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| Malaysian leader faults West's treatment of Muslims |
| 2002-09-08 |
| Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad criticized Western policy toward Muslim nations on Sunday, saying attacks and sanctions will create endless "recruits to terrorism." Doing nothing, on the other hand, will result in the death of our civilization... Considered a moderate Muslim voice, the Malaysian leader has won U.S. praise for his stance against terrorism, including thanks from President Bush during a visit to Washington in May. But Mahathir has remained a strident critic of the West, including of U.S. policy in the Middle East. The leader of predominantly Muslim Malaysia for 21 years, he has stressed that to defeat terrorism, the root causes must be removed, particularly the Palestinian plight. We got some of the root causes at Tora Bora. Some of the other root causes are in Guantanamo, or captured or killed elsewhere. We're trying to get more root causes, but they've gone underground... "It may be coincidental, but the fact is that most of the targets of oppression and attacks are Muslims and Muslim countries," Mahathir said in a speech. "Is it any wonder that Muslims everywhere feel oppressed, feel angry, bitter and frustrated?" It may be coincidental, but a major wing of Islam has declared war on the U.S. and the West. It's also recruiting busy little beavers in turbans to subvert Malaysia and its neighbors. As soon as 19 Esquimeaux fly a plane into the Sears Tower, we'll get right on rooting out all the people who wear mukluks... Mahathir said that issues such as Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory and Western sanctions against Iraq, Iran, Libya and Sudan had forced some Muslims to retaliate "through acts of terror, hitting out blindly at the innocents as well as the guilty." Denying, in fact, that there's such a thing as innocence among us Kafirs... "Typically, the Western solution is to physically fight against the enemy, the Islamic civilization," Mahathir told a gathering of business leaders on Pangkor, a resort island 120 miles north of Kuala Lumpur. "Unfortunately, short of total genocide, the terrorists cannot be militarily defeated." Sure they can. Decapitating the organization's the best way. That's given us a year's respite from major al-Qaeda atrocities and allowed us to come along way in tracing the money flow to terrorism. We weren't aware prior to 9-11 that the Soddies were at war with us. Now we are, and we're fighting back, using some of the same approaches they used against us. Mahathir supports the international fight against terrorism, but is opposed to the U.S.-backed military campaign in Afghanistan and has predicted global instability if the United States attacks Iraq. "There is practically no effort to win the hearts and minds of the Muslims," Mahathir said. "In fact, everything is being done to alienate them further, to anger and frustrate them, and to ensure there will be a constant and probably increasing supply of recruits to terrorism." We made our efforts to win their hearts and minds prior to 9-11, when we defended Kuwait and Soddy Arabia, and the Muslims of Bosnia and Kosovo. Now it's incumbent upon Muslims who don't intend to rule the world to step back and please us as we protect ourself and them from the threat posed by the wahhabis. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 Esquimeaux? Thanques....I just snorted coffee on my keyboard ....©¿© Frank |
| Posted by: Fgaines 2002-09-08 10:25:00 |
| #1 Amen! The "moderate Muslims" had better find a way to muzzle their radical bretheren, or the West will do it for them. If we have to do it, the toll on them will be horrific. |
| Posted by: Craig 2002-09-08 08:45:23 |