In “INTERVIEW – No such thing as a moderate Muslim – ex-Malaysian PM,” from the Hizballah News Agency, aka Reuters (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist), the Jewish-conspiracymonger Mahathir Mohamad, former Prime Minister of Malaysia, tells us that there’s no such thing as a moderate Muslim, because, you see, “we follow the true teachings of the religion and the true teachings do not teach us to bomb and kill people without reason.”
Thanks, Mahathir. I feel so much better now. I have responded at greater length here. But I wanted to post Mahathir’s remarks separately also, in order to make a few additional observations.
One is that while Mahathir gives with one hand, he takes away with the other. He is suggesting that Islam itself is moderate, but then he says, “the true teachings do not teach us to bomb and kill people without reason.” Without reason? So what gives a Muslim good reason to bomb and kill people? Why, Israel, of course — although Mahathir unsurprisingly doesn’t allude to the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood, from which comes Al-Qaeda and Hamas, was founded twenty years before the State of Israel was founded.
Although most of the men who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks were Saudis, Mahathir – whom Israel has in the past dubbed anti-Semitic – said he saw the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands as the root cause of Islamist extremism.
“They (the hijackers) had no direct link but there is a great deal of sympathy for the sufferings of the people of Palestine,” he said.
“Maybe that is because they are co-religionists but it is not because their religion urges them to do so. The West tends to blame religion, they blame Islam for whatever happens and associate Islam with terrorism,” he said.
More denial. It is not “the West” that has associated Islam with violence. It is Osama bin Laden, Zawahri, Zarqawi, and all the other jihad terrorists around the world. But of course, shame on us if we notice — and all too many Western analysts fall for this.