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Israeli family says Koh Samui park refused entry

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An Israeli family visiting Koh Samui says it was refused entry to Samui Exotic Park in Mae Nam because of its nationality, before a confrontation with a man representing the attraction.

Videos shared online on 14 August show the family, who were accompanied by two young daughters, challenging staff at the park entrance. Later posts on the park's official Instagram Story appeared to endorse the exclusion of Israeli visitors.

Family records confrontation

Footage filmed by the mother, and widely circulated online, begins with her speaking to staff behind a counter.

"Because we're from Israel? What have we done to you? We haven't done anything," she says in the recording.

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Picture courtesy of Khoasod

The footage then cuts to a man described as representing the zoo telling the family to leave. "Okay, bye. Bye-bye," he says.

When the woman asks for his name, the man responds with profanity. As she repeats the question, he approaches the group and says: "Move off my place."

The man then appears to attempt to headbutt the woman's husband. She replies, "Okay, okay, we're leaving. We're leaving," before he throws a small white sign in her direction while she continues recording.

Park account posts anti-Israeli imagery

Samui Exotic Park also posted silent CCTV footage of the confrontation, filmed from behind the counter. The wider-angle video appears to show the family, including the two girls, leaving the entrance area after the dispute.

Further Instagram Stories on the park's official account appeared to reinforce its position. One clip showed an Israeli flag carrying a red no-entry symbol beside a shooting target marked with holes.

As the camera moved from the sign to a nearby Free Palestine flag, the person filming could be heard whistling.

Those later posts do not independently confirm the family's account of events before recording began. However, they appeared to show that the attraction's official social-media account supported refusing Israeli visitors after the confrontation.

The park had previously drawn online criticism for displaying Palestinian flags and a "Free Palestine" sign. At that time, Samui Exotic Park said it welcomed visitors of all nationalities, while expecting guests to respect its rules.

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15 August 2026

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    Somjot Gold Member

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    1 minute ago, Jingthing said:

    You're living in a fantasy world.

    Don’t we all live in our own individual realities? The only difference between your reality and mine is that in my reality, these actions are an abomination.

    It is an abomination to murder 70,000 people and call it self-defense.

    It is an abomination to destroy practically every building in a country and call it a search for terrorists, or to use little children for target practice and call it heroism.

    You steal more land and kill people who had absolutely nothing to do with October 7.

    You target every university and hospital, claiming without proof that they are command centers or weapon storage facilities.

    How can an army call itself the "most moral" while executing a five-year-old girl who was trapped in a car with her murdered siblings, begging for her life?

    How can it murder 15 aid workers, bury them in the sand, deny any knowledge, and then spin lie after lie until exposed?

    More journalists, medics, and children have been killed in this conflict than in any other comparable war, yet the constant excuse is that Hamas used them as human shields—again, without a shred of evidence.

    Meanwhile, actual evidence shows Palestinians being used as human shields and live bomb-detection devices.

    Detainees are raped, dogs are trained to assault them, and the government openly debates the "right to rape" while still claiming to be the only democracy in the Middle East.

    And you, along with people like you, defend all of this?

    You have the nerve to call others stupid or disgusting?

    You don’t even realize that "disgusting" cannot begin to describe the emotion you create in others by defending these atrocities.

    I am sick and tired of breathing the same air as people like you.

    If you had the slightest decency or humanity left, you would at least admit that the mass murder in Gaza and the slaughter of children is wrong.

    You would show basic compassion by saying, "If our snipers really targeted children, then that is wrong."

    But you won't.

    You keep defending it, believing you hold the moral high ground when you couldn't possibly sink any lower.

    Western audiences might be brainwashed by corrupt politicians and a media system that has hidden these crimes for decades. But the rest of the world is not blind.

    Thanks to social media and your own soldiers bragging about their actions online, nobody can claim they didn't know.

    The world has seen your true face, and it abhors what it sees.

    The zoo incident was just one of many reactions from normal people, and many more will follow.

    Sorry for the rant, but I had to get this off my chest.

    It is completely unreal.

    People are whining about being turned away at a zoo—even quoting local law to cry discrimination—while at the same time defending rape, mass murder, land theft, and infanticide.

    The nerve of some people!

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    Somjot Gold Member

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    2 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

    How many times do you need to have that same discussion ?

    You have the same discussion with the same people where you both say exactly the same thing as you said last time .

    You are going to say that 70 000 people have been killed .

    I am going to say that terrorists were targeted .

    You are going to say schools and hospitals were targetted

    I will then say Hamas hid in schools and hospitals .

    You will then say there is no evidence of that , to prove that you will mention beheaded babies in ovens.

    I will then say Israel never claimmed that .

    You will then mention Joe Biden claimed it was true ......and on and on and on it will go .

    Same as last time .

    How many times do you need to go through the process ?

    Such a great strategy of soft silencing someone:

    "Stop criticizing my misdeeds as I will come up with the same outlandish excuses, ludicrous lies and pathetic explanations as usual."

    Did that ever work for you?

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    KhunHeineken Diamond Member

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    10 minutes ago, Somjot said:

    I live in Thailand and I think it is important for us, no matter if expats or regular visitors, to know how our hosts see certain incidents and not only judge them in our "farang" bubble.

    I live in Thailand also, and let's be honest, Thailand only sees money, and they want it, and will take it, from any nationality.

    This is why they do their best to stop incidents like this getting into the public domain, mainly over the internet, as it "tarnishes" Thailand's image in the international tourism industry.

    Thailand has skirmishes on their southern border, is at war with Cambodia, and has killed and trafficked Rohingya people. I haven't even mentioned the systematic corruption here.

    My point is, just keep it real about who our hosts are.

    Somjot Gold Member

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    15 minutes ago, KhunHeineken said:

    I live in Thailand also, and let's be honest, Thailand only sees money, and they want it, and will take it, from any nationality.

    This is why they do their best to stop incidents like this getting into the public domain, mainly over the internet, as it "tarnishes" Thailand's image in the international tourism industry.

    Thailand has skirmishes on their southern border, is at war with Cambodia, and has killed and trafficked Rohingya people. I haven't even mentioned the systematic corruption here.

    My point is, just keep it real about who our hosts are.

    No offense, but you come over like the typical Farang who lives in Thailand and somehow only looks for facts to feed his negative prejudice towards the host country which always leads me to this question which hasn't been answered till today: “why are you still here?.

    1.      Thailand and Cambodia are not in an official state of total war, but experienced major escalations and deadly armed confrontations

    2.      Thailand faces a long-running, violent separatist insurgency in its southernmost Malay-Muslim provinces

    3.      Thailand´s official policy professes a "zero tolerance" stance against trafficking that’s why in 2017, a high-profile mass trial resulted in the conviction of over 60 people, including a high-ranking Thai military general and local municipal officials, for trafficking Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants.

    However, I wasn't writing about Thailand as a country or its policy at their borders but about its people and how they respond to certain incidents in connection with certain nationalities.

    Assuming from your nick, that you are not a Malai Muslim insurgent or a trafficked Rohingya refugee this is as real as it can get for people like you and me. 

    wensiensheng Ruby Member

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    11 hours ago, hughrection said:

    While I do admire the owners for his principals in this regard, the rules in Thailand clearly state that a business owner has a broad legal right to deny entry based on behavioral or safety reasons, but they cannot legally refuse service based on arbitrary or discriminatory grounds.

    It seems this family are experiencing the latter. It is unfortunate, but it is the way of the world, and some Thai's feel very strongly about what's going on in that part of the world.

    I’m not sure the guy refusing entry is Thai. He seems a genuine Arab or Arab supporter rather than pure Thai.

    But anyway I suspect Thai antipathy toward Israelis in Samui is more based on their interactions with Israelis locally, than it is the actions of the Israeli government. A lot of locals don’t like them in Samui based on conversations during my visit a few months back. Not saying it’s right or wrong, just saying that’s how it is.

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    14 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

    This is a concept known as blowback, they belong to a nationality that's extremely unpopular these days and there are ramifications. When you come from a nation where the majority of the population serves in the army and commits atrocities against a defenseless civilian population including women and children, there's bound to be some blowback.

    This appears to be a private part and all owners have the right to refuse admission to anybody they like.

    It is interesting the Israelis always seem to be the Jews getting all the blame for what is happening in Palestine. Obvious that they live there, it is already a good reason for that. But there are a vast network in the West with lots money and influence that turned this possible. People like Jeff Epstein, Donald Trump, and so many others. Many people from different countries serve in the Israel's military. Some get special training and go back to their respective countries and start some shade business like the "baron of cocaine". So many Sayanim in the West helping Israel.

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    6 minutes ago, wensiensheng said:

    I’m not sure the guy refusing entry is Thai. He seems a genuine Arab or Arab supporter rather than pure Thai.

    But anyway I suspect Thai antipathy toward Israelis in Samui is more based on their interactions with Israelis locally, than it is the actions of the Israeli government. A lot of locals don’t like them in Samui based on conversations during my visit a few months back. Not saying it’s right or wrong, just saying that’s how it is.

    It´s a bit of both. Thais are fully aware of the war crimes and crimes against humanity Israel is committing every day and are worried they might plan something similar in Thailand as they have frequently observed the misbehavior and the lack of basic respect towards the locals.

    All right, instead of going out and having fun I'm wasting another Saturday night with this thread.

    I looked up a few more sources and the story seems to be the following:

    This zoo has had problems with Israelis for almost 2 years.

    They have been harassing the female owner and mistreating the animals, sometimes by letting their kids just walk into the birdcages and later complain why they have poop on their shoes and then flooding their website with negative reviews.

    It went so far that they even killed a parrot.

    They also try to get in without paying with their latest trick be being having one of them enter the zoo and pay for the ticket and then secretly open the exit door and let eight other Israelis in.

    The owner has regularly filed complaints with the authorities but as this did not help she put a free Palestine flag at the entrance hoping to keep Israelis away.

    That`s when the <deleted>storm started with her getting up to 90 messages, some of them threatening her life, every day.

    Hers is not the only business facing problems with Israelis in Thailand. Many restaurants reported that they have been bullied or Israelis moved on without payment.

     

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    15 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

    When you come from a nation where the majority of the population serves in the army and commits atrocities against a defenseless civilian population including women and children, there's bound to be some blowback.

    This appears to be a private part and all owners have the right to refuse admission to anybody they like.

    Are you for real? The actions that you describe are exactly what happened to Israeli civilians (woman and children included) on 7/10 when hamas invaded. In the retaliation that followed hamas embedded itself in the civilian population and public buildings in underground tunnels. I'm not a fan of the Israeli government but i despise the twisted narrative put forward by people like yourself.

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    19 hours ago, SamSpade said:

    The guy looks Non-Thai to me & seems to be speaking Arabic at end so another "Foreigner Behaving Badly" video.

    He is French, unfortunately, ... from Villeurbanne, a suburb of Lyon, France.
    https://x.com/Beccah2Fois/status/2087834329556664344

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    14 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

    Frankly I'm not making a value judgment based on what's right or what's wrong, I'm just saying legally a private park has the right to deny entry as does a restaurant, bar or any other complex.

    In a rule-of-law country, a private business does not have an unlimited right to choose its customers. You cannot simply refuse customers on the basis of race, religion or other protected characteristics. Being a private business does not put you above anti-discrimination laws. Thai law also prohibits unjust discrimination, including on the grounds of race and religion.

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    1 hour ago, suspectdevice said:

    Are you for real? The actions that you describe are exactly what happened to Israeli civilians (woman and children included) on 7/10 when hamas invaded. In the retaliation that followed hamas embedded itself in the civilian population and public buildings in underground tunnels. I'm not a fan of the Israeli government but i despise the twisted narrative put forward by people like yourself.

    And then you come up with your own twisted narrative.

    Where is the evidence that Hamas fighters or weapons were hidden in all those buildings—whether residential, hospitals, schools, or universities?

    It is the exact same narrative they are currently using to destroy Lebanon.

    Remember when it was all about the hostages? We were told: 'Return the hostages and everything is over.'

    Well, we’ve seen how that went.

    Nothing is over. Gazans are being killed every single day.

    If the safe return of the hostages is your main concern, how can you possibly hope to achieve that by bombing every building where they might be held?

    If this is retaliation—which, by the way, is illegal under international law—then so was October 7.

    Or do you think Israel didn't kill people prior to that date?

    What kind of retaliation lasts for over a thousand days in response to a one-day attack?

    Says a lot about them.

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    25 minutes ago, daejung said:

    In a rule-of-law country, a private business does not have an unlimited right to choose its customers. You cannot simply refuse customers on the basis of race, religion or other protected characteristics. Being a private business does not put you above anti-discrimination laws. Thai law also prohibits unjust discrimination, including on the grounds of race and religion.

    Didn't you read my post?

    When you protect yourself, your business, and the very lives of the animals you're taking care of by refusing a certain kind of customer to enter your perimeter; when you have had negative experiences with exactly that kind of customer for the last two years, that's not discrimination.

    That is self-defense.

    Israelis more than anybody else, should understand it.

    Actually, they have just been rejected but not harmed.

    I mean, for Israel it seems to be ok to intentionally murder kids and call it self-defense.

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    GammaGlobulin Star Member

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    There are some places I refuse to go, both in Thailand, and other places around the world.

    In addition, I never, even for a brief while, remain anywhere there is whistling.

    Seems to me the swearing guy is not Thai.

    Seems to me this entire confrontation has been imported from.....We All Know Where.....

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    NedR69 Silver Member

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    In the US, this behavior is called Asian Hate, and it carries stiffer penalties.

    This is the same, it’s Israeli Hate. Not Jews, because they could carry many different Pass Ports depending on where they are from.

    Like another said, it’s Israeli / Jew hate “now”, but what will be the next race or skin color, country or religion that get’s all the hate.

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    23 hours ago, SamSpade said:

    The guy looks Non-Thai to me & seems to be speaking Arabic at end so another "Foreigner Behaving Badly" video.

    definitely not Thai, sound like a middle eastern, I wonder if he has the right permit to operate a park, with what is going on now days that the Thai government is coming down hard on foreigners owning properties and business, I hope that Thai officials will take a note of it and investigate.

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    43 minutes ago, ezzra said:

    definitely not Thai, sound like a middle eastern, I wonder if he has the right permit to operate a park, with what is going on now days that the Thai government is coming down hard on foreigners owning properties and business, I hope that Thai officials will take a note of it and investigate.

    Yes.

    Definitely not a Thai person.

    This dispute and confrontation originates far beyond Thailand's border, in a tiny spot, no bigger than a postage stamp, in the ME.

    This will never end.

    This hatred is of Biblical Proportions and unending.

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    Comment on moderation removed. @Somjot your posts were correctly removed, because it was just random screenshots with no link. Don’t use my moderation comment to try to correct your error and lecture me. If you don’t want posts removed, then follow the rules.

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    jacko45k Star Member

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    20 hours ago, Deerculler said:

    Ban all Israelie's from all countries around the world until they sort out the mess in there own country.

    Mass killings don't go down very well with the rest of the world.

    So what do they expect?

    Certainly will not be love and kisses.

    The need to do something themselves.

    Do you also propose banning of anyone linked to Hamas or Hezbollah, both of which have no issue with mass killings also. Get rid of those damned reckless motorcycle riding Kuwaiti kids!. There could have been many lives saved if the USA had a ban pre 9-11 on Arabs.

    Not taking sides is the Thai way.

    Israel needs a different leader is clear.

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    11 hours ago, Somjot said:

    Don’t we all live in our own individual realities? The only difference between your reality and mine is that in my reality, these actions are an abomination.

    It is an abomination to murder 70,000 people and call it self-defense.

    It is an abomination to destroy practically every building in a country and call it a search for terrorists, or to use little children for target practice and call it heroism.

    You steal more land and kill people who had absolutely nothing to do with October 7.

    You target every university and hospital, claiming without proof that they are command centers or weapon storage facilities.

    How can an army call itself the "most moral" while executing a five-year-old girl who was trapped in a car with her murdered siblings, begging for her life?

    How can it murder 15 aid workers, bury them in the sand, deny any knowledge, and then spin lie after lie until exposed?

    More journalists, medics, and children have been killed in this conflict than in any other comparable war, yet the constant excuse is that Hamas used them as human shields—again, without a shred of evidence.

    Meanwhile, actual evidence shows Palestinians being used as human shields and live bomb-detection devices.

    Detainees are raped, dogs are trained to assault them, and the government openly debates the "right to rape" while still claiming to be the only democracy in the Middle East.

    And you, along with people like you, defend all of this?

    You have the nerve to call others stupid or disgusting?

    You don’t even realize that "disgusting" cannot begin to describe the emotion you create in others by defending these atrocities.

    I am sick and tired of breathing the same air as people like you.

    If you had the slightest decency or humanity left, you would at least admit that the mass murder in Gaza and the slaughter of children is wrong.

    You would show basic compassion by saying, "If our snipers really targeted children, then that is wrong."

    But you won't.

    You keep defending it, believing you hold the moral high ground when you couldn't possibly sink any lower.

    Western audiences might be brainwashed by corrupt politicians and a media system that has hidden these crimes for decades. But the rest of the world is not blind.

    Thanks to social media and your own soldiers bragging about their actions online, nobody can claim they didn't know.

    The world has seen your true face, and it abhors what it sees.

    The zoo incident was just one of many reactions from normal people, and many more will follow.

    Sorry for the rant, but I had to get this off my chest.

    It is completely unreal.

    People are whining about being turned away at a zoo—even quoting local law to cry discrimination—while at the same time defending rape, mass murder, land theft, and infanticide.

    The nerve of some people!

    Thankyou for speaking the truth.

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    I saw two obviously young Israeli boys maybe 13 years old walking in Central in Koh Samui talking in Hebrew, I would presume.

    I recognized one word "Muslim"

    I thought hmmm that's strange, why are they talking about "Muslim" walking through a mall in Thailand?

    There weren't any Muslims around that I could see.

    Conclusion: Brainwashing victims of hate from their parents and teachers 👈

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    On 8/15/2026 at 7:53 AM, save the frogs said:

    No one is supposed to even know or ask where you are from in the first place.

    While I was working in northwest Pakistan, I was assigned a new, Baluchi driver for field work. As I climbed into the passenger side, he turned, glaring at me with dark eyes and demanded to know, "Are you American!?"

    Needless to say, I didn't go to the field that day.

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    2 hours ago, SiSePuede419 said:

    I saw two obviously young Israeli boys maybe 13 years old walking in Central in Koh Samui talking in Hebrew, I would presume.

    I recognized one word "Muslim"

    I thought hmmm that's strange, why are they talking about "Muslim" walking through a mall in Thailand?

    There weren't any Muslims around that I could see.

    Conclusion: Brainwashing victims of hate from their parents and teachers 👈

    That's absurd. You have no idea what they were actually talking about.

    But go ahead and bend over backwards to demonize Israel.

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    1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

    That's absurd. You have no idea what they were actually talking about.

    But go ahead and bend over backwards to demonize Israel.

    Nobody needs to "demonize" Israel.

    They do a splendid job of that themselves.

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    2 hours ago, JingerBen said:

    Nobody needs to "demonize" Israel.

    They do a splendid job of that themselves.

    If nobody needs to demonize why do so many people make such a massive effort to do just that?

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    16 hours ago, Somjot said:

    No offense, but you come over like the typical Farang who lives in Thailand and somehow only looks for facts to feed his negative prejudice towards the host country which always leads me to this question which hasn't been answered till today: “why are you still here?.

    No offense, but you come over as a typical farang Thai apologist, which leads me to to believe you know very little about Thailand, and I bet you have a Buddha tattoo. 😂

    16 hours ago, Somjot said:

    However, I wasn't writing about Thailand as a country or its policy at their borders but about its people and how they respond to certain incidents in connection with certain nationalities.

    I doubt you know much about either.

    16 hours ago, Somjot said:

    Assuming from your nick, that you are not a Malai Muslim insurgent or a trafficked Rohingya refugee this is as real as it can get for people like you and me. 

    No, it gets more real if you educate yourself.

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    14 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

    If nobody needs to demonize why do so many people make such a massive effort to do just that?

    Good question.

    Meyer Lansky may have been right when he reportedly said "When you're a Jew, the whole world is against you."

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    'Everyone' are just pointing out the atrocities that Israel has committed to demonize it's self.

    Without the atrocities there would be no 'demonization'

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    The antipathy between Arabs/Persians and Jews/Israelis has been going on for a very long time, thousands of years and isn't going to cease anytime soon on either side... and it's basically six of one and half a dozen of the other.

    Both sides have their crazy fanatical governments and clerics/rabbis that just dump gasoline on the fire at any opportunity because hate focuses people like little else, but there are also decent normal people on all sides that just want peace. Look at Iran, Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Likud party in Israel and they are all equally nuts... and there are a majority of the public in these places that just don't want it or support it. It's not about which side is right or wrong as all sides have their shortcomings... it's about hatred, survival, controlling the narrative, and justification.

    We all know it boils down to religion and this can be very devisive to say the least... basically because it acts as a righteous mental anchor in someone's life in a very chaotic and oppressive world.

    Unfortunately, the world is becoming more intolerant and dangerous as time goes by... even supposedly "normal" people on social media can be so hateful now for the slightest divergence of values, politics, or opinion against their own. Don't have to look much further than a forum like this to see it's true. We are slowly coming full circle again and a reckoning is coming, probably with a dystopian future being ushered in by oppressive governments and ideologies aided by advances in technology that will solidify control over the public in all places. Getting to the point where the only real freedom left is the freedom of thought... easy to wonder how long even that will last.

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    Possibly goes back pre-1306. Didn't Jesus expel the money changers from the temple. It is written in a book — John 2:15–16

    Now the moneychangers couldn't have been Muslim as they didn't exist at the time.

    So who were the money changers? A group that existed at the time that Jesus didn't like.

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    2 minutes ago, VocalNeal said:

    Possibly goes back pre-1306. Didn't Jesus expel the money changers from the temple. It is written in a book — John 2:15–16

    Now the moneychangers couldn't have been Muslim as they didn't exist at the time.

    So who were the money changers? A group that existed at the time that Jesus didn't like.

    Erm, the Muslin faith started in 601 CE/AD so couldn't have been around at the time you are referencing.

    Edited by Sir Dude
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