The lizardoids commenting at lgf seem to think this is all a matter of one Islamic nutcase verbally covering the back of another, in another country. I think I see another piece of the motivational puzzle:
China and Malaysia agreed to further expand and deepen their strategic cooperation in a joint communique released on Thursday in Kuala Lumpur after talks between Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi.
The two sides will keep up high-level exchanges of visits, and strengthen exchanges between the governments, parliaments, political parties and peoples of all walks of life of the two countries, said the communique.
In order to strengthen bilateral cooperation, the two sides will enhance the mechanism of consultation and cooperation in the diplomatic, economic, trade, scientific and technological fields, it added.
Malaysia is hedging its bets... it already spent a lot of time driving Chinese citizens out from their midst, but are now finding themselves overwhelmed by the growing industrial and military power looming to their north. They've been losing factories and jobs to the monster , and now the potential is there for them to be blown to smithereens when the conflict between East and West comes to a head.
M. Mohammed can say all those anti-American things, and the official government has plausible deniability... to us, they can say, "He's a nutter," and to the Chinese, they can say, "We agree with him."
But straddling this fence is a dangerous game, especially when you're already leaning heavily -- politically and financially -- on non-Muslims (like the local Chinese and Malay crowds).
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