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PETALING JAYA: Datuk Seri Najib Razak (Photo) has come to the defense of fellow former Tun Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad for a controversial tweet, saying that everyone should read the latter’s statement in its entirety.
“The world should calm down and read @ chedetofficial’s statement in its full context.
“I’m sure he didn’t mean exactly what he said.
“And even if he did, it is his personal opinion, not Malaysia’s,” he tweeted on Friday (October 30), also pointing to the name of Dr. Mahathir.
However, Najib agreed that Dr. Mahathir’s social media accounts should be removed from him before he does “more damage.”
On Thursday evening (October 29), France’s Junior Digital Affairs Minister Cédric O said he had spoken with the managing director of Twitter France to immediately suspend Dr. Mahathir’s official account.
“If not, Twitter would be an accessory to murder,” he tweeted.
Early Thursday, Twitter deleted one of Dr. Mahathir’s tweets that was part of a long thread, initially marking it as “glorifying violence.”
The tweet has been replaced by a message, “This tweet violated Twitter rules.”
Dr. Mahathir tweeted that “Muslims have the right to be angry and kill millions of French for the massacres of the past,” adding that Muslims, however, have not taken revenge in this way.
His posts came just hours after a knife attack on the Notre-Dame basilica in Nice, France, where three people were killed and others injured.
He also posted the full thread on his blog.
“But in general, Muslims have not applied the law of an ‘eye for an eye’. Muslims do not. The French shouldn’t.
Instead, the French should teach their people to respect the feelings of others.
“Since you have blamed all Muslims and the Muslim religion for what an angry person did, Muslims have the right to punish the French.
“The boycott cannot compensate for the evils committed by the French during all these years,” he added in his letter, which was addressed to French President Emmanuel Macron.
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