Arab Airline to have 7 flights to Colombia per week.

Albatross says on Feb 1, 2006, 12:06:

I No What U mean, A Yeah A, I no what u mean ppl gotta wtch ut fo thse Arabs thy wll tk ovr Colombia + evrywhr els f u giv thm a chnc !!!

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rocinante says on Feb 1, 2006, 16:18:

)~ I just like to have at least one post in every deleted or locked thread.

I love Colombia and can't wait to live there permanently in the fall. If other countries are sending more planes so be it. Colombia can handle her own. In a country that's 95% Catholic, 95% Spanish Speaking and 95% rumba, a couple of warts (like me) ain't no big thing.

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gorgonabob says on Feb 1, 2006, 18:42:

turkeys if this airline does arrive to colombia you can be sure it won't be bringing middle eastern people thats for sure...

this is the fastest growing international airline in the world. emirates is also the second most profitable airline in the world. dubai its home base is the fastest growing city in the world.... this airline has ambitions to be the biggest in the world.. it wants to be the first airliner in the world to fly around the world... currently no airline flys around the world....

it will bring tourists from asia/ europe etc to south america... its not about bringing arabs to colombia... dubai has about 4.000.000 people i believe, only 1.000.000 of them are native to the country... its an international feeder airlines.. it picks people up fromm one country stops them off in dubai and feeds them on to someone else. this airline is worth more than american/united/delta/northwest put together....

they have about the largest order book of any airline in the world.. up to a hundred planes.. they also have the biggest or second biggest order or A380 on record...

if it does come it can only be great news for colombia's tourist numbers and image...

kelvin

Gomezman5 says on Feb 1, 2006, 18:42:

Tinto......it's a ploy This guy, (The Big A) realized that he wrote so many things that could not be understood and objectionable, he was challenging you to see if you could even attempt to edit his post......

What the hell is this guy saying

Sam Salmon says on Feb 1, 2006, 20:16:

Ay Mucho! Been through this before here a number of times.

Lots of Arabs in Latina America have been for hundreds of years ow.

SA's biggest Mosque in Ctg/Presidentes of Argentina & Ecuador both from families out of the Middle East.
All kinds of people in Boca Grande CTG speaking Arabic.


In any case Gorgona Bob is 100% correct it's all about international travel.

The world is (re)discovering Colombia.

' a la orden!'

' a la orden!'

thur says on Feb 2, 2006, 06:01:

How nice... ... it is that people think it will give a tourism boost and that the world is discovering Colombia. Would be nice, but this isn't the case here. Emirates is rapidly expanding, sure... but even before they'll fly passengers to Bogotá, they'll do that first to Buenos Aires and Sao Paolo for wich they also required rights.
However, the press release states: ".. En la prestación de los servicios exclusivos de carga, Emirates Air operará desde Dubai hasta Bogotá y conectará puntos intermedios de Africa, Alemania, Bélgica y Latinoamérica excepto México y el Caribe .." So it will be cargo (which seems logical seeing as Bogotá has a lot of cargo), which will be flown to Europe, Latin America or Africa. Perhaps even taking away some market share from Martinair Cargo (that cooperates with Tampa Cargo).
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SiempreHero says on Feb 4, 2006, 07:41:

The Big A Manifesto Big A, can you please tell me what drugs you took before you wrote your manifesto? I would just love to have a diarrhea brain dump on paper like that for my grandkids to laugh at. But i agree to an extent, white slavery may be a problem for some sweet colombian girls looking for the gold. I guess it may be worse than living in a double wide in north carolina with a hill billy.

utopiacowboy says on Feb 4, 2006, 08:50:

Just a hunch but I think Colombia may be about to join the world's premier sex-tourist destinations. Nice.

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LDW says on Feb 12, 2006, 14:49:

Arabs in Colombia?? The Big A may not be writing in the most elegant English, but he and utopiacowboy are probably right. Muslims are the most notorious sex tourists of all (not that the people from elsewhere in the world are entirely innocent). To a true muslim, any non muslim woman is a whore and (as far as he is concerned) has no right to reject his advances. This attitude can be seen in their behavior in many places where the majority of inhabitants are non muslim. For example, a Swedish lawyer did some research and came up with more or less the following: In Sweden, Muslims immigrants make up less than 4% of the population, but also represent about 85% of the convicted rapists. We can be as politically correct as we want to be, but numbers like that (even if somewhat off the mark) don't lie.

The Inquisition was unfortunate. In particular, the anti-Semitism was wrong. But Spain nevertheless was smart to kick the Moors out. Now Muslims are being invited back into the Spanish spaking world? People forget their history very quickly. I guess money talks.

You can be sure that the planeloads of Muslims will be coming to Colombia to look for sex slaves and to partake (in a big way) in vices they are denied in their own sandboxes. They should be greeted with aguardiente, ham sandwiches and cartoons (especially the one showing Mohammed doing his 9 year old wife for the first time) of that sex slave owner named Mohammed.

poco says on Feb 12, 2006, 22:47:

Colombia could get lucky with Emirates Airlines Suppose the owner of this home owns the airlines,,, WoW,, maybe they will fall in love with Armenia. I see big tourist bucks,, who says money doesn't fall from the sky.

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Lionheart says on Feb 20, 2006, 22:54:

Arabs in Colombia Thre are plenty of Arabs in Colombia, Shakira is best example. They are left-overs from the slave-trading days and eventually were left behind in the Caribbean ... the Arabs where the slave dealers in Africa and shipped them across the Atlantic. Now the successors can be found on the islands and the north shore of South America.

Ever since there has been a steady stream of immigrants from the Middle-East into these countries. It has nothing to do with the Moors in Spain. They weren't Arabs anyway.

NewBoy says on Feb 21, 2006, 05:57:

Lionheart I know quite a few people of arab decent on the coast, I have never heard of any of them telling me that their ancestors came via the slave trade, or read about it anywhere, although I expect the odd arab decent person in Colombia did come from slaving.

In fact most of the Arab slave dealers passed the slaves onto European traders in Africa, who then took them across the Atlantic, very few of the Arab slavers ever went to South America.

The vast majority came to Colombia in the 30s, they fled persecution in mostly Lebanon and Syria, by the muslims.

You will also find pockets of these people on the West Coast of Africa, again they are not from slaving trading, but originaly poor people who fought they were buying a ticket to South America, but the ships dropped them off there instead.

Lionheart says on Feb 21, 2006, 06:17:

A documentation I saw On PBS or History Channel I saw a documentation on the Western Caribbean Islands, not just the West Indies, and how they got populated by Europeans and Africans. The islands were turned into plantations often and used slaves. The guards on the ships and many merchants were of Middle-Eastern decent, from Egypt to Arabia. When the ships returned across the Atlantic they weren't needed anymore and they were left behind to save on supplies. The islands were also the hub for slaves into the USA.

The Middle-Easterners became mainly merchants and traders and created trade throughout the Caribbean islands and the surrounding coasts. Just like persecuted Europeans fled to North America many Middle-Easterners fled to South America ... because they had relatives already there, who had established themselves?

My friend in Trinidad told me the same, adding that also many Indians from India are merchants there, coming from India via South Africa to the West Indies. These migrations add incredibly to the great mix of Caribbean foods and their dishes.

ronald1168 says on Feb 21, 2006, 06:24:

Great news There is need for more connections to Bogota, i hope they do a stop in London. Because London needs a direct conection with Bogota


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NewBoy says on Feb 21, 2006, 10:48:

Lionheart There was definetly some Arab descendants in the Americas from the slavers, I can't comment on all the other Countries, but the vast majority in Colombia came here in the 30s, I have yet to speak to anybody with some Arab blood in them, who said that they or their family were here before that.

Which fits in with what I have read and seen on documentaries on the subject, the reason that they came to South America was because a lot of people knew about it because of the Arab merchant links in the area that you talk about, but although there was some Arab decendants from slavers in Colombia, there wern't very many.