Posted on October 29, 2020

Malaysian Ex-PM Mahathir Says Muslims ‘Have Right to Kill French’

Agence France-Presse, October 29, 2020

Malaysia’s former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad said Thursday that Muslims had a right “to kill millions of French people”, shortly after a knife-wielding man launched a deadly attack in Nice.

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Referring to the beheading of a French teacher who showed pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, Mahathir said he did not approve of that attack but that freedom of expression does not include “insulting other people”.

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“The French in the course of their history has killed millions of people. Many were Muslims. Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past.”

Mahathir, who served as Malaysian premier twice for a total of 24 years, said that French President Emmanuel Macron was “not showing that he is civilised”, adding he was “very primitive”.

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The beheading of the teacher, Samuel Paty, prompted Macron to promise a crackdown on Islamic extremism.

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