Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad says criticism of Jews is ‘free speech’
The Muslim hatred of Jews never fails
A war of words has intensified between Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and Australian treasurer Josh Frydenberg, with the 93-year-old Dr Mahathir saying he should be able to criticise Jewish people “when they do something wrong” and defending as “fair comment” his warning that shifting Australia’s Israeli embassy to Jerusalem could encourage terrorism.
Hitting back at the Treasurer, who branded the Malaysian leader “anti-Semitic”, Dr Mahathir said his past comments about Jewish people were a matter of free speech. “People accept that some people, when they do something that is wrong, they need to be criticised and they need to be pointed out that what they do is wrong,” he told The Australian on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Port Moresby.
“But you can’t say anything you want about the Jewish people. Why are they so privileged? They do a lot of wrong things … You call me anti-Semitic. I am also called a dictator. I’m called all kinds of names, but it doesn’t matter.
“I have a right to speak. To say that I can talk about anything else except criticise the Jews is something quite unfair. We are talking about free speech.”
Mr Frydenberg, the deputy Liberal leader and a prominent Jewish MP, lashed Dr Mahathir last week, saying the Malaysian leader had “form” as an anti-Semite, making remarks about Jews being “hook-nosed”, questioning the Holocaust death toll, and banning the film Schindler’s List in Malaysia.
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Hey Camel Jockey what about your backwards religion that still treats women like property that stone adulterers commits honor killing exicutes suspected wizards and witches and forces everyone to convert to islam under the threat of being beheaded and throws gays off the tops of tall buildings
True freedom of speech does indeed allow anyone to criticize any group but it also means that anyone else can also criticize you for what you said.
What's going on here is a whining little baby complaining that someone dared criticize him for his speech. In the name of "free speech" this clown expects other people to NOT exercise their right to also speak freely.
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