Islamophobia is breaking out in the Philippines! “If Bangsamoro, or ‘Moro Country’ with Moro being colloquial for ‘Muslim’, were ruled under sharia, non-Muslims would become second-class citizens with drastically reduced rights.” Muslim separatist groups have increased their deadly jihad attacks in recent years after decades of violence…
“Christians Fear Creation of Muslim Sub-State in Philippines,” Morning Star News, June 26, 2015:
President’s solution to decades of violence could cause more tensions, critics say.
MINDANAO, Philippines (Morning Star News) – Christians and others in the southern Philippines have expressed strong fears that legislation creating an Islamic sub-state on Mindanao Island will exacerbate religious tensions rather than resolve them.
The Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), proposed by President Benigno Aquino III last September with the aim of ending decades of Islamist rebel violence in Mindanao, was approved by a House Ad Hoc Committee on May 20 with 50 members voting yes, 17 voting no and one abstaining. The area, comprising five provinces with sizeable non-Muslim populations, already enjoys a measure of autonomy as the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), and the proposed BBL would give leaders sufficient independence to impose sharia (Islamic law).
“What President Aquino is doing is treasonous to Christian communities in Mindanao,” Rolly Pelinggon, national convener of Mindanaoans for Mindanao (M4M), told Morning Star News.
If Bangsamoro, or “Moro Country” with Moro being colloquial for “Muslim,” were ruled under sharia, non-Muslims would become second-class citizens with drastically reduced rights. Critics of the bill say it would render the federal government powerless to redress human rights abuses under Islamic law.
Pelinggon said the BBL would thus worsen Muslim-Christian conflict. Besides intensifying religious-cultural differences between Christians and Muslims, the BBL would also facilitate monopoly of oil and gas resources by vested groups in Mindanao, he said.
The BBL came about as part of a preliminary peace accord, the Bangsamoro Peace Framework Agreement (BPFA), between the Aquino administration and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebel group, but it has done little to reduce violence. The BPFA was signed in 2013 as a precursor to a final peace agreement. The government claimed there would be no more Muslim rebel attacks in Mindanao after it was signed, but in some areas violence has increased.
In Basilan Province of the ARMM, Muslim separatist groups raided the town of Maluso on June 1 and cut off the Water District Office, managed mostly by Christians. The municipality is now suffering from water crisis that has destabilized the local economy, while security forces have engaged in a firefight with rebels that put more than 20,000 civilians in evacuation centers.
In Pikit, Cotabato Province, two men aboard a motorcycle in October 2014 threw a grenade at a United Church of Christ congregation at the height of worship, killing a nurse and a teacher. The blast injured another teacher and two other businessmen. Separatist rebels have been active in North Cotabato for past 20 years.
In Zamboanga City, an anti-bomb squad of the Philippine Police detonated an Improvised Explosive Device on Oct. 11, 2014. The bomb was similar to previous devices manufactured by separatist rebels. Zamboanga is home to more than 100,000 evangelical Christians and Ebenezer Bible College and Seminary, one of the first Protestant Bible schools in the Philippines.
Zamboanga City Mayor Maria Isabella Climaco announced in public that Zamboanga will never be part of the BBL and is one of the country’s staunchest critics of the legislation.
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In Cotabato, indigenous tribal leader and village chieftain Jojo Sibug also told Morning Star News the BBL would aggravate religious conflict in Mindanao. Noting that the first inhabitants of Mindanao were the Manobo and other indigenous tribes, Sibug denied Islamic claims to the region.
“Our ancestors were already here even before Islam came to Mindanao,” he said. “This Philippine government should consider the welfare and plight of the indigenous tribes, and the Aquino administration should not only focus on one sector, but it should remember the indigenous people were also the first inhabitants of Mindanao.”
Tribal chiefs ruled Mindanao until the 1400s, when many of them embraced Islam after an Arab trader arrived to the island. In the 1900s, U.S. missionaries came to the Philippines and built a number of Christian schools in Mindanao. Many of the indigenous tribes embraced the evangelical Christian faith, including the ancestors of Sibug.
As part of the peace process, early this month the MILF surrendered 75 World War II firearms out of its 16,000 weapons to the government. Opposition Sen. Bongbong Marcos questioned why only 75 weapons were surrendered as part of the decommissioning process. Marcos presides over the Senate committee that conducts hearings on the BBL.
The fate of the BBL lies in the hands of the country’s 24 senators now deliberating the bill. A March poll found that 44 percent of Filipinos opposed the bill, and 22 percent supported it. In Mindanao, 62 percent of those surveyed opposed the bill.
Some have also questioned the 75 billion-peso (US$170 million) budget that would be allocated for the Bangsamoro government. Some critics believe that the MILF could use this huge amount to buy more sophisticated firearms to expand its control. By comparison, the Philippine military has a budget of only 15 billion pesos annually (between 2012 and 2017), or US$34 million.
In Manila, three archbishops, former National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales, former Sen. Francisco Tatad and the Philippine Constitution Assembly on June 19 filed a petition with the Supreme Court to nullify the March 2014 Comprehensive Agreement on Bangsamoro that gave rise to the BBL. The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the case.
While Christian leaders fear abuses if the BBL were passed into law, some lawmakers also warned there would be war if the BBL fails to pass. Rep. Tupay Loong of Sulu, a former member of the rebel Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), said in February that if the BBL is not passed, “the war will continue.”
The BBL measure was reportedly fast-tracked by bribes to lawmakers; the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported the accord was endorsed by a majority in Congress after lawmakers accepted US$10 million in bribes to endorse it to the Senate.
In spite of congressional denials, investigative journalist Christine Herrera, who first exposed the alleged $10 million in bribes, has said she stands by the story because no fewer than two high-ranking officials of Congress confirmed the wrongdoing.
Davao City Mayor Rodrigue Duterte said the BBL could increase chances of Christians getting caught between the MNLF and the MILF, who are fighting each other.
“What I don’t like about Manila is they make wrong decisions for Mindanao,” he recently told a national newspaper. “They act as if they know everything about our land, and then put us in jeopardy.”
JamesonRocks says
“Zamboanga City Mayor Maria Isabella Climaco… is one of the country’s staunchest critics of the legislation.”
Hopefully Mayor Climaco has a sound security detail.
pongidae rex says
It really does appear that among leaders of Western Democracies, terms of surrender to Islam are the only options realistically considered. The idea of waging a serious war of annihilation absent any ‘rules of engagement’ against this scourge is never considered. Even in the US and Europe, our Trillion dollar military is little more than a welcome mat and a ferry service for Muslim migrants into the West.
Sri Lanka once had a serious insurgency problem. They solved it the only way it can be solved. It was messy and brutal, but they no longer have an insurgency problem. There is a lesson there.
Babylonandon says
Wonder what Obama threatened Aquino with if he refused and what he offered for him to submit?
Wakeup says
No treaty with the kuffar is valid so basically negotiation with muslims is just a waste of time they will come back for more and more and more, just have a discussion with a brick wall or some cats or something, it will be far less stressful and will be just as valid.
A quote from Adolph Hitler ” he seemed such a nice old gentleman (Neville Chamberlin) I thought I would give him my autograph ”
Islam is evil we need to protect apostates preach and discuss against it and basically have a policy of de-islamification just as we did with with the de-nazification policy.
Just about everything is wrong with islam even farming ask yourself this why are almost all the muslim lands deserts.
Can I just say to all of us at Jihad watch God bless and protect us all Jesus be with you always. Amen
RG says
“Just about everything is wrong with islam even farming ask yourself this why are almost all the muslim lands deserts.”
Yeah, and the split second that Israel took control of her lands, she turned her deserts into ROSE GARDENS, VINEYARDS AND ORCHARDS! GO FIGURE!!!
Pere LaChaise says
Didn’t Israelis also pollute all the streams in their territory? Don’t make zionists out to be something more than just another self-interested faction. They just happen to have more talent and financing as bridgehead of USUK in Palestine.
Linda Rivera says
TAQIYYA. Muslim lies. Palestinian Authority Muslims are documented to pollute the water.
Non-Muslims are disgusted they are FORCED to finance the Palestinian Authority Muslim INHUMAN MONSTERS who celebrated with great joy and delight in the streets with dancing, firing into the air and giving out sweets, over the barbaric slaughter of our cherished 3,000 American innocents on 9/11. We will NEVER forget. Never.
somehistory says
God bless and protect us all Jesus be with you always. Amen
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Thank you, and same to you. Mankind is in a desperate situation. We certainly need His blessing and protection.
EYESOPEN says
Amen!
Angemon says
Let’s see:
– Islamic orthodoxy commands muslims to wage war as not to let non-muslims rule over people – not just over muslims but over people in general
– muslims in the Philippines, following islamic orthodoxy, waged jihad – armed warfare – to create their own sharia-ruled state
– If they get what they want, the message is that violence works and therefore they should keep waging jihad
shams78 says
The Filipinos are the aggressors and colonialist invaders who have been butchering, murdering, raping, and mutilating Moro Muslim women and children for decades and taking this after their previous Spanish and American colonial masters.
The Spanish imperialist-colonialist invaders initiated the aggression against the natives. First the Spanish began an unprovoked, vicious assault against the Muslim Kingdom of Maynila and murdered the King Rajah Sulayman. The Spanish used the sword to forcibly convert the native animist and Muslim peoples of Luzon and the Visayas. The Spanish continued their aggression and pillaged the capital of Brunei and burned Mosques to the ground.
Then the Spanish initiated the aggression against the animist Lumad and Muslim Moro natives of Mindanao. The Spanish launched the first assaults against the Moro Sulu Sultanate, Maguindanao Sultanate, and Sultanates of Lanao. Their attempted conquest against the Moro Muslims and Lumad animists failed as the Moros beat off their attacks and retaliated with raids deep into Luzon and the Visayas. After launching spectacular raids against the Spanish invaders, the Imperialists started whining about “Moro piracy” and claimed this was the excuse for their aggression even though the Spanish initiated the war and started the fire.
Non-Muslim, pagan Chinese allied with the Moro Muslims against the Spanish invader imperialist colonialist forces. Chinese were attacked and dsdcriminated against by the Spanish in Manila and the Spanish launched repeated pogroms against the Chinese parian ghetto in Manila. The Chinese responded by joining the Moros and fighting alongside them and shipping weapons like rifles to the Moro Sultanates and Datus.
Non-Muslim Chinese gun-runners repeatedly broke through the Spanish blockade and delivered shiploads of weapons to the Moros to help in their defense against naked Spanish aggression and invasion.
The Moro Sulu Sultanate was also an ally, tributary state, and protectorate of Imperial China. The Moro Sultanates sent tribute missions to the Ming and Qing dynasties in China and asked the Emperor of China to consider the Sulu Sultanate as his own territory to defend against the Spanish colonialist imperialists. China helped the spread of Islam to the Moros when Chinese junks ferried the Arab missionary Makhdum Karim to the Moros to preach Islam to them, and when Muslim admirals in the Ming dynasty naval helped spread Islam to the Moros. Muslim relatives of the Sulu Sultans live in Shandong province in China.
A Chinese community flourished in the Moro Sultanates. Chinese merchants set up a community in the Sultanates and in Jolo without any persecution and were able to build their own temple in the Moro Sulu capital of Jolo. It was the Spanish who continually persecuted them, attacked the Chinese community and burned their temples.
After the end of the Spanish rule the Americans continued the imperialist colonialist aggression and were even worse than the Spaniards. The Americans used trickery and deception, first signing the Bates Treaty with the Moro Sulu Sultanate, promising to leave them alone. After the Americans were done conquering the islands of Luzon and the Visayas and defeated Aguilnaldo’s Philippine Republic, the Americans then violated the Bates Treaty in 1904 and invaded the Moro lands unprovoked.
The Americans massacred and tortured Moro women and children. At the Moro Crater Massacre in the Battle of Bud Dajo the Americans massacred hundreds of women and children. America then illegally annexed the Moro Sultanate into the Philippine Commonwealth after the violation of the Bates Treaty like they violated countless treaties with Native Americans.
Moro warriors stood up and managed to take shots to their bodies head on from the weakling American invaders whose previously battle experience only consisted of massacring innocent Native American women and children. The weak American .38 caliber pistol could not stop a charging Moro juramentado before they reached the American. Americans were forced to introduced the Colt .45 pistol as their sidearm.
The Moros continued to revolt against Americans up to the Japanese invasion in 1941. Then the Moros proceeded to dispatch countless Japanese soldiers to the afterlife. Countless Japanese rapist corpses were missing ears, heads and other body parts at the hands of Moro Muslim Juramentados. The Moros crushed the Japanese in Mindanao and Sulu and defeated them mercilessly. Japanese soldiers suffered nightmares and were in constant fear of a full body disembowelment at the hands of the Moros.
Many of the weapons the Moros are using now against the Philippines occupation date to World War II and were used against Japanese.
After the Americans granted the Philippines independence, the Moros requested separate independence but when the Americans refused, the Moros decided to acquiesce despite the blatant illegality of the violation of the Bates Treaty and the illegal American invasion and annexation. The Moros gave a try at peace after 1945, but it was the Philippines which started the current round of war.
The native peoples of Mindanao are the Moro Muslims and Lumad animists. The Moros are the native tribes who converted to Islam. The Lumads are the native tribes who stayed as animists due to their living in inaccessible places. The Filipino Christians from Luzon and visayas on the other hand are colonialist-settlers occupiers and not native to Mindanao.
The Americans and the Philippines started a colonization movement to settle Filipino Christian colonialist settlers from the Luzons and Visayans, of Visayan (Cebuano) and other ethnic origins, upon Moro Muslim land and Lumad land in Mindanao and Sulu. Millions of Filipino Christian settlers flocked to steal the land from the Moros. In 1900 Moro Muslims were a majority in Mindanao. By the 1960’s they were a minority with Filipino Christian settler colonialist rapists numbering over 75%.
The Filipino Christian settlers would violently seize land from Moros without paying for it since the Philippine state declared Moro land as public land and gave land titles to the colonialists. The Filipino settlers used extreme violence against the natives and butchery.
Even then, the Moros were not rebelling. The final straw that broke the camel’s back was in 1968. The greedy Filipino Dictator-tyrant Marcos decided to invade Malaysia and seize Sabah from Malaysia and annex it. The Filipinos forcibly recruited Moros into a military unit and tried to force them to participate in the plan to invade Sabah. When the Moros refused, the Filipinos massacred them, in what became known as the Jabidah Massacre.
The Moro National Liberation Front then rose up in revolt against Dictator-Tyrant Marcos. The Philippine military decided to burn the entire city of Jolo to the ground in the 1970’s. The Philippine air force rained bombs on the city and the burning of the city killed over 10,000 innocent Moro and Chinese civilians and burned all the Chinese Temples and Mosques in the city.
The Philippine government aided in the creation of the Ilaga militia which was made out of Filipino Christian settler colonialists on Moro land. The Ilaga engaged in massacring Moro women and children, destroying Mosques, raping Moro women and girls, mutilation, and cannibalizing Moro women and children. They were supported by the Philippine government and army. They were infamous for their involvement in the Manili massacre at a Mosque where they killed innocent Moro civilian women and children.
The Philippine military engaged in countless massacres and atrocitiesbesides the burning of Jolo. They were responsible for the Tacub massacre, Malisbong massacre, Patikul massacre, and Pata Island massacre.
In the Malibsong massacre the Filipino soldiers attacked a Mosque, massacring Moro women and children, and took hundreds of Moro Muslim girls to a boat and raped them all.
It was after these invasions, conquests, treaty violations, colonization and settlement, and repeated massacres, mutilations, cannibalism, and rape that the Moros finally said enough was enough, and rose up in arms against the Philippines.
Chinese have historically supported the Moros. Chinese gun runners used to supply the Moro Sultanates and Datus with rifles. Alot of Chinese Triad gangs have connections to the Moro fighters now. The 14k Triad is connected and supported by ruling the Kuomintang (Nationalist) party on Taiwan and the 14k Triad supplies weapons to various Moro groups. Leland Yee and other Chinese Triads also act as arms dealers wit the Moros.
The 14K Triad was founded by Chinese Nationalist (Kuomintang) troops who fled to Hong Kong from the Communists after the end of the Chinese Civil War. The 14k Triad maintained connections to Taiwan and the Kuomintang. The Kuomintang was a big supporter of Triad groups like Tiandihui, 14k triad and Bamboo Union. President Chiang Ching-kuo in Taiwan once contracted a Bamboo Union gang member Chen Chi-li to assasinate the dissident Henry Liu in America. Not even mainland China has ever conducted assassinations on foreign soil.
14K triad operates in Hong Kong, Thailand and Sulu and Mindanao. Chinese Hui Muslims (Chin Haw) in northern Thailand in Chiang Mai process and manufacture heroin. Then the Hui export the heroin to the non-Muslim Han members of the 14k Triad in Southern Thailand. 14k Triad then sells heroin and then buys weapons, and ships the weapons to Moros in Sulu and Mindanao.
I don’t support Triads, heroin or arms trafficking. The reason I am highlighting this history so the less intelligent people here know that this isn’t about Islam vs non-believers, there is history and network of people including non-Muslims who are involved in this conflict.
After the Moros defeated the Japanese in World War II the Japanese settler colonialist occupiers were forced to return to Japan. Why should the Moros accept Filipino colonialist settlers who have been massacring their women and children, eating them, and raping their girls for decades?
Mindanao and Sulu belong to Moros, Lumads, and Chinese who settled their peacefully. Not to Filipino occupier colonialist settlers who massacre, eat, and rape innocent women and children.
Filipino Christian ilaga settler colonialists are mass murderers, rapists, terrorists and thugs just like the terrorist ISIS and terrorist Al-Qaeda.
Nimrod says
I completely reject your attempt to fabricate a casus belli. Your claims are completely and utterly false and invalid.
Here is the true casus belli used by all Muslims:
“But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war); but if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practise regular charity, then open the way for them: for Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.” Qur’an 9:5
Until Muslims repudiate Islam, all non-Muslims must reject any casus belli they attempt to fabricate as pure taqiyya since their real motivation is contained above. Everything else must be considered a completely false fabrication especially since their own doctrine tells them to fabricate casus belli to facilitate jihad.
Muslim claims must always be assumed to be lies until they repudiate, by their actions not just their words, their doctrine of eternal jihad and taqiyya which requires that they deny that Mohammad is a valid prophet. Otherwise they will be assumed to adhere to their anything goes, ends justifies the means of jihad, doctrine of eternal war.
Unfortunately Muslims also believe that it’s permitted to lie about belief in Islam in order to gain trust for purposes of war deception, so they must do more than talk. All mosques must be repurposed, all prayer rugs burned, qurans and scriptures burned, all reverence for the medieval warlord and con man Mohammad must end. Even then I would be unconvinced.
The Quran, Hadith, and Sirat all explicitly say “you can’t trust Muslims because they’re commanded to lie”. Anyone who trusts anything from a Muslim is a fool.
shams78 says
Nimwit, the Moro Muslims heavily mixed animism with their beliefs up until a century ago and still retain aspects of Hindu-Buddhist and animist culture. They used to pray to spirits and according to Arab Christian US Army medic Dr, Najeeb M Saleeby, most ordinary Moros did not even pray five times a day at the beginning of the 1900s because they were largely ignorant of religious doctrine. They still have plays based on Hindu Ramayana and they called their religious teachers as Pandita and used other Sanskrit terms as well.
Angemon says
shams78 posted:
“the Moro Muslims heavily mixed animism with their beliefs up until a century ago and still retain aspects of Hindu-Buddhist and animist culture.”
And despite that, they’re waging jihad for the sake of allah and demanding a state of their own where they can impose sharia law on everyone, much like the islamic state, boko haram or al shabaab, to name a few. Go figure…
shams78 says
Oh sure, they rose up for absolutely no good reason at all. All those massacres, rapes, mutilation, and cannibalism by the Filipino Ilaga settlers and Philippine army didn’t happen. Manili massacre, Malibsong massacre, Jabidah massacre, and burning of Jolo didn’t happen, they are figments of someone’s imagination.
Champ says
Anyone who trusts anything from a Muslim is a fool.
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Agreed, Nimrod! Succinct and to the point.
No Fear says
“The native peoples of Mindanao are the Moro Muslims and Lumad animists”
You lost your argument with that sentence.
shams78 says
Both Moros and Lumads are native to Mindanao. The Moros are the native tribes who converted to Islam. The Lumads are the native tribes who stayed animist.
However Filipino Christians from Luzon and the Visayas are invaders, colonists, and settlers on Mindanao.
Linda Rivera says
Barbaric mass murderer and huge sex slaver of non-Muslims, the founder of Islam, Mohammad, is regarded as the PERFECT MAN and role model by practicing Muslims. Mohammad taught Muslims to LIE and to DECEIVE. Mohammad declared: WAR IS DECEPTION.
Islam calls for the MASSIVE breaking of God’s Holy, Eternal Laws, especially the Commandment:
YOU SHALL NOT MURDER.
TheBuffster says
Crusader, you are an idiot.
KenW says
The Christians of the world need to take up arms and defend themselves and their religion. One of the Ten Commandments is ‘thou shalt not kill’. It means to not murder, not to, not defend ones family or self from satans hordes. The meek might inherit the earth but first we must save it from evil. The ideology of islam is pure satanic evil.
Linda Rivera says
The president and all those who support this great evil are huge traitors.
People guilty of treason used to be given the Death sentence in our countries. Tragically, the biggest traitors of all in our nations, are those at the very top.
Please God, don’t let this horrible evil come to pass! Our people are abandoned by those who are supposed to protect us!
Celtic says
No matter if one looks at the philippines, Thailand, China, France, the US, Israel or India:
Everywhere the religion of peace is creating violence and terror. Probably has nothing to do with Islam…