Well, you should have been more precise in your languafge and said "East Asians". Different people have different views of what "Asian" means, and you should not assume your conception is the same as others.

But even so your original assertion, accepting your narrow definition of Asian, is dubious since the Philippines itself has not dealt with its Islamic separatist problem for decades.

I disagree. I'm not gonna dumb down it. I used asian in the right context with how it's understood today. Anyone with a brain knew what I meant. It's not rocket science. If you don't know understand, I don't care. If you want to fixate on semantics and forget the forest for the trees, I don't care. No one ever says east asian. What kind of asinine shit is that? Are you serious?

Yeah, it can't work, too crude and it creates risk of endless retaliations.
The best tactic could be duplicity, the same false moderate muslims (and false moderate communists) use, preach love and brotherood in public, then strike them mercilessly when nobody is seeing, finally, publicly condemn those evil actions unknown thugs did against our beloved brothers of another religion, rinse and repeat.   

If the situation is the same as here I wouldn't worry about it too much. Taliban Pakistan was loosing so they started acting like they have joined Daesh cause Daesh is the new hip terrorist scum organization. But real links between the Syrian Daesh and Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan is yet to be made. Those scum still get away with some attacks but thankfully the frequency and magnitude have greatly reduced over the last two years

Well you should ask real Asians about how its done. We all know that western southern Asia is the middle east Then places like Kazakhstan and China etc are central Asia. We in Pakistan and out neighbors to the east India and Bangladesh and Srilanka are South Asia and the islands east of us are South East Asia and countries like the Koreas and Japan are East Asia. I don't where the hell Russia comes in I've never heard of North Asia but that would be it. See the entire continent of Asia from an Asian perspective

I don't think of them as Asian so screw geography facts and culture teehee.

Yup. I am Asian and Pakistani . I think of China India Afghanistan Iran Iraq Syria even Turkey and Russia. Since I am away from the eastern asians I don't think of them as Asian at first thought. See America and Americans don't get to decide what is Asian. Geography facts culture and the people that live there do. I am Asian and I am sure anyone in any country that is in Asia if he has time to think about it will think he's Asian because he/she is freaking asian

Nope just no. No American thinks of them as Asian Go ask UK they will think of something else as Asian and anyone in Europe or Africa will think differently. Just because someone thinks something doesn't make it fact Fact is that Asia is the largest continent with the most countries from Turkey to Japan and from Russia to the islands like Philippines

Actually we do we take part in Asian alliances and Reality and logic dictate that we are Asian. Cone with me to every geographically Asian country and ask a ton of people in each country whether they are Asian or not. Americans don't get to decide what Asians are thank goodness otherwise countries like Pakistan and India would be those brown guys from that place which is the largest continent but they are not Asian they are between the middle east and Asians and the Africans would be the blacks. Asia is Asia and will continue to be Asia no matter who thinks what. Asia is this massive continent with many Aryan people but sino people as well as a mix of different t cultures. The middle east is mostly part of Asia and it spans from turkey to Japan and everything in between and from Russia to those islands above Australia with Everything in between. Americans have to correct themselves not the other way around. Its like saying to a citizen of a country that he is not a citizen of that country because he is from the southern side and I don't consider the southern side part of the country. A continent is a continent and Asia is still used as a continent except by Americans

I'm part Japanese.  Most of these places won't call themselves as East Asian or some other silly shit. Most of these places think of themselves as their country and not as asian. It's clear that most places don't go by outdated definitions of certain things. For example, the latin word for black. Meanings change. Maps change. It's idiotic to fixate on semantics when they're outdated.

This exactly. I mean who the hell even thinks of Asia as outdated anyways? The continent of Asia is not an outdated concept by any definition of the world. Of cour, e most people think of themselves in regards to  their country and hell even their province or city but when explicitly asked they will say they are asian. I mean geographically if someone asks an arab and a japanese which continent they belong to they will say nothing but Asia. It is used for categorisation and we are all Asian whether some Japanese(I still think the person is American because I don't believe a Japanese to say stuff like this) vgchartz commentator says we are not or the term for the largest continent on the planet is outdated. Hell treaties are made based on continent like the European Union or treaties like SAARC or between mexico, USA and Canada. It is not outdated and is stupid for a vgchartz commentator to decide geography should work like they think

I didnt know that phillipine has a muzlim minority

Not surprising to me.  They've had Muslim groups that were against the government for a long time on the southern islands.  I believe the main group was called MILF ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moro_Islamic_Liberation_Front ) which is funny considering in the west MILF means Mother/Mom I'd Like to Fuck.  So my guess is that these fractured groups are just trying to unify under one group.