Alleged extremist Musa Cerantonio claims threats against his Pinay wife

From GMA News (Sep 7): Alleged extremist Musa Cerantonio claims threats against his Pinay wife

Musa Cerantonio, a suspected Muslim extremist and an Australian national who was deported after being arrested in Cebu, on Saturday claimed his Filipina wife who was still in the Philippines was in danger.

"Yesterday my wife [Joan Montayre] was crossing an empty street when a black car without license plates sped in her direction and intentionally hit her,” Cerantonio, now based in Australia, said in a social media post. “She was able to jump to try and avoid it and due to this despite being hit was able to avoid being killed, although she suffered serious injuries from the attack."

He also no longer relied on the Philippine National Police  to protect his wife, as he claimed that police officers were constantly following her.

Cerantonio said that he had sought assistance from the Australian government, which promised to get back to him Monday, "as if her life means nothing even though it is due to their actions that she is left there isolated and at the hands of a corrupt force who may have been responsible for trying to kill her, just as they threatened to kill me because of their hatred for Muslims."

"I am not there [in Cebu] to protect her as the Australian government canceled my passport and refuse to allow me to travel (the reasons given for its cancelation are baseless... and our money is yet to be returned to us," he said.

Cerantonio added that he was deported from the Philippines on the request of the Australian government.

Arrest

Cerantonio recounted that during his arrest in Cebu last July for alleged links to extremist groups, his wife was dragged from their apartment without being given the chance to wear her hijab.

The officers then took all their possessions including their money. Only their cloths were returned.

"Everything else is still in their possession including my wife's passport. Again, we were not charged with any crimes nor were we even accused of being involved in any crimes, rather we are both entirely innocent yet have been treated as if we were criminals," Cerantonio posted on Saturday.

“[D]uring my imprisonment at the hands of the Philippine Police I was threatened by police officers who showed me videos of Muslims that they had killed in Mindanao and told me that they were going to kill me too solely because of the fact that they had been told that we were 'terrorists' by the Australian government."

Cerantonio, in his post, then asked the help of Philippine Muslims to help keep his wife safe.

Montayre had earlier told GMA Cebu that she and Cerantonio was innocent, and that no one could prove their involvement in terrorism.

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