Muslim ID Cards

Firstly, would it be possible to have an ID card based on Religious belief? Secondly, would those who twist the Faith to carry out terrorism really be queuing up to get one? Finally, would a system that struggles to put an identity on a motor vehicle cope with carrying out an identity scheme for 100 million plus citizens?

 

“This is just for the identification of every individual, of every Muslim. If we have the ID system, we will know who the residents are and who the visitors are in a place,” Aquino said, as cited by SunStar.

Hmm reminds me of

“This is just for the identification of every individual, of every Jew. If we have the ID system, we will know who the residents are and who the visitors are in a place,” Nazi leaders said.

 

Whatever you do don't put the LTO in charge of it.
Filipinos with driver's licenses would have proper ID if LTO did not run out of plastic for new or renewed licenses.
Also, the system for Filipinos to get or renew a passport is backlogged to the point where it takes 8 weeks to get an appointment.
For my son's applications for Consular Report of Birth Abroad (CRBA), U.S Passport, and U.S. Social Security number, the U.S. Embassy would not accept my wife's expired Philippine passport nor her driver's license (with the paper renewal receipt) as proper ID. Fortunately she had a Voter's ID card and a BIR card to show as two valid IDs.

 

In a country where people can already have a postal ID, voters ID, Philhealth ID, School ID, all of which are issued by government owned/run institutions, I would expect that any sort of "national ID" is not replacing any of these and will be just another (non-enforced) ploy to make poor people pay silly amounts of money and spend hours/days in queues. They would probably task yet another new agency that needs thousands of unnecessary staff and hundreds of offices with issuing such ID's and they'll probably be easy to counterfit anyway.
So no, not a good idea, not for muslims, not for anyone.
As long as there's no registration locally/nationally of who lives where, as long as many people don't even have a proper address, as long as paper records are preferred everywhere over databases that can be shared between government agencies, then all "solutions" to get a grip on a problem regarding identity and movement of people with an ID card is bound to fail.

 

The linked article has this...

Great. I'll start. You're a jackass.

Who is this guy? Slow news day I guess. Any regional ID requirements probably wouldn't stand up to a middle finger, let alone a court challenge. Note: IANAL

 

The UK rejected an ID card system due to cost - but then, the UK is broke.