A MUSLIM LEADER with a clue! I’m not that much of a fan of Mahathir Mohamad, really, but he’s hit the nail on the head here:

Muslims spent too much time fighting themselves, neglecting the pursuit of knowledge and creation of wealth, said the Malaysian leader, known for his straight-talking ways.

“If I may be permitted to say, we Muslims and our countries are not very Islamic. We cannot even regard each other as brothers,” he said.

“To be very crude the fate of the Muslims of today is of their own making.”

Mahathir said Muslim education had concentrated too much on religious dogma, neglecting worldly subjects such as science, mathematics and philosophy. . . . “They missed the Industrial Revolution completely. And now they are going to miss the Information Age,” said Mahathir, whose country’s economic success is admired in much of the Muslim world.

I wonder how long before we hear this from an Arab head of state.