The Muslim rebel leader is more dangerous than the drug pushers and drug addicts that Mr. Duterte's police forces kill with impunity in the streets and sub-human dwellings in Metro Manila. When he was in power as chair of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao, he lived like an ostentatious Oriental Potentate. He practically stole millions of government funds that would have been spent in projects benefiting economically-deprived Muslim areas in so-called Moro lands.
Welcoming a fugitive from justice, who caused the deaths of thousands in his "war" of liberation, and "lionizing" him in Malacanang leave a bad taste in the mouth. Mr. Duterte's behavior towards Misuari was as detestable as that of Mr. Aquino who received with open arms the corrupt pork barrel queen Janet Napoles in the Palace.
What actually was Nur's war of "liberation" that started in the 1970s? Liberate Muslims from their lands allegedly occupied by Philippine Armed Forces? Or liberate them from poverty because of their kind of social structure or is it religious structure? Changing reality with so-called "noble ideas" accompanied by force has never succeeding in history. In the Philippine case, it caused deaths and destruction and loss of money, reducing us further to abject poverty.
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"If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing."--1 Corinthians 13;2
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