Philippines eyes plebiscite to okay Muslim homeland

Reuters ^ | 17 Jul 2008 | Manny Mogato

[forkinsocket]

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[Uncle Hal]

The Philippine government will regret this move.

[Old Sarge]

He was speaking in Manila a day after government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) negotiators hammered out a deal

Okay, fellas, who wants to hammer a MILF?

[Psycho_Bunny]

I’m confused how any square inch of the Philippines could be considered an “ancestral homeland” for muslims.

[HardStarboard]

>>>The Philippine government will regret this move. <<<

You assume they will live to regret it. Likely a dangerous assumption....

[Coffee200am]

Shades of a future for Europe...

[Be_Politically_Erect]

Oooh, you’re baaad! ;-)

[Be_Politically_Erect]

Fear runs deep in those without conviction.

[NTHockey]

Oh sure, give in and they’ll be peaceful citizens. These terrorists are the former Huks (communist) who now switch to Muslim (ROP) after being Mohammedan (Moros) in the first place. In other words, do whatever it takes to get your way. President Magsaysay had the right idea - hunt them all down.

Are there no leaders today worthy of the name?

[yooling]

A MILF negotiator.

[karnage]

Uh-oh. Camel’s nose under flap of tent...

[VOA]

Shades of a future for Europe...

And our CURRENT LOCAL examples in places like The Twin Cities
(Little Mogadishu; i.e., lousy with Somali Muslims), Lewiston, ME
and The Wahhabi Corridor in northern Virginia (documented in
Paul Sperry's book "Infiltration").

It's already here.
They are just biding their time because Dubya actually called
their bluff by fighting back in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Another good read about how our federal establishment is now
getting back to a "September 10, 2001" mindset in treating
Islamic terrorists as "law enforcement" cases...
look for the book "Willful Blindness" by Andrew McCarthy
(federal prosecutor of the Blind Sheik and Co. that did the
first World Trade Center bombing in 1993).

[realdifferent1]

I’m quite puzzled about that also.

[PubliusMM]

Beginning to sound like we had the wrong ‘dominoes’ in mind, back in the sixties...

The Filipinos will likely come to recognize this decision as the start of the end of the Republic of the Philippines.

[Sherman Logan]

I’m confused how any square inch of the Philippines could be considered an “ancestral homeland” for muslims.

The Moro people have lived in the southern Phillipines for a very long time.

They converted to Islam not long before the Spanish showed up and converted the rest of the Filipinos to Catholicism.

They're every bit as native as the Christians are.

[ikka]

It should be a nation-wide vote, not a local one.

[Levante]

I seem to recall the United States Army and Marines handed the Moros their asses to them...back in what, 1902 or so?

[NTHockey]

Yes, then-Captain John J. Pershing is supposed to have made his point after capturing some Moros who had been on a rampage (sound familiar?). These Moros were kidnapping Americans, holding them for ransom and then beheading them.

Pershing took eleven of the twelve captured Moros had them shot, with bullets dipped in pig’s blood and grease. He had the remaining captive dig the graves and Pershing had the dead Moros buried in pig manure, head down and facing East - away from Mecca.

Pershing then released the one captive, warning him that the same fate would befall any Moros that he captured. Needless to say, there were no more beheadings.

On another note, that Moro insurrection was directly responsible for the development of the 30-06 cartridge and the 1903 Springfield. The 30-40 Krag just didn’t have the killing power.

[Levante]

Could you imagine a modern day Pershing even attempting such a thing nowadays, when we crucify officers for saying it’s fun to kill some of the GD terrorist muslims?

Regarding the weapons notes: I didn’t know the Moros Insurrection was responsible for the development of the 30-06, but I read that it was one of the reasons we developed the .45 cal. pistol.

[Levante]

“The Philippine government will regret this move.”

Yes it will. A bastardized “Palestine” right next door.