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Philippines: Islamic State leaders torch the Christian school they graduated from

Jun 20, 2017 10:00 am By Robert Spencer

“We do not understand where that hate is coming from.”

I could give you a couple of hints.

“These [Marawi gunmen] are young people who have their own interpretation of the Quran and who do not respect their own elders.”

Their interpretation of the Qur’an is shared by innumerable Muslims worldwide. How did this misunderstanding of Islam become so widespread?

“Radicalized in Mideast, Maute brothers razed their Christian school,” AFP, June 19, 2017:

MARAWI CITY — Twenty years after obtaining Christian education, Muslim brothers Omarkhayam and Abdullah Maute returned to this Central Mindanao city with the black flags of the Islamic State (IS) group and set fire to their alma mater.

Hundreds of gunmen, many of them young locals recruited by the Maute brothers, destroyed Dansalan College in a rampage through Marawi City last month as they launched a brutal offensive to stamp their credentials as the IS leaders in the Philippines.

Their bold attack turned the Maute siblings, who are in their mid-30s, into the most infamous high school alumni of the Protestant Church-run institution, which had been a symbol of religious tolerance in the mostly Muslim city of 200,000 people.

The Maute brothers have since remained holed up in Marawi, using their local knowledge of tunnels and bombproof basements to withstand a military offensive that has left entire neighborhoods in ruins and claimed more than 300 lives.
Where is hate coming from?

“We do not understand where that hate is coming from,” said Zia Alonto Adiong, a member of the legislative assembly of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao that includes Marawi.

Duma Sani, a former dean of Mindanao State University whose daughter also went to Dansalan College with one of the Maute brothers, said most locals did not support their radical Islamic brand that mandated the killing of nonbelievers.

“These [Marawi gunmen] are young people who have their own interpretation of the Quran and who do not respect their own elders,” Sani told Agence France-Presse (AFP)….

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Philippines Tagged With: Abdullah Maute, Dansalan College, Marawi City, Omarkhayam Maute


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  1. marina says

    Jun 20, 2017 at 11:28 am

    “These [Marawi gunmen] are young people who have their own interpretation of the Quran ”

    No there is only one interpretation of the Quran . Read the Quran before making any judgement you fool.

    • mortimer says

      Jun 20, 2017 at 1:10 pm

      marina said: only one interpretation of the Koran.

      Would that be the Wahhabi interpretation or the Shi’ite interpretation? And, marina, on what INTELLECTUAL basis do YOU PERSONALLY claim to have the only CORRECT interpretation?

      What scholars support your ‘correctness’? Or are you just GUESSING?

      I think you are just ‘GUESSING’, are you not, marina?

      • marina says

        Jun 20, 2017 at 1:44 pm

        mortimer, I only know that Koran sanctions violence against non Moslems. So i thought these fanatics are literally following the exact words. I didn’t know about Wahabi or Shi’ite interpretation of the Koran. I mean how could these two sects interpret “kill whoever doesn’t believe in Allah ” differently.

      • Minutes1234 says

        Jun 21, 2017 at 4:17 pm

        Intellect is not present in islam.

    • p says

      Jun 21, 2017 at 6:41 am

      Lies….. for the infidel. They read the koran during ramadam, and are following the verses

  2. mortimer says

    Jun 20, 2017 at 1:06 pm

    ISLAM! The religion of BIGOTRY and BIGOTS who hate kafirs ‘for the sake of Allah’.

    -from ibn Taymiyya, “Book of Emaan”: “… true believers show animosity and hatred towards disbelievers and never support them.”

  3. peter hinks says

    Jun 20, 2017 at 2:31 pm

    the religion of peace .piece of you over here,piece of you over there.

  4. notmoron says

    Jun 20, 2017 at 4:15 pm

    That is the Islamic THANKSGIVING

    • p says

      Jun 21, 2017 at 6:42 am

      Thanks for giving us your country and daughters

  5. Eric says

    Jun 20, 2017 at 10:11 pm

    The current president of the Philippines Duterte talks so tough. What is he doing about this. Where is he now?

    Eric

    • Baucent says

      Jun 20, 2017 at 11:12 pm

      I sorry to say but Duterte is completely out of his depth on a number of different fronts. Fortunately his Generals are less inclined to reject US military assistance. But this Muslim insurgency problem that has been going on since the 1970’s was originally an ethnic/tribal/religious/criminal struggle that is morphing into a Jihadist war with a goal of a Caliphate. Other muslim nationalist groups have a truce with the government, but not the Jihadists.

  6. Arthur says

    Jun 20, 2017 at 10:55 pm

    “We don’t need no education,” not with the Quran around anyway.

  7. Carolyne says

    Jun 21, 2017 at 11:08 am

    I know there are people who don’tlike school, but this is ridiculous.

    • Minutes1234 says

      Jun 21, 2017 at 4:20 pm

      Not if you don’t have any.

  8. Debi Brand says

    Jun 21, 2017 at 1:47 pm

    …………………………………………..

    “These [Marawi gunmen] are young people who have their own interpretation of the Quran…. ”

    Such a darn shame, is it not? And to think of it, it is, seemingly, all because of those awful “extremist.”

    Those awful “extremist,” I can well imagine, just how they broke into Islamic publishing houses the world over, probably, in the middle of the night, and there taking their Moderate victims captive, binding and gagging them.

    Then, with the Moderates thus contained, the extremist went about changing all the “sacred text.”

    Therein making a liar and laughing stock of “Allah” and his claim to protect the Qur’an from manipulation and perversion.

    I can thus well imagine, once the said Moderates were freed, the “extremist” vanished, then, worn and walloped, tattered and torn, weary and wondering, the Moderates, all the same, had to get to work.

    Business was, after all, at the door.

    And so they sold those books just as the “extremist” had left them.

    Did so at Kitab Bhavan ,New Delhi ; Iman Publishing House, Bloomington, IN; Darussalam, Global Leader in Islamic Books, Riyadh, Jeddah, Al-Khobar, Sharjah, Lahore, London, Houston, New York; Maktaba-e-Darul- ‘Uloom, Karachi; Medinah Press, Cape Town, South Africa; The Islamic Texts Society, UK.

    Did so at …..

    Read the rest at : http://www.debibrand.org/where-in-this-world-did-all-these-perverted-translation-of-quran-come-from/

  9. Minutes1234 says

    Jun 21, 2017 at 4:23 pm

    Islam is a pack of lies.

    That is it.

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