The Great River
Written on Sunday, September 14th, 2008 at 7:16 am | by DJBI would like to share with our esteemed colleagues and gentle readers here at Filipino Voices, some explorations I’ve recently made in Mindanao’s long and tragic history. Consider them soundings in the great river of Philippine history.
The first is from the great classic work by Horacio de la Costa, S.J., History of the Jesuits in the Philippines (Harvard University Press, 1961). We take up the story in the year 1599 when thousands were taken as slaves in great raids by the Sultanates all over the Visayas and Luzon…
(MP3) From History of the Jesuits in the Philippines (1581-1768)
From Thomas McKenna, Muslim Rulers and Rebels, (Anvil Publishing House, 2000), here is the story of Islamic rule under the sultanates, the coming of Sharif Kabunsuan to Cotabato, and the “sacred inequality” under political Islam, the coming Spain and America…
(MP3) Islamic Rule in Cotabato
(MP3) European Impositions and the Myth of Morohood
(MP3) The Moros of America
But to discover the rotten root of ideas and “peace technologies” of which that lethal MOA on Ancestral Domain is the poisoned fruit, listen to (MP3) Astrid Tuminez of USIP. She’ll make your blood boil when you realize this was going to lead to war whether or not the MOA was signed!
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- Five star prisons, Raul Gonzalez, Thomas More and justice
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Me napansin lang ako sa mga discussions tungkol sa Moro,bakit wala yatang nakakaala na ang Moro ay spanish for Moors.Nagsimula ito sa mga Moroccan pirates,moroccan immigrants sa Spain.After that hanggang early twentieth century ay Moors pa din ang tawag nila kahit sa mga Arabong migrante.
So pati Moro ay may tatak na made in Spain.
Karl, i did mention that…
in my comment to you over at my blog.
The key historical FACT that you won’t find in places like the Philippine Daily Inquirer, or indeed and “peace-loving” NGO or “peace advocate” is that Islam is as foreign as Christianity, and that the Sultanates were not only proselytizers, they were conquerors who set up aristocracies that claimed direct descent from the Prophet Muhammad as the warrant for their rule.
Yet the reason cited in IPRA for deeming all Christianized tribes as NON-INDIGENOUS is that they succumbed to a foreign power and religion.
Yet what was Islam and the sultanates of Sharif Kabunsuan (Cotabato) and Abu Bakr of Sulu but the exact same thing!
On that basis the MILF deserve to run a “homeland” in the name of the Bangsamoro.
Fiddlesticks!
Chuck,
My bad!
Sorry,oo nga pala.
No worries Karl
I think that ‘Moro’ identity was rejected by the Moros themselves up until the 1920’s when politicians from that area sent a petition to President Coolidge on behalf of the ‘Moro Nation’ (in the Declaration of Rights and Purpose Manifesto) calling for an ‘independent constitutional sultanate’. [as narrated in Abinales in Making Mindanao] After that, Misuari and company popularized it in the late 60’s.