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Not knowing when to shut up FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 05/08/2011

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Not knowing when to shut up

FRONTLINE
Ninez Cacho-Olivares
05/08/2011
Palace spokesmen really don’t know when to shut up.

When a Muslim group demonstrated and protested the killing of Osama bin Laden by a select American Navy SEALs team, hailing him as a “martyr,” there went the Palace mouthpiece telling these Filipino Muslims demonstrating that they should not honor Bin Laden as he was no martyr and no hero.

Said Noynoy’s spokesman, “We call on our Muslim brothers and sisters to look clearly on what Bin Laden has done. This affects the Philippines and the entire globe as well. He sinned and he has to be responsible for what he did.”

The Muslim group marched from their Mosque in Quiapo intending to go to the US embassy and hold their rally there, but were stopped by the police..... MORE

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