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Hugh Fitzgerald: A Few Questions For Mahathir Mohamed (Part One)

Nov 18, 2018 10:00 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

Mahathir Mohamed has, at the age of 93, been elected, for the second time, as the Prime Minister of Malaysia. He’s a deeply devout Muslim, of amiable mien, seems a friendly sort, but he has just one little problem. It’s “the Jews.” According to Dr Mohamed, who has been talking about this problem for decades, “Jews rule the world” by proxy. “Jews were responsible for the Asian financial crisis.” “Jews control the money.” “Hook-nosed Jews” control the world. “In the Holocaust only four million Jews died” and “the Middle East was fine until Israel was founded. That caused all the problems.” He repeats variations on these simple-minded themes without let-up.

If he’s ill-informed about Jews, he also seems ill-informed about his own religion, Islam. Recently Dr. Mohamed insisted that “Islam is not a cruel religion and it is not about chopping (off) heads (or) hands,” the Prime Minister said.

“There are various ways of punishment, which are much milder, but these people want to harass, want to cut people’s hands (or) heads. That is not Islamic.”

The religion, said Dr Mahathir, took care of humans’ lives.

“..these people want to harass, want to cut people’s hands or heads.That is not islamic.”

But Islam most certainly does order Believers to chop off the heads and hands, to smite at the necks, to cut off the legs, of enemy Infidels. The Qur’an is full of violence. Dr. Mohamed knows this; he’s been reading the Qur’an for at least 80 years.

Here is a famous Qur’anic command about how to deal with the enemy:  “Cut off their heads, and cut off the tips of their fingers” (8:12). And if anyone opposes Allah or supports another religion, “They should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides.” (5:33). There are many more such passages commanding killing in the Qur’an, and the hadith are full of stories about the the killing of many people, from Kinana of Khaybar (tortured and murdered for refusing to reveal where treasure was hidden), to those who mocked Muhammad, murders that he wished for, and his wish was carried out by various  followers, eager to please.

As for his horrifying remarks about the Jews, Dr. Mahathir may not realize it, but when he claims that the  Holocaust total was “only four million,” he is joining that select group of Holocaust deniers and revisionists — such madmen as Robert Faurisson and David Irving come to mind. The deniers, like Faurisson, say the Holocaust never happened. The revisionists admit that well, yes, some Jews may have died, but many fewer than the six million they claim, and besides, those who died were not all killed, but died of typhus and other diseases. In citing the preposterously low figure of 4 million, Dr. Mahathir joins the ranks of those people. He’s not a fool; he’s had scientific training, to become a doctor. What kind of deep  hatred of Jews must he harbor under his unassuming exterior to insist on such nonsense? And since he’s always prating about “the image of Islam,” does he have any idea what damage, in making such a claim, he is doing to the image of Islam?

As for “hook-nosed” Jews, when called on the carpet for that nasty remark by the BBC interviewer Zainab Badawi, Mahathir Mohamed just laughed and said, “why do the Jews get so excited? People call us names. They say that Malaysians have ‘fat noses.’ We don’t get upset.” He thinks that justifies this oldest of antisemitic remarks about the supposed physical appearance of Jews, the very one that always filled the pages of Julius Streicher’s Der Stürmer, and every neo-Nazi rag since.

Then there is Mahathir Mohamed’s  charge that Jews were responsible for the Asian financial crisis in 1997-1998. At first, he blamed one man, George Soros, for causing a devaluation of the Malaysian ringgit through his currency speculation. Soros has a lot to answer for in what he supports, but in this case he is innocent. In 2006, Mohamed had a face-to-face meeting with Soros, who insisted he had had nothing to do with the devaluation, that others had speculated on the currency, but he had not been among them. At a joint news conference with Soros (who was passing through Malaysia on a worldwide tour to promote his book), Mahathir Mohamed declared himself satisfied. But he apparently meant only that he was satisfied that Soros was not involved. He still continued to blame unspecified “Jews” — as if only Jews speculated in currency.

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  1. Angemon says

    Nov 18, 2018 at 10:06 am

    He’s a deeply devout Muslim, of amiable mien, seems a friendly sort, but he has just one little problem. It’s “the Jews.”

    Hmmmm, I’m starting to sense a pattern here… Almost as if muslims tend to not only dislike Jews but also to make them out as the incarnation of evil… But, no, he’s a deeply devout muslim, and since all religions teach basically the same thing, there’s no way a deeply religious person would hate on a specific group, right? RIGHT?!?!?!?!?!

    As for “hook-nosed” Jews, when called on the carpet for that nasty remark by the BBC interviewer Zainab Badawi, Mahathir Mohamed just laughed and said, “why do the Jews get so excited? People call us names. They say that Malaysians have ‘fat noses.’ We don’t get upset.”

    Ah, so you wouldn’t get upset if I were to call you “hook-nosed”, right? RIGHT?!?!?!?!?!

    • Mac-101 says

      Nov 18, 2018 at 10:29 am

      I got me a big ROUND RED Drunken Irish nose that puts Bill Clinton’s to shame and be proud of it!
      .
      Seriously, I always wondered after Soros did collapse the Malay and others SE Asia currencies if THEY didn’t have a little talk with him to start pushjn anti-Israeli/Western Civilization agenda. If THEY put out a FATWA against him I doubt ALL his money could keep him safe from a Billion Muslims. Anyone knows when SOROS turned to hatin us and started workin hard to destroy us?

    • Andy says

      Nov 18, 2018 at 2:01 pm

      Free Speech

  2. balam says

    Nov 18, 2018 at 12:07 pm

    Islam is an Anti-Semitic and Anti -Christian CULT .Hence ,what else can one expect from a DEVOUT MUSLIM .Islam can not survive without HATE. It is in its D.N.A.

  3. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Nov 18, 2018 at 12:10 pm

    Mahathir was sworn in as prime minister on 10 May 2018. At 93, he is the world’s oldest sitting head of government.
    says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahathir_Mohamad

    Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, take heart! You are but youngsters; 90 is the new 60.

    • Mac-101 says

      Nov 18, 2018 at 1:34 pm

      Good One, especially since these Reptilian Scum live to be 99 as long as THEY have a constant supply of Baby Parts and Blood. LOL!

  4. utis says

    Nov 18, 2018 at 12:22 pm

    Since Malaysians had little to no contact with the Jews for centuries, the ideological/religious connection is obvious. Your religion tells you to hate Jews, so you hate ’em. Even if you’re not certain what a Jew is, if someone points one out, you want to kill. And they call our species homo “sapiens!”

  5. elee says

    Nov 18, 2018 at 12:38 pm

    He’s a lifetime late. A few different outcomes 80 years ago and he could have anchored a string of Nazi/Fascist/Islamist regimes stretching from Franco’s Spain through the Nazi Islamists in the middle east, all the way to the edge of the south Pacific. But hey, it could still happen.

    • Mac-101 says

      Nov 18, 2018 at 1:37 pm

      It most likely will happen the way things are spinnin out of control. I just can’t figure out how THEY plan on controlling Red China. Looks like to me da Chi-Coms are goin to come out on top!

  6. katherine says

    Nov 18, 2018 at 3:27 pm

    Readers unfamiliar with Malaysian politics should subscribe to independent online paper Malaysiakini which had followed the events leading to voters who, out of desperation, brought this nonagenarian back to power – even though this maverick politician was well-known as a Muslim racist and religious bigot.

    Like the Donald who saved American democracy, this controversial winner actually saved his country from the clutches of a fatal Kleptocracy which was on the verge of cleaning out the country’s Treasury – turning it over to the chaos of bankruptcy and the Islamic State.

    The irony of it is that during his 20-year rule, Mahathir himself was the cause of his country’s downfall : he had removed the safeguards of Malaysia’s constitution to concentrate all power in his camp, enriching his cronies as well as his family. The follow-on effect of this enabled subsequent politicians to abuse this power to the extreme.

    All his actions had the sanctions of Islamic ideology and little attention was paid to the principles of proper economic and financial management. To create instant millionaires and billionaires government-appointed Muslims were forced onto the boards of all corporations in senior positions to gouge paychecks for imaginary dysfunctional roles .

    To create employment for Muslims, an oversized civil service was initiated and staffed with semi-educated and mostly inept personnel giving promotions not on merit but on religion and race. All profitable industrial and financial sectors are required to be monopolized by Muslims by forced acquisition of assets while the Halal scam was forced onto all food production, handling and sales – by legal requirement.

    The public education system which had played a substantial role in Malaysia’s modernization was purposely dumbed-down to create an Islamic-compliant and unquestioning mass. Even today, it is very obvious that the newly-appointed Education Minister is just a Boko Haram operative when he stressed that the English-language medium is against the constitution ( Anglo-Haram ). This was also an early Mahathir-era manifestation.

    In the long term there is no effort to control early indoctrination of kindergarten children through Madrasah-type schools, while even the syllabuses of middle-schools are being revised to create an unreal view of the world through Arabic eyes.

    The old man himself cannot break out of his early-childhood indoctrination on Islamic Supremacy – this was very obvious when he criticized his contemporary Lee Kuan Yew for not allowing Islamic Rights over Singaporean Law which he believes should be subservient to Sharia. This was the basis of his claim that Muslims suffer unjust discrimination in the advanced island republic.

    All these mental crutches are exactly what cripples this otherwise physically fit 93-year old and prevents him from being a true statesman. Without a proper re-awakening he can only meekly lead his tragic country into the club of 3rd-world Islamic Shit-holes.

    • kuriakose says

      Nov 19, 2018 at 5:25 am

      Katherine, the Malays were given preferential treatment from even the time the British were ruling; however it accelerated under succeeding premiers. The most mild one Tungku Abdul Rahman, was quietly pushed aside after the May 13 riots, and replaced by Tun Razak (Najib’s father), a hardliner. Since May 13, the preferential treatment for Malays was accelerated and intensified. Billions was spent to educate the Malays, loans, investment schemes, colleges and universitie specially created for them. And they swell the government service, because it is a stress free environment for them, witth pensions for life after retirement, free medical etc etc. Mahathir, to his credit, did try to motivate the Malays to take to technology and innovation (Malaysian car project, etc), but what cripples them is simply the ideology of islam. Mahathir, by trumpeting the superiority of islam, is being delusional. But the one waiting to take over, Anwar is no better.
      Mahathir’s legacy is that he weakened the judicial system and used that to jail opponents. Islamic education and awareness is what cripples the muslim mind, as they become more aware of what their koran and hadith teaches. Many of them are demanding syariah.
      Malays need lower qualifications than others to enter universities and colleges, and all are given scholarships. See the % of Malays in any college and you will notice. On top of that the brighter ones are given full scholarships to go to overseas institutions. There they have muslim chaperones to ensure they don’t deviate from islam. And a wonderful investment scheme that pays more than 10% dividends, with even loans given to participate, preferential loans to buy houses, you name it.
      Many bright non Malays are discrimanted against, but are given scholarships by neighbouring Singapore, who are happy to snap up these bright ones.
      One can wonder how long can Malaysia survive economically with such a drain on its resources to look after the Malays.

  7. JMB says

    Nov 18, 2018 at 4:09 pm

    Note, This same Malaysian PM recently told our PM that we must not relocate the Australian Embassy fro Tel-Aviv to Jerusalem. Our PM replied that WE (Australia) will determine our own foreign policy thank you.

  8. Deborah says

    Nov 18, 2018 at 5:33 pm

    I wholeheartedly agree with Mac 101….(laughter ensuing). Let’s watch the ‘Muslims’ ‘Try’ to ‘outwit’ the Communist Chinese government, and Over One Billion Chinese people! This ought to be hilarious! Better yet: How about these Muslim ‘warriors’ Start with North Korea! Now That’s ‘News worthy’!

  9. Chris says

    Nov 18, 2018 at 7:20 pm

    Mahatir’s regime was one of the worst when it came to detention, torture and murder without trial. His legacy is not without scandal and corruption. Hardly a leader of good standing or a sound track record. The national bank was his personal bank account, as carried on by his successors. Look at the number of amendments he has made to the constitution during his reign of terror. So with that said, this is a STFU notice to the mamak.

    But his views on the Jews and Christians ring true for all the musulmans in the country! That is something all non muslims have to contend with when dealing this mamak, his gomen and business enterprises and proxies.

  10. Koosemo says

    Nov 19, 2018 at 12:24 am

    A hook nosed corrupt mamak.

    • kuriakose says

      Nov 19, 2018 at 5:27 am

      Mamak, yes, that’s exactly right! Some say kakak (malayali muslim heritage).

  11. Telh says

    Nov 19, 2018 at 4:52 am

    Mahathir is as corrupt as the previous leader. He’s a Muslim after all – it’s normal for Muslim leaders to line their pockets. Allah doesn’t care – apparently.

  12. BC says

    Nov 19, 2018 at 8:56 am

    Mahathir is a loathsome man and he is also corrupt, I was working in Brunei when he was last in power, so I heard a lot about him,
    and he frequently showed he was ignorant and bigoted especially against the indigenous tribes. His Minister of Forests (or environment I am not sure) was also a business man involved in the destruction of the Malaysian rain forests for
    oil palm plantations. The lives and culture of the forest people counted for nothing. I am sure that Mahathir along with his minster was making a lot of money from that.
    It is very sad that the people of Malaysia cannot find a better leader than this nonogenarian for their country

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