The former prime minister of Malaysia on Thursday said that “Muslims have a right to be angry and kill millions of French people” because of France’s “massacres” of Muslims in the past.
Former Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad tweeted on Thursday, the same day that three people were killed in France in a suspected terror attack, that “Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past,” a comment that has been removed by Twitter for violating its rules.
“But by and large the Muslims have not applied the ‘eye for an eye’ law,” Mohamad continued. “Muslims don’t. The French shouldn’t. Instead the French should teach their people to respect other people’s feelings.”
Mohamad made the comment in a series of tweets about the murder of a French teacher earlier this month, and French President Emmanuel Macron’s refusal to denounce the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that the teacher had shown to students.
The former prime minister also said that the teacher’s murder “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. You cannot go up to a man and curse him simply because you believe in freedom of speech.”
He added, “Macron is not showing that he is civilised. He is very primitive in blaming the religion of Islam and Muslims for the killing of the insulting school teacher. It is not in keeping with the teachings of Islam.”
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