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Old 05-24-2017, 10:18 AM   #5873 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Stephen View Post
"if I declare martial law in Mindanao, I will solve all that ails the island."

Knowing Duterte I don't imagine that's an idle threat.
He wants to expand it to the whole country as well.

My old landlord (a Filipino immigrant who's lost family under sketchy allegations of drug use) used to say that he feared an event like this that would give Duterte a doorway to martial law and outright fascism. Looks like he was right on that one.

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Originally Posted by elphenor View Post
It's more like painting Muslims in Indonesia as the same as Muslims in Saudi Arabia

And that's where the obvious racism is, people talk about "the Muslim world" as if that's really a homogenous group
But what about Indonesia's low birth rates!!!!???!?!??!
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