Frontline/World: Philippines Islands Under Siege (by MILF or America?)

Frontline/World/KQED ^ | August 28th, 2003 | Orlando de Guzman

[risk]

	Early this year, amidst military preparations for a war in Iraq, the United States announced it was sending 3,000 soldiers to Mindanao, the southernmost region of the Philippines. FRONTLINE/World correspondent Orlando de Guzman, a Filipino reporter from the north, journeyed to Mindanao, where Muslim rebels are fighting a guerrilla war against the Philippine government -- a war in which the United States may soon be embroiled. read more

A Conflicted Land: Rebellions, Wars and Insurgencies in the Philippines
For more than a hundred years, the United States has confronted insurgencies in this archipelago nation of 7,100 islands. From the Spanish-American War to the Marcos dictatorship and beyond, the history of the Philippines is marked by seemingly unquenchable rebellions.

		Read a discussion of "Islands Under Siege" with FRONTLINE/World reporter Orlando de Guzman.

 

[risk]

More pro-Islamic propaganda from our friends at KQED, PBS, and Frontline. Violence rips the island of Mindanao, and America is rushing in to label freedom fighters as Islamic terrorists. A guerilla leader's advice: stay out and things will be simpler.

Scant suggestion is made that Islam is not a religion of peace, and little effort is made to seriously trace the history of this conflict or represent the Christian side of it. The sympathy is obviously with the Afghanistan-trained warriors leading their neighbors and families against the democratically-elected Filipino government in an all-out effort to bring Sharia law to their province.

Your tax dollars at work, undermining freedom and democracy in the world one American viewer at a time.

[risk]

more pro-islamic propaganda from pbs ping

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[holdmuhbeer]

What does the MILF hunter have to do with this?

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Any mention of Michael Meiring?

[A. Goodwin]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that immediately...