This allows us to conclude that DU30 will not use the incident as a basis for proclaiming martial law all over the Philippines. In the Resorts World attack, there is obvious disagreement. In 2004, as Wikipedia records, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria emerged from the radical Sunni jihadists who fought under the banner of al-Qaida in Iraq. For DU30, the most important question now is, will his martial law proclamation be an adequate response to the IS presence and violent regime in Mindanao? Neither will an unconstitutional martial law, backed by fake news from the front, using images of the Honduras police and Vietnamese soldiers, solve it for us.

Source: Manila Times June 04, 2017 16:52 UTC