IPAC Report: The Growing Influence of Salafism in Muslim Mindanao

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The puritanical stream of Islam known as Salafism is making major inroads in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) in the southern Philippines, in a way that could foster greater social conservatism in areas such as education, freedom of religion and women’s rights.

The Growing Influence of Salafism in Muslim Mindanao, the latest report from the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC), examines how Salafism – which sees Islam as practiced by the Prophet Muhammad and the three generations that followed him as the model that all Muslims should follow – has taken root in the Philippines, but in a way that has produced many variants, some more tolerant than others. 

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