Dos and Don'ts for Business Travel to the Philippines: In November 2002, the terrorist Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in the Philippines issued a long and public threat against U.S. citizens and interests in the Philippines. The ASG is an Islamic organization, and has gone on record as finding a number of things to be against the will of Allah and included on that list are people who use electricity (with the obvious dispensation, of course to all members of Abu Sayyaf who do need electricity to run their computers so they can talk with other murderers around the world.)
There have been a number of Filipinos, Americans and foreign tourists kidnapped since April 2000, and most were released after ransoms were paid. Also included in those released were several prominent Jewish citizens, which suggests that a Jew who can pay a large sum for his life is somehow different than a Jew who cannot. That Allah must have been a