Mr Mahathir not alone...

In a turn of phrase guaranteed to upset pretty much everyone, Malaysia’s former PM Mahathir has leapt to news prominence again, expressing views that 9/11 might have been “staged”.

But of course, he is far from alone in that opinion: 58% of Indonesians surveyed recently by the Pew Research Centre did not believe “Arabs carried out the 9/11 attacks”, and 23% did not know. Only 20% believed they did. 

The report goes on: “There is no Muslim public in which even 30% accept that Arabs conducted the attacks. Indeed, Muslims in Jordan, Egypt, and Turkey are less likely to accept this today than in 2006.”

Until we get to the bottom of why that is, there is a lot of unfinished business about 9/11.