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Southeast Asia
Philippine Muslim Autonomous Region Leader Seeks More Time to Control Militants
2021-05-15
[BenarNews] The transitional autonomous government in the southern Philippines needs more time to control turbans linked to the 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....
(IS) but has begun talks with them, its leader told politicians on Friday.

Ahod Balawag Ebrahim, chief minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Moslem Mindanao (BARMM), told senators during a legislative inquiry that he had asked for a three-year extension for his government because normalization in the restive south would take longer than the three years granted to the interim administration.
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