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Philippines: Muslims murder seven Christian farmers in Christmas eve raids

Dec 24, 2015 12:29 pm By Robert Spencer

Will the Islamophobia never end?

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“Philippine Muslim guerrillas murder seven in Christmas eve raids,” AFP, December 24, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

At least seven Christian farmers have been killed as Muslim guerrillas launched a series of attacks in the troubled southern Philippines, the military says.

The fighters of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) seized the seven and then killed them in a series of raids on the island of Mindanao where Christian-Muslim conflicts have seethed for decades.

About 150 fighters of the BIFF launched assaults in different, mainly-Christian, towns before dawn, local military commander Colonel Ricky Bunayog said.

“They abducted farmers and then killed them. When we attempted to recover their bodies, they fired on us,” he said in the southern town of Tukuran, one of the the group’s targets.

He said that four of the guerrillas were reportedly also slain in the fighting about 775 kilometres south of Manila but villagers said their bodies were carried off by their comrades.

The attackers had since dispersed but the military was planning a “counter-action,” Mr Bunayog said, although he would not disclose details.

BIFF spokesman Abu Misry Mama confirmed they were behind the attacks, saying it was over a land dispute. He would not elaborate.

In Manila, military spokesman Colonel Restituto Padilla said the guerrillas may have launched the attack “to make a statement,” ahead of the Christian holiday of Christmas.

The Philippines is overwhelmingly Christian but has a Muslim minority that claims the south as their homeland.

The BIFF split from the main Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), in 2008.

It has opposed a peace process between the Government and the MILF for the creation of a Muslim autonomous area in the south and has vowed to keep fighting for a separate Islamic State (IS).

Last year, the BIFF uploaded clips on YouTube showing one of its leaders pledging support for the IS organisation, the jihadist group that has seized a large swathe of territory in Iraq and Syria.

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  1. Gary says

    Dec 24, 2015 at 12:53 pm

    Islam, doing what it does best: Rob – Steal – Kill – Destroy

    …..Like father like son

    I long for the day when the father of all lies is crushed by the Prince of Peace, and the, “Religion of Peace”, no longer exists.

  2. sal says

    Dec 24, 2015 at 1:04 pm

    When will Obama start talking about the worldwide Christian genocide perpetrated by muslims?

    • John says

      Dec 24, 2015 at 1:47 pm

      The only time we are likely to witness Obama recognise the Christian genocide is when he is put on trial for Conspiracy to commit genocide. A crime for which there is ample evidence.

    • Shane says

      Dec 25, 2015 at 9:49 am

      Obama won’t do that; he is a good dhimmi who will not stand for any insults to Islam.

  3. Linde Barrera says

    Dec 24, 2015 at 1:40 pm

    To Gary and sal- Well stated. Thank you both.

  4. mortimer says

    Dec 24, 2015 at 7:57 pm

    We pray for the persecuted Christians everywhere Muslims attack them with demonic hatred.

    This will soon be the new normal all over Europe and North America and Australia where misguided cultural Marxists have invited the noble savages to destroy Western civilization.

    They will destroy or do their worst trying.

  5. Angemon says

    Dec 24, 2015 at 8:04 pm

    Muslims being muslims and enacting what’s ordered in the quran.

  6. Matthieu Baudin says

    Dec 24, 2015 at 8:33 pm

    It must get really hot for those girls dressed up in mobile tents while living near the equator. I wonder what the incidence of rickets might be with them starved of sunlight and vitamin D. And then there is heat stroke to consider, normally rare in the young but looking like a dangerous possibility with all that extra clothing. I

    slam is like a bubble enclosing its adherents while at strange odds with the environment that surrounds it.

    Nevertheless, with all that said, I wish all the young girls and boys of the southern Philippines a Merry Christmas at this special time of the year.

    • Matthieu Baudin says

      Dec 24, 2015 at 8:35 pm

      It must get really hot for those girls dressed up in mobile tents while living near the equator. I wonder what the incidence of rickets might be with them starved of sunlight and vitamin D. And then there is heat stroke to consider, normally rare in the young but looking like a dangerous possibility with all that extra clothing.

      Islam is like a bubble enclosing its adherents while at strange odds with the environment that surrounds it.

      Nevertheless, with all that said, I wish all the young girls and boys of the southern Philippines a Merry Christmas at this special time of the year.

  7. Louis ramirez says

    Dec 24, 2015 at 10:28 pm

    Muslims do not come to Co-exist but to conquer. It is not a religion but a political system, until the west acknowledges this it is cultural suicide. Read their history and tactics they are out to conquer!

  8. Jeremiah says

    Dec 25, 2015 at 1:11 am

    It is not a Muslim-Christian fight. It is a Muslim ambush, as always.

  9. gabi says

    Dec 25, 2015 at 6:43 am

    Well then, if a disease strikes you, strike it back! It’s so hard to kill some bastards who want you dead? Human rights? Well, it’s a war; we’ll talk about their rights after we win the war.

  10. Mark A says

    Dec 25, 2015 at 1:46 pm

    150 heavily armed combatants sent into a farming district over a “land dispute” with farmers. Yeah right; that doesn’t sound like a “land dispute” in the conventional sense of the term.

    Of course if the “land dispute” is along the lines outlined in the Koran, which advocates war against the unbelievers (i.e. the Christian farmers) and seizure of the unbelievers’ land, women, children, possessions……….

  11. James Davis says

    Dec 25, 2015 at 3:23 pm

    Obumma & his Muslim Crew, should be –
    brought up on treason charges, convicted &
    punished accordingly. The RINO wimps will
    never impeach them as they are just as guilty , themselves. They have aided & abetted treason & the absolute destruction
    of the U.S.’S. THE SUPREME COURT & THE
    IRS should be abolished.

  12. robm says

    Dec 25, 2015 at 8:00 pm

    re; San Beradino…the gun loaner, enriquez? is he a Filipino?…..are his parents from there?

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