Based on what the MILF is doing in the past days we can conclude a picture of inhumanity complete with animosity and atrocious leadership they are likely to commit if ever they succeed to carve a self-governing pan-Islamic state out of Mindanao. I have always seen throughout history nations founded upon the blood of armies, rebels or secret societies, but never has such an act of using the people as human shields been untenable inasmuch as it reflects the true colors of the bandits’ agendum in raising up arms against the status quo state; that they are moving according to the MILF’s vested interest and nothing more, not of the people, neither of Islam. They are making a fallacious logic whenever they involve the name of God (Allah) in their tempestuous undertakings, a notable one being that in the deceptive Mess of Agreement of Ancestral Domains, which begins:
IN THE NAME OF GOD THE BENEFICENT, THE MERCIFUL
MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT ON THE ANCESTRAL DOMAIN ASPECT OF THE GRP-MILF TRIPOLI AGREEMENT ON PEACE OF 2001
Yes, they are extolling God before they go raiding towns, open firing on everyone and hacking innocent residents with machetes and burning homes down to the ground, then they hostage the remaining civilians and use them as human shields upon voicing retreat. I’ve never heard of George Washington, Simon Bolivar, José de San Martin or Andres Bonifacio doing the same thing back in the old “Enlightenment” days of countries. Perhaps in the Balkans Kosovar Albanians were harassed and used as human shields back in ‘99, but it was Slobodan Milosevic’s status quo government who allegedly carried them out. [continue reading]
