PROFILE: Murad Ebrahim, from hardline to voice of moderation

From Rapper (Oct 14): PROFILE: Murad Ebrahim, from hardline to voice of moderation

He was a feared military commander of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) who steered a once largely ragtag secessionist band of rebels under the shadow of the more ideological and scholarly Hashim Salamat, from whom he inherited the chairmanship of the country’s largest Moro rebel group.... Murad was one semester short of finishing his civil engineering course from the Notre Dame of University in Cotabato City when he joined the Moro National Liberation Front in 1972. For years, he was largely unknown although already a leading cadre of the MNLF.  In 1981, Murad joined the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) following a bitter split and leadership struggle between the late Hashim, who died of heart attack in 2003, and former UP Prof. Nur Misuari who was chair of the MNLF. He rose to become head of the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAF), the military arm of the MILF, and vice chair for military affairs of the MILF which grew into a formidable armed force under Hashim....

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