[353FMG]

“....it is no longer possible to distinguish Islamic radicals from Islamic moderates.”

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Duh. Has it EVER been possible?

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

The 911 attacks were planned in Kuala Lumpur.

http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=911timeline&911timeline_projects_and_programs=911timeline_al_qaeda_malaysia_summit

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/152lndzv.asp

[JimSEA]

Mahathir Mohammed, Malaysia’s long time hard line Muslim PM, stoked the fires of religious and particularly Chinese hatred. Of course, he didn’t much like America either. The northernmost provinces of Malaysia are terrorist supporting Malay nationalists who support the Southern Thailand incursion.

That said, some forty percent of the people are Christian, Chinese Daoist/Buddhist or animist. A significant portion of the Muslims are, in fact moderate and periodically protest the fundamentalists, abet hesitantly as the fundies are violent when arroused.

[Viennacon]

In other news, Brunei just instituted Shariah Law

[MasterGunner01]

This combining of Islam, the religion, and Islam, the state, is exactly one of the reasons why Singapore split from Malaysia in 1965. Malaya, including Singapore, became independent from the UK as Malaysia in 1963, but the Singaporeans -- majority Chinese, British, and Indian -- always butted heads with the predominantly Muslim Malays. Two years after independence from the UK, Singapore wisely bailed out.

The Republic of Singapore is an independent city-state on a 276 square mile island. Population is 5.5 million and the Port of Singapore is the second busiest in the world after Shanghai and first in the transhipment of cargo. It has four official languages: 1) English, 2) Mandarin (Chinese), 3) Tamil (Indian), and 4) Malay.

[skeeter]

The civilized world will elect to eradicate this scourge, sooner or later.