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Salamat Hashim’s family slams emergence of ‘M**F-Salamat Wing’

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B**G S. SARMIENTO

JULY 23, 2022 10:13 PM

ISULAN, Sultan Kudarat (MindaNews / 23 July) – The family of the late Sheik Salamat Hashim, founding chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (M**F), slammed Saturday the emergence of an ‘M**F-Salamat Wing,’ which is urging President Ferdinand Marcos to appoint its nominees to the 80-member Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA).
Member of Parliament Abdullah Hashim, son of the M**F founder, said the family strongly condemns the use of their father’s name in sowing intrigue to divide the ranks of the M**F.
MP Abdullah Hashim, son of the late Salamat Hashim, founding chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front speaks at the 19th anniversary of the martyrdom of his father on 13 July 2022 at in the M**F camp in Rajahmuda in Pikit, North Cotabato on 13 July 2022. MindaNews photo by GREGORIO C. BUENO
He appealed to everyone not to use his father’s name “to sow political chaos and destroy the fragile peace that we are beginning to attain, under the M**F-led BARMM (Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.”
Hashim noted the creation of the M**F-Salamat Wing puts at risk the peace process, referring to the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), which the government and the M**F signed in 2014 after 17 years of peace negotiations.
“Our father’s work and legacy have always been to work for the common good of the Bangsamoro and Muslim Ummah (community). It is a great disservice to his legacy and an insult to his family to use his name to sow division, which could lead to us furthering away from the promise of peace,” he said in a statement dated July 23.

A "political statement of M**F-Salamat wing” dated July 18 and signed by Shaykh AbdulFatah Saleh Delna, the group’s ad hoc chair, said their group, which supported Marcos for President, is “gaining ground in the Bangsamoro region.”
Nominees to BTA

Claiming they are “not a faction or a breakaway group” but M**F members, Delna said they supported the candidacy of Marcos and is urging him to appoint from their ranks new BTA members and ministers of the Bangsamoro region.
Delna said they submitted a list of nominees for the President to appoint as “new members of the BTA, both as Parliamentarians and as Ministers,” claiming they are “all capable and competent to act and perform as Parliamentarians and Ministers.”
Republic Act 11054 or the Organic Law for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), the enabling law of the 2014 peace agreement, provides for the appointment of an 80-member M**F-led BTA, the body tasked to govern the transition period for the Bangsamoro government initially until June 30, 2022.
In February 2019, barely a month after the ratification of RA 11054, then President Rodrigo Duterte named 80 members to the BTA – 41 nominated by the M**F and 39 by the government. He designated M**F chair Ahod “Al Haj Murad” Ebrahim as Interim Chief Minister.
In October last year, Duterte signed Republic Act 11593, resetting the first regular elections in the Bangsamoro from 2022 to 2025, effectively extending the term of the BTA for another three years until 2025.
Section 2 of the law states that “during the extension of the transition period, the BTA shall continue as the interim government in the BARMM, provided, however, that the President may appoint the 80 new interim members of the BTA who shall serve up to June 30, 2025 or until their successors shall have been elected and qualified.”

The M**F-Salamat Wing urged Marcos to appoint the new BTA members from its ranks, pointing out that the M**F’s political party, the United Bangsamoro Justice Party (UBJP) supported the presidential bid of then Vice President Leni Robredo.
“We are bona fide and legitimate members and officials of the M**F and are trusted persons of the late Chairman Salamat Hashim. We maintain that we are not a breakaway group or that sort,” Delna said in the statement.
Expelled, Suspended

Delna claimed that as a “consequence of expressing support and campaigning on the basis of our independent political views as individual voters” for Marcos, interim Chief Minister Ahod “Al Haj Murad” Ebrahim, in his capacity as M**F chair, expelled him as Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces-M**F Deputy Front Commander, National Guard Front, on April 27 this year.
Lawyer Naguib Sinarimbo, Bangsamoro Government spokesperson and concurrent Minister of the Interior and Local Government, said Delna was “suspended because he let his son, Saad Delna, run for Mayor of Mangudadatu under the party of (then Sultan Kudarat Governor Suharto) “Teng” Mangudadatu. The UBJP, the M**F’s political party, supported the gubernatorial bid and party slate of former Governor Esmael “Toto” Mangudadatu, Teng’s cousin. Toto’s brother Freddie, won as mayor of Mangudadatu.
Sinarimbo said “the emergence of the M**F-Salamat Wing was borne out of their vested interests to lord it over the Bangsamoro region.”

“We see it as a continuing effort by the enemies of peace to sow intrigue and divisions so that their personal political agenda, which is to hijack the peace process by taking over the BARMM government would succeed,” he told MindaNews.
“We are, however, confident that it will fail just like the many occasions they have tried but failed to spoil the peace in the Bangsamoro,” he added.

I oppose, disagree, and disavow the use of our father’s name to endanger the peace and progress, not to mention the organization he and countless others gave their lives to protect and to establish,” MP Hashim said.
“You should not let personal grievances and political sentiments create political chaos in the guise of ‘following’ my father’s way. You should not let the maneuverings of some politicians use you for their personal dreams of power. You should be more wise than this,” he said, addressing Delna’s group.
“If you wish to exercise your democratic rights, then exercise them at the proper time. When the time comes for elections, the BARMM will be open as mandated by law,” he added.

He also rallied continuing support to the BARMM and the M**F under the leadership of Ebrahim, whom his father had “personally chosen and deemed most qualified to be his successor.”
Ebrahim was Salamat Hashim’s Vice Chair for Military Affairs when the former was chair.
Salamat Hashim died on July 13, 2003.
The M**F and Bangsamoro government officials led by Ebrahim, commemorated the 19th anniversary of the martyrdom of Salamat Hashim at Camp Rajahmuja in Pikit, North Cotabato on July 13. (B**g S. Sarmiento / MindaNews)

Salamat Hashim’s family slams emergence of ‘M**F-Salamat Wing’ ISULAN, Sultan Kudarat (MindaNews / 23 July) – The family of the late Sheik Salamat Hashim, founding chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (M**F), slammed Saturday the emergence of an ‘M**F-Sa…

A Sunday Reflections: My lessons in life a weekly series
by Ismael Kulat | Jan 9, 2022 | Editorial, Feature, News | 0 comments

Dedicated to me and to the CBCS Family and Friends.

As we journey in our existence, we learned many lessons in life. We passed through different life experiences: happiness, anxieties, stress, dilemma, worries, depression, etc.

Nobody is an exemption. We live with people and are happy to have good relationship with them.

But we also lost friends and loved ones and people who touched our lives.
I lost colleagues and many others who were with us from the beginning.
Life is indeed ironic.
It takes sadness to know happiness and absence to value presence. The people you most think about are the ones you love or the ones who cause you pain and sometimes we never truly value a moment before it becomes a distant memory.

Lessons learned. Never get too attached to people or a person unless they, he/she feels the same towards you because one-sided expectation can mentally destroy you. Don’t trust people whose feelings change with time. Trust people whose feelings remain even when the time changes. Sorry can heal mistakes but not when trust is broken. It is because while forgiving is easy, forgetting and trusting again is difficult.

I learn to accept failures. I failed many times, in the past and even now. In running the organization, I failed miserably. I have expected things to happen the way I wanted them but things do not always happen the way you want them to be. Realizing that I can not gain from stressing and worrying on things I can not change, I learned to accept and not to expect. Peace begins when expectations end.

Looking for peace, I realized that to be kind is more important than to be right. I always insist that I am right and I don’t listen to others, but many times what people need is not a brilliant mind but a special heart that listens. So I learned the lesson not to strive to make my presence noticed but make my absence felt.

Sadly enough, sometimes we are attracted to people who do not value us. And so I learn again a lesson that peace arises only whenever you let something go and that nothing will bring me greater peace than minding my own business.

Losing no hope, I believe that sunset, where people influx to witness the ultimate meeting of light and darkness, is a proof that endings can be beautiful. So, we must enjoy life like how we enjoy ice cream and make the best out of it before the sun sets or before the ice cream melts.

“ To my dearest CBCS family and friends, I am not what you think I am, but you are what you think I am.” Like you and anyone else, I have my own set of happy and sad moments, weaknesses, failures, frustrations and disappointments. On one hand, what makes me sad is when I am not able to meet your expectations. It makes me sad when I am not able fulfill my promises and make you all smile. It makes me frown when you ignore me as if I don’t exist. I lose my self-respect.
On the other hand, what makes me happy is when I see you sharing your smiles at me even if I am the reason why you are sad. What makes me happy is when we learn the wisdom of journeying together because we know we will go far. Happiness is not only a state of mind but also the art of working together.

Thank you to all of you who vowed to stick it out: “to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness or in health, to love and to cherish, till death brings us back to life again.

I wish that everyone spends their lives like a candle that gives light before it melts.

A Sunday Reflections: My lessons in life a weekly series Dedicated to me and to the CBCS Family and Friends.As we journey in our existence, we learned many lessons in life. We passed through different life experiences: happiness, anxieties, stress, dilem…

The primacy of Non-Violent Peace Process

by Ismael Kulat | Oct 27, 2021 | Editorial, Feature, News | 0 comments

Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.) was a mercy to all human beings.

Some years ago, the MNLF/M**F also refused to negotiate with the national government. Their fight for independence was non-negotiable. It was a struggle in defense of the Bangsamoro Ummah, to save the Bangsamoro territories, and protect Islam. The battle cry was: VICTORY OR TO THE GRAVEYARD!

But the realization of both warring parties (gov’t and rebels) of not winning military victory, insistent calls from peace-loving citizens and the national government’s diligence in finding ways to end the violence through negotiation changed the situation. Series of preliminary talks through the hard work of messengers and emissaries made the peace negotiation a reality.

Today both the MNLF and the M**F had achieved their goals through peace negotiations.
This is one best practice that we can learn from that experience as we deal with the present violent situation in the BARMM. This is also what we believe in the CSOs. It may be difficult in the beginning to attract rebels to peace talks but there are many souls, from the ordinary persons to high-profile individuals including development partners and international NGOs who are willing to help.

The BARMM is being led by good Muslims, many of them belong to the religious sector and are highly respected. They can find means and can use religious persuasive approach, similar to what Prophet Muhammad (SAW) did in engaging the enemies. On their own, they know who they are dealing with: former comrades, friends and even relatives. They shared many commonalities, dreams and aspirations.

They shared common legacy of fighting for a noble cause in the same territories.
In the past they fought side by side against common enemies. It will only take them to talk to each, not against each other. They can be one again.

I came across this article that talks about how the Prophet treated his Enemies.
Bleeding from head to toe, battered and exhausted, Prophet Muhammad was faced with a choice. Should he or should he not seek to destroy the people who had just humiliated him by having their children chase him out of town while throwing stones at him?
And what was his crime? All he wanted to do was to share his message (of peace, oneness of Allah) and seek to benefit his people.

Prophet Muhammad was in At-Taif, a lush town of green palm trees, fruit and vegetables, about 50 miles from Mecca to offer peace- Islam-. However, the people of At-Taif proved just as cruel and intolerant as his own people. Not only did they scorn or reject his message of Allah’s Oneness, but they turned their youth against him as well. He could have asked that those children who pelted him with stones be finished off along with their intolerant parents, but he didn’t!

No, the Prophet told the Angel not to destroy the people of At-Taif. Instead of cursing the children of this town, he prayed for their salvation. That is just one example of how this man, whom Allah describes as a “mercy to mankind” (Al-Anbiya’ 21:107) dealt with those who opposed him.
The people of At-Taif were not the only ones who tasted this mercy. It was his habit to pray for his enemies all the time.
The Prophet made similar supplications for his people on a regular basis: “O Allah! Guide my people, for they know not,” he would pray, as he and his followers were beaten, humiliated, scorned and ridiculed.

On another occasion, some Companions came to Prophet Muhammad and said: “O Messenger of Allah! The tribe of Daws have committed disbelief and disobeyed (your commands). Supplicate Allah against them!” Contrary to the people’s expectations, the Prophet said: “O Allah! Guide Daws and let them come to us.” (Al-Bukhari)

These are just a few glimpses at how the Prophet dealt with those who opposed him. Contrast this nobility with some believers today who are found cursing others and praying for their destruction.
Prophet Muhammad was a mercy to all human beings. We, as his followers, must live and spread this message today at a time when hatefulness and ugliness towards each other has become the norm.

Can this anecdote be a good guide on how we deal with our perceived enemies? We want to offer peace. The enemy may reject it or even scorn it and make offensive move. But we insist, we pray that they will accept our offer for peace. The chief minister admitted that it was his first attempt (in Maguindanaon) to ask the “peace spoilers” in public to give the BARMM the time and space to fulfill its goal so that everyone will benefit. This is a good start.

The chief minister would not lose anything, except few words, but will win everything if his offer will be accepted.

Military approach to inviting the enemy to peace will do very little. It has a very limited advantage. It can even sacrifice the peace-loving civilian population no matter how careful the approach can be. Once the war starts, rules are set aside if only to achieve the military objectives.

Like the practice of the Prophet we cannot be harsh to the enemies. We must continue to offer peace and invite them for talks (not the talks of the guns). Let us pray for them for enlightenment and soon they will accept our offer, Inshallah. Let us follow the footsteps of Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.) in his dealing with enemies and we MUST TRUST ALLAH.

Wabillahi Taufiq Walhidayah!

Abu Jahid
Chair,CBCS

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