DAR AL HARB - PHILLIPINES: JIHAD, HUDNA, JIHAD, LAND FOR PEACE DEAL UNTIL SUCH A TIME AS THE JIHAD RESUMES

The jihad in the Phillipines has borne fruit, moslems are about to get land:


Deal close on Muslim lands in Philippines

There are positive signs in the Philippines that the government and the country's largest Islamic rebel group are moving closer to a deal on defining Muslim ancestral land in the south of the mainly Catholic nation.

Talks between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front to end one of the world's longest-running Islamic insurgencies have been stalled since September over the size and wealth of the proposed Muslim region.

However, M-I-L-F spokesman Eid Kabalu says the two sides are prepared to resume negotiations and are close to an agreement on the territory issue.

He says the Front doubts whether a final peace deal can be reached even after the ancestral domain issue is settled.

The nearly 40-year-old conflict has killed more than 120,000 people, displaced two-million in the south and stunted growth in the resource-rich troubled southern island of Mindanao.




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