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You know I have been wondering lately about when I was a kid visiting the Southern Phillipines it was during Pres Marcos time.

The southern Islands were over run with Gorillas who the natives supported because they hated Marcos and his over taxing and land stealing.

Now I am wondering if these "Gorrillas" were Muslims. Being milky white skinned I was told never to go out alone without an escort male from the family. This was 23yrs ago on the Island of Samar which is down just above Mindenao.

The Gorrillas were known to slaughter families of wealth in Northern P.I. and it got so bad that the woman who raised me said that it would never be safe for me to visit ever again.

I heard they killed Mr. White who had dual citizenship and he was the sole gas supplier on Samar. White dude who lived most of his life on Samar.

A nurse who helped me with KV at one time also new of the Gorrillas as she was a missionary in Mendenao (sp).

Where these Gorrillas actually early Muslims in the Phillipines?

Where these Gorrillas actually early Muslims in the Phillipines?

Apparently, they were there before the U.S. arrived in our first shot at "imperialism" after the Spanish - American War, which was quickly abandoned after World War II. The fanatic attacks of the Moros in the Southern Philippine Islands prompted the U.S. Army to adopt the M1911 .45 ACP pistol because the .38 cal service revolver was deemed inadequate, IIRC.

Yes, they were/are. They were probably the MORO front.
They want/wanted a completely seperate Muslim nation to be given to them made up of the southern isles of the Philippines.

They were originally local fighters that contested the Spanish rule of the Philippines but were taken over by Muslims and since then have been at odds with anyone else in power including the USA and any government the Philippines has ever had.

Spent some time in your PI jungles, on more than one island, and occasionally came across some Huck-apinos or Huck-bala-hucks. Spelling may be wrong as I'm going from oral responses at the time. We thought they were communists, but then that was our greatest enemy at the time. They could've been Islamists. I belive General Pershing dealt with the Islamic Terrorists back when he was there. Anyway, those we encountered didn't remain.

I found some Moro info in Military History Mag April 2002

pg 34-40, titled "Fighting Islam's Fierce Moro Warriors" by David S. Woolman.

I was bored at the airport, so I make no claims as to how accurate or biased the author is, I just need to kill some time reading.