MUSLIMS CORRUPTED

Malaysia's prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badaw bravely hints that corruption is a problem throughout the Muslim world:

"I am deeply saddened to note that Muslim countries, as a group, do not rate very highly when it comes to," he said at the opening of the [Organisation of the Islamic Conference] first forum on graft.

I believe that many of the development challenges that the Muslim Ummah (community) faces have their roots in problems of poverty, poor governance and limited education opportunities," he said."

Turk Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu takes a more populist view:

"I also wish to identify the role of [multinational corporations], who are responsible for spreading the curse of corruption," he said.

Root cause found.

Update: Gerard Baker doesn't buy the Muslims-as-victims nonsense:

Though the West is surely not blameless, either through history or today, in its treatment of Muslims, the idea that responsibility for the woes of the Islamic world these past few hundred years can be laid at somebody else’s door is escapist fantasy.