Essay On Islam In The Philippines

Islam is the most widely practiced religion in Southeast Asia and it is home to about 40 percent of the worlds population. Majority of the Muslims in Southeast Asia is in countries like Indonesia, Brunei and Malaysia and minority of Muslims in countries like the Philippines, Thailand, East Timor etc. In this essay, I will focus and make comparisons on Brunei Darussalam which has majority Muslims and the Philippines which has minority Muslims who are living in Sulu, Maguindanao and Lanao which is the three important Islam or Muslim sultanate in the Philippines.

According to the 2010 data census, the population of Southeast Asia in 2010 consists of 593 million people, Brunei with only 0.4 million people and the Philippines with 93 million people. The amount of Muslims in Brunei in 2010 was approximately 67 percent of the population of 401,890 which is 211,000 people and In the Philippines, the amount of Muslims in 2010 was approximately 5 to 11 percent of the population of 101,840,848 which is 4,737,000 people.

How

Meaning to say, the Filipinos all looked similar, there’s no difference in their skin and hair color and sometimes we can’t differentiate between Muslims and Christians Filipinos today. The only thing that’s different between them is the race. Eg. Malay in race for the inhabitants in southern Philippines. It was after the adoption of Islam and Christianity throughout the Philippines, there was a rise of two nationalities, which is the Filipino Muslim and Filipino Christian. The Filipino Christians refer to the Filipino Muslim as ‘Moros’ and they refer or call themselves ‘Indos’ in the Philippines. Before the coming of the european colonialism, the Moros has already established the islamic sultanates and this provided the Moros with sufficient unity and effectively resists the invading europeans which is the Spanish in Phillipines