ISIS Ready to Declare Caliphate in Southern Philippines

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A full-on jihad is raging in the Philippines, where ISIS fighters have taken over a town. The President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has said that the entire country may be put under martial law.

“Julie Bishop says Australia preparing for Isis to declare ‘caliphate’ in southern Philippines,” Guardian, May 26, 2017:

Australia is readying itself for the possibility of Islamic State declaring a “caliphate” in the southern Philippines as the extremist group is forced out of the Middle East.

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The foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop, who has just returned from talks in the US with countries involved in the fight against Isis, says authorities are concerned about an estimated 600 foreign fighters from south-east Asia surviving the campaign in Iraq and Syria and returning home.

“There is concern that Isis may well seek to declare a caliphate, an Islamic caliphate, in the southern Philippines,” she told Sky News on Sunday.

“At least 21 killed as Isis-linked militants rampage through Philippines city,” Associated Press, May 24, 2017:

Priest and worshippers seized and police chief beheaded after government forces raid hideout of militant leader

Militants linked to Islamic State swept through a southern Philippine city, beheading a police chief, burning buildings, seizing a Roman Catholic priest and his worshippers and raising the black flag of Isis, regional authorities have said.President Rodrigo Duterte had declared martial law across the southern third of the country – where Marawi city is located – and warned on Wednesday that he may expand it nationwide.

At least 21 people were killed in the fighting, officials said.

As details of the attack in Marawi emerged, fears mounted that the largest Roman Catholic state in Asia could join a growing list of countries grappling with the spread of influence from Isis in Syria and Iraq.

The violence erupted on Tuesday after the army raided the hideout of Isnilon Hapilon, a commander of the Abu Sayyaf militant group that has pledged allegiance to Isis. He is on Washington’s list of most-wanted terrorists with a $5m (£3.9m) reward for information leading to his capture.

The militants called for reinforcements and about 100 gunmen entered Marawi, a mostly Muslim city of 200,000 people on the southern island of Mindanao, according to the defence secretary, Delfin Lorenzana said.

“We are in a state of emergency,” Duterte said on Wednesday after he cut short a trip to Moscow and flew back to Manila, the Philippine capital. “I have a serious problem in Mindanao and the Isis footprints are everywhere.”

He declared martial law for 60 days in Mindanao, home to 22 million people, and vowed to be “harsh”.

“If I think that you should die, you will die,” he said. “If you fight us, you will die. If there is open defiance, you will die. And if it means many people dying, so be it.”

But Duterte said he would not allow abuses and law-abiding citizens had nothing to fear.

Marawi’s bishop, Edwin de la Peña, said the militants forced their way into the city’s cathedral and seized a Roman Catholic priest, 10 worshippers and three staff.

The priest, Father Chito, and the others had no role in the conflict, said Socrates Villegas, archbishop and president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines.

“He was not a combatant. He was not bearing arms. He was a threat to none,” Villegas said of Chito. “His capture and that of his companions violates every norm of civilised conflict.”

Villegas said the gunmen were demanding the government recall its forces.

A military spokesman, Col Edgard Arevalo, said 13 militants had been killed, and five soldiers had died and 31 others had been wounded. Other officials said a security guard and two police officers were also killed, including the beheaded chief.

Arevalo said troops had cleared militants from a hospital, the city hall and Mindanao State University. About 120 civilians were rescued from the hospital, the military said.

Soldiers and guerrillas set up rival checkpoints and roadblocks on routes in and around Marawi on Wednesday as civilians fled the city in droves, said Mary Jo Henry, an emergency response official. She quoted another official as saying Marawi was like a ghost town…

“We will conduct house-to-house clearing and do everything to remove the threat there. We can do that easily,” Gen Eduardo Año said,adding that it was more difficult in an urban setting because of the need to avoid civilian casualties. He said the group erected Isis flags at several locations….

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Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago

And the dumb Left/liberal Loons like Ariana Grande hate Trump for proposing temporary ban on unvetted Islamic jihadis to protect Americans including dumbasses like Ariana !

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Michael Stephens
Michael Stephens
6 years ago
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Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

Whatever it takes, destroy islam.

Question
Question
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Mahou, should muslims have the right to practice islam?

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  Question

Only to the degree that it does not interfere with the right of others not practicing it.

Question
Question
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Then why did you say “destroy islam” when you only want the part interfering with the right of others to be banned, which would still leave islam intact?

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  Question

No, as islam defines itself as the only cult allowed, no others to be tolerated, therefor the essence of islam is destroyed when it is forced to become tolerant.

As for Sura 109 (“to you, your religion; to me, mine”), any true Quran scholar will point out that the purpose of the verse was to distinguish Islam from the gods of the Quraysh (one of which was named “Allah”) rather than to advocate religious tolerance for non-Muslims.

At the time that he narrated this very early verse, Muhammad did not have any power, and thus no choice but to be “tolerant” of others. By contrast, there was little tolerance shown when he returned to Mecca with power many years later and demanded the eviction or death of anyone who would not convert to Islam. In fact, he physically destroyed the cherished idols of the very people he addressed in Sura 109.

If tolerance simply means discouraging the mass slaughter of those of a different faith, then today’s practice of Islam generally meets this standard more often than not. But, if tolerance means allowing people of other faiths the same religious liberties that Muslims demand, then Islam is fundamentally the most intolerant religion under the sun.
Religious Tolerance

2:6-7 “As for the Disbelievers, Whether thou warn them or thou warn them not it is all one for them; they believe not. Allah hath sealed their hearing and their hearts, and on their eyes there is a covering. Theirs will be an awful doom.”

2:286, 3:147 “Give us victory over the disbelieving folk.”

3:28 “Let not the believers take disbelievers for their friends in preference to believers.”

3:32 “Allah loveth not the disbelievers.”

3:56 “As for those who disbelieve I shall chastise them with a heavy chastisement in the world and the Hereafter; and they will have no helpers.”

3:85 “Whoso seeketh as religion other than the Surrender (to Allah) it will not be accepted from him, and he will be a loser in the Hereafter.”

4:91 “Take them and kill them wherever ye find them. Against such We have given you clear warrant.”

4:101 “The disbelievers are an open enemy to you.”

4:144 “Choose not disbelievers for (your) friends in place of believers. Would ye give Allah a clear warrant against you?”

5:51 “Take not the Jews and the Christians for friends. … He among you who taketh them for friends is (one) of them.”

8:39 “Fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is all for Allah.”

9:5 “Slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush.”

9:29 “Fight against such of those who have been given the Scripture as believe not in Allah.”

9:73 “Strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites! Be harsh with them. Their ultimate abode is hell, a hapless journey’s end.”

9:113 “It is not for the Prophet, and those who believe, to pray for the forgiveness of idolaters even though they may be near of kin (to them) after it hath become clear that they are people of hell-fire.”

9:123 “Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you.”

22:15 “Whoso is wont to think (through envy) that Allah will not give him (Muhammad) victory in the world and the Hereafter (and is enraged at the thought of his victory), let him stretch a rope up to the roof (of his dwelling), and let him hang himself.”

28:86 “Never be a helper to the disbelievers.”

30:45 “He loveth not the disbelievers.”

58:22 “Thou wilt not find folk who believe in Allah and the Last Day loving those who oppose Allah and His messenger, even though they be their fathers or their sons or their brethren.”

60:1 “Choose not My enemy and your enemy for allies. Do ye give them friendship when they disbelieve?”

60:13 “Be not friendly with a folk with whom Allah is wroth, (a folk) who have despaired of the Hereafter.”

66:9 “Strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites, and be stern with them. Hell will be their home, a hapless journey’s end.”

Remove this hate literature to start with.

mnf35oj
mnf35oj
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Yeah, let us say all this is destroyed. Then you would have no problem with islam?

peakpower
peakpower
6 years ago
Reply to  mnf35oj

Problem is, that is what makes islam islam.

mnf35oj
mnf35oj
6 years ago
Reply to  peakpower

Should muslims have the right to practice islam?

peakpower
peakpower
6 years ago
Reply to  mnf35oj

No. It kills people, like speeding. It should be a crime. We could start it off at a misdemeanor. Then, for the more extreme cases we could have felony islam.

mnf35oj
mnf35oj
6 years ago
Reply to  peakpower

Completely agree.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  mnf35oj

If islam was to renounce violence, accept women as equal, become tolerant, accept individual preference for religion, allow freedom of association, develop a work ethic. in general stop being a subhuman violent ignorant cult. Maybe.

mnf35oj
mnf35oj
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Don’t mix things. You said your only problem is so far as muslims practicing their religion does not interfere with the rights of others.

So if the elements, that infringe on the rights of others are removed, you would be completely fine with muslims practicing islam – Yes?

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  mnf35oj

Firstly if you are going to presume what I said, you can presume what my answers will be too. Perhaps we should define “islam” what is “islam” by your definition?

mnf35oj
mnf35oj
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

As I was afraid of, you have now started with the ‘dodge and weave’ game. I know now that you won’t ever address the point. I really want you to understand the point mahou. This is because if you get it, you will make 100 others get it. Please try to understand what I will say now –

When you–in pursuit of virtual signalling and feeling morally superior–claim that muslims should have the right to practice islam – You have already lost. When all of us do it, we have already lost to muslims.

This is because, muslims only require this green signal to grow the islamic threat. Once they have it, then the battle is already won by them. They can very well restrict the aspects that infringe on non-muslims rights — up to the point that they no longer need to . And then, when muslims have the strength, no power would be able to stop them from not just infringing upon, but eradicating the rights of non-muslims.

Therefore, by letting muslims have the right to practice islam, we are digging our civilization’s grave. This is all muslims need to make islam prevail over our civilization. This is exactly what is needed for islam’s success. See the point?

If we are to defeat the islamic threat – We must, and absolutely must not let muslims have the right to practice islam. No matter what. We must be practical, rational, and not emotional. We must not let our desire to feel morally superior cloud our judgement. Our bloody civilization is at stake. It is not a game. Not a matter of winning virtue points. It is an existential threat.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  mnf35oj

So many words, so little thought going into them. If you want to address the point, than make it clear what you want addressed. You cannot defeat oppression by being a lower form of life than the oppressor. You still haven’t defined “islam” as all it means is “submission”, try and present a case.

mnf35oj
mnf35oj
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Now see, I was being polite, and yet you started it. How dumb do you have to be to not understand what I said? It boggles my mind that you are so feeble-minded, and yet are able to type like an adult. Intellectually, you are a kid. Seriously.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  mnf35oj

How you can be so remarkably stupid in your inability to define your terms is truly a testament to your education.

mnf35oj
mnf35oj
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

How you can be so remarkably stupid in your inability to define your terms is truly a testament to your education.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  mnf35oj

Which degree is determined insufficient? What are your qualifications to judge?

mnf35oj
mnf35oj
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Forget that, let us continue civilly.

Think about it mahou – If muslims always retain the right to practice islam, how can we ever destroy islam? We can’t. See?

Islam can only be destroyed when and if muslims don’t have the right to practice it. If we keep believing that muslims should have the right to practice islam, we will never be able to defeat islam. Ever.

Just think about it and then tell me your take on it.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  mnf35oj

islam as it is practiced today cannot be allowed to continue existing, it must be destroyed. However, it is not going to work to remove it completely leaving a vacuum, which will be filled, the example of the errors of America lack of diplomacy in not controlling but replacing Sadam Hussain and Gadaffi are clear evidence that when a power vacuum is created, the results are uncontrollable. So, the way to go is to coerce or force islam into modifying itself into something that is reasonably compatible with the rest of the planet. How to do this will not be easy, as muslims have the lowest average intelligence of all identifiable groups on earth, it will take considerable effort to position a few ideas in place to get islam to reform and be sincere about it.

mnf35oj
mnf35oj
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

You know a lot about islam. So you, of all people, should not be the one claiming that islam can be reformed. Even by a miracle, if someone changes or waters down the interpretation of the verses of quran, hadiths are not subject to interpretations. Hadiths are historical records. So islam will still have all the butchery, thanks to hadiths. And this is why islam can never be reformed. It is wishful thinking to believe that it can be.

The point here is simple – If it must be destroyed, then no muslim must have the right to practice it, at least in the western world. Any muslim, even if peaceful, will eventually have kids, and his kids will learn the same islam from him, and he will in turn have more kids, and the cycle will continue forever, each time adding to the strength of islam by numbers.

If we are to defeat islam, we must demand that islam loses religious freedom, and as a result, muslims are not able to practice islam. Without doing this, islam will remain intact forever. Your choice.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  mnf35oj

There is no negotiating or making demands with muslims, either it is told what to do and forced into compliance, or the same old violence of the previous 1400 years will go on. The solution is not gone to be easy, it will involve violence, a lot of violence. In the end, the decision will have to be made by muslims, live of die.

mnf35oj
mnf35oj
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

“There is no negotiating or making demands with muslims, either it is told what to do and forced into compliance”

Exactly my point! So after knowing this fully well, if we still negotiate with muslims, that is, let them have the complete right to practice and grow islam, and hope and pray that somehow, they will change and remove the unsavory aspects from islam by themselves, it would make us as retarded as them, wouldn’t it?

And this is why I am saying that the only way is to take away their right to practice islam. I hope that now the point is much clearer, and you agree as well.

mnf35oj
mnf35oj
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

I have an idea to get it in your simple brain –

If muslims continue having the right to practice islam…always – How can islam ever be destroyed, like you demanded?

I know you will deflect as always, being dishonest as you are. But this time, I will make sure that even with deflection, you do address it. So answer the question.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  mnf35oj

As I have a very simple brain, and you have a remarkably thick skull, you have yet to come up with a definition of islam. What is the difference between the various sects? So, with reference to the various sects of islam, define “islam”?

MUSLIMS ADHERE TO DIFFERENT ISLAMIC SECTS

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Although Sunnis make up the majority of Muslims, not every Muslim belongs to the same Islamic sect. A Muslim’s Islamic beliefs may take one of these forms:

Sunni Muslims include 84%–90% of all Muslims. Sunni means “tradition,” and Sunnis regard themselves as those who emphasize following the traditions of Muhammad and of the first two generations of the community of Muslims that followed Muhammad.

A number of movements to reform Islam have originated mainly in the 20th century. Some are limited to one country and others have a broader influence. Most are Sunni movements, such as the Wahhabis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Jama`at-i-Islami.

Shi`ite Muslims comprise 10%–16% of all Muslims. Shi`ites are the “party of `Ali,” who believe that Muhammad’s son-in-law `Ali was his designated successor (imam) and that the Muslim community should be headed by a designated descendent of Muhammad. Three main subgroups of Shi`ites are Twelvers (Ithna-`Asharis), Seveners (Isma`ilis), and Fivers (Zaydis).

Sufis are Islamic mystics. Sufis go beyond external requirements of the religion to seek a personal experience of God through forms of meditation and spiritual growth. A number of Sufi orders, comparable to Christian monastic orders, exist. Most Sufis are also Sunni Muslims, although some are Shi`ite Muslims. Many conservative Sunni Muslims regard Sufism as a corruption of Islam, although most still regard Sufis as Muslims.

Baha’is and Ahmadiyyas are 19th-century offshoots of Shi`ite and Sunni Islam, respectively. Bahai’s consider themselves the newest of the major world’s religions but recognize that historically they originated from Shi`ite Islam in the same way that Christianity originated from Judaism. Ahmadiyyas do regard themselves as Muslims. Most other Muslims, however, deny that either group is a legitimate form of Islam and regard members of both groups as heretics — people who have corrupted and abandoned Islamic belief and practice.

Druze, Alevis, and `Alawis are small, sectarian groups with unorthodox beliefs and practices that split off from Islam. Druze and Alevis do not regard themselves as Muslims and are not considered Muslims by other Muslims. `Alawis have various non-Islamic practices, but debate continues as to whether they should still be considered Muslims.

mnf35oj
mnf35oj
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

You want islam destroyed, and yet want muslims to have the right to practice islam.

Are you brain-dead? If muslims have the right to practice islam, islam can never be destroyed, you bloody retard.

dad1927
dad1927
6 years ago
Reply to  mnf35oj

how many Jews left in the middle east now? There were millions

mnf35oj
mnf35oj
6 years ago
Reply to  dad1927

Muslims won’t stop until they drive all of them out. Muhammad himself said he would free the entire arab of jews.

spfg
spfg
6 years ago
Reply to  Question

Islam worships a god that plays into the wickedness of a man’s heart…

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

peakpower
peakpower
6 years ago
Reply to  Question

Should Jim Jones have the right to kill his followers?Or tell them to kill themselves? Islam always creates death. It should not be tolerated anywhere, ever.

Kilgore
Kilgore
6 years ago
Reply to  Question

No! Islam is not a religion, but a perverted death and sexual cult!

Question
Question
6 years ago
Reply to  Kilgore

Good. This answer is much better

Obama IS-A-POS
Obama IS-A-POS
6 years ago
Reply to  Question

Expel every one of the dirty throat cutters who refuse to renounce Islam and toss a Koran in the sewage pit. Those who won’t surrender are killed. Those who surrender or who weren’t fighting are given the opportunity to renounce the death-cult of child-molesting murders(Islam) and can stay. Those who refuse to give up their murderous tendencies and abuse of children are given a one-way freighter trip to Indonesia or some other Muslim sh-t hole.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  Question

Should non-muslims have the right to practice their religion in Soddy Barbaria? Should Christians, Jews, Hindus and Sikhs have the right to build temples and churches in Soddy Barbaria? Why aren’t non-muslims allowed to travel to Mecca and Medina Ahmed Al Arsetard?

Bullet Proof
Bullet Proof
6 years ago

Imagine, the so called extremists being forced out of their own countries because even their own think they’re too monstrous to coexist with, and Germany welcomes them with open arms and borders. Well done Fuhrer Merkel……

Of course the moderates want the same results, but are doing it through out breeding until the numbers are right then there will be no difference.

Alleged Comment
Alleged Comment
6 years ago

What choice do you have? Send in the Philippine Army. They know what to do.

RayG1
RayG1
6 years ago

The Filipinos still remember the Japanese invasion of WWII. I don’t think that ISIS will have such an easy time with conquering the rest of the Philippines.

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
6 years ago

You will know it’s the end of civilization when Muslims infiltrate N. Korea.

GR Arnold
GR Arnold
6 years ago
Reply to  Stephen Honig

Indeed …

Kilgore
Kilgore
6 years ago

General MacArthur must be rolling in his grave. Filthy muzzrats!

Obama IS-A-POS
Obama IS-A-POS
6 years ago

Duterte is up to the task. He should outlaw Islam and expel every one of the dirty throat cutters who refuse to renounce Islam and toss a Koran in the sewage pit. Those who won’t surrender are killed. Those who surrender or who weren’t fighting are given the opportunity to renounce Islam and stay. Those who refuse are given a one-way freighter trip to Indonesia or some other Muslim sh-t hole.

dad1927
dad1927
6 years ago

Marawi is a muslim town…comment image

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