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Former Prime Minister Mahathir tweeted that Muslims had the right to “anger and kill millions of French people,” then Twitter deleted his post.
“Angry people can kill people, regardless of their religion. Historically, France has murdered millions of people, including many Muslims. Muslims have the right to be angry and kill property.” millions of French people due to massacres in the past, “former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad tweeted on October 29, hours after the stabbing killed three people in Nice, France.
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Image: AFP.
He did not directly refer to the stabbing, adding that “the vast majority of Muslims do not enforce the ‘for a lifetime’ law.” “Muslims don’t do that. French shouldn’t do that either,” Mahathir wrote. This is part of a series of tweets posted on social media by the former prime minister of Malaysia after the attacks in France.
Twitter initially marked Mahathir’s tweets as “inciting violence” but did not delete them. The decision changed after French Minister of Digital Affairs Cedric O called for the account of the former Malaysian prime minister to be blocked. “If not, Twitter could be seen as complicit in the call to kill people,” he said.
Twitter later deleted Mahathir’s tweet, claiming it violated the social network’s policy of inciting violence.
France has witnessed numerous knife attacks by extremists. Teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded on October 16 outside the Bois d’Aulne Secondary School, where he worked, after showing students a cartoon about the Prophet Muhammad. Abdullakh Anzorov, an 18-year-old suspect, shouted “Allah Akbar” when he confronted his teacher Paty.
The knife stabbing occurred near a church in the city of Nice on the afternoon of October 29, killing three people, of whom at least one was cut off. The 21-year-old Tunisian suspect repeatedly yelled “Allah Akbar” and was arrested by the police shortly after the attack.
The wave of protests against France and President Emmanuel Macron also spread recently after he angered many Muslim nations for supporting the publication of cartoonist Mohammed, a taboo against Islam.
More than 40,000 people participated in the protest held on October 26 by Islami Andolon Bangladesh, one of the largest Muslim parties in the country, calling France an “enemy of Muslims”. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged the country’s people to boycott French products, while criticizing his French counterpart, saying that Macron should “undergo a mental test” for his treatment of Muslims.
Vu anh (According to the AFP)
