“War is deceit,” said Muhammad (Bukhari 4.52.268). “Old video of ex-Malaysian PM viral as Chinese PM praying in a mosque amid Coronavirus outbreak,” by Nibedita Sen, Alt News, February 3, 2020: A video is making the rounds on social media with the claim that the Prime Minister of China visited a mosque and realised that […]
Mahathir Mohamad Calls – Again – For Islamic Unity
Fresh from his December fiasco at the mid-December “Islamic Summit” in Kuala Lumpur, which was supposed to help promote “uniting the world’s Muslims,” Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is at it again. On January 7, following what he called the “immoral” killing of Qassem Soleimani, Mohamad again called for the Muslim world to unite. Perhaps […]
Malaysia’s Mahathir: Killing of Soleimani “immoral,” says “The time is right for Muslim countries to come together”
1. Muslim leader denounces killing of international jihad terror leader. 2. Counterterror analyst reports that Muslim leader denounces killing of international jihad terror leader. 3. Counterterror analyst is denounced as a “racist, bigoted Islamophobe.” Muslim leader is hailed as a “moderate.” “Muslims should unite after Iran commander’s killing: Mahathir,” Channel News Asia, January 7, 2020 […]
Malaysia: Bumiputra Privileges — A Disguised Jizyah — Continue
It has been just over a year now since the office of the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, reversing a previous pledge by his government to ratify the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), declared that it would not do so, without giving a reason for the decision. […]
Malaysia: Court bans protest against Islamization of schools for fear Muslims would riot
No big deal. This is exactly what would happen in the U.S. The whole world has agreed that the proper response to violent intimidation from Muslims is surrender and submission. “Malaysian court bans Chinese-education lobby group’s protest against ‘Islamisation’ of schools,” by Bhavan Jaipragas, South China Morning Post, December 27, 2019: A Malaysian court on […]
Iran’s President urges Muslim nations to deepen financial and trade cooperation to fight US “bullying”
Iran has been suffering under American sanctions; now Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is urging “Muslim nations …to deepen financial and trade cooperation to fight what he described as U.S. economic hegemony, using an Islamic conference in Malaysia as a platform to decry American sanctions against his country.” Rouhani picked the right forum to lobby for […]
Notes on the Fiasco In Kuala Lumpur (Part 3)
Having described what he saw as Islam’s Golden Age, which he seems to think lasted until the 15th century, though historians agree that it lasted only from the 8th to the 10th centuries, Mahathir Mohamed continued his keynote address with still more of his idiosyncratic history: Then around the 15th Century of the Common Era, […]
Notes on the Fiasco In Kuala Lumpur (Part 2)
Mahathir Mohamed’s keynote address sang the praises — not quite accurately, I’m afraid — of Islam’s past: There was a time when Muslims were recognised for their advanced civilisation. They were able to spread the teachings of Islam to the world of that time. They were well-versed in all fields of knowledge, including the sciences […]
Notes on the Fiasco In Kuala Lumpur (Part 1)
All 57 Muslim states were invited to the meeting in Kuala Lumpur of representatives of the worldwide Umma. But only twenty, a little more than one-third, bothered to send delegations. And many of those delegations were led not by heads of state, but by those lower down on the political totem pole. Among those that […]
A Big Muslim Mess In Kuala Lumpur
The well-known antisemite and Holocaust-denier Mahathir Mohamed, Prime Minister of Malaysia, along with the heads of Turkey, the inimitable Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, thought it might be a good idea if the 56 Muslim-majority states met to discuss problems within the Umma, the Community of Muslim Believers. From the get-go, […]