Malaysian PM: Muslim-Christian “rift” threatens the world
Bryan Preston

Moderate Islam as represented in Malaysian government says Christians are the problem in the world today:

Ties between Muslims and Christians are under “extreme stress” and the growing divide between the faiths is threatening international stability, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said.

Abdullah, the current chair of the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference, called on the
United Nations to hold a special conference to address the schism.

The rift is “one of the gravest threats to international stability in the history of the world,” he said in a speech at a United Nations function here late Monday.

Detailing the geopolitical reasons behind the rift, Abdullah touched on anger in Muslim countries over flashpoints plaguing the Middle East.

“The Muslim world sees the suppression of Palestine, the invasion of Afghanistan, the conquest of Iraq and the destruction of Lebanon as a complicity to humiliate Muslim countries,” he said.

Wait a minute–no mention of why we invaded Afghanistan? Or Iraq? The fact that even Arab states “suppress” the Palestinians? And who instigated the “destruction” of Lebanon?

I’m sorry, but it’s not possible to have a rational dialogue with anyone who takes such a one-sided view of the war starting with Afghanistan and working out from there. And this guy leads a major Muslim country; he’s not some Sadrist or al Qaedist ranter. He’s not an obscure imam in Karachi. He’s a Prime Minister, and supposedly one of the moderates.

Let’s let him continue: ...