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2016-01-23 Southeast Asia

Christians form anti-Islamist vigilante group in Mindanao

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Posted by ryuge 2016-01-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
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#1 the philippines govt foolishly let the southern philippino provinces have sharia in return for a ceasefire

what is the matter with them has nobody told them what a hudna is???

Posted by anon1 2016-01-23 07:07|| 2016-01-23 07:07|| Front Page Top

#2 If you check the map, the Muslim population is down south far away from the looting and corruption in Manila which renders the government rather impotent in dealing with real problems.

I blame the Spanish who 'claimed' both the north and south of the archipelago when in fact they only had a tenuous presence in the south. The gullible yanks bought the claim when the took it over as part of the treaty ending the Spanish-American War. The 'troubles' with the Christian nationalists in the north were eventually resolved, but it would take a decade or more (to include a very nasty low intensity war) in dealing with the Moros (Muslims), who's primary economy was slaving and piracy. 50 years after the ACW, people weren't too tolerant of slaving even if the practitioners were Muslims. So the whole mess got bundled together to give the Filipinos this find opportunity to carry on after our departure.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-01-23 10:09|| 2016-01-23 10:09|| Front Page Top

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