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Salipada Pendatun with his friend Domocao Alonto in Lanao del Sur, established the Ansar El Islam (Helpers of Islam) along with Sayyid Sharif Capt. Kalingalan Caluang, Rashid Lucman, Hamid Kamlian, Udtog Matalam, and Atty. Macapantun Abbas Jr. Accordingly, "it is a mass movement for the preservation and development of Islam in the Philippines". [3]
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 Moros have a history of resistance against Spanish, American, and Japanese rule for over 400 years. The violent armed struggle against the Spanish, Americans, Japanese and Filipinos is considered by current Moro (Muslim) leaders as part of the four centuries long "national liberation movement" of the Bangsamoro (Muslim Nation). [31]
[61]: 19–20 Muslim leaders who had resisted Japanese occupation were rewarded with local political office, and others successfully ran for Congress. [45]: 178 Eventually, many throughout the country who had collaborated with the Japanese were pardoned in 1948 and 1953.
Ahmad Domocao "Domie" Alangadi Alonto Sr. (August 1, 1914 – December 11, 2002) was a Filipino Muslim lawyer, educator, author, traditional leader, and Islamic figure from Lanao del Sur. He served as a Senator of the Philippines and was elected as a delegate in the 1971 Constitutional Convention and 1986 Philippine Constitutional Commission .
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.
This is a list of current and former presidents of the Philippines by time in office that consists of the 17 presidents in the history of the Philippines. The basis of the list is counted by the number of calendar days.
The types of sovereign state leaders in the Philippines have varied throughout the country's history, from heads of ancient chiefdoms, kingdoms and sultanates in the pre-colonial period, to the leaders of Spanish, American, and Japanese colonial governments, until the directly elected president of the modern sovereign state of the Philippines.