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Philippines, Muslim Rebels Forge Wealth-Sharing in Peace Accord - Bloomberg
Philippines: army takes on Muslim separatists who want to form Islamic state | euronews, world news
2 news outlets for you guys. In chronological order.
Ok.
So read the articles if you want more.
Basically, the philipines (I will butcher this name, but w/e) have had a silent civil war for decades now. I do mean decades. Why do I say it's a silent civil war? Because muslims account for only 5-10% of the population. You heard me right, 5-10%. It's a very brutal and ruthless religious minority who wants more and more than ever.
This is all proof that islam, in it's current form, is not a religion of peace as all those people kindly misinform you. It's the religion of gimme gimme gimme under threat of Jihad.
So the Philipino PM offered the heads of the separatist rebels a pretty decent deal. They get 75% of the profits from the mineral and oil income from the region that they made unfriendly for decades. Now this is a really great deal for the separatist leaders. It means that 90% of the population gets 25% of the income from those minerals and oil and they, 5-10% of the population gets 75%. And they don't have to pay a penny, it will be private investors and the Philipino govt that will do all the investing.
Now if you were talking to rational people who cared about the country, not about themselves, making a demand that 75% of all income from those resources be given to you seems a little dim. But not to them. Why? Because with islam it's all or nothing. There is no compromise. You either submit or you're crushed. And this is a very good example of this.
Now this happened a few months ago.
What happened since? Islam happened. They regrouped their forces and after a few months of ceasefire, people started shooting again.
I will bet you 100$ that the arab league funds the islamists in the Philipinos. Especially Saudi Arabia. If the Saudis wouldn't have their wealth from the ground they stand, from the oil under their feet, they'd be less than a banana republic. So they know how important it is for islam to have money right under it's feet. And 300bil $ is a lot of money to finance Jihad if another islamist nation whose fortune comes from the ground it sits on enters the frey.
The Philippines and Muslim rebels signed a wealth-sharing agreement yesterday after eight months of talks, bringing President Benigno Aquino closer to ending four decades of insurgency on resources-rich Mindanao island.
Muslims will get a 75 percent share of metals resources and an equal split on fossil fuels, Ghadzali Jaafar, the front’s vice chairman, said in a phone interview yesterday. “We are going into the meat of the final deal,” he said. The statement didn’t provide details on the agreement.
Ending one of Southeast Asia’s most entrenched conflicts could help bring investors to Mindanao and unlock mineral deposits worth an estimated $312 billion. The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao had per capita gross domestic product of 26,004 pesos ($599) in 2011, about a fourth the national average of 103,366 pesos and the lowest among 17 regions, according to the National Statistical Coordination Board.
Philippines: army takes on Muslim separatists who want to form Islamic state | euronews, world news
2 news outlets for you guys. In chronological order.
There have been more clashes in the Philippines between the army and Muslim separatists.
More than 50 people have died in the violence and around 60,000 have fled their homes.
Ok.
So read the articles if you want more.
Basically, the philipines (I will butcher this name, but w/e) have had a silent civil war for decades now. I do mean decades. Why do I say it's a silent civil war? Because muslims account for only 5-10% of the population. You heard me right, 5-10%. It's a very brutal and ruthless religious minority who wants more and more than ever.
This is all proof that islam, in it's current form, is not a religion of peace as all those people kindly misinform you. It's the religion of gimme gimme gimme under threat of Jihad.
So the Philipino PM offered the heads of the separatist rebels a pretty decent deal. They get 75% of the profits from the mineral and oil income from the region that they made unfriendly for decades. Now this is a really great deal for the separatist leaders. It means that 90% of the population gets 25% of the income from those minerals and oil and they, 5-10% of the population gets 75%. And they don't have to pay a penny, it will be private investors and the Philipino govt that will do all the investing.
Now if you were talking to rational people who cared about the country, not about themselves, making a demand that 75% of all income from those resources be given to you seems a little dim. But not to them. Why? Because with islam it's all or nothing. There is no compromise. You either submit or you're crushed. And this is a very good example of this.
Now this happened a few months ago.
What happened since? Islam happened. They regrouped their forces and after a few months of ceasefire, people started shooting again.
I will bet you 100$ that the arab league funds the islamists in the Philipinos. Especially Saudi Arabia. If the Saudis wouldn't have their wealth from the ground they stand, from the oil under their feet, they'd be less than a banana republic. So they know how important it is for islam to have money right under it's feet. And 300bil $ is a lot of money to finance Jihad if another islamist nation whose fortune comes from the ground it sits on enters the frey.