Islam in the Philippines
"..As the American government prepared to give independence to the Philippines, Muslim
chieftains gathered on March 18, 1935, in Dansalan (now Marawi City) and
petitioned the
US president not to include them in the new republic. The Muslims preferred to remain
under US rule, recognizing that they would become second-class citizens if made part of
the Catholic Philippines. Their petition was ignored. The Catholic majority gained their
independence and control over the Muslim territories.
The inauguration of the Filipino republic therefore presented a paradox. On the one hand,
it was able to establish a state and a semblance of an identity. On the other hand, while the
new republic tried to consolidate its newly found sovereignty,
the Moros, who had nothing
in common with the Christianized Filipinos, tilted toward independence instead of integration.
Animosity defined the relationship between the Muslims and the Christians because
of wars waged by the sultanates against the Spanish colonial government, who used Christianized
natives to fight the Muslims. This historically parallel development of the Christian-dominant
Filipino nation and the insulated Muslim sultanates gave the rebellion its
ideological character:
the Muslim insurgents called for the realization of a separate Moro
nation in contradistinction with that of the Christianized Filipino nation. The
ideology of
the Moro rebellion has always maintained that the Moro nation has to be separate from the
Philippine nation because it was illegally annexed to the Christian-dominant Filipino nation.
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mao ni ang excerpt sa usa ka history book.. since the beginning they dont want to integrate with the rest of the filipinos and live peacefully.
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