Warlord
06-13-2007, 05:47 AM
Well actually, rarely do I read something about it. Telling it for what it is.
Discrimination a two-way street
By Ramon Tulfo
Inquirer
Last updated 07:23am (Mla time) 06/12/2007
The Maguindanao public schools official who exposed the alleged election cheating in his province has been silenced forever.
Musa Dimasidsing, Maguindanao school district supervisor, was shot outside an Islamic school.
When Dimasidsing bravely denounced the election fraud, he was a dead man walking. He had wished for his own death.
In a closed society such as Maguindanao, where Muslims adhere to a code of silence when brother Muslims get entangled with the law, Dimasidsing was a standout.
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Muslims complain of being discriminated against by their Christian brethren.
But the fact is they have brought the discrimination upon themselves since they want to be different from the rest of society. They treat Christians differently from their fellow Muslims.
A couple of years ago, Christian students and teachers, including a priest, were kidnapped in Basilan by the bandit group Abu Sayyaf.
Some of the captives who survived the ordeal said ordinary Muslims, who were not bandits, also maltreated them. Why? Because they were Christians.
The priest was later beheaded.
Of course, Muslims will accuse me of generalization.
But how cannot I not generalize in the face of the many facts I have before me? The example I cited is just one of many. I am from Mindanao and know the situation firsthand. Ask another non-Muslim from Mindanao and he will surely tell you the same thing.
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Be prepared for what I’m about to tell you: With a few exceptions, non-Muslim women that the Abu Sayyaf and other Muslim bandit groups kidnapped were allegedly raped by their captors.
Even nuns were reportedly not spared. I heard one nun committed suicide after she was released by the bandits because she couldn’t bear the thought of having been violated.
Why did they do that to their women-captives? Because their captives were non-Muslims and, therefore, infidels.
Unless the ordinary Muslim mindset is changed, there will be animosity between Muslims and non-Muslims in this country and other parts of the world.
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Let’s do forget the crap that Muslims act the way they do because they are discriminated against by society.
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view_article.php?article_id=70793
Discrimination a two-way street
By Ramon Tulfo
Inquirer
Last updated 07:23am (Mla time) 06/12/2007
The Maguindanao public schools official who exposed the alleged election cheating in his province has been silenced forever.
Musa Dimasidsing, Maguindanao school district supervisor, was shot outside an Islamic school.
When Dimasidsing bravely denounced the election fraud, he was a dead man walking. He had wished for his own death.
In a closed society such as Maguindanao, where Muslims adhere to a code of silence when brother Muslims get entangled with the law, Dimasidsing was a standout.
* * *
Muslims complain of being discriminated against by their Christian brethren.
But the fact is they have brought the discrimination upon themselves since they want to be different from the rest of society. They treat Christians differently from their fellow Muslims.
A couple of years ago, Christian students and teachers, including a priest, were kidnapped in Basilan by the bandit group Abu Sayyaf.
Some of the captives who survived the ordeal said ordinary Muslims, who were not bandits, also maltreated them. Why? Because they were Christians.
The priest was later beheaded.
Of course, Muslims will accuse me of generalization.
But how cannot I not generalize in the face of the many facts I have before me? The example I cited is just one of many. I am from Mindanao and know the situation firsthand. Ask another non-Muslim from Mindanao and he will surely tell you the same thing.
* * *
Be prepared for what I’m about to tell you: With a few exceptions, non-Muslim women that the Abu Sayyaf and other Muslim bandit groups kidnapped were allegedly raped by their captors.
Even nuns were reportedly not spared. I heard one nun committed suicide after she was released by the bandits because she couldn’t bear the thought of having been violated.
Why did they do that to their women-captives? Because their captives were non-Muslims and, therefore, infidels.
Unless the ordinary Muslim mindset is changed, there will be animosity between Muslims and non-Muslims in this country and other parts of the world.
* * *
Let’s do forget the crap that Muslims act the way they do because they are discriminated against by society.
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view_article.php?article_id=70793