MILF vs BIFF

No, there isn't a website for this possibly suggestive headline, it is the Morrow Island Liberation Front and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters.  They are now wrestling for control of the Mindanao area in the Southern Philippines, and as usual when Islamists fight among themselves, there are always refugees and casualties.  400 families have had to flee the fighting, which is ostensibly over a rice and corn farm.

The MILF and the BIFF are clashing over Islamic norms, the farm issue is just a smokescreen so no one sees sharia coming.

From STUFF.co.nz August 8

Hundreds flee Philippines violence

Hundreds of people fled their homes on a southern Philippine island after fighting erupted between rival Muslim rebel groups, an army spokesman said on Wednesday, raising concern peace talks with the government planned later this month could be affected.

Six people were killed and an undetermined number of fighters from both sides wounded in sporadic clashes on Mindanao island since Saturday, said Colonel Prudencio Asto.

The fighting erupted between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), a separatist group which has been negotiating with the government to end a long-running insurgency, and the breakaway Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF).

The BIFF has rejected the peace process.

"We're not getting ourselves involved in the conflict, but we've been helping relocate the displaced families," Asto said, saying the groups were fighting over a six-hectare corn-and-rice farm and mediation efforts had been unsuccessful.

Marvic Leonen, the government's chief peace negotiator, said Manila was worried the land dispute could escalate into an organisational conflict that could sabotage peace talks due to be held August 22-24 in Kuala Lumpur.

Von al Haq, a MILF spokesman, said they have been trying to get the warring groups to withdraw their forces.

"This fighting was purely because of land conflict and has nothing to do with the peace process," al Haq said in a statement posted at the rebel website http://www.luwaran.com/.

"We are confident the peace process will not be affected."

Nearly 400 families had fled the fighting, with most of them temporarily housed in school buildings at the town centre.