Macabangkit B. Lanto “Racism resonates with Moros of southern Philippines. It was the font of their struggle for merdeka or independence.” Some may find this odd. While studying in university, I was more interested in reading bestsellers than the prescribed textbooks. Perhaps it was to break boredom or […]
MARAWI CITY: Three years ago, on May 23, 2017, terror struck Marawi, the Islamic city in the Philippines and dubbed the summer capital of the country’s south. An estimated 1,000 Islamic State-inspired Maute group and allied terrorists laid a siege on Marawi City. It took government forces five […]
“We are living in a dark age like the old ones. But as we are the ones in this age, it is most painful to us.“ In our own world that we call Islamic, or Muslim’s, or living according to its cultural or religious values, allegorically or synthetically […]
At exactly 6:15 PM on Saturday, the 15th of Ramadan, corresponding to the 9th of May, I took from our house’ 3rd floor snapshots of the beam of the Sun as it was about to hide down the horizon to allow the the night reign for some 12 […]
Title bragging is the worst form of hypocrisy I wish I could understand why there are people who are proud raising eyebrows just because they hold positions they don’t deserve: They do nothing and nothing else of what they are paid for, or privileged for. I wonder why […]
Sino man ang dadaanan ng tulong ng goberno para sa mamamayan na nahihirapan dahil sa Covid-19, ma-mayor man o kapitan del baryo, ma DSWD man o DTI, o sino o ano pa man, dapat ay maibigay agad-agad deretso sa mga mamamayan na kumpleto at walang kulang dahil talagang […]
O sa Imanto Aya: Bandingan ko Masa o Meranao #2 Alhamdulillaah. Wassalaato wassalaam alaa Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa ‘aalihi wa sallaam. Assalamo alaykom wa rahmatollaahi wa barakatoh. Mga bang’nsa ko a miyamaratiya-ya. Miya-aloy angkaya ayat ko Kitab o Allaah a so Qur’an AlKareem, a aya iranon na: “Phantang […]
By MASIDING NOOR YAHYA Death caused by Covid-19 is much, much lesser than those caused by other transferrable diseases. So why the overkilling panic? As of posting, only 17 deaths were reported in the Philippines since the deadly coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China last December 2019. Digging a […]
I dreamed two nights ago that I had grown unusual thick beards that I didn’t know why. Then I woke up and suddenly came to mind the plague engulfing our world. I said to myself: “Stay and do your stuff at home except on extremely unavoidable instances. Clean […]
I’m appealing to our Maranao brothers and sisters to cooperate with our government local authorities in containing the spread of 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19). Let us not take for granted their concern for us. I believe that what they are doing is for the interest and welfare of all of us.
