Is Malaysia ruled by a lone madman or the voice of Islam today?

Now we would all like to think that Malaysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad is a wacko wacky from the land of wackerstons but facts tell a different story. Malaysia is a country of 22 million that is only 52% Muslim so for Dr. Mahathir Mohamad to stay in office he would need either support across the Malaysian electorate or blind loyal support from every single Muslim. So here you have a Parliamentary monarchy whose Prime Minister is constantly spouting insanity. Every month or so Mahathir will get in front of the microphone and attempt to rally Muslims world wide into fighting against the West and when Mahathir speaks the Muslim world listens. The Muslim world is listening and believing the firebrand the issues from Mahathir's mouth while Americans setting their VCR's to recorded Entertainment Tonight live oblivious to what it happening.

At the OIC (Organization of the Islamic Conference) this week Mahathir has managed to go beyond the pale of anything I have heard him say before. Now while you read his words I want you to remember this is not some blind monk in a cave, this is the elected Prime Minister of Malaysia, a major trading partner with the US and home to the Petronas Towers, the world's tallest building and a respected honored leader in the Islamic world.

Mahathir says...

"The Europeans killed six million Jews out of 12 million. But today the Jews rule this world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them,"...

Mahathir said they could at least take a common stand on the Palestinian struggle against Israel and it was time to plan a "counter-attack" against the enemies of Islam who treated Muslims with "contempt and dishonour"...

He called on Muslims to emulate the Jewish response to oppression, saying the Jews had "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."...

However, he did call on Muslims to match their studies of religion with attention to science and mathematics because "we need guns and rockets, bombs and warplanes, tanks and warships for our defence". This was apparently a reference to what he sees as a broader assault on Muslims by the Western world in the guise of the war on terrorism. He said enemies of Islam "attack and kill us, invade our lands, bring down our governments"...

Those words pretty much speak for themselves you just need to remember this isn't a lone nut job attacking windmills this is a person with sway and power, a person to whom people listen.

There is another thing to consider. Many of the Left who were/are angry with Bush's "you are either with us or against us" attitude in regards to terrorism but isn't that the very same attitude the Muslim world has had since 642?