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Foot in Mouth, Mahathir’s Hate Speech Backfires – Again

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Foot in Mouth, Mahathir’s Hate Speech Backfires – Again

It’s time for the former Malaysian PM to just shut and stop scratching for cheap votes.

Foot in Mouth, Mahathir’s Hate Speech Backfires – Again
Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Chatham House

Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohammad has a long history of trying to upset the wider world with vicious comments meant for his home constituency, which includes pandering to hardline Islamic militants, some with blood on their hands.

His latest dreadful salvo, “Muslims have a right to be angry and kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past,” was delivered after the knife attack by suspected Islamic militants on the streets of Nice left three people dead.

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