One of my freinds from Phillipines said that Islam was encouraged in Phillipines during cold war to keep the Commonist at Bay.Plese throw some more light on this if you have the inside scoop.
2007-02-28 15:34:01 · 5 answers · asked by Dr.O 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
And she said that it was funded by Saudi Arabia.
2007-02-28 15:36:15 · update #1
i don't know...but Islam is a big problem in that area...they finally found the Muslim man responsible for beheading 3 Christian school girls...
2007-02-28 15:46:05 · answer #1 · answered by turntable 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
There was a Islamic influence in the Philippines and Indonesia
in the early 1900's. Marcos in the Philippines held any protest in check, even democratic protests.
The Philippines is mostly Catholic, influenced from Spain, such as Mexico and Cuba and the Caribbean, the areas of the world that Spain discovered or even conquered. The cold war is not responsible for the spread of Islam but the defeat of Communism which appears to be alive and well in the Democratic party and Hollywood.
2007-02-28 15:47:54 · answer #2 · answered by Rick D 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
When Magellan's expedition got to the South China Sea, Islam was already there. The sultanate of Brunei had owned the Southern Philippines for at least 200 years, the population is still substantially moslem.
2007-02-28 16:58:21 · answer #3 · answered by virtualguy92107 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i don't know about the Philippines, but Islam is in Indonesia for many hundreds of years, and came with Arab merchants.
and Christianity is crap.
2007-03-03 19:41:38 · answer #4 · answered by YM 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Islam is a lie from the pit of hell, and I am here to expose it for what it really is.
2007-03-03 10:15:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋