Philippine’s Duterte warns terrorists he can be ‘10 times’ more brutal than Islamic State
In a speech in which he denounced the Islamic State (IS) for its “barbaric practice,” Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gave a stern warning to the extremist group, saying he can be “10 times” more brutal.
Duterte delivered the speech at the Malacanang Palace in Manila on Monday, a few days after he claimed that IS followers posing as missionaries have already started radicalising Filipinos in Mindanao, the southern island of the Philippines. He did not elaborate on that claim.
You maim people, you kill them. People who refuse to have sex with them, they simply burn them
The controversial Filipino leader, whose crackdown on his country’s longstanding drug problems involved killing hundreds of suspected drug dealers, told soldiers during a speech last week in Mindanao’s province of Zamboanga del Sur that in “three to seven years,” the country will be plagued with “the ISIS disease”.
“They are not armed, but they are here for indoctrination,” Duterte said, according to the Philippine Inquirer. “That’s what I’m afraid of.”
During his speech on Monday, Duterte said the terrorist group does have not any political ideology and does not have “any concept of what God really is”.
“You maim people, you kill them,” Duterte said. “People who refuse to have sex with them, they simply burn them.”