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Philippines: Muslims wound twelve with homemade bomb — “They just set off bombs in civilian communities and it doesn’t matter to them who gets hit”

Feb 2, 2014 3:53 pm By Robert Spencer

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They’re all just Infidels. “Suspected Filipino rebels set off bomb; 12 wounded,” from The Associated Press, February 1:

MANILA, Philippines — A homemade bomb that was likely set off by Muslim rebels in the southern Philippines on Saturday wounded 12 people, including six soldiers and two television journalists, the military said.

The blast happened near an area where government troops have been battling Muslim insurgents who broke away from a larger rebel group after it signed a peace deal with the government.

The victims, including two TV journalists, were hit by shrapnel in Maguindanao province’s Datu Saudi Ampatuan township, but their injuries were not life-threatening, said regional military spokesman Col. Dickson Hermoso.

A reporter and a cameraman for the local TV5 network were reporting near the site of an earlier explosion, which flattened the tires of a military armored vehicle. They were following soldiers in two other armored vehicles when a second bomb exploded about 45 minutes later, wounding the journalists, six soldiers, and four civilians.

The network said in a statement that the journalists will be flown back to the capital, Manila.

The explosions came three days after troops captured a rebel stronghold with bomb-making and training facilities. The bombs are typically fashioned from unexploded mortars and rocket-propelled grenades triggered remotely by cellphones.

“That is their signature based on what we have recovered from their camp,” Hermoso said. “They just set off bombs in civilian communities and it doesn’t matter to them who gets hit, and this is an example.”

Since Monday, at least 52 insurgents and one soldier have been killed in the fighting, he said.

The rebels belonging to the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement are fighting to establish an independent state and broke away from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, which has agreed to a deal granting them greater autonomy in the southern Philippines. The talks to end four decades of Muslim rebellion in the predominantly Roman Catholic nation’s south were concluded last week in Malaysia.

The Philippine government is also battling other rebel groups, including the smaller but more brutal Abu Sayyaf, which is notorious for bombings, ransom kidnappings and beheadings.

President Benigno Aquino III has said the new peace deal would bring the government and the 11,000-strong main Moro rebel group together to pursue outlaws who have long thrived in the conflict.

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  1. mortimer says

    Feb 2, 2014 at 4:12 pm

    Misunderstanding Islam? What again? The list keeps growing! Even those nice, cute Filipinos? Suicide bombings?

    What happened? Didn’t the blame the US or Israel for their ‘grievance’?

    • InfidelWarrior says

      Feb 5, 2014 at 6:46 pm

      Lol. I wonder how that wuss David Cameron would respond to this? I know,”This is not Islam because Islam is a peaceful religion.” Really?

    • froiman says

      Mar 22, 2014 at 3:22 am

      i composed this song for the oppress muslim in mindanao

  2. mortimer says

    Feb 2, 2014 at 4:12 pm

    Misunderstanding Islam? What again? The list keeps growing! Even those nice, cute Filipinos? Suicide bombings?

    What happened? Didn’t they blame the US or Israel for their ‘grievance’?

  3. jj says

    Feb 3, 2014 at 1:09 pm

    Islam is a declaration of war on each one of us,…You are directly or indirectly concerned whether you like it or not, whether you admit it or not…you are put in this war despite yourself , and you have to fight to survive, you have to fight to save your beloved ones….Staying passive means death, if it’s not your death now, it’ll be the death of your children and grand children after you…..Learn how to fight, learn how to defend yourself, your country, your people, and your future.
    every patriotic American Britain and all of Europe need to make this post go virile! it’s your life and country at risk from theses low life bottom sub human bottom feeders!pedophiles are not welcome in the sane world GOD fearing world!

    • InfidelWarrior says

      Feb 5, 2014 at 6:52 pm

      Just as sad is when these Christians are doing the Lord’s will by not fighting back to defend themselves. We need to fight against Tyranny & Terrorism.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czm2mpb_EEU

      > > >

      • InfidelWarrior says

        Feb 5, 2014 at 6:53 pm

        Or I mean to say that they BELIEVE that it is right to not fight back and defend oneself. Which is cowardly.

  4. gravenimage says

    Feb 3, 2014 at 7:15 pm

    Philippines: Muslims wound twelve with homemade bomb — “They just set off bombs in civilian communities and it doesn’t matter to them who gets hit”
    ……………………………

    This is exactly the same thing that is going on in southern Thailand—and in western China, and sub-Saharan Africa, and so many other places. Islam has bloody borders.

    More:

    “That is their signature based on what we have recovered from their camp,” Hermoso said. “They just set off bombs in civilian communities and it doesn’t matter to them who gets hit, and this is an example.”
    ……………………………

    This is the essence of Jihad.

    More:

    The rebels belonging to the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement are fighting to establish an independent state and broke away from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, which has agreed to a deal granting them greater autonomy in the southern Philippines. The talks to end four decades of Muslim rebellion in the predominantly Roman Catholic nation’s south were concluded last week in Malaysia.

    The Philippine government is also battling other rebel groups, including the smaller but more brutal Abu Sayyaf, which is notorious for bombings, ransom kidnappings and beheadings.

    President Benigno Aquino III has said the new peace deal would bring the government and the 11,000-strong main Moro rebel group together to pursue outlaws who have long thrived in the conflict.
    ……………………………

    How insane *is this*? These are two prongs of the same Jihad. Muslims gain more power and are able to impose greater aspects of Shari’ah, while at the same time “splinter groups” battle for outright victory—which will probably result in greater concessions to the “moderates”.

    What fools these dhimmis be!

  5. dad says

    Feb 3, 2014 at 11:43 pm

    I am enjoying the peace promised by Aquino. Could it be someone “Lied to him?” Anyone know what taqiyya means?

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