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Southeast Asia

Violence Mars Ramadan Start in Southern Philippines

2021-04-15

[BenarNews] The Moslem holy month of Ramadan began on a ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful note in the southern Philippines where authorities mounted a deadly raid on a suspected pro-Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
bomber’s hideout, officials said Wednesday.

Police were dispatched to Datu Salibo town in Maguindanao province to arrest Abu Naim, a member of the IS-linked Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters
...a MILF splinter group aligned with the Islamic State...
(BIFF) who was implicated in a series of bombings in the region, but officers met with resistance early Wednesday, authorities said.

Naim and his ~~lover~~ companions provoked a shootout when they shot up the arresting officers, said Maj. Esmael Madin, chief of operations for the Philippine National Police’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Group.

"We retaliated and killed a companion," Madin told BenarNews, adding that Abu Naim escaped.

Madin identified the dead man as Marcos Manungal, a former village chief who allegedly was involved in illegal drug trafficking and extortion.

Police later arrested four suspected krazed killers, including the mother and wife of Abu Naim. They also recovered firearms and homemade bombs from the hideout, Madin said.

"Naim was involved in various bombing activities in the region. He works as a bomb expert for BIFF under Turaife," Madin said, referring to Abu Turaife, the leader of the BIFF, a fringe krazed killer group in the south.

The BIFF is a splinter group of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, which had been the country’s largest Moslem separatist force before it signed a peace pact with the government. The MILF now controls the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Moslem Mindanao.

Turaife’s group and other smaller krazed killer organizations, in the meantime, have continued to stage attacks in the south.

The raid occurred as millions of Filipino Moslems in the country — who are mostly concentrated in the southern Mindanao region — started their Ramadan fasting. They fast from sun up to sun down each day.

Ramadan will give way on May 13 to Eid al-Fitr, an Arabic term which means "festival of breaking the fast."

Posted by:trailing wife

#4 Ramadan without violence is like Purim without Hamantaschen.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-04-15 09:42

#3 From an Islamist's viewpoint, violence doesn't "mar" the start of Ramadan.

Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2021-04-15 09:37

#2 Like we're expecting Ramadan to start in some other manner.

Posted by: Raj 2021-04-15 09:02

#1 What better way to celebrate Ramadan start than with a deadly raid on a suspected pro-Islamic State bomber's hideout? Ululululu!

Posted by: Frank G 2021-04-15 08:44

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