DR Mahathir Mohamad said his statement on events in France has been misrepresented and taken out of context, which resulted in Twitter and Facebook removing it.
The former prime minister said he stood by what he had written and the blog entry posted yesterday should have been read in its entirety instead of singling out a particular paragraph.
“I am indeed disgusted with attempts to misrepresent and take out of context what I wrote on my blog yesterday.
“Those who did that highlighted only one part of paragraph 12 which read: “Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past,” Dr Mahathir said in another blog post today,
He said he did not promote the massacre of the French and instead urged them to stop treating Muslims unfairly.
“If they had read the posting in its entirety and especially the subsequent sentence which read: “But by and large the Muslims have not applied the “eye for an eye” law. Muslims don’t. The French shouldn’t. Instead the French should teach their people to respect other people’s feelings,” Dr Mahathir said.
His post was on the same day a 21-year-old Tunisian slashed the throats of two people and stabbing another. All three victims died.
Twitter and Facebook deleted Dr Mahathir’s posting after labelling it as glorifying violence.
Dr Mahathir slammed the social media companies for being unjust to Muslims, noting that when there have been instances where they allowed racists posts.
“But that is what freedom of speech is to them. On the one hand, they defended those who chose to display offending caricatures of Prophet Muhammad S.A.W. and expect all Muslims to swallow it in the name of freedom of speech and expression.
“On the other, they deleted deliberately that Muslims had never sought revenge for the injustice against them in the past,” he said.
The 95-year old added that the reactions to his article has incited further hatred among the French against the Muslims.
Dr Mahathir’s post on his blog was reproduced in a series of tweets yesterday. It had been his response to French President Emmanuel Macron’s condemnation of the beheading of a school teacher who had shown students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a lesson on freedom of speech.
Dr Mahathir said as a Muslim he did not agree with the teacher’s killing but added that discussions on freedom of speech should not include insulting other people.
He called Macron “primitive” for blaming Islam in the killing of the school teacher. Macron had said that Islam was a religion in crisis following the beheading.
The beheading preceded the knife attack at a church in Nice yesterday by about two weeks. – October 30, 2020.
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