Quote from: SoulBargain on June 01, 2017, 04:15:41 AM

Quote from: Mometaskers on May 30, 2017, 09:05:37 AM

Quote from: Sithara007 on May 30, 2017, 08:15:14 AM

This crisis has escalated beyond my wildest expectation. More than a hundred people have lost their lives till now, and the army has lost a number of their armored vehicles. Who would have expected this, in a country where less than 5% of the population is Muslim?

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The failure of the colonizers from the past in christening the entire Philippine archipelago leads as to what it is now. The Mindanao was the one who have not been successfully Christianize then here it goes the Muslim rebels fighting for what they believe in saying that this is what the Quran said then other Muslims would say that this is not what Quran is teaching and etc. The Islam is a messed up religion after the death of their prophet Muhammad and a lot of factions has rise up. Greed of power also rise up as they want to become a leader of the entire Muslim community by establishing caliphate and become a caliph with the full control of the military and political affairs of all the Muslim around the world that is the goal of this nonsensical ISIS. This is very frustrating.

The political dynasty in Mindanao have grown huge and wild but now the president who have a great political will will punish those who are corrupt, reduce the criminality, and subdue these terrorists while making the country prosper.

It's part and parcel of the faith. This is what I keep pointing out to people who keep insisting this has nothing to do with religion. There were several provinces that separately declared independence when Spain left, before being incorporated to the first republic (the one America fought with and dismantled). Do you see separatist movements there? There are also Christian provinces that are as poor, if not poorer, than Muslim areas of Mindanao. Are they launching a war of secession?

Quote from: Sithara007 on June 01, 2017, 05:45:15 AM

Quote from: merchantofzeny on May 31, 2017, 04:14:15 PM

UPDATE: Turns out, there were foreign fighters in there like we earlier expected. Heck, there was even a Chechen.

http://www.interaksyon.com/8-of-33-slain-terrorists-are-foreigners-others-mostly-from-western-mindanao/

That is bad news. Because the Chechens are the most effective fighting force within the ISIS. The recent setbacks suffered by the ISIS in Syria can be directly attributed to the death of high ranking Chechen commanders, such as Abu Omar al-Shishani. They have decades of experience fighting against the Russian army.

Maybe we should really start coordinating with the Russians then. They're at least familiar with these.