“The first duty of the Government is
to afford protection to its citizens
”1.
The government is duty bound to protect
its citizens, one of which is protection from threats
as to the peace and order of the society as well as to give them
security.
With regards to the recent events in
the Philippines, the passing of the Bangsamoro Basic Law(BBL) in
Congress and the Mamasapano incident, there have been talks that
there is a greater threat in the Philippines than the rebels in
Mindanao.
This is the presence of the Islamic
State of Iraq and Syria(ISIS), an extremist rebel group controlling
territory in Iraq and Syria and also has operations in different
parts of the world.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, their commander,
was named its Caliph
As a caliphate, it claims religious, political and military authority over all Muslims worldwide and that "the legality of all emirates, groups, states, and organizations, becomes null by the expansion of the khilāfah's (caliphate's) authority and arrival of its troops to their areas"2
As a caliphate, it claims religious, political and military authority over all Muslims worldwide and that "the legality of all emirates, groups, states, and organizations, becomes null by the expansion of the khilāfah's (caliphate's) authority and arrival of its troops to their areas"2
Though the United Nations declared that
there is no ISIS presence in the Philippines an ISIS study group has
disagreed with this assessment.
“So yes, there is an IS presence in
the country, its growing, and there are opportunities to prevent this
from happening – but this requires the Aquino government to take
off the gloves and unleash his forces to go after all Black Flag
affiliates and not just ASG (Abu Sayyaf group),” The group stated.3
There
are speculations that how the government will react to the Mamasapano
insident as well as to the passing and implementing of the BBL will
help in determining the influence the ISIS will have in the
Philippines.
The establishing if whether there are ISIS members present in the Philippines
now is not important the mere speculation that they were here and
that they are providing support to the local militant groups in the
Philippines is already enough to warrant that the government should
be on guard.
2ISIS
announces formation of Caliphate, rebrands as 'Islamic State'
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