American and Philippines demographic engineering against Moro Muslims

[Wholegrain]

Guide to the Philippines conflict

BBC News - Guide to the Philippines conflict

8 October 2012

Guide to the Philippines conflict

The southern Philippines has a long history of conflict, with armed groups including Muslim separatists, communists, clan militias and criminal groups all active in the area.


Three groups comprise the Muslim separatists - the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Abu Sayyaf. The MILF and the Abu Sayyaf are breakaway factions of the MNLF.

The communist insurgency, on the other hand, is propagated by the Communist Party of the Philippines' (CPP) military wing, the New People's Army (NPA).

Most of the conflict in the south is in the remote islands of central Mindanao, especially on Basilan and Jolo.

BBC News looks at the main rebel groups.

Moro National Liberation Front

In Mindanao, the followers of Islam - referred to as Moros or Moors by the Spaniards during the colonial period - make up a sizeable part of the population.

Nur Misuari founded the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in 1971, with the goal of fighting the Philippine state for an independent Moro nation.

An intervention by the UN-backed Organization of Islamic Conference - later called the Organization of Islamic Cooperation - led to the signing of the often-referred to Tripoli Agreement in Libya in 1976. This agreement, however, failed to hold.

In 1986, President Corazon Aquino personally met Misuari to hold talks. In 1989, Ms Aquino signed a law that gave predominantly Muslim areas in the region a degree of self-rule, setting up the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).


The MNLF signed a significant peace agreement with the government in 1996
The ARMM is composed of the mainland provinces of Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur, and the island provinces of Sulu, Tawi-Tawi and Basilan.

But the significant peace agreement with the MNLF was signed in 1996, with President Fidel Ramos. This paved the way for Misuari to run for office and he was elected as ARMM governor the same year.

His term however ended in violence in November 2001, when he led a failed uprising. He was subsequently jailed, but eventually released, in 2008.

In February 2005, supporters loyal to Misuari launched a series of attacks on army troops in Jolo, the largest of the Sulu islands.

The trigger for the violence was thought to be the launch of a huge military operation to target the armed Muslim group Abu Sayyaf - which is alleged to have ties with the Misuari faction.

In August 2007, the group said it was behind an ambush on troops in Jolo, which led to nearly 60 deaths.

In 2008, Misuari was ousted as MNLF chairman. Muslimim Sema succeeded him.

Over the years, the MNLF is believed to have become weaker, and many factions have splintered from the main group.

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front is considered the country's largest Muslim rebel group. It was formed in 1981 after its leader, Salamat Hashim, split from the MNLF in 1978.

The MILF has had a long-term aim of creating a separate Islamic state in the southern Philippines.


The MILF is mostly based in remote islands in central Mindanao
Since 1997, the group has had a series of peace talks with the Philippine government, most of which were brokered by Malaysia from 2003 onwards.

In 2008, the government under President Gloria Arroyo said it had reached an agreement with the MILF on the boundaries for a Muslim homeland.

However the Philippine Supreme Court ruled that the draft agreement was unconstitutional and the failure of negotiations prompted renewed fighting.

President Benigno Aquino held talks with MILF leaders in Tokyo in 2011 to speed up the peace process.

On 7 October, he announced that the government had reached a framework peace agreement with the MILF after talks in Malaysia.

The agreement is expected to be formally signed on 15 October and a "comprehensive deal" reached by the end of the year.

The approval of the law will be through a plebiscite, with a final peace deal expected before Mr Aquino ends his presidency in 2016, officials say.

The agreement calls for the formation of a new, larger autonomous region in Mindanao to be named Bangsamoro after the Muslims living there.

Some key points include the gradual decommissioning of MILF forces, a guarantee of democratic and human rights, and the expansion of Sharia courts for Muslim residents.

The Abu Sayyaf

The Abu Sayyaf is the smallest and most radical of the Islamic separatist groups in the southern Philippines. They are known to carry out kidnappings for ransom and bombings to achieve their stated goal of an independent Islamic state in Mindanao and the Sulu islands.

The government views the rebels as little more than criminals and refuses to hold any form of talks with them.

Abu Sayyaf - which means "Bearer of the Sword" in Arabic - split from the MNLF in 1991 under the leadership of Abdurajik Abubakar Janjalani, who was killed in a clash with Philippine police in December 1998.

His younger brother, Khadafi Janjalani, followed as leader. He was also killed by Philippine troops in September 2006.

Reports in June 2007 said Abu Sayyaf had chosen Yasser Igasan, one of the group's founders, to succeed Janjalani as leader.

Both the MNLF and MILF have condemned the Abu Sayyaf's activities, and the US has included the group in its list of "terrorist" organisations, saying it has links with Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.


The Abu Sayyaf is a breakaway faction from the MNLF
Nationwide support for the Abu Sayyaf is limited, but analysts say many locals in its stronghold areas of Jolo and Basilan tolerate the rebels and even work for them, attracted by the prospect of receiving lucrative ransom payments.

US troops have been helping the Philippine military fight the Abu Sayyaf, although they are limited to a training and advisory position because the Philippine Constitution bans foreign troops from taking part in actual combat.

In June 2002, US-trained Philippine commandos tried to rescue three hostages held on Basilan island. Two of the hostages - one an American citizen - were killed in the resulting shootout.

The group has also claimed responsibility for a series of bomb attacks over the years, including an attack on a passenger ferry in Manila Bay in February 2004 that killed 100 people.

From 2008 to 2011, the group conducted a series of kidnappings for ransom. Kidnap victims include a group of Filipino journalists in 2008; foreign members of the International Committee of the Red Cross in 2009; and two Filipino-Americans in 2011.

All of the victims have been released. In some cases, it was not clear whether ransom had been paid.

An Australian man, kidnapped in 2011, is currently still in captivity.

Since launching a major operation in August 2006 against the Abu Sayyaf, Manila has claimed a series of successes - including the deaths of Khadafi Janjalani and senior leaders Abu Sulaiman, also known as Jainal Antal Sali in 2007, and Albader Parad in 2010.

In December 2009, Philippine officials said that they had arrested an Abu Sayyaf founder - Abdul Basir Latip - who was allegedly been involved in kidnapping foreigners and Christians.

Abdul Basir Latip has also been accused of forging links between Abu Sayyaf and other militant Islamist groups, such as Jemaah Islamiah and al-Qaeda.

The New People's Army

The New People's Army (NPA) is the military wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), which was established in 1969 by Jose Maria Sison.

The CPP - considered as one of the oldest communist insurgencies in the world - aims to overthrow the Philippine government using guerrilla-style warfare.

The insurgency waged by the NPA over the years is reported to be one of the deadliest in the Philippines, with local reports putting the number at least 40,000. The group is listed on the Foreign Terrorist Organisation list of the US State Department.

While the CPP was initially established with Maoist leanings and modelled after the agrarian revolution, the Communist Party of China had said in 2011 that they no longer support the CPP.

The CPP had its heyday in the 1980s during Martial Law, but its influence has since waned.


Talks between the government and the NPA have been touch and go
Analysts estimate that the NPA currently has at least 10,000 members. They have been credited with the kidnappings of locals and foreigners, extortion and killings.

Many of the NPA's senior figures - including founder Jose Maria Sison - live in self-imposed exile in the Netherlands and claim to direct operations from there.

Talks between the CPP's political arm and the government have been sporadic over the years.

In 2004, a peace process was revived, with representatives of the rebel group meeting government officials in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. But peace talks were suspended after rebels blamed the government for their inclusion in the US list of terrorist groups.

In August 2007, Sison was indicted in the Netherlands for ordering the murders of two former communist associates - Romulo Kintanar in 2003 and Arturo Tabara in 2004 - but the charges have since been dropped.

The Armed Forces of the Philippines in 2011 declared at least 23 provinces free from the NPA. The CPP refutes the claim.

The most recent high-profile formal talks between the government and the CPP were in Oslo in 2011. However, an agreement has yet to be reached.

 

[Zero_wing]

Again disinformation due to the fact that taiwan imperial are being ignore

 

[Wholegrain]

If war breaks out between China and the Philippines, the Moro National Liberation Front may resume hostilities against the Philippines. They only agreed to a ceasefire and not a permanent peace agreement and are still armed.

IMPACT OF POSSIBLE CHINA-PHILIPPINES WAR WITHIN FILIPINO-MORO WAR IN MINDANAO - MNLF Official Website

EDITORIAL
11 August 2012

BANGSAMORO HISTORICAL NOTES

IMPACT OF POSSIBLE CHINA-PHILIPPINES WAR
WITHIN FILIPINO-MORO WAR IN MINDANAO



SHORT PROLOGUE

What is the possibility of Philippine colonialism going to war with powerful China while still waging a genocidal war against the colonized Bangsamoro people of Mindanao?

Can Philippines afford to battle with both the colonized people of Mindanao and the emerging global superpower China whose historical rights, respectively, on Sulu Sea and South China Sea are being usurped and challenged by a "corrupt" and "fabricated Philippine State" from inception?

PART I - WHAT AILS THE FILIPINO NATION?

History cannot erase the fact that the "Philippine Republic" was only formed in July 4, 1946 by both American and Filipino conspirators, who totally ignored the vehement series of protestation of the Bangsamoro people of Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan (MINSUPALA) to be part and parcel of the Christian Catholic Filipino nation. The compelling reason was that the Muslims or Moros were sovereign and independent, and distinctly different in religion, culture and historical heritage from the Spanish descent Catholic Filipinos and Christianized Indios. Clearly, the Philippine Republic was manufactured by unscrupulous American and Filipino politicians to extinct the Bangsamoro and Igorot peoples and treacherously to land-grab their ancestral lands akin to the Indian Nations of North America. Thus, the eventual ugly consequence is the decades-long blood-letting between the Bangsamoro freedom fighters and the colonial Filipino military occupation forces in Mindanao today.

Conscious of the duplicity and wickedness displayed in the 1930s by the power-hungry Filipino politicians spearheaded by Manuel L. Quezon and political ilks, the Muslim leaders in the Bangsamoro homeland of Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan strongly demanded for their fundamental human rights to freedom and independence, determining even to remain within the political ambit of the United States of America (USA). But never under Philippine colonial rule. However, their appeal for national self-determination was completely ignored by the U.S. government, yielding to the duplicitous political lobby of the of the megalomaniac Filipino plotters bent to colonize and to occupy the Moro Nation and the Mountain Province (Cordillera Region).

Thus, the joint American and Filipino political conspiracy was consummated by the immoral and illegal inclusion of MINSUPALA and Cordillera Region into the so-called Republic of the Philippines in 1946.

In the exact words of Joseph E. Fallon, "the Republic of the Philippines is an arbitrary amalgamation of a multitude of diverse islands and peoples."

The tragic truth was that the protesting Muslim and Highlander natives of Mindanao, and too the native Igorots of Mountain Province were only forced to become "third-class citizens" of the "accursed" Philippine Republic for they were never consulted or subjected to any form of democratic process based on people's referendum or plebiscite.

Thus, it is further emphasized by Joseph E. Fallon that the American-created "political entity is not a nation-state; neither it is a voluntary multinational association. Rather, it constitutes a new, post World War II, colonial order centered in Manila, and dedicated to the political and economic hegemony of the local Christian-Europhile community over the entire territory of the former American colony." As he also observed' "although distinct Chinese, Cambodia,
Japanese, Korean, Tibetan and Thai countries had emerged by the time of the onslaught of American imperialism in Asia during the 19th century, there never existed a Filipino nation."

"While other heterogeneous Asian countries can seek to legitimate the existence of their states by declaring a continuity -however dubious- with indigenous kingdoms or empires that flourished in their lands before European domination, Filipino nationalists cannot."

"No single political entity ever ruled the entire archipelago, and those states which did arise to govern significant portions of these islands, including the area around Manila, were Muslim. Unlike other Asian nationalisms, for Filipinos history is an enemy, not an ally."

PART II- WHY IS HISTORY AN ENEMY OF FILIPINOS, NOT AN ALLY? WHAT FAULTS PHILIPPINE HISTORY?

In the case of the present dispute between China and the Philippines over the islands in South China Sea (Manila government recently changed to "West Philippine Sea"), the Philippine claim from the beginning over the islands within Mindanao Sea ("Bohol Sea" as renamed by the Filipino colonizers), Sulu Sea and South China Sea has no historical moral ground. This is simply because the "fabricated Philippine State" can't proudly live up with its illegal annexation of the ancestral homelands of both the Bangsamoro and the Igorot peoples, more so, with its present preposterous claim of owning the whole of Spratly islands that China claims to own by historical rights.

Thus, how can the Philippines continue deceiving humanity with its historical deformity and falsehood predicated only in plain land-grabbing colonial scheme? But the saddest fact is that Philippine colonialism has no qualms pursuing in fooling humanity of this criminal historical conspiracy and duplicity.

Now, that the ill-conceived Philippine Republic has to face possible war with China while still engaging the Bangsamoro people in the decades-long Mindanao war, it has only unmasked the Filipino colonizers' own game of "duplicity, intimidation and falsehood" to legitimize their self-defeating claim to the islands in South China Sea and Mindanao Sea.

As currently reported in both Philippine and foreign media, the word war between the contending nations over the disputed islands located in South China Sea is causing high tension in both countries.

Inside the Philippines, which have to peacefully end the Filipino-Moro war in Mindanao and the AFP-NDF/NPA war affecting the entire Filipino nation, there are irresponsible Filipino leaders talking of open confrontation with China. Worse, the Philippine leadership is showing a desperate move of inviting America to help the Philippines conduct military surveillance on South China Sea. Surely on this end, the provocative incursion would henceforth challenge China to retaliate with all its military power, notwithstanding the illegal military intervention or participation of America.

In blocking the military incursion of foreign element in a bid to trample its historical right to the islands of South China Sea, China had once "punished" Vietnam on March 14, 1988 in a naval skirmish by sinking one vessel and heavily damaging another one that had to retreat hurriedly back to home base.

Thus, given the same possible scenario, China can anytime crush any attempt by Philippines to undertake any provocative offensive either militarily or diplomatically because the latter country has no moral ground to prove valid its historical right over the contested islands in South China Sea except relying on the modern day-conceived United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLS) that China has no moral historical obligation to recognize.

In the recent conference of the foreign ministers of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Phnom Penh, the Philippines miserably failed in its diplomatic attempt to gain support for its weak claim on the South China Sea issue. The ASEAN meeting simply considered the Panatag Shoal (Huangyan Island to China) dispute not a regional issue or merely a non-issue, following China's historical viewpoint that "Huangyan Island has always been part of the Chinese territory and not a disputed island."

In reality, the dismal failure of the Philippines to deceive the other ASEAN member states has only proven that it does not have the diplomatic and military influence to match its high-pitched verbal provocations. Nonetheless, it is interesting to note that in the ASEAN meeting, Philippine's Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario denounced Chinese "duplicity" and "intimidation" in the South China Sea alluding to the continuous presence of Chinese fishermen in the area.

Referring to the Huangyan Island (Panatag Shoal) standoff of both Chinese and Filipino vessels, he stressed the expected face-saving comment, "if Philippine sovereignty and jurisdiction can be denigrated by a powerful country through pressure, duplicity, intimidation and the threat of the use of force, the international community should be concerned abotu the behavior."

On this historical purview, the Philippine government has only to blame itself for the humility and failure to deceive further the conscious humanity because for too long now it has had used every "pressure, duplicity, intimidation and the threat of the use of force" (or "military solution") against the oppressed and colonized Bangsamoro and Igorot peoples to keep them further in colonial bondage. The Luzon-based Filipino colonizers never have the political will to end the more than forty (40) years Mindanao war because they want to prolong the killing of more Muslim and Highlander natives in order to perpetuate Philippine colonialism in the war-torn region.

Thus, perhaps it is all providential that the China-Philippines disagreement on the historical rights of the Spratly islands in South China Sea has indeed happened. It is only showing the historical weakness and fallacy of Philippine colonialism to impose its empty claims on the Bangsamoro and Igorot peoples, including imposing its "cursed" Filipino identity and highly questionable sovereignty over the Bangsamoro homeland MINSUPALA and the Cordillera Region.

By this historical awkwardness, if in the event the Philippine government foolishly provoke China into a face-saving war, however minor or small scale, the colonized Bangsamoro people certainly cannot take the gambit of joining the war against the peace-loving Chinese people. As the "greatest" heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali, while refusing draft into the U.S. military, said: "We ain't got no quarrel with the Vietcong."

In truth, for centuries now, the Bangsamoro people of Mindanao have been fighting the Spanish, American, Japanese and Filipino colonizers to maintain their complete freedom and independence. And China was never an enemy, but always remained a peaceful neighbor to the Moro Nation, particularly to the Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo. Formally proclaimed in 1450 and recognized by China and other foreign countries, the Sultanate of Sulu was the first established Bangsamoro Sultanate government in Mindanao followed by the Sultanate of Maguindanao and Sultanate Buayan in Cotabato, and the Apat na Pangampong Sultanate district in Lanao region.

Thus, when will Philippine colonialism learn well the historical moral lesson that it does not at all pay to use "pressure, duplicity, intimidation and the threat of the use of force" to solve the nagging Filipino-Moro war in Mindanao, if only to ensure permanent peaceful co-existence of the different multi-cultural and religious peoples of the region?

On this end, is it not possible for the Filipino colonizers to have peace with the freedom-loving Bangsamoro and Igorot peoples and continued peaceful co-existence with around 1.5 billion Chinese people all over the world?

Why is it too painful for the Filipino colonizers to accept the reality that Filipinization or similarly Christianization of the Muslim and Lumad natives of Mindanao and the Igorots of Mountain Province is never a sound solution, but just an ugly face of ethnic cleansing leading to more massacres in a continued colonial war?

Thus, again, the striking words of wisdom of Joseph E. Fallon come to mind, "after so many decades of abuse and betrayal, for the Moros and the Igorots to trust Manila and to remain within the Philippines would not only be naive, it would be suicidal."

Hence, it is about time that the peaceful community of nations worldwide should be wary of the political and diplomatic antics of the American-fabricated Philippine State. The international community should play active role to appeal to the Catholic Filipino nation to abandon the ugliness of colonialism so as to guarantee permanent and durable peace in war-ravaged Mindanao and restive Cordillera Region for the betterment, prosperity and brighter future of the Filipino, Bangsamoro and Igorot peoples of Southeast Asia. -osm/mnlfnet.com

RECLAIMING BANGSAMORO HUMANITY FROM FOREIGN COLONIZERS - MNLF Official Website

HISTORICAL AND "HUMAN WRONG" OF PHILIPPINE COLONIALISM: HOW NOT TO RESPECT HISTORIC-HUMAN RIGHTS OF BANGSAMORO AND CHINA? - MNLF Official Website

THE POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF THE BANGSAMORO PEOPLE - MNLF Official Website

Sultans of Sulu and the Chinese

 

[Zero_wing]

Wow and yet the peace deal is still going on and people in Mindanao is hoping for it. Again this people are even fragmented they can all cause trouble and hurt business in Mindanao which is why they are being denounce.

 

[Wholegrain]

The Animist Lumads, and the Moros both have been victims of the Christian Visayan settelement on Mindanao and Philippine rule. The MNLF should work on recruiting Lumads and the animist natives of Palawan to their cause, as they have repeatedly used the rhetoric on their website that the Bangsamoro (Moro Nation) includes both the Muslims and Animist natives of Mindanao and Palawan. Both Animist Igorot, Muslim Moro and Animist Lumad resisted Spanish colonialism, Christianization and hispanicization of their native culture and the MNLF has made that a point to emphasize on their website.

Without Lumad and Palawanian help, they cannot win over the areas of Mindano not covered by the ARMM.

 

[Zero_wing]

The Animist Lumads, and the Moros both have been victims of the Christian Visayan settelement on Mindanao and Philippine rule. The MNLF should work on recruiting Lumads and the animist natives of Palawan to their cause, as they have repeatedly used the rhetoric on their website that the Bangsamoro (Moro Nation) includes both the Muslims and Animist natives of Mindanao and Palawan. Both Animist Igorot, Muslim Moro and Animist Lumad resisted Spanish colonialism, Christianization and hispanicization of their native culture and the MNLF has made that a point to emphasize on their website.

Without Lumad and Palawanian help, they cannot win over the areas of Mindano not covered by the ARMM.

Wow and do you believe people who takes a whole barangay hostage harassment my foot you know you guys are so much a like 1% some history you pick up and a whole of b.s and lies

 

[Bob Ong]

The Animist Lumads, and the Moros both have been victims of the Christian Visayan settelement on Mindanao and Philippine rule. The MNLF should work on recruiting Lumads and the animist natives of Palawan to their cause, as they have repeatedly used the rhetoric on their website that the Bangsamoro (Moro Nation) includes both the Muslims and Animist natives of Mindanao and Palawan. Both Animist Igorot, Muslim Moro and Animist Lumad resisted Spanish colonialism, Christianization and hispanicization of their native culture and the MNLF has made that a point to emphasize on their website.

Without Lumad and Palawanian help, they cannot win over the areas of Mindano not covered by the ARMM.

LOL coming from a lunatic mongoloid poster.

FYI there is only one Philippine Republic and the Nur moro(n)s republic, the entire concept of which, is just a modern invention.

Before... The Sultanates of Sulu, Maguindanao and Lanao were actually separate states.

THERE WAS NO UNITED MUSLIM COUNTRY (THE BASIS OF THEIR PROPAGANDA) THAT IS A BLATANT MYTH...

They even warred among themselves (Research War between Sultanate of Brunei and Sultanate of Sulu)

Let me also underscore the point that before Sulu, Maguindanao and Lanao were islamized their rulers, like the rulers of Manila (Saludong), Tondo, Butuan and Bohol were called also Rajahs. In fact, Rajah Sipad of Sulu was a cousin of Rajah Alon of Saludong. The only difference is that the Rajahs of the Visayas and Luzon converted to Christianity (Even though some of them were also muslims) and became part of the Principalia class and the Rajahs of Palawan and Mindanao converted to Islam and became Sultans. Nevertheless, by blood, they are brothers and sisters.

Furthermore, the Lumad (Indigenous people of Mindanao who did not convert to Islam or Christianity) predate their Muslim identity.

Also, they are incorporated by Spain into the Philippines (albeit quite late) [Spain conquered Qudarat and Basilan in the 19th century] and the whole of Palawan and Mindanao was in the Treaty of Paris as part of Philippine territory.

Furthermore, this is a big blow to them...

THE PEOPLE WILL NOT VOTE THEM INTO POWER. The vast majority of people in Mindanao have ELECTED to stay with the Republic.

So try harder you moron and terrorist supporter

 

[Wholegrain]

LOL coming from a lunatic mongoloid poster.

FYI there is only one Philippine Republic and the Nur moro(n)s republic, the entire concept of which, is just a modern invention.

Before... The Sultanates of Sulu, Maguindanao and Lanao were actually separate states.

THERE WAS NO UNITED MUSLIM COUNTRY (THE BASIS OF THEIR PROPAGANDA) THAT IS A BLATANT MYTH...

They even warred among themselves (Research War between Sultanate of Brunei and Sultanate of Sulu)

Let me also underscore the point that before Sulu, Maguindanao and Lanao were islamized their rulers, like the rulers of Manila (Saludong), Tondo, Butuan and Bohol were called also Rajahs. In fact, Rajah Sipad of Sulu was a cousin of Rajah Alon of Saludong. The only difference is that the Rajahs of the Visayas and Luzon converted to Christianity (Even though some of them were also muslims) and became part of the Principalia class and the Rajahs of Palawan and Mindanao converted to Islam and became Sultans. Nevertheless, by blood, they are brothers and sisters.

Furthermore, the Lumad (Indigenous people of Mindanao who did not convert to Islam or Christianity) predate their Muslim identity.

Also, they are incorporated by Spain into the Philippines (albeit quite late) [Spain conquered Qudarat and Basilan in the 19th century] and the whole of Palawan and Mindanao was in the Treaty of Paris as part of Philippine territory.

Furthermore, this is a big blow to them...

THE PEOPLE WILL NOT VOTE THEM INTO POWER. The vast majority of people in Mindanao have ELECTED to stay with the Republic.

So try harder you moron and terrorist supporter

Nur Misauri never claimed there was one Muslim state before American colonial rule. He pointed out that there was no Philippine state before Spanish and American colonialism, and that the Philippines is a fictitious entity with no pre colonial historical precendent.

The Sulu was governored by two dynasties who both maintained good relations with China - first the Rajahs, one of them visited China on a state visit and died there, leaving his two sons in the care of Chinese Muslims there. Their descendants are surnamed An and Wen and they live in Shandong today. Sultan Jamalul Kiram III has visited them there.

The second dynasty was the hashemite royal family. An Arab sayyid from Yemen came to Sulu on a Chinese Junk, and converted the population to Islam along with some Chinese who accompanied him. He married a daughter of the Rajah of the first dynasty and became Sultan of Sulu. The current claimaints to the throne of Sulu including Jamalul Kiram III are from this lineage. The Sultanate of Sulu was a protectorate of Ming and Qing China.

Sultanate of Maguindanao was founded by a Malay who fled from Malaysia to Mindanao and married a local princess.

The Sulu Sultanate remained sovereign until the Americans came. It continued to fight the Spanish even after Spain raided Jolo and forced the Sultan to sign a protectorate treaty. The Sultan then continued to support Chinese in supplying weapons to anti-Spanish forces in unconquered areas.

The Sulu Zone, 1768-1898

Then the Americans came, and signed the Bates Treaty with the Sultan of Sulu. It promised autonomy to the Moros and that they could run their own internal affairs. America then violated the treaty and launched an invasion of the Sultanate, sparking the Moro Rebellion. It was based on the violation of this Treaty that the Philippines annexed the former territories of the Sulu Sultanate. From a legal point of view, the territories of the Sulu Sultanate should not be under Philippine rule.

What Misauri is saying is that the native peoples of Palawan, Mindanao, and Sulu, all of them regardless of them being Moro Muslims, Animist Lumads and Animist Palawanians were victimized by the Christian, Hispanicized Filipino Luzonians and Visayans who flooded their lands with Visayan and Luzonian settlers. And the MNLF pointed out that historically, the different Sultanates used to rule Palawan, Mindanao, and Sulu, but he never said the Sultanates were united. The animist Lumads and animist Palawanians were at times under the rule of the Moro ethnic groups under the Sultanates. MNLF say they want to create a new republic to unify them all against the Hispanicized Filipino Luzonians and Visayans, who dominate the Philippines both politically and demographically.

And remember that the Sulu and Maguindanao were voluntarily converted to Islam, and the Rajahs of Maynila and Tondo like Rajah Sulayman were also voluntarily converted to Islam, but the Spanish introduced Catholicism by force after conquering the natives and killing their leaders. Rajah Sulayman died in battle against the Spanish which is why there is a statue and monument to him in Manila today.

Misauri's point is that Filipino identity, the Philippine state, Christianization and Hispanicization were all the result of bloody Spanish imperialism. That is why MNLF includes the animist pagan natives like Lumads and Palawanians in their state, the proposed Bangsmoro Republic essentially includes all of the non hispanicized Muslims and Animists in the current Philippines except of the Animist Igorots of Luzon. The MNLF is saying that the Philippines is the inheritor of Spanish, American and Japanese colonialism and is therefore a fictitious state with no background in pre-colonial history and no geographical, historical, ethnic, or religious basis to exist as a unified political entity. It was created and united by colonialism. The MNLF talked about the Igorots too and extensively explained why Lumads, Moros, and Igorots were victims of America and the Philippines.

MNLF Official Website

MNLF Official Website

MNLF Official Website

MNLF Official Website

The very name "Filipino" if offensive because of reasons explained here. Both because its the name of the colonizing King, and the original usage of the name was used to refer only to Spaniards and their illegitimate children with native women, hence implying bastard parentage.

MNLF Official Website

 

[Wholegrain]

@Lux de Veritas

Han Chinese have blood ties with the Moros of Sulu and Mindanao. All Chinese Moros are Hokkien and originate from Fujian province. They moved from Quanzhou to Mindanao and Sulu, converted to Islam and married Moro Tausug and Maguindanaons. Some prominent Moro Datus in Mindanao had Chinese ancestry. The Hokkien surnames will indicate that their paternal ancestry is Chinese. One prominent Chinese Moro Datu was Datu Gumbay Piang and his grandfather was a Chinese from Xiamen in Fujian who married a Maguindanaon Moro. Datu Gumbay fought against the Japanese during World War 2.

These Chinese Moro people assimilated into the Moro population and adopted Moro language and culture but kept their Chinese surnames. Other than that the Tausug Sulu Sultanate allowed thousands of Non Muslim Chinese to live in the Chinese quarter and build a temple and never persecuted or attacked them unlike the Spanish. Chinese who were expelled from Manila by the Spanish fled to Sulu.

One of the most politically prominent Moro families in Sulu is of Chinese descent, the Tan (Chen) clan. They still use the Tan surname. The former Governor of Sulu and present Governor of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao is Abdusakur M. Tan and he belongs to the Chinese Tausug Tan clan of Jolo where many Chinese settled. Chinese hokkien had close ties to the Sulu Sultanate and helped them fight the Spanish both as soldiers and by supplying weapons. And those Chinese who fought with Sulu against the Spanish and supplied the Moros with weapons were non muslims.

The Chinese Temple and Chinese quarter in Jolo were prominent and targeted by the Spanish in their attacks in retaliation for Chinese support to the Moro resistance.

This is the Chinese Moro Governor of ARMM Abdusakur M. Tan. He is politically supported by MNLF and Tausug Moros.

The ethnic Chinese: proceedings of the International Conference on Changing ... - Kaisa Para sa Kaunlaran, Chinben See Memorial Trust Fund, De La Salle University. China Studies Program - Google Books

Society and culture: the Asian heritage : festschrift for Juan R. Francisco ... - University of the Philippines. Asian Center - Google Books

One of the Chinese families that have become prominent in Sulu affairs, especially political, is the Tan family of Jolo. The Tans of Jolo There are several families in the Sulu archipelago that carry the Tan surname although direct kinship ties..

One of the younger generations, Abdusakur Tan, is the present congressman from the second district of Sulu. His uncle, Hadji Suug Tan, is the vice and acting Mayor of Jolo after the incapacitation of Mayor Murphy Sangkula. Rising to the top..

Datu Piang

Migration, Indigenization and Interaction

 

[Zero_wing]

Again full of bull

 

[StarCraft_ZT]

Again full of bull

Hello, Mr Wing. I'm always curious that which kind of wings do you prefer? Teriyaki wings? Buffalo wings? Lemon pepper wings? Or is it boneless?

 

[Zero_wing]

Hello, Mr Wing. I'm always curious that which kind of wings do you prefer? Teriyaki wings? Buffalo wings? Lemon pepper wings? Or is it boneless?

Wow that's your best? really what kind of brainwashing did you have? the North Korean kind or the 50s Soviet system? Or the Nazi type tell me which country did you stole your ideas from?

 

[Bob Ong]

Nur Misauri never claimed there was one Muslim state before American colonial rule. He pointed out that there was no Philippine state before Spanish and American colonialism, and that the Philippines is a fictitious entity with no pre colonial historical precendent.

The Sulu was governored by two dynasties who both maintained good relations with China - first the Rajahs, one of them visited China on a state visit and died there, leaving his two sons in the care of Chinese Muslims there. Their descendants are surnamed An and Wen and they live in Shandong today. Sultan Jamalul Kiram III has visited them there.

The second dynasty was the hashemite royal family. An Arab sayyid from Yemen came to Sulu on a Chinese Junk, and converted the population to Islam along with some Chinese who accompanied him. He married a daughter of the Rajah of the first dynasty and became Sultan of Sulu. The current claimaints to the throne of Sulu including Jamalul Kiram III are from this lineage. The Sultanate of Sulu was a protectorate of Ming and Qing China.

Sultanate of Maguindanao was founded by a Malay who fled from Malaysia to Mindanao and married a local princess.

The Sulu Sultanate remained sovereign until the Americans came. It continued to fight the Spanish even after Spain raided Jolo and forced the Sultan to sign a protectorate treaty. The Sultan then continued to support Chinese in supplying weapons to anti-Spanish forces in unconquered areas.

The Sulu Zone, 1768-1898

Then the Americans came, and signed the Bates Treaty with the Sultan of Sulu. It promised autonomy to the Moros and that they could run their own internal affairs. America then violated the treaty and launched an invasion of the Sultanate, sparking the Moro Rebellion. It was based on the violation of this Treaty that the Philippines annexed the former territories of the Sulu Sultanate. From a legal point of view, the territories of the Sulu Sultanate should not be under Philippine rule.

What Misauri is saying is that the native peoples of Palawan, Mindanao, and Sulu, all of them regardless of them being Moro Muslims, Animist Lumads and Animist Palawanians were victimized by the Christian, Hispanicized Filipino Luzonians and Visayans who flooded their lands with Visayan and Luzonian settlers. And the MNLF pointed out that historically, the different Sultanates used to rule Palawan, Mindanao, and Sulu, but he never said the Sultanates were united. The animist Lumads and animist Palawanians were at times under the rule of the Moro ethnic groups under the Sultanates. MNLF say they want to create a new republic to unify them all against the Hispanicized Filipino Luzonians and Visayans, who dominate the Philippines both politically and demographically.

And remember that the Sulu and Maguindanao were voluntarily converted to Islam, and the Rajahs of Maynila and Tondo like Rajah Sulayman were also voluntarily converted to Islam, but the Spanish introduced Catholicism by force after conquering the natives and killing their leaders. Rajah Sulayman died in battle against the Spanish which is why there is a statue and monument to him in Manila today.

Misauri's point is that Filipino identity, the Philippine state, Christianization and Hispanicization were all the result of bloody Spanish imperialism. That is why MNLF includes the animist pagan natives like Lumads and Palawanians in their state, the proposed Bangsmoro Republic essentially includes all of the non hispanicized Muslims and Animists in the current Philippines except of the Animist Igorots of Luzon. The MNLF is saying that the Philippines is the inheritor of Spanish, American and Japanese colonialism and is therefore a fictitious state with no background in pre-colonial history and no geographical, historical, ethnic, or religious basis to exist as a unified political entity. It was created and united by colonialism. The MNLF talked about the Igorots too and extensively explained why Lumads, Moros, and Igorots were victims of America and the Philippines.

MNLF Official Website

MNLF Official Website

MNLF Official Website

MNLF Official Website

The very name "Filipino" if offensive because of reasons explained here. Both because its the name of the colonizing King, and the original usage of the name was used to refer only to Spaniards and their illegitimate children with native women, hence implying bastard parentage.

MNLF Official Website

LOL what a comedian. You even use the terrorist site as your trusted reference

Clearly you have no clue about Mindanao. FYI only 25% of Mindanao population are Muslims dumbo. Oh well the CCP likes their citizens to be dumb and stupid like you. Some moron Muslims like Misuari has this misconception that they own the entire Mindanao even Sarawak of Malaysia and the Christians stole it from them. Well the Muslim religion only started to spread in Mindanao in the 15th century that's only a couple of years ahead before the Spaniards discovered the Philippines.

The fact is even as late as the 20th century the Lumads which is composed of at least 17 indigenous tribes controlled an area which now covers 17 of Mindanao’s 24 provinces. Today the common language of the Lumads and their decendants are Cebuano and their religion Christianity (Roman Catholic, Protestant) and Animist. The only reason why only a few knew about the Lumads is because most of them have already become Christians and unlike the Moro's they did not resort to violence in airing their plights.

Well it's really about time the government takes on Nur ‘moron’ Misuari with that determined intention of eradicating him and his idiot supporters. The fact that he never made a difference on the life of his people. He was given a chance to make that change before as their governor but what the people in the region got was continuous hardship, conflict, kidnapping and threat on peace and order. The muslim people of Mindanao losses interest in his leadership to bring peace and development in the land of promise.

 

[Wholegrain]

LOL what a comedian. You even use the terrorist site as your trusted reference

Clearly you have no clue about Mindanao. FYI only 25% of Mindanao population are Muslims dumbo. Oh well the CCP likes their citizens to be dumb and stupid like you. Some moron Muslims like Misuari has this misconception that they own the entire Mindanao even Sarawak of Malaysia and the Christians stole it from them. Well the Muslim religion only started to spread in Mindanao in the 15th century that's only a couple of years ahead before the Spaniards discovered the Philippines.

The fact is even as late as the 20th century the Lumads which is composed of at least 17 indigenous tribes controlled an area which now covers 17 of Mindanao’s 24 provinces. Today the common language of the Lumads and their decendants are Cebuano and their religion Christianity (Roman Catholic, Protestant) and Animist. The only reason why only a few knew about the Lumads is because most of them have already become Christians and unlike the Moro's they did not resort to violence in airing their plights.

Well it's really about time the government takes on Nur ‘moron’ Misuari with that determined intention of eradicating him and his idiot supporters. The fact that he never made a difference on the life of his people. He was given a chance to make that change before as their governor but what the people in the region got was continuous hardship, conflict, kidnapping and threat on peace and order. The muslim people of Mindanao losses interest in his leadership to bring peace and development in the land of promise.

Muslims are only 25% of Mindanao because of the massive influx of "Filipino" Visayan settlers.

And because the Moros were didn't forcefully convert the Lumads to Islam while they ruled them during the Sultanates era (unlike the Spanish who forced conversion to Catholicism), doesn't mean that because some Lumads converted to Christianity that they now get counted with "Filipino" Visayan and Luzonian colonists.

 

[Wholegrain]

Alot of Filipinos who have not even met Muslims have negative views about them from their media.

Philippine Daily Inquirer - Google News Archive Search

http://www.kas.de/wf/doc/kas_12802-544-2-30.pdf

The Center-Periphery Notion of Nation-Building – Franchised Violence and the Bangsamoro Question in the Philippines - ResearchGate

ISSUU - The Bias Against Muslims: a Creeping Perception by Ronald Yacat

Studying the Muslim Community Post 9/11 | mussolini.lidasan

http://www.stimson.org/images/uploads/research-pdfs/IslamPolitics-Chapter_2_Rasul.pdf

http://www.kas.de/wf/doc/kas_12802-544-2-30.pdf

(Page 30 of 37) - Demographic Indicators of Ethno-religious Minority Recognition authored by Penetrante, Ariel.

The findings of the survey suggest that testimonies of anti-Muslim bias are not imagined or random. Only 10 percent of the respondents will employ or hire someone having a Muslim-sounding name (male border 3%, female domestic helper 7%, male worker 4%). The majority of Filipinos think that Muslims are probably more prone to run amok (55%). 47% believe Muslims are probably terrorists or extremists and 44% believe that Muslims probably secretly hate all non-Muslims. The negative image of Muslims is possibly due to the trend that less than 15% of the respondents have had direct dealings with Muslims. The identity cleavage functions as a separating line between public spheres. When asked about the source of information about Muslims, only 14% could cite their own personal experience with Muslims. Television is the main source of information (78%) followed by radio (44%) and newspaper (29%). Conclusion - Misrecognition in the Philippines The comprehensive analysis of the conflict in Mindanao using the systems analytical framework of misrecognition looks at the socio-political aspects of contestation between groups. The conceptualization of the Mindanao conflict as an identity conflict that involves contestation between the hegemonic center and the subjugated periphery offers a deeper understanding of the connection between identity politics and armed conflict. The nationalist term of reference in state policies is expressed by subordination policies that are accountable to system-structural imbalances. Using the banner of nation- building in formulating state policies, social engineering is legitimized.

The Lumads founded the United Indigenous Nations of Mindanao to confront the Philippines government over issue regarding their ancestral lands.

MIDSAYAP DECLARATION of Indigenous Peoples in Mindanao | Initiatives for International Dialogue (IID)

Mindanao Lumads: Poverty worsened for indigenous peoples

Philippines: Mindanao Peasants And Indigenous Peoples In Manila Call To Stop Killings And Large-Scale Mining

Indigenous people on Mindanao

The Americans initiated the flooding of Moro and Lumad lands with Christian Filipinos and tried converting the Lumads to Christianity during colonial rule.

Communities at the Margins: Reflections on Social, Economic, and ... - Google Books