[Pan_Yan]

Hot time in the jungle.

[BenLurkin]

Sultan Sulu should have spoken up at the end of WWII when the UN was deciding who owned what.

[John O]

Any time it’s moslems killing moslems it’s a good thing

[Cicero]

Sounds like Muslims vs. Muslims. Let’s just hope they don’t manage to damage Phillipine/Malaysian relations in this stupid business. And let’s also hope that Obamanoid and Kerri stay out of it.

[muawiyah]

Well just darned ~ next thing you know the Faroese are going to get uppity and there goes Scotland and Norway under the yoke of the chief grammarian Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb and his unindicted coconspirator Jón Sigurðsson.

Oh the horror.

[wideawake]

This is an interesting development for a number of reasons.

Malaysia is, in many ways, more a confederation of different governments than a unified country. It consists of something like nine kingdoms and four republican territories with a federal government that has a rotating elective monarchy. Citizens of the Borneo territories are not citizens of the peninsular kingdoms or territories and require a passport.

Sabah had been the one Christian territory in Malaysia, but due to the jihad activities in the Philippines, hundreds of thousands of Filipino Muslims have been illegally immigrating into Sabah to avoid Filipino justice.

Now the illegals have reached critical mass.

They are trying to reestablish the Sulu Sultanate, which the Malaysian government does not recognize and which the Philippines regard only as an honorific and not a political reality.

It is unclear from the article whether the legitimate Kiram family is doing this, or an offshoot.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Malaysia = civilization in this conflict. Hope they wipe the insurgents off the map.

[Mr. Jeeves]

I see the Sultanate is laying claim to the Spratlys, too...good luck with that against the PRC Navy. :)

[ASA Vet]

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