Peace Process and Purgatory
Reuters reported this afternoon that the Moro Islamic Liberation Front has threatened to altogether abandon the peace process if the Arroyo regime does not sign the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain.
“We’re not only disappointed and frustrated over government’s decision to turn its back on the ancestral domain deal, we’ve completely lost trust and confidence in them. The fate of the peace negotiation rests solely in the hands of the government,” Mohagher Iqbal, the front’s chief negotiator, told the news agency.
He also said that the “peace process is now in purgatory.”
Although there is such a notion as a purgatory in Islam, the purgatory is a mainly Christian belief. But that is not what struck me about Iqbal’s statement. I’m certain that what he meant was “in limbo,” not “in purgatory.”
Then again, given what has been happening in some areas in Mindanao since the MOA plot unraveled, maybe Iqbal deliberately used purgatory to describe the situation. (Carlos H. Conde/pinoypress.net)
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