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Radical Islam has it's roots from Saudi Arabia. This brand of Islam is different from the Islam known before it and the main contradiction is justice is exclusive only to Muslims hence, the moral disengagement.

The Moro tribes here in my country has a different culture than the Arabs hence is more peaceful. They only take arms during oppression, a justified Jihad like during the authoritarian regime of the martial law era where Muslims were forced to train under the military for a supposed ops to take back Saba including the rampant rape of Muslim women and massacre of Muslim men during those times.

These days, the moros after settling with a peace agreement with the government many years back has either surrendered their arms or been integrated with the armed forces and is helping the government to implement law and order on areas where small scale armed conflicts exist. They also fought side by side with the government forces during the ISIS take over of one of the Muslim cities in our south many years back.

The Mosque in the cities are usually replete with local citizens that came from the Arab world to work and came back here as Muslims or foreigners from the Arab world. Most Friday sermons are about comparing the superior morality of Muslims against the inferior morals of non-Muslims and is polarizing.

The Mosque in the countryside which is composed mainly of Moros didn't have that outlook and instead focused on how to live as a good Muslim hence the Muslim communities around the Mosque co-exists with the Christians in the same area peacefully.

My brand of Islam is aligned with how the country Turkiye (Turkey) balances Islam with the modern world.

The reason I am indifferent towards the Arab version of Islam.

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