That's an airline I would definitely pick if I were a moose-limb. I recommend it wholeheartedly. Hope they would be Phuked (or is it Phuketed?) well.
Posted by: Sobiesky   2004-12-07 12:46:06 AM  

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