ISIS Takes Over City in the Philippines Martial Law Declared
 

Here we go! ISIS militants took Christians hostage, freed prisoners in the jail and set fire to churches & other buildings. What's next? Your guess?

"Duterte cut short a visit to Russia and placed the southern island of Mindanao under military rule on Tuesday, and said he would keep it that way for a year if necessary."


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Thousands flee Philippine city after rebel rampage claimed by Islamic State | Reuters

The Catholic church said militants were using Christians and a priest as human shields and had contacted cardinals with threats to execute hostages unless government troops withdrew.

Thirteen militants and seven security personnel have so far been killed and 33 troops wounded, the army said.

Thousands of civilians fled fighting in the Philippines on Wednesday as troops tried to fend off Islamist militants who took over large parts of a city, capturing Christians, seizing and torching buildings and setting free scores of prisoners.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for the rampage via its Amaq news agency, and President Rodrigo Duterte defended his decision to declare martial law on Mindanao, the Muslim-majority island where Marawi City is located, to prevent the spread of extremism in the impoverished region.

The violence flared in Marawi on Tuesday afternoon after a botched raid by security forces on a hideout of the Maute, a militant group that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State.

Fighters quickly dispersed, torching buildings and taking over bridges, a hospital, two jails, a church and a college. Duterte said he heard reports they may have beheaded a police chief.

He said Islamic State must be repelled from the Christian-majority Philippines and he would use all means possible to crush the Maute group and the allied Abu Sayyaf, whatever the consequences.

"Anyone now holding a gun, confronting government with violence, my orders are spare no one, let us solve the problems of Mindanao once and for all," said Duterte, who is from the island, after cutting short a visit to Russia and returning to Manila.

"If I think you should die, you will die. If you fight us, you will die. If there's an open defiance, you will die, and if it means many people dying, so be it. That's how it is."

Soldiers and guerrillas set up rival checkpoints and roadblocks on routes in and around Marawi as civilians fled the city of 200,000 in droves, leaving behind what one official described as a ghost town.

Long queues of pickup trucks and jeeps crammed full of people and loaded with belongings crawled along roads into nearby towns as troops searched vehicles for weapons and bombs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultanate_of_Maguindanao

It's just not that simple -- before Spanish colonialism Mindanao was a Sultanate so in the eyes of the Muslims the land was taken from them. The Philippine government has been at war with communist guerrilla fighters there for years also.

Since 1500's wow!

But ISIS taking the over the city and Martial Law being declared is different.

When I stayed with an expat friend in the Phils, and his 6th wife, they were beheading Christian up there but nothing like this and taking hostages and taking over a whole city.

wtf, so they´ve been run out of Syria & the middle east, now taking over the philippines! FFS, drop all the air service in & kill the fuckers!

Don't get your underwear in a bunch! Chump has a plan to defeat them in 30 days

ISIS may have a lot more local support than you think. If ISIS convinces the Muslim that terrorism is the only way to avenge any wrongdoing, real or imagined, this will not be over anytime soon.

Duterte is right on this point.

I think it will spread to Thailand, starting in the south and terrorist attack in Ko Phi Phi and Phuket. But it has nothing to do with ....

wtf??? :helpme:helpme:helpme

I can't believe they're a military state under martial law now. Crazy

Didn't Amelda Marcos do the same years ago?

Soon ISIS europe i guess

The religion of peace was the first to invade them. :Oh crap

remember people they have been making kids at an alarming rate

First, majority of the people in Southern Philippines are Muslims, before even the Spaniards came.
Clash with the rebel groups has been on going for decades because they want to "separate" and be a state. There has been decades of peace talks but nothing concrete.

The so called take over in a small Marawi City is just a marketing strategy of these local rebels to gain attention and recognition from ISIS themselves.

Now the declaration of Martial law is under the Philippine Constitution and it's the President who will declare it but Congress will approve it. It is legal and it is in the law.
It will last for 60 days, the courts are still open and functioning, suspension of civil laws etc so the military can do it's job quickly. Everything is still in order. There will be some lapses for sure but this is the better way to solve certain threats.
There will be curfew so everyone will be safe. Until the bandits are wiped out he can lift the martial law.

Actually, there had been four previous declarations of Martial Law and the latest is just 7-8 years ago because a similar unrest within the Southern Philippines as well.

Some people says it's evil.. people in South Philippines says it's heaven.

i like poo

Soon?

Islamic State top dog from Kosovo returns to Europe with 400 jihadis

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/arti...ian-11-17-2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islami...in_the_Balkans

They are all over and had a NATO support for so many years.

It's not a problem, Chump is best friends with Rodrigo Duterte. So he will bomb the fuck out of ISIS just wait and see.

I thought islam is the "religion of peace" and since ISIS is the extreme version, shouldn't it be extremely peaceful???

You always make the same strawman argument.

I'll flip it on you. America is a white Christian nation that's been killing Muslims in the Middle East for decades, shouldn't Christians in America be killed in return?

You know how I feel about Muslims and the ME so please don't pull the other strawman you usually do in response, throw me a different argument 👍😁