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World News See other World News Articles Title: Ex-World Leader: 'Muslims Have a Right To Be Angry and To Kill Millions of French People' Ex-World Leader: 'Muslims Have a Right To Be Angry and To Kill Millions of French People' Kashmiri Muslims devotees pray at Hazratbal shrine on the, Eid-e- Milad or the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammad on Oct. 30, 2020 in Kashmir, India. (Yawar Nazir / Getty Images) By C. Douglas Golden Published October 30, 2020 at 12:29pm In 2018, at age 92, Mahathir Mohamad was supposed to be living his best life. Improbably, the former Malaysian leader — widely seen as a strongman during his first tenure in office between 1981 and 2003 — had managed a scarcely believable comeback. In a general election shock, his coalition had managed to defeat the party that had ruled the majority-Muslim Southeast Asian country since its independence in 1957. That was enough of a feat to get worldwide coverage, almost all of it laudatory. Much like Alfred Nobel — who established the prize named after him after reading a false obituary which derided him as a “merchant of death” for his role in arms sales — Mahathir was supposed to be enjoying an improbable final act of his life, one where he redefined his legacy. Instead of the word “strongman” being used to describe him, he was hailed for effectively bringing democracy to a country with a one- party system embroiled in a massive corruption scandal. One thing most of laudatory coverage missed was the fact that Mahathir had a troubling history of anti-Semitic remarks. Jewish publication Tablet noted some of his greatest hits in this department. In 2003, he told the Organization of Islamic Cooperation conference that “Jews rule this world by proxy.” He said in a 2012 blog post that sympathy for Holocaust victims was “wasted and misplaced.” Also in 2012, he said that he was “glad to be labeled anti-Semitic” because “[h]ow can I be otherwise when the Jews who so often talk of the horrors they suffered during the Holocaust show the same Nazi cruelty and hard-heartedness.” This was him as late as 2016, being grilled on Al Jazeera about his views regarding Israel and Jews: In 2018, however, most of that was ignored. So was his anti-Western bent, another common theme of his first tenure in office. In 2003, as he was about to leave office for the first time, he rather memorably said that “[t]he September 11 attack on America, which supported Israel, was made an excuse for the Anglo-Saxon Europeans to return to their violent old ways.” That was about par for the course for him. It turns out Mahathir’s final act didn’t go quite as planned. In February, his coalition collapsed and he was replaced as prime minister. The new ruling coalition, as The New York Times’ Hannah Beech noted, was aligned with many of the elements of the old ruling party. And Mahathir’s final act may have been charting just how far a major political figure not named Donald Trump has to go before Twitter will censor their tweets. This time, surprisingly, it wasn’t anti-Semitism that did him in, it was the anti-Western sentiment. Hours after three victims were killed in a French church by an attacker who allegedly yelled “Allahu akbar” before the murders, Mahathir tweeted that “Muslims have a right to be angry and kill millions of French people.” It was quickly deleted by Twitter. The statement came at the end of a tweetstorm in which Mahathir seemed to make an apology for a separate incident where an 18-year- old Chechen Muslim allegedly killed a French teacher who showed a caricature of the prophet Muhammad, something considered forbidden in Islam. The beheading came shortly after French President Emmanuel Macron controversially announced he would fight what he called “Islamist separatism” in France, according to The New York Times. “The killing is not an act that as a Muslim I would approve. But while I believe in the freedom of expression, I do not think it includes insulting other people,” Mahathir tweeted Thursday. “You cannot go up to a man and curse him simply because you believe in freedom of speech.” Poster Comment: The Muslims in France said, "They allowed us to come in." :-/ Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
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The official excuse -- I've heard this from an ameriKan married to a frenchman -- is THESE ARE JUST PEOPLE FROM OUR FORMER COLONIES so they're A-OK! The variety of excuses gliberals come up with! They'll change every 10 seconds in keeping with the facts you throw. _____________________________________________________________ USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
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