I have always opposed the idea of Australia and New Zealand being in the group simply because Australia and New Zealand are not really East nor are they Asian.

Islam is not just for the seventh century AD. Times have changed. Whether we like it or not, we have to change,

If the innocent people who died in the attack on Afghanistan, and those who have been dying from lack of food and medical care in Iraq, are considered collaterals, are not the 3,000 who died in New York and the 200 in Bali also just collaterals, whose deaths are necessary for the operations to succeed?

There are links among Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines on this. I believe Singapore too, although I don't have the facts,

I just don't think I should be around interfering with things.

It is good governance by good people that we need. And feudal kings, even dictators, have provided and can provide good governance.