News Crew Believed To Have Been Kidnapped By Muslims In Phillipines

There are very few Jews in the Phillipines, and very few Americans. The Phillipines is not an imperialist power, waging war for oil. The Phillipines is not encroaching on Muslim territory.

And yet, Muslims are causing much trouble in the Phillipines?!?

Go figure.

From the New York Times:

MANILA — A television news team from the Philippines’s
largest network including one of the country’s best-known journalists was
believed to have been abducted by members of the militant group Abu
Sayyaf, officials said Tuesday.

The journalist, Ces Drilon, a senior reporter for ABS-CBN, was with her
cameraman and driver when they were intercepted on Sunday by armed men in Sulu,
a province in the south where Abu Sayyaf, which is fighting for a separate
Muslim state in the southern Philippines, and other Islamic extremists are known
to operate, the police said.

Also with the crew was Octavio Dinampo, a professor at Mindanao State
University who, according to the police, accompanied the news team on their way
to meet with members of Abu Sayyaf.

Abu Sayyaf is notorious for its kidnap-for-ransom activities and has
victimized not only Filipinos but foreigners as well. The militants have been
blamed for several major terrorist attacks across the Philippines in recent
years and are the target of a sustained military campaign being supported by the
United States.

Although United States and Philippine officials say this campaign has
considerably weakened the group during the past five years, analysts say the
militants remain a high security threat.

The New York Times article neglects to mention that the first World Trade Center plot was hatched in the Phillipines.

My father-in-law fought against these Muslim Jihadists on the island of Mindanao back in the 70's. My family had to leave the Phillipines specifically because of Jihad.

Why is it that Muslims cause trouble in so many places in the world?