The Weekend's Reading Assignment

The big kerfuffle today has been the OIC keynote speech by the Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir which included this gem:

The enemy will probably welcome these proposals and we will conclude that the promoters are working for the enemy. But think. We are up against a people who think. They survived 2000 years of pogroms not by hitting back, but by thinking. They invented and successfully promoted Socialism, Communism, human rights and democracy so that persecuting them would appear to be wrong, so they may enjoy equal rights with others. With these they have now gained control of the most powerful countries and they, this tiny community, have become a world power. We cannot fight them through brawn alone. We must use our brains also. [Emphasis added.]

Read the whole thing -- the idea that in the middle of the war on Islamofascism the keynote of the year's most important gathering of Islamic countries only deserves the few paragraphs of fluffy, lipsticked coverage that most of our media has given it is amazingly absurd. Daniel Drezner's site has one of the best analyses and lots of comments -- some pretty good on both sides. (A particularly interesting comment by someone claiming to be Muslim is here.)

And just as good is this article on TCS titled "The Six Dilemmas of the Moderate
Islamist". VERY, VERY STRONG FOOD FOR THOUGHT HERE AND WELL WORTH THE READ FOR THOSE WONDERING WHERE ALL THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MODERATE MUSLIMS ARE HIDING...