ABSTRACT
The Americans shows greater religious tolerance and make some attempt to accommodate Muslim Filipino customs and Islamic law, American policy in the south aims primarily at integrating the Moros into the Christian society. The distrust and hostility which for four centuries has characterised relations between Muslim Filipinos and Christian Filipinos and the government, intensified in the latter part of the 1960s. The confrontation between Muslim nationalists and the government intensified following the imposition of martial law, the group which comes to assume the leadership of the Moro movement is the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF). As early as 1954 a special committee of the Philippine Congress is created to investigate the Moro Problem. The Marcos governments handling of the Moro problems are significantly influenced by pressures from the world Islamic community. The strength of Moro nationalism in recent years owes something to an Islamic resurgence which began in the 1950s and continues today.
