A Critical Analysis of 'Real Islam'. Its People ... - Bukti dan Saksi

Sulu Archipelago. In 1973-75, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) fielded some 30,000 armed
fighters. Destruction and casualties, both military and civilian, were heavy; an estimated 50,000 people
were killed. Talks between the government and the Moros began in late 1976 under the auspices of the
Organization of the Islamic Conference to which the Moros looked for support. The talks led to an
agreement between the government and the MNLF signed in Tripoli. After a lull in the fighting, the truce
broke down in 1977 amid Moro charges that the government's autonomy plan allowed only token selfrule.
Conflict between the autonomous south and government has been on-again, off-again ever since,
characterized by military defeats, followed by signed truces, then after a short period the breaking of the
agreements by the southern Muslims on some pretext. On Jan 4 th , 2004 a bomb killed over 10 people at a
gymnasium in the southern Philippines, with up to 30 hurt. The target of the attack on the southern island
of Mindanao was Vivencio Bataga, the Christian mayor of the largely Muslim town of Parang, who had
survived several attempts on his life. Mindanao has been racked by more than three decades of violence
as Muslim rebels battle to establish an Islamic state in the south of this overwhelmingly Roman Catholic
country.
The Abu Sayyaf and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), an offshoot of the MNLF, continues
to seek Muslim self-rule through Jihad (murder and terrorism). Nearly two decades after the government
in Manila created the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, its five provinces remain among the
poorest in the country as its population remains focused on war versus development. The rebellion in the
south has killed more than 120,000 people since the late 1960s and stunted development of an area rich in
minerals, rice and other natural resources.
RUSSIA - Many more recent attacks are chronicled in Appendix C. What could collectively be described
as Russia’s Sept 11 th occurred late Aug, 2004, when homicide bombers brought down two commercial
airliners, followed a week later by a bloody hostage incident at a school killing hundreds of women and
children. The incident at Beslan, Russia is so significant that a special chapter has been dedicated to its
description. A notable fact is that the community targeted in the town of Beslan is a predominately
Christian enclave in the mostly Muslim south Caucasus region.
SPAIN - Spain’s 9/11 occurred on March 11, 2004 when militant Islamists bombed several commuter
trains, causing widespread death and injury, just prior to national elections. The people of Spain, in a state
of shock, voted for appeasement and withdrew support forces from Iraq, as demanded by the militants.
Spanish white hands raised in surrender brought great satisfaction to Islamic groups worldwide. But
neither Islamic nor Western peoples feel respect for Spain’s capitulation, as the eventual destiny of any
nation not willing to fight militant Islam is more speedy servitude to the Islamic masters manipulating
them.
SUDAN - Separate from the earlier Christian and animist purges in the South, the Darfur genocide has
recently left an estimated additional 30,000 people dead and 1.4 million displaced in Sudan and Chad. A
State Department report, based on interviews with 1,136 refugees in neighboring Chad, said 67 percent of
refugees reported witnessing aerial bombardment by (Islamic) Sudanese government aircraft; 61 percent
reported the killing of a family member; 16 percent reported rape; and 33 percent reported hearing racial
epithets. In months of interviews across Darfur, scores of Sudanese have described horrific atrocities
committed by Janjaweed and Sudanese soldiers, including systematic gang rapes, summary executions,
and male children being thrown into burning huts or onto pyres. The abuses seemed designed to erase the
collective identity of the mostly Muslim black Africans, survivors said. Survivors testify that they often
called the victims ‘slaves’, before raping women to create `Arab babies' and castrating the men. The
Janjaweed killed male babies, apparently to wipe out future generations, the survivors said.
THAILAND - Four soldiers were killed Jan. 4, 2004 during the armory raid in Narathiwat province and
more than 300 weapons were stolen. Over 20 schools were torched in what officials believe was a
diversionary tactic. Two days later 2 monks, aged 65 and 13, were attacked with machetes and killed by
four men on two motorcycles as they left a temple in Yala, about 1,000 km south of Bangkok. Since the
armory raid, a series of hit-and-run assaults have killed at least 43 people in the Muslim-dominated
southernmost provinces in this Buddhist majority country. Government officials blame the violence on
Muslim separatists with possible links to terror networks like al-Qaeda. Most of the victims have been