Canadian Islam teacher "inciting terrorism"
MANILA: the Philippines plans to deport a Canadian national this week after he was reported to be "inciting and recruiting locals to conduct terrorist activities", a top immigration official said yesterday.
The Philippines has been checking raw intelligence reports that about 100 Muslims in the predominantly Muslim south had left the country in response to the global calls of Islamist militants to fight for Irap and Syria.
Siegfred Mison, head of the immigration bureau, said the Canadian, Abu Ameenah Billal Philips, would be deported within the week after the bureau filed a compiaint that he was an undesirable individual.
He said Mr Philips was the second foreign national to be deported links with Islamist militants, after an Australian Islamic preacher was caught last july in Cebu in the central Philippines.