Topic: Terrorist siege in the Philippines. - page 8. (Read 9764 times)

Ugh, saw it. The group is a sickening cesspool of hate and fundamentalism.

BTW everyone, this is what they're rejoicing about, a botched airstrike which left some soldiers dead....


http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/01/asia/philippines-soldiers-killed-airstrike-isis/index.html?sr=fbcnni060117philippines-soldiers-killed-airstrike-isis0930AMVODtopLink&linkId=38236124

We can never be too sure. Remember these barbarians have bombed a train, a mall, and a passenger ship before.

No wait, it seems there's no hope for this country. Just look at the amount of people rejoicing the soldiers' death in this group... https://www.facebook.com/groups/BNewsView/ 

Since the last time I checked this news, the terrorists seems to be weak and weak after all. According to the military, they take over 90% of the Marawi City. Hopefully the terrorists would surrender to the police. Hopefully this tragedy would be solve. Let's just pray for the country.

Yeah, I agree every one is afraid of martial law because of the Marcos regime but the truth is that it's actually a good tactic for peace and discipline.

I think it's a good thing he declared martial law, I do believe that martial law can be a good strategy for peace and discipline if it is use right.

A recent update. Just this morning 10 of our beloved army has again fallen and the sad part was that they died because of an accident friendly fre. When an air strike was being performed pray for them

A muslim friend who lived there told me that this Maute group are actually a group of a clan whose relatiive ran for Marawi city mayor and lost. They are doing this for political reasons mixed with Isis muscle flexing.

It's part and parcel of the faith. This is what I keep pointing out to people who keep insisting this has nothing to do with religion. There were several provinces that separately declared independence when Spain left, before being incorporated to the first republic (the one America fought with and dismantled). Do you see separatist movements there? There are also Christian provinces that are as poor, if not poorer, than Muslim areas of Mindanao. Are they launching a war of secession?


Maybe we should really start coordinating with the Russians then. They're at least familiar with these.

Of course because they are now part of ISIS they now then have the support of ISIS which also have a most of the support of the other tribe or terror group around the world so this one didnt shock me at all

That is bad news. Because the Chechens are the most effective fighting force within the ISIS. The recent setbacks suffered by the ISIS in Syria can be directly attributed to the death of high ranking Chechen commanders, such as Abu Omar al-Shishani. They have decades of experience fighting against the Russian army.

Which supports the notion, that local muslims are only used as resources in global jihad. The epicenter of terror in Philipines is not on any of local islands. But in petrodollars of Saudi Arabia, that has been backing ISIS since its inception.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hillary-clinton-wikileaks-email-isis-saudi-arabia-qatar-us-allies-funding-barack-obama-knew-all-a7362071.html

I wonder why nobody calls out the great humanitarian and democratic hope Hillary Clinton over this?


Praying is good, international blockade of sponsors of ISIS supporters is even better. If United States are too corrupt to sanction Saudi Arabia for state sponsored terorrism, than Phillipinos need to do it themselves. Foreign fighters spreading fear on archipelago are not funded by locals...

UPDATE: Turns out, there were foreign fighters in there like we earlier expected. Heck, there was even a Chechen.

http://www.interaksyon.com/8-of-33-slain-terrorists-are-foreigners-others-mostly-from-western-mindanao/

Nip the issue in the bud, even if it means hundreds of casualties and collateral damage. The Islamists must not be allowed to get a foothold in Mindanao. If that happens, then there will be no peace in the distant future. Just finish them.

Last I saw in the news the army has already recaptured a large portion of the city. Can't be complacent though. When Islamists attacked Zamboanga, they fled on boats back to their island hideouts, ready to fight another day. These terrorists must be shot where they are found so as not to commit the same atrocities again.

Those who live by the sword, dies by the sword.

Curiously there was a drop in Islamist-inspired attacks in Thailand since the junta took over. Sigh, maybe that is really the only way to deal with them. They did behaved themselves when the Americans were in control of the country.

Many of the originally Muslim areas in the Philippines are just on the part of the island, the rest were populated by animists who moved up to the mountains to avoid conflict with the Muslims (as well as Christian settlers later). We've never stopped negotiating with these groups. Once we're done with one, another offshot comes out of the former and asks for more. We already gave them some autonomy. We POURED money from the more affluent regions but nothing ever came out of it.

At the risk of sounding ethnocentric, the culture is partly to blame. If you think the Catholic Filipino are easily corruptible, you have to look down south. Their politicians are basically their old nobility and act as such. There were even places were politicians run unopposed because everyone in the local government is a member of the clan and they'd just have a family meeting to select who will run for office. We call them clannish for a good reason. Seen it personally for my self. Some woman got into a fight with a Muslim woman and soon she was being mobbed by all the women of the clan. And this is here in the capital, just imagine if it was in their home base.

It also doesn't help that they still have a warrior mentality. These people are armed and some even bring this culture when moving to Christian areas. Entire towns would have to be evacuated just because some families decided to revive an old feud (yup this happens even in Christian areas since Muslims build ghettos around mosques and eventually wall up the place). They say their religion allows them to do this, to hunt after people who killed a family member or "dishonored" their family. As expected, this starts a vicious cycle of vendetta which would scare out even the most intrepid investor.

Weve already know that this kind of act are already happening between our brother muslims and the government of the philippines since back then and things are getting worse each and everyday

This crisis has escalated beyond my wildest expectation. More than a hundred people have lost their lives till now, and the army has lost a number of their armored vehicles. Who would have expected this, in a country where less than 5% of the population is Muslim?

Perhaps in your enlightement, sir, you should first learn that muslims living in Phillipines are not Arabs   Arabs are ethno-cultural group, Islam is organized religion. Two different things. Thank you.


Moros have many relatives in muslim Indonesia   also as sunni muslim they probadly get some sort of financial help from Gulf states. ISIS is not the only child of Saudi Arabia.


Unfortunately, you are probadly right. Now, that the situation already escalated government needs to use as much force as possible to restore peace and order.

We really cant tell. You know that they thinks very different from us that is merely the reason why they do things that is uncertain for us. The only thing that we could do right now is to pray for everyones safety