Is he a moderate lunatic or  extreme?
“All Muslims Are Moderates”
There are no moderate Muslims. There are no extremist Muslims. There are only Muslims. Got that?
That’s according to the former prime minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamed, the man who became notorious when he said that “today the Jews rule this world by proxy.”   According to an article in Malaysia Today, Dr. Mohamad considers the labels “moderate” and “extremist” to be unfair when applied to Muslims:
Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today asked Muslims to do away with false assumptions when declaring themselves as moderate followers of Islam because the religion is indeed moderate.
Update:
Mahathir bin Muhammad’s Madding Judeophobia/Antisemitism
Comments by David G. Littman – NGO Representative of the Association for World Education (AWE) and the World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ) to the United Nations in Geneva:
Robert Spencer’s “Islamic Nazis” is a very welcome reminder of what’s on the horizon for us all. Â More>>
More from the Gates of Vienna
Anti-Iraq war campaign … Mahathir Mohamad looks at a figure of a tortured Abu Ghraib prisoner at a display in Kuala Lumpur.
- Ovation for fiery Mahathir’s claim “West worse than al-Qaeda”
- Mahathir, Troof and London/Harry’s Place
Obsessed & deranged:
Former PM of Malaysia: Jews “had to be periodically massacred”
Mahathir Mohamad is well known for statements that are, to Western ears, outrageous. But as Andrew Bolt observes, Mahathir did not arrive at these opinions in a vacuum. Will we see unequivocal condemnation of Mahathir (and not just by dedicated Holocaust deniers), or the usual claims that his remarks were taken out of context?
“Mahathir: Jews ‘had to be periodically massacred’,” by Andrew Bolt for the Courier Mail, January 23 (thanks to JW):
