Quote: (09-05-2016 10:01 PM)Kona Wrote:
Regardless of what people think, Obama went to highschool in Honolulu. He knows exactly what that meant.
Putang Ina means "your mothers a bitch" but you say it when you want to fight. Bakla Ka probably flew out of his mouth shortly before or after. That's also fighting words. It means "you gay shit" but when its fighting time.
This Duerte guy is gonna fuck up really bad. You can't talk like that to the president that gives your country major aid. The south of PI would totally be MILF territory if it werent for the US.
That was stupid.
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Nah, not really. It was US involvement that got 44 soldiers killed by the MILF in 2015 by waltzing into their territory unannounced and starting a firefight (during peace time) over a terror suspect that only American interests cared about.
MILF is violent but they ultimately only want autonomy under the Philippine government, which plays right into what Duterte wants -- federalism.
They are not ISIS, trying to turn all of the Mindanao into an Islamic caliphate.
Abu Sayyaf is much less reasonable, but also much smaller. The only thing that keeps them around is a combined of the crushing poverty in the Muslim areas that allows them to freely recruit from the local populace and the previous governments' unwillingness to properly handle the the group.
It's actually the Philippines and American governments' constant instigation of the situation because of the rich natural resources in the region that's kept the violence going for so long.
The government has repeatedly violated peace agreements with the rebel groups time and time again.
Like I said, MILF is definitely dangerous and I believe Islam is a dangerous ideology as a whole, but that region was inhabited by Muslims for hundreds of years before Spain and Catholics every set foot in the country, and even before the United States or Republic of the Philippines even existed.
MNLF was created as a direct response to the Marcos regime's dictatorship and massacre of Moros, and MILF broke from that group because they realized that the MNLF's eagerness for peace was never going to get them what they wanted -- and it still hasn't, over 30 years later.
Keep in mind that just earlier this year the police open fired on hundreds of unarmed Catholic farmers in Mindanao because they were blocking the streets in the hopes that the government would give them some rice, as promised, so they wouldn't starve to death during a drought.
The non-Muslim Lumads of Mindanao also accuse the government of the same thing the Muslim groups do.