Philippines Jihad Update. "Blast in southern Philippines wounds 6 civilians," from the Associated Press, December 5:
MANILA, Philippines: A crude bomb exploded outside a drugstore in the southern Philippines, wounding six civilians, just days after police arrested an alleged foreign bomb maker suspected of helping Muslim rebels.
The blast late Thursday was followed by another explosion near the national highway that passes through Isulan township in Sultan Kudarat province, said military spokesman Maj. Randolph Cabangbang. There were no casualties in the second blast.
"We are investigating the attacks and we are looking into possible involvement of some terror groups active in the region," said police commander Suharto Teng Tucao.
No group has claimed responsibility for the blasts.
Muslim rebels from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, which has fought for self-rule in the predominantly Roman Catholic nation's south for decades, and extortion gangs linked to militants have been blamed for past bomb attacks in the volatile area.
Earlier this week, police announced the arrest of a Bangladeshi man they suspect of helping the rebels make bombs. Mohammad Alfariz, 48, appeared before the state prosecutor in Manila on Thursday during a preliminary investigation into charges of illegal possession of explosives.
Police say they found mortar shells, wires, a cell phone and other bomb-making material when they raided his watch repair shop in the southern Philippines.
Justice Undersecretary Ricardo Blancaflor said in a statement that Alfariz was linked to the regional terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah, which is based in Indonesia. Alfariz's Filipino wife has denied the charges and said her husband was framed.
Tensions have been high in the southern Philippines since the government suspended talks with the rebels in August after three guerrilla commanders went on a bloody rampage, killing dozens in predominantly Christian communities.
The rebels said their men were frustrated after the Supreme Court scrapped a preliminary autonomy deal for minority Muslims, ruling it was unconstitutional. [...]
And a "bloody rampage" is just the thing for getting a peace process back on track.
From the article:
"Muslim rebels from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, which has fought for self-rule in the predominantly Roman Catholic nation's south for decades, and extortion gangs linked to militants".
Let's rewrite that just a little, the way it might be written if the reporter knew a little more about Islam.
"Muslim supremacists from the Moro Islamic 'Liberation' Front ( which has waged jihad for decades in the south of the predominantly Roman Catholic nation, seeking Muslim dominance) and extortion gangs linked to the jihadists...".
Now let's allow our minds to travel all the way from the Southern Philippines to Pakistan and to Maharashtra State, India, where one of the persons associated with jihad against India, just happens to have been a Mr Big of Organised Crime in Mumbai.
From that article, as reproduced here at jihadwatch:
"India demanded that Islamabad extradite Ibrahim, a fugitive Mumbai mafia don who it believes has links to LET, the terrorist group long allied to Pakistan's ISI spy agency...
"Ibrahim, Mumbai's most notorious underworld don {i.e. Muslim gang boss - dda}, is the head of D-Company, a feared crime syndicate, and one of the world's five most wanted men.
"He is widely believed to have worked closely with al-Qa'ida.
"He is also thought to have masterminded the 1993 Mumbai bombings, a series of 13 explosions that claimed 250 lives...."
Organised Crime, when conducted by Muslims, and Jihad: a distinction without a difference.
The former, in its various species - people trafficking, sex slaving, drug trade, etc. - seems often to be engaged in, against kafir and conveniently-deemed-insufficiently-Islamic Muslims, in order to finance the Jihad; but also, when engaged in by Muslims within kafir societies, targeting primarily kafir victims, seems merely to be a subset of Jihad;
then, if once the kafir society is overthrown, every type of activity usually regarded as the province of organised crime in non-Muslim societies (such as the seizure and prostitution of children and young women, kidnap for ransom and the shakedown) is engaged in ad libitum, against the dhimmi population. The biggest Shakedown/ Extortion/ Blackmail/ Protection racket, of course, is the imposition of the Jizya.
Hindu-majority India and Catholic-majority Philippines are facing exactly the same problem: Muslims have staked out a territorial claim (to the S Philippines, to Kashmir) and are making war by force and by fraud, by all possible means, including the practice of organised crime on a grand scale to help finance said war and damage Infidel society, in order to get it; if they get it there will not be peace but more demands for more territory.
"Police say they found mortar shells, wires, a cell phone and other bomb-making material when they raided his watch repair shop in the southern Philippines." -- from the article above
Watch repair shop = Time Bomb Factory