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Old May 23, 2008, 2:07 pm
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jpatokal
 
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Originally Posted by mtacchi
I would feel 1 MILLION times safer in Phi Phi than I would in Bali. No one is going to try and blow you up on Phi Phi, there is little if not NO unhappy Muslim influence. Everybody there is there to Chillax, smoke some pot on the beach and enjoy themselves.
Call me a pessimist, but it's a matter of time until the separatists figure out that blowing up a beach resort and killing a few farangs in the process will get them far more headlines than their current tactics of beheading tappers in the deep South. (They've already hit central Bangkok, Had Yai and Had Yai's airport.) There is little "unhappy Muslim influence" in Bali either, the bombers came from Java specifically to target foreigners and unbelievers.
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