New threats from former Malaysia PM

Dr Mahathir Mohamad is calling on all Muslims to pull their investments out of the US and to use oil as a weapon to compel the US to abandon Israel and to pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Of course the only reason we are in those two countries is because of certain so called Muslims decision to wage war against the US. I say so called because Muslim scholars say Islam is a religion of peace and so those who call for the US destruction are not true Muslims but are using the religion as a shield for their evil work. If OBL and the fool cleric in Iraq are true Muslims, then Islam is not a religion of peace and we (the US and the West) should conduct the war accordingly.

The one thing Dr Mahathir Mohamad seems to forget is what would the Muslim world do with their money if they did pull it out of the US? Where would they invest it? Its one thing to pull $100 from a bank one doesn't like, its another to pull out $100,000,000.00. You have to have a place to put it or it will be stolen or wasted or both.

As for using the oil weapon (which OPEC ignores his calls and today is talking about increasing production because oil is getting too expensive), that would cause pain to the US, but it would also force us to conserve, drill for more oil in the US and develop alternative energy (increase coal and nuclear) sources. At the end of the day, oil would be reduces and then replaced which would mean the oil weapon would become a liability for the producing countries, a commodity that no one wants.