The man simply can't control his lips...
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday accused the "great exponents of democracy" of "terrorising the world" after the Sept 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Mahathir did not specify any country by name in a speech in this central Javanese town, but his comments appeared to be aimed at two of the outspoken leader's favourite targets, which include Australia, the United States and Israel.
| There are three kinds of people in this world: those who can do simple arithmetic and those who can't. |
"We see states launching vicious, massive retaliation, not just to kill suspected terrorists but (also) his family, his home, his village and his town," said Mahathir, who is under fire for comments last week in which he maintained that "Jews rule the world."
| He'll keep on yammering until he dies of old age and/or incoherence... |
"It would be ridiculous to think that such attacks do not terrorise the innocent. In fact the terror is even greater, it is systematic and executed with heavy weapons in the hands of trained soldiers."
| As opposed to Islamic terrorism, which is random and executed with light weapons in the hands of half-trained fanatics... |
Mahathir, 77 is leaving office later this month after 22 years in power. He has transformed Malaysia, which is 60 per cent Muslim, from a tin- and rubber-producing former British colony into one of Asia's most wealthy and industrialised nations. In the past, he has accused US President George W Bush of trying to "out-terrorise the terrorists" with an ill-directed war on Al-Qaeda and said Australia's Prime Minister John Howard behaved like a "white-man sheriff in some black country."
| On the other hand, it wasn't Malaysia's towers that were destroyed, and it wasn't Malays who were incinerated in Bali... |
Mahathir said that after Sept 11 "the great exponents and practitioners of democracy believe that the way to spread doctrine and to break down resistance is by terrorising the world."
| Only a part of it. If you're not a member of the turban and automatic weapons club, what do you have to worry about? |
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