Tuesday, June 10, 2008

News Crew Believed To Have Been Kidnapped By Muslims In Phillipines


There are very few Jews in the Philippines, and very few Americans. The Philippines is not an imperialist power, waging war for oil. The Philippines is not encroaching on Muslim territory.

And yet, Muslims are causing much trouble in the Philippines?!?

Go figure.

From the New York Times:

MANILA - A network news team from the Philippines’s largest network including one of the country’s best-known journalists was believed to have been abducted by members of the militant group Abu Sayyaf, officials said Tuesday.

The journalist, Ces Drilon, a senior reporter for ABS-CBN, was with her cameraman and driver when they were intercepted on Sunday by armed men in Sulu, a province in the south where Abu Sayyaf, which is fighting for a separate Muslim state in the southern Philippines, and other Islamic extremists are known to operate, the police said.

Also with the crew was Octavio Dinampo, a professor at Mindanao State University who, according to the police, accompanied the news team on their way to meet with members of Abu Sayyaf. Abu Sayyaf is notorious for its kidnap-for-ransom activities and has victimized not only Filipinos but foreigners as well.

The militants have been blamed for several major terrorist attacks across the Philippines in recent years and are the target of a sustained military campaign being supported by the United States.

Although United States and Philippine officials say this campaign has considerably weakened the group during the past five years, analysts say the militants remain a high security threat.
The New York Times article neglects to mention that the first World Trade Center plot was hatched in the Philippines.

My father-in-law fought against these Muslim Jihadists on the island of Mindanao back in the 70's. My family had to leave the Philippines specifically because of Jihad.

Why is it that Muslims cause trouble in so many places in the world?

1 comment:

  1. Muslims first came into contact with Christians in the Philippines in the early 1500's and did what they always do: start killing.
    The simple reason is that Muslims are directed by the Koran to kill, enslave or dhimmify all non Muslims who will not convert to Islam.
    Those Muslims who do not do so (moderates) are considered as apostates to true believing Muslims and the penalty for apostasy is death.
    Islam, the "religion of hate", has never changed.

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