Posted on 05/25/2017 7:10:04 PM PDT by Lorianne
Thousands of civilians fled fighting in the Philippines on Wednesday as troops tried to fend off Islamist militants who took over large parts of a city, capturing Christians, seizing and torching buildings and setting free scores of prisoners.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the rampage via its Amaq news agency, and President Rodrigo Duterte defended his decision to declare martial law on Mindanao, the Muslim-majority island where Marawi City is located, to prevent the spread of extremism in the impoverished region.
The violence flared in Marawi on Tuesday afternoon after a botched raid by security forces on a hideout of the Maute, a militant group that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State.
Fighters quickly dispersed, torching buildings and taking over bridges, a hospital, two jails, a church and a college. Duterte said he heard reports they may have beheaded a police chief.
He said Islamic State must be repelled from the Christian-majority Philippines and he would use all means possible to crush the Maute group and the allied Abu Sayyaf, whatever the consequences.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
if anyone on earth would be inclined to feed defeated Jihadists to herd of pigs ( alive or dead ) Duterte would be the one
The Philippines needs to apply the General Blackjack Pershing treatment.
Worked then, it will work now.
slow troll captured Jihadiophiles thru the salt water croc infested rivers of Mindanao
Meanwhile, we are told be tolerant and if we aren’t we are chastised as haters.
He didn't play games in Davao City. I don't think he will play games now.
From what I read this city is 99% Muslim——why on earth would any Christian stick around?
.
Could US citizens go there to help?
Bookmark
Isisi group forced the civilians off their truck at a roadside checkpoint in Marawi City on Wednesday and murdered them after they were identified as Christian,.. local media reported....... Pictured, ISIS media shows an extremist waving the ISIS flag...
It’s a great story but Pershing probably never did it, though others may have. There’s no contemporary accounts of him doing it, and he was much more inclined towards fighting only when attacked and persuading the Moros to surrender instead of killing them. There are no accounts of his ever executing prisoners either.
“Yet another account, from the 1938 book Jungle Patrol, attributed the deed to someone other than Pershing:
“It was Colonel Alexander Rodgers of the 6th Cavalry who accomplished by taking advantage of religious prejudice what the bayonets and Krags had been unable to accomplish. Rodgers inaugurated a system of burying all dead juramentados in a common grave with the carcasses of slaughtered pigs. The Mohammedan religion forbids contact with pork; and this relatively simple device resulted in the withdrawal of juramentados to sections not containing a Rodgers. Other officers took up the principle, adding new refinements to make it additionally unattractive to the Moros. In some sections the Moro juramentado was beheaded after death and the head sewn inside the carcass of a pig. And so the rite of running juramentado, at least semi-religious in character, ceased to be in Sulu. The last cases of this religious mania occurred in the early decades of the century. The juramentados were replaced by the amucks … who were simply homicidal maniacs with no religious significance attaching to their acts.”
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/pershing.asp
They were traveling and pulled from their truck at a check point...
“They were traveling and pulled from their truck at a check point...”
—
Thanks,I did not realize that.
What a horror.
.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.