MOROS in Sulu | The ORIGIN STORY

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MOST FILIPINOS WHEN THEY GO VISIT SPAIN, THEY GO TO THE NORTHERN PART LIKE MADRID AND BARCELONA. IT’S ALWAYS ABOUT VISITING THE SITES WHERE GAT JOSE RIZAL AND THE OTHER WELL KNOWN FILIPINO CHARACTER HEROES LIVED AND THEIR PAST LIVES. ON TOP OF THAT, IT SEEMS LIKE GLORIFYING HOW THE SPANIARDS SUBJUGATED THE PHILIPPINES WHILE OTHERS ELUDE FROM THAT IDEA OR MAYBE IT DEPENDS ON AND FROM WHAT PERSPECTIVE.

WHAT ABOUT WE BRING YOU DOWN SOUTHERN PART OF SPAIN WHERE THE NITTY GRITTY OF SPANISH COLONISATION LITERALLY STARTED? WHAT HAS BECOME AFTER HISPANIA, BEFORE THE AGE OF EXPLORATION?

AND HOW ABOUT THE UNPOPULAR DISMAYED CONQUEST OF THE SPANIARDS IN THE SOUTHERN PRE-COLONIAL PHILIPPINES? WHY DID THEY CALL THEM MOROS? WHAT DOES THAT TERM REALLY MEAN? WHERE DID IT COME FROM?

IN THE 13TH CENTURY, ISLAM HAD ALREADY REACHED ASIA AS FAR AS PRE-COLONIAL PHILIPPINES. THE MOST DOMINANT KINGDOM IN THIS REGION WERE THE SULTANATE OF SULU. THEY HAVE ESTABLISHED GOVERNANCE SINCE THE 1400S AS EVIDENCED BY THE STRONG CONNECTIONS OF SULTAN BATARA WITH THE MING DYNASTY OF CHINA WHO DIED IN DEZHOU, IN SHANDONG PROVINCE. MUSLIMS WERE WIDE SPREAD IN ALL ISLANDS AT THE TIME OF THE SPANIARD’S ARRIVAL. A SIMPLE EVIDENCE OF THAT IS THE TRADITION THAT WAS CARRIED OUT AND STILL BEING PRACTICED UNTIL NOW. THE CIRCUMCISION BY FILIPINO MEN. INDEED, A RITUAL AND HYGIENIC PRACTICE BY MUSLIM MEN AND NOT FROM CATHOLICISM.

THE LITERAL MEANING OF MOORS OR MORO IS BLACK AND BECAME SYNONYMOUS WITH MUSLIMS.

MAGSUKUL PA KATANTAN!

PLS CONSIDER SUBSCRIBING IF THIS EMPARTED KNOWLEDGE ON YOU! CHEERS!

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