Hundreds of Social Welfare Committee (SWC) members and from other sectors attended an Islamic Symposium and Peace Advocacy conducted by the SWC of Kutawatu Provincial Committee (SWC – KPC) held at Barangay Linek, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao last Sunday, August 10.
Guest speakers were Ustadza Faudzia Musanip of the subcommittee on Da’wah of SWC National Office and Nasser Pulindao from the Committee on Information.
Ustadza Faudzia in her lecture underscored the importance of affording respect to every woman’s husband as it is a gateway to paradise. Muslim women have various responsibilities in their homes especially in molding their children and looking after their properties and belongings inside their homes when their husbands are away for work. The wife is the beauty of a Muslim household and a precious creation given by ALLAH (SWT) to her husband. Uza. Musanip also emphasized Islamic traditions in intermarriages specially in choosing outfits to a bride who is going to be wedded.
Nasser Pulindao, Director of Kutawatu Provincial Committee on Information, gave inputs on the current Bangsamoro situation. “Poverty is not the real cause of the sufferings of the Moros but rather the colonization of Mindanao for about four centuries by foreign and local colonizers”.
The grant of a wider, strong political and fiscal autonomy for Bangsamoro as a compromise in lieu of independence is long overdue. The peace negotiations that started in1997 first suffered a major setback when the MOA-AD of 2008 was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. From that time on the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) still engaged the GPH in negotiations to come up with a comprehensive, final and lasting solution to the Mindanao question, Director Pulindao told the participants.
And now, the Comprehensive Agreement on Bangsamoro (CAB), a compilation of the Framework Agreement on Bangsamoro (FAB) and its annexes is feared to suffer another uncertain fate. The draft of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) crafted by the Bangsamoro transition Commission (BTC) submitted to the Office of the President in April this year was diluted heavily by the legal team of Malacañang that the MILF cannot accept as they “will lose face” once they accept it, Pulindao elucidated further.
The heavily diluted BBL prompted the BTC to call for a plenary session and agreed to elevate the matter to the peace panels. The peace panels along with the members of the BTC and the International Contact Group (ICG) held workshops in Kuala Lumpur and in Manila but failed to agree on a mutually-accepted version of the BBL. From August 1 to August 10, they again met in Davao City to come up with an agreed version but only achieved substantial progress in their 10-day workshops, sometime working on overtimes.
In their joint statement issued on the evening of August 10, both panels agreed to meet on August 18 and vowed to finalize a compromise version. Unless a final version is acceptable to the Moro people after the GPH and MILF panels conclude their scheduled meeting on August 18, the future is still bleak for the people in Mindanao, Pulindao said.
Before winding up his lecture, he urged participants and other sectors to be vigilant in monitoring the current situation as they the women will also be affected if disagreements on the contents of the BBL will not be settled.
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Ustadza Faudzia in her lecture underscored the importance of affording respect to every woman’s husband as it is a gateway to paradise. Muslim women have various responsibilities in their homes especially in molding their children and looking after their properties and belongings inside their homes when their husbands are away for work. The wife is the beauty of a Muslim household and a precious creation given by ALLAH (SWT) to her husband. Uza. Musanip also emphasized Islamic traditions in intermarriages specially in choosing outfits to a bride who is going to be wedded.
Nasser Pulindao, Director of Kutawatu Provincial Committee on Information, gave inputs on the current Bangsamoro situation. “Poverty is not the real cause of the sufferings of the Moros but rather the colonization of Mindanao for about four centuries by foreign and local colonizers”.
The grant of a wider, strong political and fiscal autonomy for Bangsamoro as a compromise in lieu of independence is long overdue. The peace negotiations that started in1997 first suffered a major setback when the MOA-AD of 2008 was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. From that time on the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) still engaged the GPH in negotiations to come up with a comprehensive, final and lasting solution to the Mindanao question, Director Pulindao told the participants.
And now, the Comprehensive Agreement on Bangsamoro (CAB), a compilation of the Framework Agreement on Bangsamoro (FAB) and its annexes is feared to suffer another uncertain fate. The draft of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) crafted by the Bangsamoro transition Commission (BTC) submitted to the Office of the President in April this year was diluted heavily by the legal team of Malacañang that the MILF cannot accept as they “will lose face” once they accept it, Pulindao elucidated further.
The heavily diluted BBL prompted the BTC to call for a plenary session and agreed to elevate the matter to the peace panels. The peace panels along with the members of the BTC and the International Contact Group (ICG) held workshops in Kuala Lumpur and in Manila but failed to agree on a mutually-accepted version of the BBL. From August 1 to August 10, they again met in Davao City to come up with an agreed version but only achieved substantial progress in their 10-day workshops, sometime working on overtimes.
In their joint statement issued on the evening of August 10, both panels agreed to meet on August 18 and vowed to finalize a compromise version. Unless a final version is acceptable to the Moro people after the GPH and MILF panels conclude their scheduled meeting on August 18, the future is still bleak for the people in Mindanao, Pulindao said.
Before winding up his lecture, he urged participants and other sectors to be vigilant in monitoring the current situation as they the women will also be affected if disagreements on the contents of the BBL will not be settled.
http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/welcome/item/1154-swc-conducts-peace-advocacy-in-datu-odin-sinsuat-town
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