Friday, March 11, 2016

Ulama alliance members in Lanao get threats

From GMA News (Mar 11): Ulama alliance members in Lanao get threats

MARAWI CITY -  Members of the Ulama Alliance  in the two Lanao provinces and Marawi City claim they frequently get death threats from unknown personalities .
 
Sheik Sadiq Usman,member of the Ulama Alliance told GMA News, "We have received these threats  through texts  messages  and on Facebook even before and after the foiled assassination attempt on Dr. Aidh Al-Qarni and Sheik Turky Bin Abdul Rahman Shaeg in Zamboanga City" on March 1 in Zamboanga City
 
The members of the Ulama Alliance he added suspect that the threats came from young  radicals who are propagating extremism.
 
"We are not afraid of the threats around us " Usman added.
 
On Thursday morning an estimated 5,000 Muslims staged an indignation rally at Cabili Plaza in Banggolo, Marawi City.and strongly condemned the shooting of  Al-Qarni and Asshaeg.
 
In a manifesto signed by Alim Ali Solaiman Bangcola, second vice chairman of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front,  the Ulama Alliance urged the Philippine government to immediately act in identifying who were behind the crime.
 
Dr. Guimba Poingan, representative of the academic sector,  said: "We can not deny the close coordination between the Kingdom of  Saudi Arabia and the Republic of  Philippines, and there is .nothing that the Saudi government can feel that the Philippine government should do the best in order to conduct an immediate investigation of this incident  and the disposition of justice of the victims, it might put a barrier of intimacy"
 
Dr. Poingan said " our observation is that the conflict in Butig between the military and the local terrorists has nothing to do with the Zamboanga  City incident "
 
"The government should take a serious attention on the Bamgsamoro issue  because in our own perception the government .keeps on   joking on us  on us in the  settlement of the conflict , it can be possible that sooner or later , the Bangsamoro land would become the breeding ground of all forms of terrorism and all forms of radicalism which is very hard to control  " Poingan said
 
The government was using the the Mamasapano incident as the ground in delaying the passage of Bangsamoro Basic Law.
 
"Some radicals who perceived that they lost their  hope for peace with the government are now coming out in different colors."Poingan added.
 
Poingan said "We just hope that the Butig  and Zambonga incidents will give a serious attention to  the congressmen and senators to take a second look on the policy of the Bangsamoro people."

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/558733/news/regions/ulama-alliance-members-in-lanao-get-threats

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