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PETALING JAYA: Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, who was included in a list of the 20 most dangerous extremists in the world, said today that he was being vilified for his thoughts while others were getting away with acts of terrorism and violence.
Dr. Mahathir responded to his inclusion last week on a list compiled by the US-based Project Against Extremism website that said he supports extremist violence against the West and has criticized lesbian, gay, bisexual communities. and transgender and the Jewish people.
“The website regurgitates half of what I wrote and misrepresented it to imply that I advocate terrorism. I specifically emphasized that Muslims are not vindictive, ”he said today in an article on his blog.
“So you can be an extremist for criticizing the West, saying things you don’t like to hear, even if it’s the truth. You do not have to do anything. I seem to be vilified for my thoughts while others get away with acts of terror and violence that result in the death and destruction of the weak and downtrodden. “
The list includes leaders or members of Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic State, Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, as well as the head of a Nazi movement, a white supremacist movement and an anti-Muslim group in Myanmar.
Mahathir said his supporters should label outgoing US President Donald Trump an extremist for the assault on the US Capitol, which has been attributed in large part to his incitement.
Facebook banned Trump until the end of his presidency for using the platform to “incite a violent insurrection against a democratically elected government,” but Trump was not included on the list. (The list was published before the attack occurred.)
Mahathir said former US President George Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair were responsible for the “complete destruction” of Iraq by invading the country based on false claims of having weapons of mass destruction.
“Would Bush and Blair be considered extremists considering that all those lives lost were due to their lies about Iraq?” “Their attack of shock and awe, which they say would solve the problem of Iraq’s dictatorship in three months, is now in its eighteenth year. The destruction still continues. “
Mahathir also noted that according to Human Rights Watch, Israeli security forces killed 189 Palestinian protesters, including 31 children and three medical workers, and injured more than 5,800 with live fire between March 30 and November 19, 2018. .
“Since Israel’s creation, thousands of Palestinian lives have been lost due to Israeli action,” he said. “However, not a single Israeli is listed among the extremist terrorists on this website.”
