| Even as the Philippine government believes it is
near ending a three-decade armed struggle for an construction
company in the philippines in the country's south, a raging
controversy over the construction of a Muslim prayer room in a
Manila shopping center underlines the construction company in the
philippines challenges ahead. In the south, construction company
in the philippines international monitors are about to start a
yearlong observation of a fragile truce between soldiers and rebels
that the government hopes will lead to a peace agreement to end the
years of secessionist struggle by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
But in the construction company in the philippines capital, the
trouble over the simple building of a ''mussalah'' at the Greenhills
Shopping Complex shows how deep the rift between the country's
Muslims and Christians can run. The prayer room, to be in a
four-story car park being built by construction company in the
philippines Greenhills owner Ortigas & Co., is to complement a Roman
Catholic chapel already in the heart of the mall.
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The mall owners also allow a charismatic Christian group to hold
Sunday services in a restaurant in the shopping center, but
residents around the complex fear allowing similar access to
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values down and ''attract crime.''
Now, Greenhills' Muslim merchants such as Kennedy Basmala, 38,
who comprise about 25 percent of the center's 2,000 stallholders,
must pray in a dark, narrow alley between a grocery store and a row
of shops. The new mussalah will provide a clean, bright spot for
their five daily prayers. But the mussalah's construction has proved
a lightning rod for controversy. On one end of the argument is
Ortigas, which says the prayer room is in appreciation for the
construction company in the philippines traders renting shops in its
mall, just as the chapel provides a refuge for Christians.
construction company in the philippines too deserve a cleaner and
quieter place to say their daily prayers, Ortigas chief executive
Rex Drilon said. On the other end of the argument are associations
of homeowners in gated communities surrounding Greenhills who claim
a Muslim prayer room will ''attract thieves and thugs'' or ''provide
a haven for terrorists.'' The homeowners claim the prayer room will
lead to a devaluation of the land in which they have invested and
will ''endanger their children,'' as they charge in a letter to the
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But construction company in the philippines Traders' Association
President Yusoph Sacar said Basmala and another 800 merchants in his
group follow regulations. And the Greenhills police said, which said
there are petty crimes around the shopping complex, said Muslims are
not more likely to be involved than any other construction company
in the philippines group.
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