Rashid Lucman

Haroun al-Rashid Lucman (1924Fact|date=September 2007 - 1984) was a Filipino legislator and founder of the Bangsamoro Liberation Front, a Moro separatist group in Mindanao. [cite journal|last=Fallon|first=Joseph E.|title=Igorot and Moro National Reemergence|journal=Fourth World Journal|volume=2|issue=1|date=August 1989|accessdate=2007-09-05|url=http://www.cwis.org/fwj/21/imnr.html] cite conference|title=Evolution of the armed conflict on the Moro front|url=http://afrim.org.ph/programs/Evolution_Moro_Conflict.pdf|date=2005|publisher=Human Development Network Foundation|booktitle=Philippine Human Development Report|accessdate=2007-09-05|last=Santos|first=Soliman M., Jr.] In 1971, he joined with Senator Mamintal Tamano, Congressman Ali Dimaporo, Congressman Salipada Pendatun, Dean Cesar Adib Majul, Delegate Ahmad Alonto, Commissioner Datu Mama Sinsuat, and Mayor Aminkadra Abubakar to form the Islamic Directorate of the Philippines; the Libyan government donated funds to them to purchase land in Tandang Sora, Quezon City to use for the construction of a mosque. In 1972, with the declaration of martial law by Ferdinand Marcos, he fled to the Middle East. [cite web|title=ISLAMIC DIRECTORATE OF THE PHILIPPINES, MANUEL F. PEREA and SECURITIES & EXCHANGE COMMISSION, petitioners, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and IGLESIA NI CRISTO, respondents.|publisher=First Division, Supreme Court, Manila, Republic of the Philippines|date=14 May 1997|accessdate=2007-09-05|url=http://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1997/may1997/gr_117897_1997.html] In 1983, he helped "Ninoy" Aquino circumvent an order from Manila forbidding Aquino the issuance of a passport; Lucman obtained a passport for Aquino with the name "Marcial Bonifacio" ("Marcial" referring to martial law, and "Bonifacio" for Fort Bonifacio, where Aquino had previously been imprisoned). [cite news|title=The last time I saw Ninoy
first=Corazon C.|last=Aquino|authorlink=Corazon Aquino|publisher=Philippine Daily Inquirer|date=21 August 2003] After his death the following year, the Bangsamoro Liberation Front became defunct, marking the end of the leadership of traditional Muslim elites over the Moro independence movements.

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