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2nd Quarter 2000

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Paths, artwork by Angel Cabigao
This issue brings you forceful poetry for the soul from Mindanao writers.

Mindanao is Bleeding
Statements of Peace

Unleashing the Dogs of War
by Said Sadain, Jr.

The Abuja Islamic Education Trust
Islam Through E-Mail

What is Shariah?

Poetry
written by
Raul Moldez
Rene Bernales

CAMPEACE2000

Essays
written by
Fr. Eliseo Mercado, Jr.
Mehol Sadain
Said Sadain, Jr.

Featured Links

Growth Mindanao
The other faces of Mindanao

Manila Moods Online
Rasheed Abou-Alsamh, a Saudi-American journalist goes online with his Arab News column on everything Filipino

Virtual Bugs
Explore the world of bugs, the ones that actually bite

Innovative Ideas Design
Angel's artworks grace this issue. Visit her site too.

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Directive
by Raul Moldez

Considering the gravity
of complaints enumerated
herein by the homeless residents
that: 1) you destroyed
the makeshift houses in their hearts
and 2) bulldozed the remaining
intelligentsia in their minds,
thereby forcing themselves
to take up arms and sporadically
open fire at your men,
wounding dozens of them,
you are hereby directed
to forthwith re-install their thoughts
and immediately re-build their emotions
so as to prevent the unnecessary
exchange of bullets and
to enable us all to live in peace.
For your strict compliance.

(Published in Philippines Free Press, Jan. 8, 2000)

Other poems by Raul Moldez in this issue

A day in a poet's life

Executive order

Floating in the air

Rated XXX

The unbaptized eyewitness of a stabbing incident
interrogated by the cop at the precinct


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