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In accordance with Qur'an 9:29. "Philippine bishop reports receiving threat to convert to Islam," from Catholic News Service, July 22:
MANILA, Philippines (CNS) -- A bishop in the southern Philippines reported receiving a letter threatening him with harm if he does not convert to Islam or pay "Islamic taxes."
Bishop Martin Jumoad of Isabela also told the Asian church news agency UCA News that he got text messages from Catholics saying they, too, had received threatening letters.
Bishop Jumoad said a student of Claret College in Isabela, the capital of Basilan province, was told to give the school secretary the letter to pass to the bishop.
The bishop sent a copy of the letter July 19 to church-run Radio Veritas in Quezon City, northeast of Manila.
The letter had the names "Puruji Indama" and "Nur Hassan J. Kallitut" printed at the bottom and "mujahedin" under each name. The purported senders introduced themselves as "Muslim warriors" who "don't follow any laws other than the Quran," Islam's holy book.
They said Bishop Jumoad should choose to convert to Islam or give "jizya," Islamic tax, to their group in exchange for protecting him in the "place of Muslims."
If he refuses to convert or pay, the letter threatened "force, weapons or war may be used" against him. It warned him not to feel safe even if he is "surrounded by soldiers" and cited bombings in various cities.
Bishop Jumoad was given 15 days to respond, with two mobile phone numbers to contact.
"If we do not receive response from you, it means you will oppose," the letter added.
A document written in the local dialect on the letterhead of "Al-Harakatul Islamiyya" accompanied the letter. The bishop said he did not recognize the names, but has encountered the phrase "Al-Harakatul" in kidnapping incidents in Basilan involving Abu Sayyaf, a guerrilla group named as a terrorist organization by various countries.
On July 21, CBCP News, the online news site of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines, reported the kidnapping of five parishioners of St. Vincent Ferrer Parish in Sumisip.
St. Vincent Ferrer is among nine parishes of Isabela prelature, which covers all of Basilan, where 96,000 Catholics form 30 percent of the population. Except for the city of Isabela, the rest of the province belongs to the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
On July 22, provincial administrator Talib A. Barahim told UCA News that no one had reported receiving a ransom demand for the release of the parishioners. He said Gov. Jum Akbar of Basilan, the provincial police director and Basilan mayors met the previous day and planned to make a "citizen's arrest."
He added that he was aware of the threatening letters sent to Bishop Jumoad and other Catholics.
In Manila July 21, Hamid Barra, Muslim convener of the Bishops-Ulama Conference, said that according to the teachings of Islam, life is sacred. He recited a verse from the Quran that says whoever kills a person without justification kills all people.
Key words: "Without justification." What if one refuses the terms of Qur'an 9:29?
The expert on Islamic law also explained that non-Muslims who are protected by an Islamic government are required to pay jizya, which the state uses to support the poor and the needy.
More on revisionist presentations of jizya here.
In a non-Islamic country like the Philippines, "there is no such payment required of non-Muslims," he said.
But would Barra like the Philippines to become an Islamic country? And how would the proposed autonomy for parts of Mindanao as a Muslim "homeland" work in this regard?
Posted by Marisol at July 22, 2008 2:12 PM
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Mindanao is just the warm up. Once the ummah gets that, it's on to Manila. Give them a fingertip, then watch them grab the whole body.
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at July 22, 2008 3:10 PM
This is just the Islamic mafia wanting their cut. Nothing new here.
Posted by: Liberal Guy at July 22, 2008 6:19 PM
I hope the Bishop knows how to handle a rifle..he will need it..
Posted by: exsgtbrown at July 22, 2008 7:01 PM
According to this news story that I read in Australian Broadcasting Commission's news site online, the Muslims are pretty much assured of getting control of a huge whack of land in the southern Philippines.
Here's the link.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/17/2307126.htm?section=world
Here's the story. I have added running comments and inserted alternative, more truthful terminology, as required.
"Philippines dangles federal state to end Muslim uprising"
Posted Thu Jul 17, 2008 10:34pm AEST Updated Thu Jul 17, 2008 10:33pm AEST
"Muslim separatists {tr: jihad terrorists - dda} have been offered a federal state *with control of vast resources* {NOTA BENE - my emphasis added - dda] to end a decades-old southern Philippines rebellion {tr: a decades-old Jihadist campaign of conquest in the southern Philippines}.
{COMMENT: It won't end the rebellion. 'Vast resources' = 'resources to finance the jihad to take over and loot the rest of the Philippines and kill or convert or enslave its people, destroy its churches, etc etc '. If the Philippines think the 'Muslim uprising' will stop after they have just fed the jihad crocodile such an enormous meal, they are going to get a horrible surprise - dda}.
'The two sides reached a breakthrough after informal talks in Malaysia on Wednesday and are set to meet again on July 24 to discuss when to sign an agreement reached after years of negotiations.
{Treaty of Hudaybiyya, Treaty of Hudaybiyya, Treaty of Hudaybiyya!!! Will *no-one* send the Filipino generals and the Filipino politicians and church leaders a copy or two of Majid Khadduri, 'War and Peace in the Law of Islam', or even just Mr Robert Spencer's "Onward Muslim Soldiers", ASAP? - dda}.
"The core of the proposed Muslim-controlled entity {oh dear, oh dear, oh dear...dda} would be the four provinces in the south that make up a self-rule area called the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM),
'said Hermogenes Esperon, presidential adviser on peace talks with the country's Muslim and communist insurgencies."
"The ARMM was created by a 1996 peace treaty {tr: hudna - dda} signed by Manila and a rebel faction, the Moro National Liberation Front.
"The ARMM government now controls its mineral resources, but there has been practically no investment in the mining or oil sectors there due to the insurgency {tr: JIHAD - dda}, which has sporadically flared up *despite a 2003 ceasefire* {yup, another hudna, as per the model of the Treaty of Hudaybiyya - this is SOOO dismally predictable - dda}.
'Mr Esperon said the final stage of the talks would deal with
"what organisations to be put up to enable the new Bangsamoro Juridical Entity to function efficiently {tr: sharia here we come...}"
- AFP
Can you say...Bangladesh, Pakistan, Kashmir, Judea and Samaria and Gaza aka 'Palestinian Territories', Chechnya, Kosovo...?
Philippines, oh Philippines, you are not about to *end* that Jihad; it has just gotten started, and by giving the jihadists that huge chunk of territory you have merely whetted their appetites for the rest of your country.
Break the suicidal agreement you've made with them - before *they* break it - and muster everything you've got and *annihilate* them. Now. Before *all* your bishops and priests and pastors, all over the Philippines, yes, even in Metro Manila itself, start getting letters exactly the same as those that Bishop Martin Jumoad has just received.
at July 23, 2008 1:41 AM
Time to go on a rampage.
Posted by: AryanMjolnir at July 23, 2008 3:03 AM
Hi all:
My view is quite simple. Cut off all the towns in the Mindano province from Isabela. Put up very high walls and onerous check points. Make the lives of the Moslem community as miserable as possible
When they become shrill tell them very bluntly: until they truly want to live in peace and publically denounce jihad, hudanas and taquiyya, they will live like this. So as long as they meekly do nothing to rid themselves of the jihadists and their fantasy world of ummas and other nonesense, they live isolated.
See how long they last with the isolation before they implode
xavier
Posted by: xavier at July 23, 2008 4:10 AM
It is too late for Phillipines, they have at lease 5% Muslims and growing fast. Islamization of the Phillipines is irreversible.
I would say to the bishop get out of there as fast as you can or face forced Islamization.
Posted by: American at July 23, 2008 11:36 AM
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