BBL encouraging Muslim separatism

TIME was when Muslims and non-Muslims lived together, broke bread at the same table even if they worshipped separately. This never seemed to be a problem in postwar years up to the sixties when Sabah was annexed by the Malaysian Federation in violation of the Manila accord of 1962. This is when the secessionist/terrorist groups came into the picture. Trained and supplied in Malaysia the MNLF and its breakaway group the MILF broke the peace in Mindanao and have been solely responsible for the strife in the so-called land of promise.

Post-Independence saw Muslim communities pretty much integrated in Philippine society as in the multi-racial and multi-ethnic societies of Singapore and Malaysia.