MILF silent about Malaysia atrocities on Filipino Tausugs in Sabah

MILF, largest Muslim rebel group  (Reuters)

Philippine Star's Dick Pascual writes in his Postscript column on 10th March 2013:

MILF QUIET: Now where is the MILF — the bloc pretending to represent the Muslims in their quest for their Bangsamoro — as Filipino Muslims who have settled home in Sabah are violently uprooted? 

Why is the MILF quiet as President Aquino and his foreign secretary talk with their Malaysian counterparts and then agree with what Kuala Lumpur wants to do with Filipinos in Sabah? 

What can the MILF say about their brothers being massacred in Sabah and being told by the President talking from the safety and comfort of Malacañang to lay down their arms and face charges? 

If indeed the MILF is the legitimate voice of Muslim Filipinos, how come not a peep is heard from it? Is the MILF, like the President, collaborating with Malaysia?

Our reply to Kuya Dick's "Now where is the MILF"?: Kuya Dick Pascual, the MILF is in the pocket of Malaysia and its leaders in Kuala Lumpur.

Moro Islamic Liberation Front chairman 
Murad Ebrahim is escorted by his troops 
to their base camp in Darapan, 
Sultan Kudarat province, 
Philippines. Photo: AFP

We must, however, reassure  Kuya Dick Pascual of the Philippine Star that the MILF has not been completely silent about the Sabah stand-off or about the Malaysia massacre of the Filipino Tausugs. Their official website says, "After several hours of deliberation, the core leadership of the MILF had reaffirmed its “no comment policy”..."

As we all know, the MILF has always been in cahoots with their patrons, the Govt of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur in engineering a so-called Bangsamoro in order to create a "new political entity" which they will call Bangsamoro to be composed of 13 provinces of Mindanao over which they have demanded SHARED SOVEREIGNTY with the Republic of the Philippines. Click on Draft of GPH-MILF Framework Agreement in this link here.

Strangely, on 01 September 2004, Ustadz/Prof. SHARIFF MOHSIN JULABBI Amer/Chairman, MILF-BMA who, by the most extraordinary coincidence, also signed as "Personal Envoy of HRH Sultan Ismael Ibn Al-marhum Sultan Haji Punjungan Kiram" (see full letter below), had written a letter to then Malaysia Prime Minister Badawi prior to the so-called GPH-MILF peace talks which could easily be interpreted as a plan that would ultimately dismantle the Republic. (See the Julabbi letter to then Malaysia PM Badawi below.)

We say "extraordinary coincidence" because 'Sultan' Ismail Kiram II happens to be the younger brother of 'Sultan' Jamalul Kiram III who had sent both men's younger brother known as Datu Puing to Sabah to reclaim Sabah in what is known today as the Sabah stand-off. We have always suspected that 'Sultan' Ismail or Esmail Kiram II, who is actually a sultan bantilan (sultan regent) has always been a staunch ally of Malaysia.

So with all these juxtaposition of players and events leading to the so-called peace accord , we are convinced that the MILF's "new political entity", if and when it happens, will ultimately secede from the Republic to join Malaysia Federation, perhaps not today, not tomorrow, not next year, not even perhaps in a couple of years but eventually, it will.

There is indisputable evidence that the Philippine Government led by President Aquino is allowing itself to be deliberately hoodwinked into an arrangement that will only benefit Malaysia:

(1) in order to keep the Republic and its president indebted ('utang na loob') to Malaysia so the Philippines cannot claim Sabah back as witnessed by the different pronouncements made by President Aquino himself that the Sultanate of Sulu army in Sabah 'compromised' the Malaysia-engineered GPH-MILF "peace talks" when the Sultanate's followers went to Sabah and engaged the Malaysians in a stand off  that has now turned bloody.

(2) the Kuala Lumpur engineered GPH-MILF arrangement opens the great energy resources of the designed MILF Bangsamoro to Malaysia, eg., Liguasan Marshes which, according to experts, contain an incalculable amount of natural gas said to be worth billions of dollars; it is worth reminding readers that news hit the press that Malaysia's Najib had already offered to MILF Ebrahim a certain amount of money to have control of the said marshes. Link to news about Liguasan Marshes.

We must not forget that MILF, established in 1977, has been the recipient of logistics, funds and other help from Malaysia since Hashim Salamat, its founder, broke away from Nur Misuari's MNLF in order to wage jihad against the Republic.

Najib and Aquino for the signing of the
Malaysia-engineered Framework Agreement 

There is no word to describe this Government led by President Aquino other than completely stupid.

How else can one describe a Government and its president who allows Malaysia, a country with which the Republic has an undeniable conflict of interest, a country with which we have an outstanding territorial dispute to engineer the so-called talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and to produce a 'Framework Agreement' that is bound to hit the Republic back in the face in the not so distant future?.

But what were the "bright" leaders of the Republic thinking? Did they believe that Malaysia was intent in leading the monitoring of the so-called peace talks with the MILF out of love for the Republic of the Philippines?

President Aquino and his advisers seem to have been completely taken in (and continue to be) by the 'charm' of Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib and the lure of KL money (which we must remind readers are reaped and fleeced from Sabah's petrol resources) with the end result that the president has forgotten that Muslim Mindanao comprises five million souls and not just 10,000 pro-Malaysia MILF guerilla fighters.

Did the president really believe that his foolhardy plan to yield sovereignty, even if shared, to the Malaysia-backed MILF over 13 provinces of Mindanao go unnoticed, especially by the Sultanate of Sulu?

The proof today that MILF is in the pocket of the Malaysians is MILF Chairman Murad Ebrahim's utter silence over the killings of Filipino Muslims in Sabah! What other proof do you need to convince yourself that Malaysia's Najib never had the welfare of Mindanao in mind but that his keen interest in the "peace talks" with the MILF  is for purposes of holding you and the Republic "by the balls" just as he is doing today?

Mr President, God gave you some thinking neurons -- please engage your brain before the Republic is totally dismantled by the foxy efforts of your Malaysian friends!

~~ By Anne de Bretagne
For the Defenders of the Philippine Sabah and Spratly Claims
11 March 2013


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Announcement of signing of the Framework Agreement in the Official Gazette of the Philippinne Government 

On October 7, 2012, the Government of Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front released the Framework of Agreement on the Bangsamoro, which will pave the way for the establishment of the new autonomous political entity, the Bangsamoro, to replace the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. The agreement was signed on the afternoon of October 15, 2012, in ceremonies held in Malacañan Palace, witnessed by President Benigno S. Aquino III, Malaysian Prime Minister Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib Bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak, and other dignitaries. 

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MILF Chairman's letter to then Malaysia Prime Minister Badawi: 

1 September 2004 

YAB DATO SERI ABDULLAH BIN HAJI BADAWIPERDANA MENTTERI MALAYSIAYANG AMAT BERHORMAT:  

Assalamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh! 

When the hour of reckoning coupled with the hadith of Prophet Mohammad (pbuh): have come to struck my mind, I, being an azharite;  

product of Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt in the meantime, forget the comparison in the political arena, between Yang Amat Berhormat and me; head of state and a merely common man, instead venture to track the following prophetic discourses for our Islamic awareness who are bound to die; take a journey to the land of no return: 

(The best kind of Jihad, in the Way (Cause) of Allah, a statement of truth before an unjust ruler)  

(Whoever unlawfully usurps even one span of someone’s land, Allah will collar him with seven earths on the Hereafter) 

Time has come for us now to solve our conflict and misunderstanding on the issue of Sabah to determine once and for all who are really her real owners, before worse will come to worse, Allah forbid, for mutual interest and welfare of our both generations to come after us. 

Both Yang Amat Berhormat and I very well know that Sabah was annexed to the Malaysian political entity based merely on the historic lease (padjak) entered into between the lat e Sultan Jamalul Alam or Azam and the North Borneo Company in 22 January 1878. For that matter, the 1939 Macaskie Judgment could be one of the several documents and the deciding factors for determining the genuine, legitimate ownership of the State of Sabah. The very insufficient annual rental payment of the lease of Sabah has been in effect from the time of immemorial up to now channeled directly to the principal heirs of the Sultanate of the Sultan of Sulu and North Borneo. 

Attached herewith some documents for studies on the seriousness of prevailing situations over the Sabah issue, if could not be avoided might become detrimental to all of us in the pacific region. 

Frankly speaking, some US officials in the diplomatic corpse, US Department of State, two houses of the US Senate and Congress, USIP, US-Phil. Balikatan Exercises in the new millennium have met us for our possible cooperation for regaining the sovereignty of the Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo. 

Of course, as far as we are concerned it is to our great advantage. But it is fresh in our mind and memory that we belong to Malay race and we came from the same recent ancestors plus the fact that we cembrace the same Faith. We learn to love and to beloved, yet we have suffered enough for several centuries under these bad circumstances and situations of the creations of others. We, the Suluans are but just human. We feel that our backs are now against the wall. But before running out of time we would like to suggest that both parties concerned – Malaysians & Suluans – should create two panels whose members should come from the different sectors of society to include, above all, the Ulama then come to the negotiating table for brotherly confrontation, make resolutions for lasting and comprehensive peace that serve as a monumental reservation for our coming generations. 

At this juncture, only two options hereunder have been left for us and we are required already to decide and choose our prerogative, by all means: 

1) Return back Sabah to its rightful owners and be under the Federation of Malaysia as a compromise. We are considerate enough; we believe it is a win-win solution more appropriate to both Malays Bomeputra and the Suluans as brothers of the same religion. Allah says: “Muslims are just a single brotherhood 

2) The cessation or disintegration of the entire Sulu Archipelago to include Zamboanga Peninsula, Palawan and North Borneo (Sabah) from both the Philippine Republic and the Federation of Malaysia and be created an Independent State as Sultanate of Sulu & North Borneo with her own government and sovereignty. 

To avoid bloodshed and for legal purposes, all past Treaties entered into between the US Governments and the Sulu & North Borneo Sultans be used as vital instruments for the creation of such State. Otherwise, worse will come to worse, God forbid. We should get lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan which are severely devastated now owing to the obstinacy and stubbornness of their leaders who imposed tyrant rules and dictatorship just for personal aggrandizement. These are all charged to experience. I am confident that relinquishing Sabah to her legitimate owners is inevitable. 

On behalf of the Islamic brotherhood and in the name of Islam I venture to challenge Yang Amat Berhormat to lessen your burden of responsibility here in our contemporary world and in the hereafter by solving the Sabah conflict before stepping down from top position in the near future. 

May Allah bless us all. W a s s a l a m!!!! 

Ustadz/Prof. SHARIFF MOHSIN JULABBIAmer/Chairman, MILF-BMAPersonal Envoy of HRH Sultan Ismael Ibn Al-marhum Sultan Haji Punjungan Kiram 

cc. Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong X11 Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Ibni Al-Marhum Tuanku Syed Putra Jamalullail 

Link: http://www.freewebs.com/julabbi_cairo12/files14.htm