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“Is it any wonder that Muslims everywhere feel oppressed, angry, bitter and frustrated?” said Mahathir
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By
Kazi Mahmood, IOL Southeast Asia Correspondent
KUALA
LUMPUR, September 9 (IslamOnline) - Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir
Mohamad said Sunday Muslims were oppressed by the super powers and
warned that the Western world was short of genocide against Muslims in
their bid to defeat terrorism, news agencies reported Monday, September
9.
He
added that their attacks against Muslim nations would only create
endless “recruits to terrorism”.
Mahathir
urged Western powers to treat Muslims better, arguing: “It may be
coincidental, but the fact is that most of the targets of oppression and
attacks are Muslims and Muslim countries.
“Is
it any wonder that Muslims everywhere feel oppressed, feel angry, bitter
and frustrated?”
The
aging Prime Minister added that issues such as Israel's occupation of
Palestinian territory and Western-imposed sanctions against Iraq, Iran,
Libya and Sudan have forced some Muslims to “retaliate... through acts
of terror, hitting out blindly at the innocents as well as the
guilty”, Bernama news agency reported.
Mahathir
Mohamad also hit out at Western superpowers for practically doing
nothing to win the hearts and minds of Muslims.
The
West had not cared to find out about the causes of terrorism and remove
them while the faint voices protesting from among them were ignored, he
said in his closing address at the end of the first ever Asian Global
Leadership Forum.
“The
powerful are bent on revenge rather than solutions,” Mahathir said.
“The
answer does not lie in confrontation, in force, in a war to end all
wars. The answer lies in justice and fair play, in being sensitive, in
being willing to step back and to admit mistakes and banish the idea
that anyone race has a monopoly of the right values, the right systems
and the right solutions to all the human ailments,” he added.
The Malay prime minister said the world today lived in fear of Muslim
terrorists and not other terrorists, and because terrorists could not be
easily identified or located, all Muslims were considered potential
terrorists and were treated as such.
He
said the arrogance of power must be eliminated. Until then, there would
be no prosperity for the world.
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