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2009-12-10 Southeast Asia

Violence greets Malaysian PM on visit to southern Thailand

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Posted by ryuge 2009-12-10 01:39|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Violence is the traditional islamic greeting. Good for all occasions.

Posted by ed 2009-12-10 07:53|| 2009-12-10 07:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Violence is the traditional islamic greeting

I'm not sure about that---they were always very nice and polite to me.

Posted by Chingiz Khan 2009-12-10 07:55|| 2009-12-10 07:55|| Front Page Top

#3 They haven't gone after foreigners.

Yet.

Posted by Pappy 2009-12-10 10:04|| 2009-12-10 10:04|| Front Page Top

#4 One of my colleagues just returned from a vacation in southern Thailand. Granted he was at the resorts but said that the place seemed very peaceful. He did a few in-town excursions so he did get around a little.

Also noted that it isn't peak tourist season yet, that every few Euro tourists were there, and that the Thai workers at the resort and in the shops were very attentive and helpful.

Posted by Steve White 2009-12-10 13:41|| 2009-12-10 13:41|| Front Page Top

#5 real life vs "it bleeds it leads news" (and that latter is a problem of blogs too, not just the MSM)

My wife and I have quite a number of friends and acquaintances in Israel, whom we keep up with on Facebook. My wife is constantly astounded how much of what they post is the normal day to day aspects of life (like any facebooker) and how little is war, terrorism, and politics (and thats even though a few of them really like to post about politics)

Posted by liberal hawk 2009-12-10 16:03|| 2009-12-10 16:03|| Front Page Top

#6 I've never had any problems when I was in Thailand, or Malaysia, or the Philippines, either (I briefly did ops in P.I. similar to what a couple of other Rantburgers did, except they were 90% up north). Then again I didn't wander off by myself, do anything stupid, or make an effort to alienate the residents. In all places the people were generally friendly.

It also doesn't mean that the "nice and polite" will always be there either. Not because they're Islamic. It's that the various insurrections and movements haven't reached the stage of targeting tourists as what happened in Bali.

Yet.

Posted by Pappy 2009-12-10 16:29|| 2009-12-10 16:29|| Front Page Top

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