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Filipino Army Major Filemon Tan said, "The order of the president is to search and destroy the Abu Sayyaf so that's what we are doing". [292] Both MNLF and MILF began helping to suppress extremism in Mindanao, which helps the peace process for both groups.
In 1951, Said was born in Makkah, to Ahmad Bashir and Zinab of the Maranao ethnic group. He was the second child and son among five children of Ahmad with his first wife. Because of his passion for the Islamic way of life, like his father, Said decided to pursue a bachelor's degree in Islamic Propagation [9] at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, from which he graduated in 1
The Philippine House Committee on Muslim Affairs, or House Muslim Affairs Committee is a standing committee of the Philippine House of Representatives. Jurisdiction [ edit ]
The National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (Filipino: Pambansang Komisyon sa mga Pilipinong Muslim; Arabic: اللجنة الوطنية لمسلمي الفلبين : allajnat alwataniat limuslimi alfilibiyn) is a government agency in the Philippines, whose objective is to promote the rights of Muslim Filipinos and to make them active participants in Philippine nation-building.
The Spanish referred to Muslim inhabitants of the Philippines as "Moros," after the Muslim "Moors" they had regarded with disdain in Iberia and the Maghreb. [4] The subsequent Spanish conquest led to Catholic Christianity becoming the predominant religion in most of the modern-day Philippines, with Islam becoming a significant minority religion.
Its professed goal is to establish an Islamic state comprising Mindanao, the Sulu archipelago, and Palawan as well as areas outside the Philippines specifically Borneo and southern Thailand. [26] The group split into two main factions after Janjalani's death, whose leaders in turn were killed in 2006 and 2007 which led to Abu Sayyaf splitting ...
This category includes articles of people who are Muslim (followers of the religion of Islam) from Philippines. May not necessarily be from the Moro ethnic group.
Lakas–Christian Muslim Democrats (transl. People Power–Christian Muslim Democrats), abbreviated as Lakas–CMD and popularly known as Lakas, was a political party in the Philippines. Its ideology and that of its successor is heavily influenced by Christian and Islamic democracy.