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	Religion in the Philippines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Buddhism in the Philippines is largely confined to the Filipino Chinese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese communities.
		Christianity arrived in the Philippines with the landing of Ferdinand Magellan in 1521.
		Islam reached the Philippines in the 14th century with the arrival of merchants and missionaries from the Arabian peninsula and from India.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Religion_in_the_Philippines (1262 words)

	Islam in the Philippines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Islam is one of the oldest organized religions to be established in the Philippines.
		Since the world resurgence of Islam after World War II, Muslims in the Philippines have a stronger sense of their unity as a religious community than they had in the past.
		Islam in the Philippines has absorbed indigenous elements, as much as has Catholicism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Islam_in_the_Philippines (774 words)

	The Philippines
		Islam in the southern Philippines is a unique blend of Filipino and Muslim traits, but Muslim Filipinos often see themselves as having more in common with their Islamic neighbors in Malaysia and Indonesia, and with Muslims in the Middle East, than with other Filipinos.
		Average temperature of the Philippines is_____degrees in the lowlands and_____degrees in the highlands.
		Average temperatures of the Philippines 80 degrees in the lowlands and 64 degrees in the highlands.
	www.hawaii.edu /cseas/pubs/philippines/philippines.html (7168 words)

	Islam in the Philippines
		In Southeast Asia, Islam was promulgated by three methods: by Muslim traders in the course of peaceful trade; by preachers and holy men who set out from India and Arabia specifically to convert idolaters and animist and increase the knowledge of the faithful; and by war waged against heathen states.
		Islam, which preaches Jihad when there is imminent danger of religious proselytization and colonization, has made them stand firm to defend their faith.
		The Muslims in the Philippines can be key factors in the establishment of a cordial relationship, better understanding and an esprit de corps with the Muslim world.
	www.islamawareness.net /Asia/Philippines/philippines.html (999 words)

	The legacy of Islam in the Philippines
		The early centuries of Islam in the Philippines were marked by the gradual spread of the faith in the southern region especially in the areas represented today by Tawi-Tawi, Sulu, Basilan, Maguindanao, Cotabato and Lanao.
		Unfortunately for the Archipelago, the positive role of Islam was somehow affected by the intrusion of colonialism in the 16th century.
		Even the future of Islam in the archipelago was somehow guaranteed by the policy of religious tolerance which allowed the exercise of religious freedom in the country without fear of state suppression.
	www.islamawareness.net /Asia/Philippines/legacy.html (1363 words)

	COUNTRY PROFILE: PHILIPPINES
		A major development in the early period was the introduction of Islam to the Philippines by traders and proselytizers from the Indonesian islands.
		Environmental Factors: The Philippines is prone to natural disasters, particularly typhoons, floods, landslides, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis, lying as it does astride the typhoon belt, in the active volcanic region known as the “Pacific Ring of Fire,” and in the geologically unstable region between the Pacific and Eurasian tectonic plates.
		The Philippines is the second largest producer of geothermal power in the world after the United States, and geothermal power accounts for about 50 percent of power generation from domestic sources followed by hydropower, which accounts for about 33 percent of power generation from domestic sources.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_profiles/2004-2005/Philippines.html (12043 words)

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		Islam grew from Melaka; besides being an economic center, seminaries and law schools as well as missionaries focused there.[2] Islam slowly moved throughout the region by intermarriages with ruling families.
		This and the Spanish Catholic presence inhibited the spread of Islam to the northern Philippines.
		Independent ulama (leaders formally educated in Islam) have attempted reform in the Muslim communities, focusing upon the animistic and pre-Islamic practices, while the traditional imams argue that the traditional ceremonies are not anti-Islamic.[19] Therefore, it is the imam who performs the un-Islamic rituals mentioned.
	www.hillsdale.edu /academics/downloads/wisnerislam_1.doc (5479 words)

	Islam: A Worldwide Religion and Its Impact in Southeast Asia
		For example, Islam became strong in eastern Indonesia, especially coastal kingdoms of Sulawesi, Lombok, Kalimantan, Sumbawa, Makassar, and in Sulu and Magindanao (Cotabato Province) in the southern Philippines from 1603-1612.
		In the Philippines, in contrast, Spanish missionary priests were directly involved in spreading Christian beliefs among the local populations.
		In the Philippines, where the Spanish (and later Americans) won the war for religious converts, only 5% of the population is Muslim.
	www.seasite.niu.edu /crossroads/russell/islam.htm (1847 words)

	Philippine Missions Association
		Arab missionaries, traders and teachers introduced Islam to the Philippines in the middle of the 14th century.
		Islam also spread to other islands of the Philippines such as Iloilo, Palawan, Batangas, Pampanga, Mindoro, Panay, Catanduanes, Cebu, Bohol, and Manila until the early 15th century.
		After the Philippines gained independence from Spain in the 1898, the American and the Japanese followed which Filipino Muslims also refused to be conquered.
	cybermissions.org /pma/country_religion.php (647 words)

	[Islam-Online- Top News]
		The history of the Philippines is riddled with mass murders, rape and enslavement of the once majority Muslim population of these islands, which border Borneo.
		The rise of Islam and the desire for independence are viewed as threats to stability by policy makers and political advisers in some ASEAN countries like Singapore and Thailand.
		The calls to "engage militant Islam" is urgently raised since evidence speaks for itself of growing arms trade in the region, involving southern Thailand, or the Patani Muslims, and the freedom fighters in Aceh and the Moros.
	www.islamonline.net /IOL-English/dowalia/news-4-2-2000/topnews2.asp (1244 words)

	ISLAM AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY:
		To place this type of conflict on a larger perspective, it is necessary to see Islam as a religion upon whose believers the issue of identity is a matter of life and death.
		In the Philippines, the perfection of the concept of nation with an integral territory came at the turn of this century under the American colonial period.
		The movement called Wahhabism, or its wrong interpretation, exemplifies this strain of Islam, which is responsible for creating extremists in the likes of Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, Abu Sayyaf, Laskar Jihad and other terrorist groups who have hijacked Islam to advance their cause.
	www.hawaii.edu /cps/identity.html (4291 words)

	Welcome to Islamic Information Center
		Taking the term "Islam" it is important to emphasize that it is not derived from the name of any particular person, race, or locality.
		Indeed, the proper meaning of "Islam" is the attainment of peace, both inner and outer peace, by submission of oneself to the will of Allah.
		In that sense the Muslim regards the term Islam, not as an innovation that came in the 7th Century, Christian era, with the advent of the Prophet Muhammad, but as the basic mission of all the prophets throughout history.
	www.angislam.org (240 words)

	Islam, the Modern World, and the West
		Islam in Algeria from the Country Studies at the US Library of Congress, written in 1993, this is an excellent survey of the history of Islam in Algeria from the 7th century until today.
		Penetration of Islam in Eastern Africa by Ahmed Binsumeit A. Badawy Jamalilyl of Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman.
		Islam in Indonesia: The Dissemination of Religious Authority in the 20th Century is an extensive program of research combining the efforts of a number of scholars and academic institutions, among which is the The Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), Leiden.
	www.uga.edu /islam/countries.html (11155 words)

	From MNLF to Abu Sayyaf
		Just as Islam spread from the Middle East to Inner Asia and from Afghanistan to India, so it spread from various parts of India to the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian archipelago in the late thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries.
		Islam was introduced into maritime Southeast Asia and flourished in conditions rather different from those of the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent.
		Muslims in the Philippines, also called Moros constitute 5% of the Philippines’ population,[2] and are concentrated in the southern part of the country.
	www.ict.org.il /articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=116 (2959 words)

	Troubled Return of the Faithful
		Islam is said to have begun taking root in the Philippines in 1380, although some scholars believe that it spread in some areas of the archipelago during the early 1200s.
		Conversion to Islam peaked in the 1970s during the height of the Moro uprising against the government.
		He says the most significant factor in bringing about such zeal among the converts is the “dawah (propagation of Islam) especially by the Tabligh.” A missionary movement, the Tabligh became strong in the Philippines during the 1980s when foreign preachers, especially from Pakistan, Libya and Egypt arrived in Mindanao.
	www.pcij.org /imag/SpecialReport/balik-islam2.html (693 words)

	Philippines, Muslims of Asia \| www.30-days.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Islam reached the Philippines in the 14th century and spread quickly through Muslim traders and “missionaries”.
		The Philippine Islands became a Spanish colony during the 16th century; they were ceded to the US in 1898 following the Spanish-American War.
		The Philippine Government faces threats from armed communist insurgencies and from Muslim separatists in the south.
	www.30-days.net /ebook6/day21.htm (816 words)

	The Philippines demographic statistics
		The total population in the Philippines in that year was already more than 76 million.
		At that time the ranking of the Philippines will be even higher on the list of countries with a large population.
		In 2000 the annual population growth rate in the Philippines was 2,36 %.
	www.philippines.hvu.nl /facts2.htm (359 words)

	History - Philippines
		On June 12, the Philippines is proclaimed independent from Spain by Aguinaldo.
		It provides for the establishment of the Commonwealth of the Philippines under a constitution to be drafted by a constitution convention.
		Japanese bombers attack the Philippines and force Douglas MacArthur, the Commander of the U.S Armed Forces in the Far East to retreat to Bataan.
	www.regit.com /regitour/philipin/about/history.htm (538 words)

	MBEAW: Philippines: Muslim South
		"Ethnicity and Islam in the Philippines," in Guideri et al.
		The Rise of Islam in Philippine Politics (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford, 1980).
		Philippine Politics and Society in the 20th C.: Colonial Legacies, Post-Colonial Trajectories (NY: Routledge, 2001), chap.
	mbeaw.org /resources/countries/philippinesmuslimsouth.html (471 words)

	MUSLIM MINORITY IN THE PHILIPPINES
		The coming of Islam to the Philippines according to Majul (1999: 39-84) was an instance of the Islamization of the Malay world in Southeast Asia.
		When Islam actually arrived in Mindanao and Sulu is quite difficult to determine at this time, but its expansion happened after members of ruling families in Sumatra and Johore arrived and founded political institutions that facilitated conversion of large population.
		Buendia (2002: 11) observes that the ‘Muslims in the Philippines, at first, took the peaceful track in carving the nation-state.’ When it became evident to them that it would not be possible to regain independence within the framework of the Philippine legal system, the MNLF was organized to lead the armed struggle.
	www.yonip.com /main/articles/muslimminority.html (4975 words)

	Mission Network News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Philippines (MNN) -- Kidnapping, bombings and other violence plagues the southern Philippines and its predominately Muslim population.
		The Philippines is the focus of today's 30 Days Muslim Prayer Focus, a guide to help Christians prayer for Muslims around the world.
		Some are closer to the to the teachings of Islam, while others put their trust more in the spiritualist healers.
	www.mnnonline.org /print/6638 (199 words)

	Timeline of Islam - ReligionFacts
		Below is a timeline of the history of Islam.
		Founding of Islamic Union (Sareket Islam), a modernizing movement in SE Asia.
		Islam spreads to the West with mass migrations from Asia, Africa, and India.
	www.religionfacts.com /islam/timeline.htm (801 words)

	MUSLIMS IN THE PHILIPPINES: A Historical Perspective
		Because of all this, it becomes understandable why Muslims in the Philippines believe that the coming of Islam to the Philippines, and hence their being Muslims, constitutes an instance of Allah’s mercy and graciousness.
		Also understandable is the belief that their bitter wars against the Spaniards and Americans, their resistance to any form of European colonial design or foreign economic exploitation, and even their internecine quarrels and the chronic epidemics that have visited them have served to maintain their integrity as an Islamic Community.
		A careful analysis of the history of the Muslims in the Philippines will reveal that the character and attitudes of present-day Muslims are not only the result of what they have made out of themselves but also of what others have forced them to become.
	www.maranao.com /bangsamoro/index2.htm (302 words)

	Moro Islamic Liberation Front
		Because of the world resurgence of Islam since World War II, Muslims in the Philippines have a stronger sense of their unity as a religious community than they had in the past.
		This bond was significant, because the Moros felt threatened by the continued expansion of Christians into southern Mindanao and by the prolonged presence of Philippine army troops in their homeland.
		MILF Leader to "Nida'ul Islam": "Perhaps the Moro struggle for freedom and self-determination is the longest and bloodiest in the entire history of mankind" Nida'ul Islam Magazine (Call of Islam) April - May 1998
	www.fas.org /irp/world/para/milf.htm (530 words)

	How Islam got to the Philippines. By Brendan I. Koerner - Slate Magazine
		The Philippine military has stepped up its campaign against the nation's Muslim separatist movement, bombing a suspected hideout on the southern island of Mindanao.
		The primary targets of the raid were members of Abu Sayyaf, which is seeking to establish a fundamentalist Islamic state on Mindanao.
		The Spanish nicknamed the Philippines' Muslim inhabitants the Moros, a corruption of the word Moors.
	www.slate.com /id/2112795 (1088 words)

	The Philippines - U.S. - Abu Sayyaf - Mindanao - Worldpress.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The exercises are aimed at extirpating Abu Sayyaf, a group that both the United States and the Philippines consider terrorists.
		Spanish conquistadors had arrived in the Philippines in the 16th century but were unable to subjugate the Muslims in Mindanao.
		It was not until after Philippine independence in 1946, however, that the trickle became a flood.
	www.worldpress.org /Asia/1059.cfm (2138 words)

	Islam in the Southern Philippines, Outreach World
		Lesson plan focuses on the topic of Islam in the southern Philippines helping students gain insight into the complex situation in the southern Philippines today.
		After a general definition of Islam, the six main rules of Islamic religion are summarized.
		It also aims to provide the students with the insight that the ongoing conflicts in the southern Philippines are far more complex than simply a confrontation for religious reasons.
	www.outreachworld.org /resource.asp?CurriculumID=156 (179 words)

	Links SQL: Religion/Islam in the Philippines
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		Due to misimpression and misinformation peddled through the years about Mindanao and the Muslims, it is imperative that we exert an aggressive effort to spread more appropriate and correct information and facts about them.
		The MRI is therefore both an information and an advocacy center on Peace in a multi-cultural and multi-sectoral setting such as the Philippines - Taguig, Metro Manila.
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