Doc Ahmad Hajiri

Bismillah. The recent incident that took place in Basilan last October 18, 2011 is not a new issue to all of us. It had happened again and again before, and it can always happen again next time. Unless something (and this something is actually a load of things) is changed. Something must be changed, and someone must do it (and that someone is not just one man). Certainly, I was more disgusted by how the media portrayed the news to the common people. It was so much polarized, biased, misleading and a lot of twitched information was presented that made the people more confused than satisfied. And as how I expected it to be, the people are now divided. Those who were tricked and had fallen into the trap believed that proclaiming all-out-war is the solution. And those who knew what happened, were vigilant in voicing out what they know. Yet they were overpowered by the massive influence of media and they were outnumbered. Only a few would hear them. And a lot fewer would believe the...

Salamdua. iban Tagnaan natuh ha ngan sin mahasutsi Allah. Ha bahgu-bahgu ra yan jimatuh na isab in pag-atubang sin dua pihak (MILF iban AFP) nagbunuh ha Al-barka, Basilan sin Oct.18, 2011. Kaingatan natuh na unu na mayan in naghappen bang natuh bassahun in news, atawa ka bang kita niyu kumita na sin TV. In reports gimuwa, bahasa in mga Sundalu AFP awn liyalawag nila hambuuk tau (atawa group) daing ha mga AbuSayaf yaun ha Kampo sin mga MILF. Sakali nagbaak man sila, amuna in tiyagnaan sin Pagbunuh nila limughay 8 jaam. 19 sundalu in miyatay, iban mga 3 kadtu (Kitaa niyu mayan ha news) in nashaheed ha MILF. In depensa sin MILF, i-attack kunuh sila kanda sila isab imatu balik. Awn existing CEASEFIRE agreement ha time ini. so in pagbunuh sin dua, mabilang langgal sarah nag against ha Ceasefire. Sah hisiyu in Nagtagnah kaniya (sin pagbunuh)? didtu na nagTudluh2i na in mga tau. Kansa in kita isab nahilu na sambil. In landuh tuud makasusa mga taymanghud, landuh tuud...

(Short Post) Last September 8, 2011, I went to the island Province of Basilan to attend a Mass Graduation Ceremony for our First batch of Literacy classes (our foundation’s beneficiaries are mostly adults, women, elderly and out-of-school-youths who were illiterates). It was indeed a double-excitement for me; an incident I have always wanted to experience. Aside from the excitement of attending the mass graduation of our first batch of Adult learners, it was also my very first time to be in Basilan. Basilan is a small island south-west of Zamboanga Peninsula. You can ride a fast seacraft and arrive in Isabela City, Basilan 45-minutes later. It is so near that you can see the other island by simply looking out the window from inside the seacraft. Unlike Sulu, my homeland: it would take at least 8 hours of sea travel in regular sea vessels. Yet still, in my twenty years of life, I have never ever stepped my ever-so-travelling feet on that island. And I have always been wondering h...