BIFM-RIB: Clarification

From BIFM-RIB (Feb 20): Clarification

This is a reaction on statements made by one of the MILF senior officials about two weeks ago in an executive senate hearing on fallen 44 SAF commandos at Mamasapano, Maguindanao bloody battle. For the sake of truth and reliable information of all concerned, the Research and Information Bureau (RIB) has come up with this short but comprehensive message.

          This definitely serves as reliable information of all concerned but with specific point to the neo-colonial government of Manila (GPH). The BIFM/BIFF, per statement made by the subject MILF senior official, does not agree on a peaceful settlement of the armed conflict in the Moroland. Along with this line, BIFM leadership requests for the rectification of the statement made by the MILF senior official.

          We BIFM are strictly upholding the foot step of the late MILF chairman, Sheikh Salamat Hashim, who said that the “most civilized way of resolving the armed conflict in the Moroland is peaceful political settlement”. So, any individual or a group who opposes this honorable idea of the late MILF chairman goes outside the ambit of Islam.

          Sheikh Salamat Hashim, when he was still the chairman of this organization (MILF) he has severally made pronouncements “that any solution to the armed conflict in the Moroland less than complete independence of the Bangsamoro people and their homeland will never work well. This is what we believe in. Question, can any body justly and correctly says that the BBL will work and serve the Moros in accordance with the supreme objective of Jihad fiy sabiy lillah?

          The BIFF is more than willing to resolves this problem in a peaceful way provided, however that the final agreement reached should not deviate from the establishment of Islamic State. In summing up the above clarificatory points, our position to regain our ancestral homeland is tantamount to the GPH stand “that the Moros claim for their independence is non-negotiable”. 

           Historical facts clearly showed that the Moro homeland was usurped by the two Filipino colonial masters (Spain and America) for the Christianized native (Filipinos). The proof of which is the infamous Agreement between Spain and America, better known in History as Treaty of Paris which was signed on December 10, 1898.

          By virtue of this Treaty, the two Moro Sultanate Territories were treacherously annexed to the Las Islas Filipinos (island of Visayas and Luzon). To the Moros, this considered as an act of usurpation as it lacked the plebiscitary consent of the Bangsamoro people.
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