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HARUN YAHYA (ADNAN OKTAR)
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From that moment on, Marcos initiated mass killings against the
Muslims, who had begun a struggle for independence. Some 50,000
Muslims were slaughtered, including perhaps 10,000 women and
children. The Muslim resistance to Marcos was organized by a number
of young people who had received training in the Middle East in the
1960s. The sudden and widespread emergence of the Moro National
Liberation Front (MNLF) under the leadership of Nur Misuari took the
Marcos regime by surprise. There followed bloody fighting between
government forces and members of the MNLF.
Marcos set up specially trained terror teams to put an end to the
popular support for the opposition in the country, particularly that of
the MNLF. These teams, the most ruthless of which was called Ilaga, re-
sorted to the most terrible methods. Turkish magazine Nokta had the
following to say in an article entitled "Marcos' Cannibals":
They were stamping on Mrs Kassam's husband. Bits of brain were
spurting out from his skull. Other armed militiamen were falling
over themselves to grab the bits. Members of Ilaga think that drink-
ing the blood and eating the flesh of their enemies makes them in-
vincible. What a terrible invincibility!.. The members of Ilaga, which

Western media organizations are today giving biased coverage of the events in the
Philippines, and the terrible suffering being inflicted on defenceless Muslims is being ignored.
Yet those suffering the real violence and cruelty are Muslim Filipino women, children and the
elderly.