This photo shows the real situation of Islam and Muslims in the Philippines. Islam is besieged here by a brutal state, who treats Muslims as second or even third class citizens.  It is a reality created by centuries of enslavement by foreign hands, an existence threatened by co-optation and offers of co-existence. How will Muslims in this [...]

Madame Gloria is now in Davao, presiding over the merger of her party Kampi with that of Lakas. They are preparing for the ARMM elections, a crucial one given that Mindanao’s vote more often than not determine the next president. Remember 2004? It was in Mindanao that Gloria orchestrated that Hello Garci caper. Surely, this [...]