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Philippines: Authorities surprised by Filipino jihad suicide bomber, thought suicide bombing “against local culture”

Jul 3, 2019 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

“Confirmation that the attack involved a Filipino would mark a major escalation in terror tactics in the Southeast Asian nation, where authorities had long said suicide bombings went against local culture, analysts said.”

This is yet another illustration of the cost of authorities’ refusal to consider Islam as a motivating factor behind such phenomena as suicide bombing. They should have known that whatever “local culture” said about the matter, a zealous Muslim such as Norman Lasuca would consider cultural norms to be overrun by Qur’anic dictates:

“Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties, for that they will have Paradise. They fight in the cause of Allah, so they kill and are killed.” (Qur’an 9:111)

“Filipino’s Family Identifies Body Tagged by Military as Suicide Bomber,” by Jeoffrey Maitem and Jojo Rinoza, Benar News, July 2, 2019:

The Philippine military on Tuesday named an alleged Filipino militant as one of two suicide bombers who detonated explosives while trying to enter a military camp on southern Jolo island last week, killing themselves and six people.

Maj. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana identified the bomber as Norman Lasuca, 23, whose father was a Muslim convert and whose mother is a member of the island’s Tausug ethnic group.

“He is Filipino. This is hard for his family because they last saw him in 2014, according to the father,” Sobejana told BenarNews.

Confirmation that the attack involved a Filipino would mark a major escalation in terror tactics in the Southeast Asian nation, where authorities had long said suicide bombings went against local culture, analysts said.

Sobejana, the Western Mindanao Command chief, said family members had identified Lasuca by his head, which was severed in the blast. He said DNA tests would be conducted to confirm Lasuca’s identity.

Military officials said one of the two bombers managed to sprint past the gate of the 1st Battalion Combat Team in Jolo’s Indanan town and shouted “Allahu Akbar,” the Arabic phrase for “God is Great,” before setting off his vest packed with explosives. The other militant, who has not been identified, set off his bomb at the gate, killing three soldiers and three civilians.

The blasts injured 22 people, including 12 soldiers, authorities said.

Military intelligence reports indicate that Lasuca joined an Abu Sayyaf faction controlled by Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan, a religious elder identified by the U.S. Defense Department as the new head of Islamic State in the Philippines….

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  1. Prabh says

    Jul 3, 2019 at 12:01 pm

    Very few persons understand Islam: Dr Robert Spencer is one such person. And I too unfortunately understand globalistIslam. There is a Zarathustran prophecy that eventually almost all Muslims will revert to Sublime path of Noble Zarathustran ideals, namely good thoughts good words good deeds. Best thought in my experience is Mantra. German philosophers went crazy trying to figure out what is good thought. Soho discusses this phenomenon of philosophical induced insanity.I admire Zarathustran idealism and idealogy and their holidays: Novruz Lohri origin is ScythoPersian, but I find most comfort in Vedanta Sikhi Gautam Buddh etc pure Islam is not a problem but the problem is anthropological: certain racial groups and ethnicities r prone to violence. The wars in NW India were over tyranny not religion.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 3, 2019 at 9:46 pm

      More claptrap from Prabh:

      pure Islam is not a problem but the problem is anthropological: certain racial groups and ethnicities r prone to violence. The wars in NW India were over tyranny not religion.
      ………………………..

      What rot. Islam preaches savagery against the unbeliever. Pretending this is not so is ludicrous.

      As for India, Muslims invaded and slaughtered up to 80 million people there. The only tyranny there was Islamic tyranny against Infidels.

      And Prabh’s constant claims that Jihad terror is racial and has nothing to do with Islam makes no sense whatsoever–in many places Muslims and their Infidel victims are of similar or identical ethnicity.

      This is true in India, where most Muslims are of the same ethnic heritage as are their Hindu and Sikh victims; in Thailand where most Muslims are of the same ethnic heritage as are their Buddhist victims; and in Nigeria and the Philippines, where most Muslims are of the same ethnic heritage as are their Christian victims.

      By the way, the appalling Prabh has praised Anjem Chaudary for preaching violent Jihad against Britons, because he is supposedly defending “whiteness”. How attacking mostly white Britons accomplishes this he does not, of course, say–nor does he say why Muslims of other races wage identical Jihad.

  2. Prabh says

    Jul 3, 2019 at 12:03 pm

    Correction: soho is mistake
    Osho is correct.
    I repeat: Osho not soho
    Hippie is problem
    HippieHinduism is Not DharmKarm.

  3. Prabh says

    Jul 3, 2019 at 12:04 pm

    Correction:
    Not soho

    “Osho”

  4. Prabh says

    Jul 3, 2019 at 12:05 pm

    Osho not soho

  5. Angemon says

    Jul 3, 2019 at 2:44 pm

    Maj. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana identified the bomber as Norman Lasuca, 23, whose father was a Muslim convert and whose mother is a member of the island’s Tausug ethnic group.

    Perhaps he was a convert by convenience – he converted simply to be able to marry a muslima. If so, it’s all the same for the child, who grew up as a muslim.

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    Jul 3, 2019 at 2:59 pm

    Such a murderous bombing, as in the Philippines , in which a Muslim terrorist has become dangerous to self and others does raise an important question is “Why are the jihadist bombers, so very, delusional that they actually want to become human bombs? ”

    Some of the reasons are that such violent and deadly people are the outcome of the extreme brainwashing that is done in Islamic mind programming centers which are more widely known as mosques and madrasas, by the Muslim clerics, such as the imams and in some countries as Afghanistan and Iran also the mullahs. In those Islamic mind programming centers youth are thoroughly indoctrinated into believing in the Islamic doctrine from the Koran. as found in 44;54. 55:56. 78:31.., of a sexual/lust filled paradise with many virgins, houris, in it for the Muslim male who dies fighting for the cause of Islam in the jihad. First and foremost, those who come out of those places of extreme brainwash are so very warped, sick and deluded that they actually view such murderous bombing attacks as “martyrdom operations”

    Likewise, they are so very damaged that they have literally become dangerous to self and others. In addition, the Bible does warn about false teachers who ingrain a belief in a doctrine of a story of a /lustful/lust-filled place with much sex in it. For the Bible warns about false teachers, the Muslim clerics do fit this description, in Second Peter 2:18. Which reads “For they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh…” Furthermore, many a times a jihad –minded Muslim in his death recording talks about “the wedding with the virgins” that he will have after he becomes a “martyr.” Such a belief Jesus would denounce as being based on false doctrine and false teaching. For Jesus taught “Ye do err, not knowing the scripture, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angles in heaven.” Mathew 22:29, 30. In contrast to the delusional Islamic pipe-dream of the jihadist in the Koranic story/doctrine of a place with virgins, Christians have the reality of Second Peter 1:16. Which reads “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ…” [K.J.V.]

    • David Grisez says

      Jul 3, 2019 at 7:01 pm

      Islam is an evil deceptive ideology. These Muslims that kill themselves in a suicide bombing think that they will receive a lust filled paradise, when instead they will receive the eternal punishment of hell.

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    Jul 3, 2019 at 3:02 pm

    As in this in this case example in the Philippines in which Muslims who are jihad suicide bombers may actually be better called Jihad suicide-homicide jihad bombers are as deluded as they was dangerous and murderous. For they must had actually believed by that by their murdering jihad bombing he was going to obtain for himself a paradise. The more fool them. For the Bible teaches that a murder “shall not inherit the kingdom of God. ” Galatians 5:21.

    In addition the falsehood of the story of the doctrine from the Koran, the Qu ‘ran, Sura 44:54. 55:56. 78:31, of a sexual /lust-filled paradise with many virgins, houris, in it for certain men Muslim men is a falsehood the is a story /doctrine is this also absurd. The Bible warns against listening to and believing in unproven, unfounded and far-fetched religious stories. No matter how enticing those religious story /doctrines may be . For the Bible warns against giving “heed to fables…” First Timothy 1:4. Furthermore, the Bible had predicted the coming of such false religious teachers, as those imams, who teaches other a story/doctrine of a lust-filled /lust-fill place for specific men. For the Bible reads “”For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but will after their own lust shall heap to themselves teachers ,having itching ears; and they shall turn their ears for the truth ,and shall be turned unto fables.” Second Timothy 4:3,4. [K.J.V.]

  8. gravenimage says

    Jul 3, 2019 at 9:31 pm

    Philippines: Authorities surprised by Filipino jihad suicide bomber, thought suicide bombing “against local culture”
    ……………………

    What a lot of twaddle:

    “Defense chief admits suicide bombings becoming ‘more frequent’ in PH”

    https://cnnphilippines.com/news/2019/7/1/Delfin-Lorenzana-Sulu-blast-suicide-bombing.html?fbclid=IwAR0C46_gRX5McVrFz1OLvM2z1K1I-vuXsxMWSXl5KxaN4UaQFN3lOju0sxk

  9. Joe says

    Jul 4, 2019 at 6:09 am

    The “defense chief” thought “local culture” would prevent jihad? That makes me think of a line from “A Bug’s Life”. “You mean are entire defensive strategy was concocted by a bunch of clowns?”

  10. WPM says

    Jul 4, 2019 at 9:28 am

    I guess the current president of the Philippines appeasement policy for the local violent jihad minded Moslem population is not working out too well. He is too busy have his armed forces , and local police shooting drug addicts and harmless pot smokers .Or anyone who speaks out against him labeling them either a drug users or smuggler then having them shot or put in jail to rot. What is common no matter what the “local culture” is be it western Europe ,Africa ,or South East Asia, the Americas where you have Moslems you have violent Jihad against the other local culture ,be they Christian ,Hundi , Jewish, or any other religious or non-Moslem culture .If you have only Moslems then you have tribal warfare against different kinds or Moslems ,or not Moslem enough .or different villages or families .

  11. James C. says

    Jul 4, 2019 at 12:48 pm

    The stupidity of the appeasers is without limit. And they are in charge !

  12. Battle says

    Jul 4, 2019 at 5:37 pm

    Walter Sieruk hits nail on head. Good.

  13. Marigold says

    Jul 5, 2019 at 1:30 am

    What radical Islam has done in the Phillipines is a tragedy on a massive scale according to Aid to the Church in Need.However, it is hardly mentioned in the Australian MSM considering how many Filipinos live here.That would be because they are Catholic and the Australian MSM hates Catholicism.Yet today I couldn’t help noticing the extensive coverage the ABC has given to the Muslim population persecuted in China.

    In contrast the coverage given to the FIVE month Marawi siege which left a thousand people dead and 27,000 people including 8,00 children displaced wouldn’t have left much of an impression on the viewers. The suffering from that is still going on today.

    I have no doubt that once again it is the fear of being accused of Islamophobia which drives what and how much the MSM covers.

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