Reflections on the Bangsa Moro

BANGSA MORO STRUGGLE

jamalashley — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:10:06 +0000

In my post The Bangsa Moro is an International Concern, a reader, DATUAN SOLAIMAN PANOLIMBA (datuan.panolimba@yahoo.com) wrote a rather long "comment". Because of its length, I am instead publishing it in this post.=================================ARMED STRUGGLE OF THE BANGSAMORO MUSLIMS IN THE PHILIPPINES: Written by: DATUAN SOLAIMAN PANOLIMBA- North Cotabato, Philippines [...]

1996 FINAL PEACE AGREEMENT FAILED, SAYS MNLF’S AMIN

jamalashley — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:21:22 +0000

Today, I attended the Recognition Rites for the Graduates of the University of the Philippines - Institute of Islamic Studies in Diliman. One of the six graduates of the M.A. in Islamic Studies program is my cousin Andabae Abbas-Abbas. The Guest Speaker was medical doctor Abdurahman Ututalum Amin, a top MNLF leader and President of [...]

ABU SAYYAF HOSTAGE ANDREAS NOTTER - RELEASED OR RESCUED?

jamalashley — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:50:19 +0000

Was the Abu Sayyaf hostage, Andreas Notter of Switzerland, released by the kidnappers or rescued by the Philippine military? The country’s 3 leading newspapers differ on the matter. The Philippine Daily Inquirer says he was released while the Philippine Star and Manila Bulletin say he was rescued. Does it matter? Of course it matters. If the [...]

THE BANGSA MORO ISSUE IS AN INTERNATIONAL CONCERN

jamalashley — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:14:13 +0000

With the news headlines proclaiming that former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and/or former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan might mediate between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the current political opposition, including its Moro spokespersons, insists that the Moro issue is an internal problem of the Filipinos [...]

NEW PARADIGM OF POLITICS AND LEADERSHIP IN THE 21ST CENTURY

jamalashley — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:40:08 +0000

The physics that people of our generation studied in high school and college is not the same as physics today. In fact, most high school and college students of today still study the Old Physics because their teachers know no better. Most of us still know only of [...]

US GIVES ISRAEL $ 10 MILLION A DAY – JIMMY CARTER

jamalashley — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 05:07:52 +0000

In CNN’s Larry King Show, former US President Jimmy Carter said that THE key factor in the Middle East problem is the US. He explained that the US has the power to force Israel into accepting a peace agreement because the US government gives Israel TEN MILLION DOLLARS A DAY. Plus, the US protects [...]

GOODBYE GEORGE BUSH, INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST

jamalashley — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:25:25 +0000

In a talk at Harvard University’s JFK School of Government in February 2002, scholar Noam Chomsky quoted from the 1984 US Army Manual the definition of TERRORISM. It is “the calculated use of violence or the threat of violence to attain goals that are political, religious or ideological in nature.” Chomsky said he [...]