I said some years ago that, if I had to live in a Muslim country, I’d plump for Malaysia. It’s one of the least worst, and I dig the chicks. So it’s dispiriting to find its former if increasingly loopy prime minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, throwing his lot in with fully certified crazies like Van Jones and Charlie Sheen. From The Malaysian Insider:

Dr. Mahathir Mohamad today claimed the 9/11 attacks in the United States, that killed nearly 3,000, was staged as an excuse to “mount attacks on the Muslim world,” saying killing as an excuse for war is not new to the U.S.
The former prime minister also argued that Israel was created to solve the “Jewish problem” in Europe, saying the Holocaust had failed as a final solution against the community.
“In September 2001, the World Trade Centre was attacked allegedly by terrorists. I am not sure now that Muslim terrorists carried out these attacks. There is strong evidence that the attacks were staged. If they can make Avatar, they can make anything,” said Dr. Mahathir.

Thank you, James Cameron.