Wandering 'white Arab' causes alarm at martial court

[NeverSure]

You and previous poster Howitzer have totally missed the point of my post. I was stating that such blatant racial profiling using derogatory terms like "khaek" or "farang" or jaek" is something that went out in the 70s in UK and would not be tolerated in modern political discourse.

Wow, they did a wonderful job of brainwashing you back in the good ole UK. The countdown is on for the demise of

Europistan just due to your type of thinking.

I happen to be smart enough to know that a guy with a turban, robes and a backpack is perhaps more of a danger to me than a European guy with a sweatshirt and bouncing a football, but you have it your way.

Perhaps neither is a danger, but guess which one I'll keep my eye on?

Cheers.

[peterrabbit]

Arab my a**e!

Look at the brown/red side burns and stubble.

He looks like he has also dyed his hair black.

Also far too white for an arab, maybe mediterranean but not an arab.

Have the Thai police never heard of 'dry runs'?

Its what the terrorists revengeful people do to 'test' security systems.

If nobody challenges them then they know they can do it for real next time.

I bet there was a previous 'dry run' on the Erawan shrine attack' and the police nobody has thought to look.

Expect another terrorist revenge attack, this time on the establishment as they were targeting the courts which is part of the establishment.

[jacko45k]

Picked up a day later eh? Nice to see we are still on high alert after what happened in Bangkok!

[jlwilliamsjr18]

If he's referred to as a "white Arab" then what's a dark skin Arab called? Interesting...

[IamNoone88]

No security and no idea what an Arab looks like. Situation normal.

[diehard60]

"and at least one official said he could have just been a tourist looking to satisfy a basic need."

Yea the need to scope things out first before planting it .

[maidee]

a day later

typical thai

so was the guy that is supposed to watch the CCTV asleep when he came in ?

[Muzarella]

BETTER TO PLACE A SIGN AT THE AIRPORT

BE AWARE: Tourists walking with backpacks may be shot without notice.

Anyway ..this guy was lucky..to be in Thailand. In many other countries he will be dead already.

Edited September 29, 2015 by Muzarella

[soalbundy]

Ethnicity unknown but he's an Arab

[NickJ]

An arrest warrant has been issued.......The wife of the motorcycle taxi drivers friend said she remembers seeing the man somewhere and thinks the DNA will be a match.

[AlQaholic]

Please tell us they combed the building with bomb sniffing dogs to make sure he didn't leave any time delayed "gifts" behind...

No dogs needed here, they used the GT200+ for sniffing out the explosives.

[soalbundy]

An arrest warrant has been issued.......The wife of the motorcycle taxi drivers friend said she remembers seeing the man somewhere and thinks the DNA will be a match.

or a ronson lighter whatever

[Seastallion]

You and previous poster Howitzer have totally missed the point of my post. I was stating that such blatant racial profiling using derogatory terms like "khaek" or "farang" or jaek" is something that went out in the 70s in UK and would not be tolerated in modern political discourse.

Wow, they did a wonderful job of brainwashing you back in the good ole UK. The countdown is on for the demise of

Europistan just due to your type of thinking.

I happen to be smart enough to know that a guy with a turban, robes and a backpack is perhaps more of a danger to me than a European guy with a sweatshirt and bouncing a football, but you have it your way.

Perhaps neither is a danger, but guess which one I'll keep my eye on?

Cheers.

That's not smart, that's insecure stereotyping.

[soalbundy]

You and previous poster Howitzer have totally missed the point of my post. I was stating that such blatant racial profiling using derogatory terms like "khaek" or "farang" or jaek" is something that went out in the 70s in UK and would not be tolerated in modern political discourse.

Wow, they did a wonderful job of brainwashing you back in the good ole UK. The countdown is on for the demise of

Europistan just due to your type of thinking.

I happen to be smart enough to know that a guy with a turban, robes and a backpack is perhaps more of a danger to me than a European guy with a sweatshirt and bouncing a football, but you have it your way.

Perhaps neither is a danger, but guess which one I'll keep my eye on?

Cheers.

That's not smart, that's insecure stereotyping.

Hey George,what do think, is that lion walking towards us going to attack us ?

No Fred, you're just stereotyping.

[DrTuner]

Wheres his camel then,does not look like an Arab to me.

regards worgeordie

Ah, solved, that's what he was looking for!

[klauskunkel]

Whatever his motive, he should be arrested for befuddling Thai officials and making them look at cam footage.

[AlQaholic]

Rasism exists everywhere in the world, Only difference with Thailand and other places is they do not make any excuses or try to hide it with fancy wordings. Does anyone think for a second that changing the name of a race from "Negro" to "African American" changes the rednecks?

It has always been in human nature to be suspicious or even hostile towards something or someone they do not understand or experience differently from normal tribe behavior. Defensive self preservative function. When it comes to "Arabs" or just let us say "Muslims" as they are mostly perceived, the Religion is so twisted, fake and lunatic that anyone who falls for such a religious scam should be considered a person not in full control of his faculties.

I am hostile to any form of organized religion including Christianity and the Catholics, but Islam takes the price for being the most stupid one out there, founded by a complete looniebin hiding in solitude in a cave for most of his time talking to imaginary friends and ghosts.

[Jingthing]

If he's referred to as a "white Arab" then what's a dark skin Arab called? Interesting...

Black Arab.

http://www.africa.upenn.edu/K-12/Who_16629.html

[tonbridgebrit]

Them 'white Arabs', dangerous people they are. They're more dangerous than them darker Arabs, that's because you can spot a darker Arab further away. From a distance, a white Arab might appear similar to a white bloke, that's what makes them dangerous.

And those white Arabs, some of them look the same as those blokes from Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Spain. And that makes it even more tricky.

[jaywalker]

To me he looks like he could just as easily be from Michigan or Oregon or Florida as from India or the Middle East. They're really guessing here IMO.

Going to the roof, though, is a bit sketchy....who puts a WC on the roof?

And no bag screening at the entrance of a court building? That might best be remedied....

"Security footage shows the unidentified man, described by military officers as khaek khao or “White Arab,” entering the court Friday afternoon and walking to the fourth floor, the rooftop, the third floor and finally exiting the building after having spent around 10 minutes there."

Apparently, the way he got in with his backpack without screening, and the reason he was on the upper floors, is because he forgot where he had parked his flying carpet.

Case solved!

Where's my reward????

[NeverSure]

That's not smart, that's insecure stereotyping.

Sez you.

[Oziex1]

Rasism exists everywhere in the world, Only difference with Thailand and other places is they do not make any excuses or try to hide it with fancy wordings. Does anyone think for a second that changing the name of a race from "Negro" to "African American" changes the rednecks?

It has always been in human nature to be suspicious or even hostile towards something or someone they do not understand or experience differently from normal tribe behavior. Defensive self preservative function. When it comes to "Arabs" or just let us say "Muslims" as they are mostly perceived, the Religion is so twisted, fake and lunatic that anyone who falls for such a religious scam should be considered a person not in full control of his faculties.

I am hostile to any form of organized religion including Christianity and the Catholics, but Islam takes the price for being the most stupid one out there, founded by a complete looniebin hiding in solitude in a cave for most of his time talking to imaginary friends and ghosts.

I don't care for political correctness as you say it doesn't change the world for the better.

This is more about the lack of security in a place that would be expected to be on high alert as the powers that be have announced security measures are in place to protect against more mayhem in the streets. Incidents like this leave me unconvinced on the quality of security in Bangkok and Thailand in general.

[tonbridgebrit]

Them 'white Arabs', dangerous people they are. They're more dangerous than them darker Arabs, that's because you can spot a darker Arab further away. From a distance, a white Arab might appear similar to a white bloke, that's what makes them dangerous.

And those white Arabs, some of them look the same as those blokes from Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Spain. And that makes it even more tricky.

The above has been written as a send up of some of the silly people who live in our society. Lots of people do actually feel this way.

[Srikcir]

"just been a tourist looking to satisfy a basic need"

Maybe that's what happened to the Shrine bomber. He was looking for a toilet, became pressured not finding one and bombed the Shrine out of frustration. If only he had gone to the rooftop of the nearby hotel instead!

[AlQaholic]

Rasism exists everywhere in the world, Only difference with Thailand and other places is they do not make any excuses or try to hide it with fancy wordings. Does anyone think for a second that changing the name of a race from "Negro" to "African American" changes the rednecks?

It has always been in human nature to be suspicious or even hostile towards something or someone they do not understand or experience differently from normal tribe behavior. Defensive self preservative function. When it comes to "Arabs" or just let us say "Muslims" as they are mostly perceived, the Religion is so twisted, fake and lunatic that anyone who falls for such a religious scam should be considered a person not in full control of his faculties.

I am hostile to any form of organized religion including Christianity and the Catholics, but Islam takes the price for being the most stupid one out there, founded by a complete looniebin hiding in solitude in a cave for most of his time talking to imaginary friends and ghosts.

I don't care for political correctness as you say it doesn't change the world for the better.

This is more about the lack of security in a place that would be expected to be on high alert as the powers that be have announced security measures are in place to protect against more mayhem in the streets. Incidents like this leave me unconvinced on the quality of security in Bangkok and Thailand in general.

I was just trying to point out the reason why people should be very afraid of "Arabs".......In the same way you should be watchful around a schizophrenic that could in an instance kill all the children next door with a knife.

[ronaldo0]

"A day later staff raised the alert when they saw him on video."

What were they doing the day he was there????

Lunchtime no doubt !!

[soalbundy]

Rasism exists everywhere in the world, Only difference with Thailand and other places is they do not make any excuses or try to hide it with fancy wordings. Does anyone think for a second that changing the name of a race from "Negro" to "African American" changes the rednecks?

It has always been in human nature to be suspicious or even hostile towards something or someone they do not understand or experience differently from normal tribe behavior. Defensive self preservative function. When it comes to "Arabs" or just let us say "Muslims" as they are mostly perceived, the Religion is so twisted, fake and lunatic that anyone who falls for such a religious scam should be considered a person not in full control of his faculties.

I am hostile to any form of organized religion including Christianity and the Catholics, but Islam takes the price for being the most stupid one out there, founded by a complete looniebin hiding in solitude in a cave for most of his time talking to imaginary friends and ghosts.

I don't care for political correctness as you say it doesn't change the world for the better.

This is more about the lack of security in a place that would be expected to be on high alert as the powers that be have announced security measures are in place to protect against more mayhem in the streets. Incidents like this leave me unconvinced on the quality of security in Bangkok and Thailand in general.

I was just trying to point out the reason why people should be very afraid of "Arabs".......In the same way you should be watchful around a schizophrenic that could in an instance kill all the children next door with a knife.

Or of drunk Thai men

[vogie]

"A day later staff raised the alert when they saw him on video."

What were they doing the day he was there????

Playing Candy Crush?

[Thaidream]

Any time you use the physical characteristics of a person to describe that person- unless you are the police- it has nothing to do with political correctness, it has much to do with bias and the continued propagation of bias. Describing a person as white, black, brown etc; fat, slim; old, young, etc implies that there is a bias. Why would you need to describe a human being this way? What does it accomplish? The exception is when the police or authorities are trying to locate someone and the detailed description is needed.

[Mot Dang]

Getting jumpy aren't we ?

Surely a building containing a military court has an inspection station at each entrance ?

Perhaps not, no need, "Thainess" is in place. That is, "close that door the horse just got out".