KUALA LUMPUR – Former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad tweeted Thursdaythat Muslims had a right “to kill millions of French people” after theattack in Nice, which Twitter deleted.
Mahathir on Thursday published a series of the tweet in which he endorsesthe anger from Muslims.
He said, “Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of Frenchpeople for the massacres of the past. But by and large, the Muslims havenot applied the ‘eye for an eye’ law. Muslims don’t. The French shouldn’t.
I believed in freedom of expression but that it should not be used toinsult others. “Since you have blamed all Muslims and the Muslims’ religionfor what was done by one angry person, the Muslims have a right to punishthe French,” he said
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The senior politician stated that the contemporary Western world is nolonger adhering to its own religion. They are Christians in name only. Thatis their right. But they must not show disrespect for the values of others,for the religion of others. It is a measure of the level of theircivilisation to show this respect.”
Mahathir also slams the western as they should not try to forcibly imposeits values and so called freedom on the rest of the world
