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The Twitter platform eventually withdrew, under pressure from the French government, a message from former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad stating, shortly after the Nice bombing, that Muslims have the right to ‘kill millions of French for past massacres. ‘, transmits AFP, according to Agerpres.
Three people were stabbed to death in a church in Nice on Thursday morning in an attack deemed terrorist by French authorities.
Shortly after, the Muslim-majority former prime minister of Malaysia posted inflammatory remarks on his blog and Twitter account.
“Throughout their history, the French have killed millions. Many were Muslims. Muslims have the right to be angry and kill millions of French people for past massacres,” wrote Mahathir Mohamad, now 95, a respected leader in the Muslim world.
Twitter had held the message for some time, citing ‘public interest’ but accompanying it with a warning.
Referring to the October 16 beheading of the French teacher who had shown his students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, Mahathir said he did not approve of the attack, but that freedom of expression did not include “insults to another”.
He described French President Emmanuel Macron as “very primitive.”
“The French should teach their citizens to respect the feelings of others. Since all Muslims and the Muslim religion are accused of what enraged a person, Muslims have the right to punish the French. The boycott cannot compensate for the bad actions committed by the French during all these years ”, he added.
The French Secretary of State for Digitization, Cédric O, has asked the US platform to suspend Mahathir’s account and remove the message that “Muslims have the right to kill millions of French people.”
“Twitter should not be an accessory to a murder call,” he wrote on his personal account, adding that he had spoken with the general manager of Twitter in France.
Eventually the tweet in question was withdrawn, but Mahathir Mohamad’s other posts are still readable.
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