MUSLIM EDUCATION IN THE AUTONOMOUS REGION IN SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES : PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
Abstract
The right for education is a human right. However , this might not be true to the residents of the Authonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao. The creation of the ARMM by virtue of Republic Act 6734 is the least that the Philippine govrnment could offer to appease the Muslims who have been in the battlefield wanting to retrieve their homeland, which for the Muslim Filipinos is occupied majority by illegal settlers that somehow lead to problematic relations between the Philippines government and the Muslims. History narrates that the Muslims in the Philippines identify themselves as "Bangsamoro" . Bangsa from the Malay word meaning nation and Moro-was given by the Spanish Colonizers to the Muslims in Mindanao whom they found to have the same religion and way of life with the Muslims of North Africa.