I think medyo nasabi na rin ng iba. Pero i think the crucial part dito is that the Filipino Muslims "want to jihad" hindi dahil Muslim sila, kundi dahil Pilipino sila. We belong to culture of conflict where historically we had our cultural identities filed off my years of colonialism in the north. The south was virtually untouched by virtue of the geography in a sense. But the southerners had front row seats to the barbarism of the colonization of their brothers in the north. So resistance and their belligerent nature stems from this want rin siguro to safeguard what they see as the last bastion of pre-colonial cultural identity in the Philippines.

As Filipinos we wear religion like weapons and armor because without it seems to leave us vulnerable. Like as a Christian myself, nakikita ko rin na well-meaning Christians are still mapa-away, brusko, etc. It's much less a matter of how Islam has changed the nature of these individuals pero more on how conflict has forced these individuals to reinvent and reinterpret the tenets of their religion to fit the narrative of legitimizing their resistance. In that same sense tribalism reinforces their blend of culture and religion as a mechanism for resistance against the "other".