Reflections on the Bangsa MoroReflections on the Bangsa MoroA blog dedicated to the Mindanao Muslim Mioro history, culture, including those of the sultanates of Lanao, Maguindanao, Buayan and Sulu and its peoples the Maranao, Maguindanao, Tausuf, Sama, Yakan, Iranun, etc. as well as to the situation among Fil Articles
COMELEC, Mayor Robredo, Sultan Kiram and Philippine citizenship
2007-05-19 18:16:00 COMELEC ruled that long-time Mayor Robredo of Naga City is not a natural-born Filipino because his great-grandfather, who came to the Phil ippines before 1898, did not apply for citizenship. Yesterday, COMELEC suspended the proclamation of Mayor Jocelyn Limkaichiong as Representative of the First District of Negros Oriental because her father took his Oath of Allegiance ... More About: History , Current Events , Sultan , Come
Vote-Buying, Burning and Killing by Cops, No Actual Voting ? Philippine Ele
2007-05-18 20:34:00 VOTE-BUYING? The International Observers Monitors were quite shocked when they saw for themselves people actually buying votes. In the Philippines, vote-buying is an accepted practice. It might even be legal because no less than the Secretary of Justice announced on national TV that he would give ten thousand pesos (P 10,000) to barangay chairpersons who would ... More About: Buying , Current Events , Vote , Cops , Voting
TONYPET ALBANO?S RACIAL SLUR, ADEL TAMANO and THE ROLE OF MEDIA
2007-05-18 15:07:00 FROM The Setting Sun In yesterday’s Kapihan sa Senado, the spokesmen of the rival coalitions – Genuine Opposition (GO) and Team Unity (TU) – were at each other’s throats again. TU spokesman Tony pet Alba no boasted that Maguindanao turned out a 12-0 vote for TU. GO spokesman Adel Tamano said that for a Christian and a non-Mindanaoan ... More About: Media , Current Events , Role
Philippine Elections 2007 - In the Eye of the Storm
2007-05-16 20:31:00 We are now in the phase of the elections when the public is lulled into believing that the elections are finished, that it was not as horrible as expected, and that all that is left is to let NAMFREL and COMELEC do their slow/quick count. But it is during this time that the greatest vigilance is needed. The real work for ?special operators? is being done in this phase. The transfer of the votes from the Election Returns to the certificates of canvass is being done. More About: Elections , Current Events , Storm , Stor , Phil
Philippine Elections ? Media Counts, Quick Counts, Slow Counts And Exit P
2007-05-15 18:41:00 The ABS CBN/STI Media Count is over. The counting was stopped at about 8% of the votes. Among the top 12 leading candidates are 8 GO (Genuine Opposition) candidates, 2 Team Unity (administration) candidates and 2 independents. The Team Unity spokesmen railed against the Media Counts because they said, the media are not saying where these ... More About: Elections , Current Events , Quick , Phil
Philippine Elections 2007 - Updates, Killings, Foreign Monitors, Manny Paqu
2007-05-15 10:08:00 UPDATES A school was set on fire in Batangas. The fire killed 1 teacher and 1 poll watcher. There were more killings in Abra, Masbate and other places in Luzon. Right in Pasig City in Metro Manila, the lawyers of Congressman Dudut Jaworski were “arrested” by SWAT teams bearing long, high-powered arms and forcibly brought ... More About: Elections , Current Events , Updates , Foreign , Phil
Philippine Elections 2007 - back to the old shenanigans
2007-05-14 14:02:00 The voting for Elections 2007 is now over, except for some parts of the country where elections were suspended, as usual. For this election, some 200 election-related violent incidents were recorded, including about 114 people killed. Just today, there were more than a dozen people killed all over the country. And all the other horrible ... More About: Current Events , Back , Phil , Nani
The Left and the Right in the Senatorial Elections
2007-05-11 13:58:00 Proclamation 1017 made a big deal about the Left ist-Right ist coalition that was supposedly bent on overthrowing GMA’s government. According to Arroyo’s proclamation, the extreme Leftists and the extreme Rightists are the “the historical enemies” of the State? One might ask, since when? The Marcos Martial Law administration was an extreme rightist regime. Ramos and Enrile were ... More About: Elections , Current Events , Nato
Voting in Philippine Elections
2007-05-09 21:40:00 The punishment suffered by the wise who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of bad men. – Plato In a few days, Filipinos will have another election, both local and national. There are so many holier-than-thou people on TV, radio and ... More About: Elections , Current Events , Voting , Phil , Lippi
IPS INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM AWARDEE JORGE BURGOS? SON KIDNAPPED
2007-05-07 18:18:00 The son of the late Jose Burgos , Jr., the country’s icon of Press Freedom and IPS’s (Inter Press Service’s) 1986 International Journalism Award ee, has been abducted last April 28 at the EVER Gotesco in Quezon City. According to witnesses, the abductors were burly men with military haircuts ... More About: Current Events
FILIPINO CRAB MENTALITY - THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF MEDIOCRACY
2007-05-04 18:57:00 I first read about Filipino crab mentality when I was freshman in college in the mid 1970s. At that time I did not understand what crab mentality was all about. But the image — of crabs almost succeeding in getting out of the basket only to be pulled back down by their fellow crabs — ... More About: History , Crab , Menta , Ality
Broken Link - My Mother and The First ?Modern? Moro Women
2007-05-04 09:52:00 One of my more popular posts is My Mother and The First “Modern ” Moro Women which I posted last year. I edited it today because I just read in a book today that Princess Tarhata Kiram went to the University of Illinois. I remember my mother saying that Princess Tarhata studied at Bryn Mawr. She ... More About: Link
Winograd Commission Blames Olmert, Peretz and Halutz for Israel-Lebanon war
2007-05-02 20:40:00 Lebanon war report puts Israel ’s Olmert under fire Olmert fights for political life after war report Israel’s FM Livni has no plan to replace PM Olmert: report Lebanon war report faults Olmert The Winograd Commission which was tasked to investigate the conduct ... More About: Lebanon , Current Events , Sion
Maratabat and the Maranaos
2007-05-01 20:00:00 The concept of Mara tabat is much talked about but only half-understood by most non-Maran aos and even by some Maranaos. First and foremost, maratabat is not about revenge killing, which is related to rido (blood feud). Maratabat is about honor, “face”, dignity, sense of shame, sense of pride, ethics, etiquette, protocol, and self-esteem. It is an age-old ... More About: Taba
Please Cite Your Sources! Don?t Plagiarize!
2007-04-29 19:56:00 While surfing the web, I was quite surprised to see my words in another man’s article. This guy’s post was even published in another website, an Islamic one. There is no question that he plagiarized from my posts. But what irritates me is that he cited several sources but not mine. I first posted my article ... More About: Please , Lease , Sources , Ease
Richaed Gere?s and Shilpa Shetty?s ?kiss?
2007-04-28 04:05:00 Richaed Gere ’s and Shilpa Shetty ’s “kiss” has now been blown out of proportion. Or is it? BBC (or is it CNN?) is asking the viewers for their comments on this controversial kiss. Instead of sending it to BBC or CNN, I’m blogging my comment. ; &nbs p; &nb sp; &n bsp; & nbsp; ; &nbs p; &nb sp; After the “kissing” incident, there were demonstrations in India against ... More About: Kiss
The Resurrection of the Abu Sayyaf Group
2007-04-23 20:13:00 From late January this year upto a few weeks ago, the Philippine military had been trumpeting its victories against the Abu Sayyaf Group . They had been supposedly killing the group’s remaining leaders one by one. And now, all of a sudden, from out of nowhere, the Abu Sayyafs are back! And with very brutal acts to ... More About: Resurrection , The A , Rect
Antonio Trillanes - The New Magdalo hero
2007-04-17 08:16:00 The Philippine Revolution of 1896 was in reality a Tagalog Revolution. Andres Bonifacio, the acknowledged Father of the Revolution, and his Katipunan called for independence of the Katagalugan state. Manila was the center of Katipunan but after a few weeks of fighting, the Manileños suffered heavily. Center stage was then occupied by the Caviteños. As ... More About: History , Current Events , Lane , Hero , Antonio
Of Philippine Bar exams, lawyers and politics
2007-04-15 19:09:00 I just saw the political advertisement of Opposition senatorial candidate lawyer Coco Pimentel. The ad focused on his being a bar topnotcher, and therefore, intelligent. Topping the bar, it seems, is his only claim to fame. Actually, he is a senatorial candidate because his father, an incumbent senator, wants him to be one. His claim to ... More About: Politics , Lawyer , Lawyers , Exams , Exam
Third Philippine Blogging Summit ? some comments
2007-04-14 15:18:00 Just attended the 2-day I-BLOG 3, the 3rd Philippine Blog ging Summit held at the UP School of Economics Auditorium organized by the UP Law Internet and Society Program. I have been a ‘Netizen for about a dozen years now. I’ve had and still have several personal websites. I rarely engage in chatting so there was ... More About: Men , Comments , Comment
Al Gore?s An Inconvenient Truth, documentary on Climate Change
2007-04-11 18:19:00 FROM Mr. & Ms. Magazine, April 2007 =================================== The run-away favorite to win this year’s Academy Award (OSCAR) for Best Documentary is Al Gore ’s An Inconvenient Truth . Like Farenheit 9/11, the box-office success of this film proves that film goers are also ... More About: Climate Change , Climate
Jewish and Christian Women Segregated in Buses, Trains
2007-04-09 08:32:00 I just watched a CNN feature on the Segregation of men and women in Jerusalem. Some Jewish women have sued the bus company for having such a rule which they claim is like the Taliban way! One Jewish woman was furious because a Jewish fellow berated her and demanded that she sit at the back ... More About: Gate , Christian , Women , Men
Muhammad, Legacy of the Prophet at the National Geographic Channel
2007-04-07 12:20:00 Just saw the documentary Muhammad , Legacy of the Prophet at the National Geographic Channel. It?s the first time that I?ve seen a US-made media product about Islam that is historically accurate, without prejudices and even aesthetically pleasant. More About: National Geographic , The N
A BLOGGERS? CODE OF ETHICS ? Plagiarism et al
2007-04-05 13:11:00 A BLOGGERS’ CODE OF ETHICS Be Honest and FairBlog ger s should be honest and fair in gathering, reporting and interpreting information.Bloggers should:• Never plagiarize.• Identify and link to sources whenever feasible. The public is entitled to as much information as possible on sources’ reliability.• Make certain that Weblog entries, quotations, ... More About: Ethics , Code
Film Critique - Bagong Buwan, a Marilou Diaz-Abaya film
2007-04-03 16:30:00 The film Bagong Buwan (New Moon) is a milestone in Philippine cinema as it is the first film that questions conventional Philippine nationalist discourse. For the first time, a film portrays the Bangsa Moro (Moro nation) as a nation, an historical people distinct from the majority ? the ?Christian Filipino nation?? and justifiably seeking self-determination. More About: Film , Ique , Critique , Gong , Crit
Anagrams ? The Secrets behind the Names
2007-03-30 14:17:00 According to the esoteric sciences, NAMES and even words are sacred. There are secrets buried in words. In the Christian Bible, the Gospel of John begins with the verse “In the Beginning was the Word; the Word was in God’s presence, and the Word was God.” In the Qur’an, the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon ... More About: The N , The Secret , Name , Secret , Secrets
?Hello? Garci for Congress, ?Robin Hood? hostage-taker, etc
2007-03-29 07:32:00 Virgilio Garcilliano, the COMELEC (Commission on Elections) commissioner who was caught on audio tape talking to people about RIGGING the 2004 presidential and senatorial elections and even KIDNAPPING Moro families, has just signed up to run for CONGRESSMAN in Bukidnon, Mindanao. More About: Congress , Take , Hood , Host , Hell
WAR IN MORO LAND (Last Phase) ? by Jun Abbas
2007-03-27 05:07:00 The brief history of the present Bangsa Moro Struggle, which I will present in the first person because I was one of the original members of the movement from 1965 onward. This is perhaps the first time I will be writing on this matter because I want the Bangsa Moro Youth and the Filipino People to understand the Islamic Struggle of our people while there are still some of the originators of the struggle who are still alive and involved in different capacities in the society. -- Macapanton Abba s , Jr. More About: War , Last , Land
An Ideal University of the Philippines
2007-03-25 18:55:00 Universities play a key role in knowledge-based societies and economies. In the Phil ippines , the University of the Philippines can and should lead the way inasmuch as it wants to call itself ?the national university?. More About: Idea , Deal
The Gulf War II media coverage
More articles from this author:2007-03-20 08:56:00 Media construction of reality becomes apparent in times of war. More About: Media , War , Rage , Cover , Over 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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