Muslim Protests in Manila
ETHNIC IDENTITY AND POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY: NOTES ON
THE BANGSA MORO STRUGGLE IN THE PHILIPPINES
[From: E. San Juan, US IMPERIALISM AND REVOLUTION IN THE PHILIPPINES, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008]
When this so-called battle [at Mt. Dajo, Philippines, where U.S.
troops slaughtered 600 Moro men, women and children] was over, there
were certainly not fewer than two hundred wounded savages lying on the
field. What became of them? Since not one savage was left alive! The
inference seems plain. We cleaned up our four days’ work and made it
complete by butchering those helpless people.
–MARK TWAIN, “Comments on the Moro Massacre,” March 12-14, 1906 (1992)
Your new-caught sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child….
Half-devil and half-child….
–RUDYARD KIPLING, “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands” (1899)
The working class cannot be indifferent to the most intolerably
barbaric oppression [of any nation] …Even the most inhumane material
oppression is not able to provoke such wrathful, fanatical rebellion and
rage as…religious or national oppression.
–ROSA LUXEMBURG, Foreword to “The Polish Question and the Socialist Movement” (1905)
The young man whom you rejected / was a poor man, it’s true./ But now
he is fighting for the homeland / and offering his life / in the
struggle for the faith.
–from MILF Rebel Song from Campo Muslim (in McKenna 1998)
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Oldest Mosque in the Philippines
[The Masjid
(Mosque) of Simunul, Tawi Tawi is considered the oldest in the
Philippines. The old structure is actually inside this building. The
burial ground of Sheik Al Makdum, the missionary who brought Islam to
this part of Asia lies just beside this mosque. As a Muslim, it was a
priviledge to have visited this place on my way to Sabah.]
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