The schizophrenia in American foreign policy continues, but this is a positive step. From AFP, with thanks to Twostellas:
MANILA - The United States will back President Gloria Arroyo in the fight against breakaway Muslim militant groups threatening fragile peace talks in the southern Philippines, its envoy to Manila said on Monday.US ambassador Francis Ricciardone said negotiations between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the government were being made difficult by many groups claiming to be legitimate separatist rebels.
While the ongoing peace negotiations brokered by Malaysia to end the MILF’s 28-year insurgency were welcome, Ricciardone said Washington would provide military support against those continuing to carry out attacks.
He said 70 US military personnel were training troops in the southern Philippines in intelligence gathering, leading to the arrest or killing of “25 identified, known, no-doubt-about it terrorist leaders” last year.
Development assistance would also continue in the mostly poverty-stricken southern Mindanao island and in Muslim areas, he said.
“Our concern is not merely to get a piece of paper ... a peace accord. What we want to see is a peace (agreement) that will be durable and that will permit development to go ahead,” Ricciardone told foreign correspondents.
But if certain elements of the MILF were “going to hide bombers from Bali, or train bombers or hide kidnappers, or get involved in the drug trade, the law enforcement and security forces of the Philippines are going to go after them and we are going to help them,” Ricciardone said.
MILF?
omg.
Moose
When people come to the hard cold fact that the mulsums have declared war on all who are non-mulsums and in war it must be fought??
The mulsums have declared it now it is time to Fight and in Fighting like other wars you must kill the enemy to defeat him??
With the Mulsums it is different because??
http://www.al-islam.org/encyclopedia/chapter6b/1.html
Reference 1:
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Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti in his book, "al-Durr al-Manthoor Fi al-Tafsir al-
Ma'athoor," narrates Ibn Abbas', the MOST renowned and trusted narrator of
tradition in the sight of the Sunnis, opinion regarding al-Taqiyya in the
Quranic verse: "Let not the believers take for friends or helpers
unbelievers rather than believers: if any do that, (they) shall have no
relation left with Allah except by way of precaution ("tat-taqooh"), that
ye may guard yourselves ("tooqatan") from them....[3:28]" that Ibn Abbas
said:
"al-Taqiyya is with the tongue only; he who has been COERCED into
saying that which angers Allah , and his heart is comfortable
(i.e., his TRUE faith has NOT been shaken.), then (saying that which
he has been coerced to say) will NOT harm him (at all); (because) al-
Taqiyya is with the tongue only, (NOT the heart)."
NOTE: The two words "tat-taqooh" and "tooqatan," as mentioned in the Arabic
Quran, are BOTH from the same root of "al-Taqiyya."
NOTE ALSO: The "heart" as referred to above and in later occurrences refers
to the center of faith in an individual's existence. It is mentioned many
times in the Quran.
WHAT YOU CAN NOT TRUST BECAUSE AS HE SAID TO LIE LIE LIE
Reference 3:
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Abu Bakr al-Razi in his book, "Ahkam al-Quran," v2, p10, has explained
the aforementioned verse "...except by way of precaution ("tat-taqooh"),
that ye may guard yourselves ("tooqatan") from them....[3:28]" by affirming
that al-Taqiyya should be used when one is afraid for life and/or limb. In
addition, he has narrated that Qutadah said with regards to the above
verse:
"It is permissible to speak words of unbelief when al-Taqiyya is
mandatory."
TO SAY WE ALL JUST WANT TO GET ALONG WHILE PLANING TO KILL YOU ??
Reference 9:
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It is narrated by al-Ghazzali in his book, "Ihya `Uloom al-Din," that:
Safeguarding of a Muslim's life is a mandatory obligation that should
be observed; and that LYING is permissible when the shedding of a
Muslim's blood is at stake.
SO LIE LIE LIE SAY YOU WANT PEACE BUT???
HOW CAN WE TRUST PEOPLE WHO THINK LIKE THIS ??
Reference 12:
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Narrated in Sahih al-Bukhari, v7, p102, that Abu al-Darda' said:
"(Verily) we smile for some people, while our hearts curse (those same
people)."
HOW MUCH MORE DO WE NEED TO KNOW??
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ?SITE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME
Jan 24, 11:53 AM EST
Iraq Forces Arrest Top al-Qaida Lieutenant
By JASON KEYSER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
In an audiotape posted Sunday on the Web, a speaker claiming to be Abu Musab al-Zarqawi declared "fierce war" on democracy and said anyone who takes part in next weekend's Iraqi elections would be considered "an infidel."
DIDN'T WE HEAR THE SAME THING IN AFGHANISTIAN BUT THERE PEOPLE DID WANT FREEDOM AND HAVE FOUGHT FOR IT AND NOW HAVE IT AND WILL KEEP FIGHTING FOR IT
WILL THE REST OF THE WORLD KEEP FIGHTING FOR IT??
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength, Wisdom, Sight, and Courage to Stay the course to Victory [FREEDOM] to Destroy ALL islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Open the Worlds Eyes to their Evil Amen
PS
More shaking going on in Indonesia 6.3 next to Jakkarta?
Hmmmmmmm Why is their an alarm going off in my head?
A) Did not the Phillipines totally DIS the U.S. and told us to take our ball(bombs) and go home.
Also thought that we were not to be armed.
A limit as to the number of troops allowed in at the same time.
Off to research this as I am quite irked.
US ambassador Francis Ricciardone said negotiations between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the government were being made difficult by many groups claiming to be legitimate separatist rebels.
Leave it to a stupid Islamo group to use the acronym “MILF”. LOL
Although it actually fits... in a strange ironic way...
OK, I plead ignorance - what does MILF really stand for?
I must not be reading enough at LGF.
Alrighty then back with some interesting facts in regards to the Phillipines.
Piggybacking _
The "War on Terrorism"
Leaps into the Philippines
John D. Brulé
Filipinos struggled to expel the US military over the past century, finally succeeding in 1992, despite tenacious US efforts to retain naval and air force bases. The US had invaded that beautiful land in 1898, replacing centuries of Spanish colonialism with a US version. In 1946, after five years of control by the Japanese, the US granted the Republic of the Philippines a form of "independence." However, even though the Philippine Constitution forbade the stationing of foreign troops there, the former US bases have been under Filipino control only since 1992.
Now in the guise of "links to al Qaeda," the US has returned to the Philippines, which many Filipinos regard as violating their Constitution. Philippine President Gloria Arroyo granted permission for this new invasion, after receiving a $100 million gift of US military equipment.
The US military is there ostensibly to "train" Filipino anti-terrorist forces. The origin of the troubles on the island of Mindanao dates back many years _ the Muslims on Mindanao have long resisted what they view as foreign intervention. Beginning with the Spanish and extending to modern times, various groups have tried to gain control of the land. The Muslims on Mindanao have always resisted this. A small fringe group known as Abu-Sayyef gave up politically-motivated terrorism a few years ago and replaced it with kidnapping for ransom. This thuggery existed long before al Qaeda and is a domestic problem. The US has neither the knowledge nor the capacity to solve this internal problem.
There are many questions about how the US military action is being conducted, but the more interesting question is why did Bush and his administration want to re-invade the Philippines? In the past the US wanted a presence in the Philippines for an economic advantage. While that still is partially true, it is more likely that the major purpose is to re-establish military bases in the Far East to pave the way for expansion of the Bush war. The port at Subic Bay in the Philippines is one of the best in that part of the world. The successful re-establishment of US military bases in this geographically-important archipelago will strengthen the US government's ability to dominate this region. We must actively oppose it.
John Brulé has been involved with the Peace Council for many years.
How ironic is this?
"Principle -- particulary moral principle -- can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency.
Moral principal is a compass forever fixed and forever true". ( Edward R. Lyman)
OK, I plead ignorance - what does MILF really stand for?
I must not be reading enough at LGF.
Posted by: CGW
The first place I heard it was on the movie "American Pie", it stands for "Mothers I'd like to f**k", in reference to older women. I would imagine that any google search would turn up the same interpretation.
Thanks, Sheik!