Twitter marks Dr Mahathir’s ‘punish French’ post as ‘glorifying violence’ following backlash
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Earlier, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad published a blog post suggesting that Muslims ‘have the right to punish’ the French for their alleged wrongs committed against the community, amid escalating violence in France. ― Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 29 — Social media platform Twitter has marked a controversial tweet by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today as “glorifying violence”, following backlash over his remark against Muslims and France.
However, the tweet, part of a thread taken from his latest blog post, has been kept intact so far.
“This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible,” said a notice on the tweet.
On Twitter’s guidelines and policies page, it said it recognises that sometimes it may be in the public interest to allow people to view tweets that would otherwise be taken down.
“We consider content to be in the public interest if it directly contributes to understanding or discussion of a matter of public concern,” said Twitter.
“At present, we limit exceptions to one critical type of public-interest content — Tweets from elected and government officials — given the significant public interest in knowing and being able to discuss their actions and statements.”
However, the tweet, part of a thread taken from his latest blog post, has been kept intact so far.
“This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible,” said a notice on the tweet.
On Twitter’s guidelines and policies page, it said it recognises that sometimes it may be in the public interest to allow people to view tweets that would otherwise be taken down.
“We consider content to be in the public interest if it directly contributes to understanding or discussion of a matter of public concern,” said Twitter.
“At present, we limit exceptions to one critical type of public-interest content — Tweets from elected and government officials — given the significant public interest in knowing and being able to discuss their actions and statements.”
A screenshot of the controversial tweet by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today. — Picture from social media
Prior to the action, the tweet saying “Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past.” had received thousands of replies and retweets worldwide, many condemning it.
The remarks were part of a paragraph where Dr Mahathir continued with: “But by and large the Muslims have not applied the ‘eye for an eye’ law. Muslims don’t. The French shouldn’t. Instead the French should teach their people to respect other people’s feelings.”
Earlier, Dr Mahathir published a blog post suggesting that Muslims “have the right to punish” the French for their alleged wrongs committed against the community, amid escalating violence in France.
Posted just a few hours after a knife attack outside Nice, France that killed three people and injured others, the former prime minister said Muslims also deserve to be angry and a boycott against the republic will not even suffice.
Dr Mahathir’s post came as a knife-wielding attacker shouting “Allahu Akbar” beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a suspected terrorist attack at a church in the French city of Nice today.
The attack comes while France is still reeling from the beheading earlier this month of French middle school teacher Samuel Paty by a man of Chechen origin.
Since Paty’s killing, French officials — backed by many ordinary citizens — have re-asserted the right to display the cartoons, and the images have been widely displayed at marches in solidarity with the killed teacher.
That has prompted an outpouring of anger in parts of the Muslim world, with some governments accusing French leader Emmanuel Macron of pursuing an anti-Islam agenda.
The remarks were part of a paragraph where Dr Mahathir continued with: “But by and large the Muslims have not applied the ‘eye for an eye’ law. Muslims don’t. The French shouldn’t. Instead the French should teach their people to respect other people’s feelings.”
Earlier, Dr Mahathir published a blog post suggesting that Muslims “have the right to punish” the French for their alleged wrongs committed against the community, amid escalating violence in France.
Posted just a few hours after a knife attack outside Nice, France that killed three people and injured others, the former prime minister said Muslims also deserve to be angry and a boycott against the republic will not even suffice.
Dr Mahathir’s post came as a knife-wielding attacker shouting “Allahu Akbar” beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a suspected terrorist attack at a church in the French city of Nice today.
The attack comes while France is still reeling from the beheading earlier this month of French middle school teacher Samuel Paty by a man of Chechen origin.
Since Paty’s killing, French officials — backed by many ordinary citizens — have re-asserted the right to display the cartoons, and the images have been widely displayed at marches in solidarity with the killed teacher.
That has prompted an outpouring of anger in parts of the Muslim world, with some governments accusing French leader Emmanuel Macron of pursuing an anti-Islam agenda.
It is well known that a great many Muslims around the world claim the right to kill and murder in reaction to perceived insults to their religion.
ReplyDeleteFor those lucky enough to be killed in carrying out such martyrdom, 6 dozen perfect houris await them in Paradise.
Mamak takes a leaf out & expands the famed don't-spook-the-melayu-sensitivities by replacing melayu with muslim!
ReplyDeleteBut have anyone clearly defined what's the acceptable tolerance level of the sensitivities of any grouping yet?
Terbalik the issue, most likely it becomes a twisted form of animal farm scenarios.
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
Thus, bcoz of the intrinsic inequality & the indistinguishness at different stages of humanity evolution, individual grouping sensitivities become meaningless.
Live & let live or 'c'est la vie'!!!
yes, berjuang demi negara bangsa dan agama, sokong.
ReplyDeleteThis idiot old man continues in his efforts to boost his image hoping malaysians will clamour for him to be pm again
ReplyDelete"No One Is Above The Law"
ReplyDeleteReally? Arrest Toonsie, He Deserves It.
GO ON, JUST DO IT.
I wonder if Toonsie supports the action of the Tunisian man who killed three innocent people in Nice; and this man had just been allowed into France days earlier as a migrant.
ReplyDeleteSaya sokong Macron 100%.
HA HA HA...FORTUNATELY HARAPAN DO NOT ASSOCIATE WITH BERSATU OR PEJUANG NOW THAT THE BIG MOUTH TUN DR M - BAPA KEMEROSOTAN MALU- SIAL OPEN HIS MOUTH ON FRANCE AND ISLAM UNITY MARUAH KRAP. THANKS YOUR LUCKY STAR DAP PKR AMANAH THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PUT UP WITH THE PENGKHINAT, PEMBELIT, PEROSAK HARAPAN.....AND IF THIS HAVE NOT WOKEN ALL YOU LEADERS OF DAP, PKR AMANAH, WARISAN, STAR, PBS OF THIS TOXIC SENILE MAHA-FIRUAN BANGSAT NEGARA AT THIS STAGE OF YOUR LIFE....THEN MALAYSIA DESERVE TO CONTINUE THEIR PATH TO BE A PARIAH NATION OR SH*T HOLE NATION LED BY A BACKDOOR PARIAH-KATAN EMERGENCY GANG DR M, MUHYIDDIN AZMIN, NAJIB, HAMIDI, ZURIADAH, HISSAHMUDDIN, HAMZAH, MAT HASSAN, NAHIB, HAMIDI, HADI BANGSAT NEGARA LEADERS..... TIME TO BURY THE TUN DR M HOAX REFORM PERSON FOREVER AS HE IS THE FATHER OF MALAYSIAL DESTRUCTION & DEMISE...NOW WE JOIN OTHER UNKNOWN UMNO MPS WHO WANTS TO GET HIM, HIS RICH FAMILY, HIS CRONIES AND THOSE WHO ARE CORRUPTED UNDER HIS REGIME NOW AND IN THE PAST!!...GET ALL...DR M CREATED CORRUPTED ARAB MALAY ISLAM BANGSATS!! ...SO FAR ONLY ANWAR SERVED TIME...ISN'T THAT FUNNY...EVER ASKED WHY??...BECAUSE DR M PACKED THE JUDGES, AG, POLICE, BANK NEGARA, HOME MINISTRY WITH HIS SYMPATIZER.....SYMPATIZE NO MORE FOR THIS OLD BANGSAT MELAYU - DR M-AHAFIRUAN!!
ReplyDeleteIt is easy to just use this as ammunition against Mahathir directly, as part of continuing attacks against Mahathir.
ReplyDeleteIn reality, this is just part of broader symptoms with a toxic mix of religion and violence among many Muslims.
The same goes for the Japanese if we want to follow this senile old man logic. Come on!! He just dishing out statement like a dimentiated man for political milage. What a laugh. any politician who uses this French fiasco is just pathetic.
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