tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-98839542024-03-13T10:58:30.822-07:00The Moro Observer“The excitable observer will pass judgement first and then make knowledge conform to judgement; the prudent observer will first learn to know and then judge according to knowledge.” ― Thomas F. ClearyDatu Jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15892701796193434679noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9883954.post-52924676226091992312023-08-17T20:14:00.013-07:002023-08-21T11:35:28.075-07:00Portait of My Father as a Young Man August 3, was the death anniversary of my father. I was just 5 and a half years old when he passed away, so I don’t really know much about him, esp. when he was a young man. For whatever I remember of him, he was already an old man. He was already starting to have grey hairs. He used to ask me to pull out his grey hairs and I would be paid 10 centavos per silver strand.All I know of him as Datu Jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15892701796193434679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9883954.post-6317252381116914342022-11-28T09:04:00.005-08:002022-12-04T17:30:16.606-08:00Maguindanao / Ampatuan Massacre: 13 Years After On 23 November 2009, thirteen years ago, Andal Ampatuan, Jr., with his armed paramilitary security, with the complicity of some policemen, massacred 58 people, including 34 journalists. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a New York-based NGO that promotes Press Freedom for the world, described the killings as “the single deadliest event for journalists in history.”To commemorate Datu Jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15892701796193434679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9883954.post-49295144920306732012021-07-20T02:56:00.009-07:002021-07-20T08:19:16.604-07:00Blogging the Bangsa Moro: Anthology of BlogpostsA Book that looks and feels like a Blog I have been planning / wishing / dreaming to publish a collection of my blogposts on the Bangsa Moro. Tentative title is Blogging the Bangsa Moro.I started developing my own websites in 1996, before blogging was invented or became popular. i wrote just about everything but mostly about the Bangsa Moro (Moro Nation). I just used free webhosts like virtualaveDatu Jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15892701796193434679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9883954.post-11037399874251154312018-08-12T00:05:00.000-07:002018-08-12T00:07:42.877-07:00How did the Media Cover the 'Rape of Marawi'?
It’s been one year since the start of the
Rape of Marawi, referred to by the Media as the Marawi “Siege” and later, the
Battle of Marawi.
I have refrained from writing about Marawi
because it is very hard for me to accept that it was happening / it really
happened. It’s really a miracle, but in a very negative sense.
I never imagined that the Philippine
government and military can beDatu Jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15892701796193434679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9883954.post-72855701054566146112016-06-27T01:18:00.001-07:002016-06-27T01:18:04.316-07:00Fasting in RamadhanWhile I was browsing the web, I found a tumblr blog that
re-published my magazine article on Ramadhan. I had uploaded that
article in one of my blogs. I tried looking for my blog that had that
article but I couldn’t find it. It was from my blogsome.com blog.
Blogsome had closed shop some time ago. I was surprised that I hadn’t
uploaded that article to my other blogs.
It was actually aDatu Jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15892701796193434679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9883954.post-23149289905450915922013-02-27T22:08:00.002-08:002013-02-27T22:17:02.426-08:00Philippine Claim to North Borneo (Sabah): by Jovito Salonga
FROM: THE JOVITO R. SALONGA JOURNAL
The Philippine Claim to North Borneo:
A Statement of Facts.
THE NORTH BORNEO QUESTIONThere is ample justification, I believe, for the statement that emotionalism has beclouded and confused the North Borneo question. There are Filipinos who summarily adopt the my-country-right-or-wrong attitude; in specific terms, they tell us, "Let us Datu Jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15892701796193434679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9883954.post-63544348463826400002012-02-23T18:43:00.000-08:002012-02-23T18:43:48.316-08:00MILF denies attacking Kidapawan jail FROM SUNSTAR:
MILF washes hands off Kidapawan jail attack Thursday, February 23, 2012COTABATO CITY -- The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) washes hands off the attack on the Kidapawan City Jail last Sunday morning.MILF Civil Military Affairs Von Alhaq denied the allegations that members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (Biaf) attacked the jail around 9:30 a.m. Sunday Datu Jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15892701796193434679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9883954.post-25088580512671766722012-01-20T04:41:00.000-08:002012-01-21T08:03:08.928-08:00Media Bias against Ron Paul
Watched the SC GOP debate. John King was quite subtle in not giving Ron Paul equal time. When he does not ask Paul first (so he won't be able to rebut the others), he leaves him for last. But, instead of letting him answer the same question, he asks him a new question to begin another roundDatu Jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15892701796193434679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9883954.post-84754365601922579492011-10-03T21:20:00.000-07:002016-06-16T09:17:31.160-07:00CONSTRUCTING A NEW NARRATIVE FOR A VIABLE NATIONS-STATE (FEDERALISM FOR ALL)
CONSTRUCTING A NEW NARRATIVE FOR A VIABLE NATIONS-STATE or
FEDERALISM: Many Nations - One State
Datu Jamal Ashley Abbas
The Mindanao problem is ultimately a POWER problem – the power of one group over another. It is a problem of colonization. The fact that there was a law called the Legislative Act 4197 or Quirino-Recto Colonization of Mindanao ActDatu Jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15892701796193434679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9883954.post-17186022280442696002011-08-30T22:54:00.000-07:002011-08-31T19:55:47.459-07:00The Bangsa Moro Problem through Krippendorf’s emancipatory theory:
March 2002
by ©Datu Jamal Ashley Yahya Abbas
In 1989, Klaus Krippendorf wrote his The Power Of Communication And The Communication Of Power: Toward An Ethical Theory Of Communication. In this theory, he proposes, “to examine a pathology of communication of which the social use of the notion of power is an illustrative example. He discusses ethical issues of communication Datu Jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15892701796193434679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9883954.post-67812911636598746842010-12-06T22:46:00.000-08:002011-09-15T18:30:05.984-07:00Using Hermeneutic Principles to help solve the Bangsa Moro Problem - Part 2CONT...
Survey(s)
The Historical Conservation Society is an elite group of Filipinos and foreigners interested in Philippine history. They come from the same social stratum and generally have the same biases and prejudices. They form a close-knit interpretive community. Mr. Felix had absolutely no qualms about sharing his true feelings about the Moros and Islam.
But in the society at large, Datu Jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15892701796193434679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9883954.post-27991793255149139432010-12-06T22:34:00.000-08:002010-12-06T23:00:47.234-08:00Using Hermeneutic Principles to help solve the Bangsa Moro Problem - Part 1(2001) Datu Jamal Ashley Yahya Abbas
In the Philippine context, studying the Muslim-Christian (or Moro-Indio) communication relationship within the framework of hermeneutic phenomenology may give significant clues to the solution of the so-called Moro Problem.
HISTORICAL INTEPRETATION
For example, one of the most glaring differences between the Moros and the Filipino majority (Indios) isDatu Jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15892701796193434679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9883954.post-77596310019404501932010-12-06T06:04:00.000-08:002010-12-06T06:14:30.220-08:00Demonization of Muslims in the Media Leads to Discrimination of Muslim MinoritiesDuring the Middle Ages, the burghers, many of them Jews, started to gain economic power. Pretty soon, the Jew moneymen began having a monetary network all over the European continent. Kings and dukes owed them huge amounts of money. The biggest of them, like the Rothschilds gained titles to nobility. But the European Christians were not amused.
Western literature is full of anti-Semitic Datu Jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15892701796193434679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9883954.post-50494210334001556312010-11-27T01:05:00.000-08:002010-11-27T01:05:38.267-08:00Once upon a time: Sarangany IslandLocated thirteen kilometers from Tinaka Point, the southernmost tip of mainland Mindanao, is a beautiful island called Sarangany. It is accessible by ferry from Davao City or by banca from my hometown, Malita in Davao del Sur. From the Sarangany town proper, one can take another banca ride to go to Maluku (Moluccas) Beach with its white sand and clear water.
Today, Sarangany Island (I’m Datu Jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15892701796193434679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9883954.post-30346285921253262522009-05-01T19:58:00.000-07:002009-05-01T22:36:43.224-07:00Reconstructing MORO HISTORYHistory is “the act of selecting, analyzing and writing about the past. It is something that is done, that is constructed.” (Davidson and Lytle 1982). In an academic essay, I wrote:Philippine historiography is not exactly in a good state. Skeptics have categorized historians as those who lie, those who are mistaken and those who do not know. (Gilderhus:1996) It is quite unfortunate that much of Datu Jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15892701796193434679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9883954.post-24670024219172848252009-04-30T07:20:00.000-07:002010-12-06T03:00:02.089-08:00Sultanates of MOROLAND© (text only) Hadji Datu Jamal Ashley Yahya Abbas
The Sultanate of MAGUINDANAOThe Sultanate of Maguindanao, the lower valley (sa ilud) kingdom, was a harbor sultanate relying heavily on trade and naval power. At the height of its power in the 17th century under Sultan Qudarat and Sultan Barahman, Maguindanao was the acknowledged overlord of all Mindanao, Sulu and even Borneo. The last Datu Jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15892701796193434679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9883954.post-91732763337545616472009-04-23T21:01:00.000-07:002020-08-06T06:56:23.446-07:00MOROLAND -- Land of the Bangsa MoroThis was posted in The Setting Sun on April 16, 2007. This was posted in my previous (now defunct) and present websites much earlier.
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Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan comprised the Land of the Moros since the 13th century. The lands north of it like the Kingdom of Manila were invaded and colonized by Spain. The Moro sultanates — Sulu, Maguindanao, Datu Jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15892701796193434679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9883954.post-36184768023609154132009-04-23T20:21:00.000-07:002009-04-24T06:29:07.979-07:00WELCOME BACK!Assalammu 'aleikum!Wow, I never thought I'd find this blog again. As you can see, my previous post is dated January 13, 2005. For some reasons, I completely forgot this blog. I knew I started a blog somewhere but I just couldn't find it. I didn't bookmark it and forgot the url. I only rediscovered it today.Last January, in my blog The Setting Sun, I was shocked to learn that my posts had to be Datu Jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15892701796193434679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9883954.post-1105631768175924462005-01-13T07:32:00.000-08:002005-01-29T19:49:18.316-08:00Another idiotic idea of the AFPTo insure dollars flowing to the coffers of Philippine military (including police), they have to show that the Philippines is under terrorist attacks. Their latest scenario was a plot of Muslim converts (so not just Moros anymore! ) to bomb the Black Nazarene procession in Quiapo.
The Black Nazarene procession is very dear to the hearts of Manilenos, especially Quiapo folks. The Moros had Datu Jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15892701796193434679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9883954.post-1104756590216726872005-01-03T04:45:00.000-08:002005-01-05T20:44:09.976-08:00Nature's Fury and Gunboat DiplomacyFive minutes of Nature’s fury resulted in tragedy for millions of people. This should be a sobering thought for people who aim to control other people’s lives – you just can’t. (This reminds me of Mt. Pinatubo whose fury had sent the US troops packing. Nature took a few hours what Filipinos could not do in decades.) Now it’s the Indian Ocean, next time it could be the Atlantic or the Pacific.
Datu Jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15892701796193434679noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9883954.post-1104584364768040702005-01-01T04:54:00.000-08:002011-10-12T03:03:55.337-07:00Happy New YearThe year 2004 ended with a catastrophe in the Indian Ocean, expecially in Aceh, Indobesia. May the year 2005 bring in prosperity for the whole world. May humankind learn something from the tsunami disaster.Datu Jamalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15892701796193434679noreply@blogger.com0