1. A teacher in France had his throat slit by an 18-year-old Chechen boy. The killer was angered by the teacher showing a caricature of Prophet Muhammad. The teacher intended to demonstrate freedom of expression.
2. The killing is not an act that as a Muslim I would approve. But while I believe in the freedom of expression, I do not think it includes insulting other people. You cannot go up to a man and curse him simply because you believe in freedom of speech.
3. In Malaysia, where there are people of many different races and religions, we have avoided serious conflicts between races because we are conscious of the need to be sensitive to the sensitivities of others. If we are not, then this country would never be peaceful and stable.
4. We often copy the ways of the West. We dress like them, we adopt their political systems, even some of their strange practices. But we have our own values, different as between races and religions, which we need to sustain.
5. The trouble with new ideas is that the late comers tend to add new interpretations. These are not what the originators intended. Thus, freedom for women, meant the right to vote in elections. Today, we want to eliminate everything that is different between men and women.
6. Physically we are different. This limits our capacity to be equal. We have to accept these differences and the limitations that are placed on us. Our value systems is also a part of human rights.
7. Yes, sometimes some values seem to be inhuman. They cause some people to suffer. We need to reduce the sufferings.
But not by force, if the resistance is great.
8. The dress code of European women at one time was severely restrictive. Apart from the face no part of the body was exposed. But over the years, more and more parts of the body are exposed. Today a little string covers the most secret place, that’s all. In fact, many in the west are totally naked when on certain beaches.
9. The West accepts this as normal. But the West should not try to forcibly impose this on others. To do so is to deprive the freedom of these people.
10. Generally, the west no longer adhere to their own religion. They are Christians in name only. That is their right. But they must not show disrespect for the values of others, for the religion of others. It is a measure of the level of their civilisation to show this respect.
11. Macron is not showing that he is civilised. He is very primitive in blaming the religion of Islam and Muslims for the killing of the insulting school teacher. It is not in keeping with the teachings of Islam. But irrespective of the religion professed, angry people kill. The French in the course of their history has killed millions of people. Many were Muslims.
12. Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past. 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.
13. Since you have blamed all Muslims and the Muslims’ religion for what was done by one angry person, the Muslims have a right to punish the French. The boycott cannot compensate the wrongs committed by the French all these years.
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I SEARCHED THE NAME OF RAYER IN GOOGLE THAT CONNECTS TO ALEX US ENGLISH, DANIEL BRITISH, KAREN AUSTRALIA AND VEENA INDIAN.
DEY, MP BINTULU CAN CHOOSE NOT TO APOLOGIZE IN FEDERAL PARLIAMENT JUST LIKE ZAKIR NAIK IS ALLOWED TO STAY IN PENANG AS REFUGEE UNDER CLOSE WATCH OF KDN.
RAYER MAHU BIKIN APA PON BOLEH IN PULAU PENANG DAN BUKIT MERTAJAM, TAPI, LU TARAK BOLEH TARAK KASI PENGESPOT DAN PENGIMPOT KITA TO SELL AND BUY PRODUCTS MADE IN CHINA.
Tun,
My heartiest congratulations and best wishes to you for your distinguished Blog has just reach 32 million visitors. This remark is not ‘bodekism’ but a fact.
Malaysia Boleh Tun as always. No problem.
Dearest Tun,
Assalamualaikum. Keep on writing Tun. Of course there some who would read only part and pieces and chose to condemn you. It only shows how narrow minded these ‘liberal thinker’ are. Freedom of speech could only apply to the Westerns? Anyway, Tun, because of your writing, I was keen to find out how the French treated the Muslims in Algeria and Morocco during their invasion.Sadistic are they? Again and again, Muslims have shown that revenge is certainly not part of the teachings in Islam.
Dear Tun,
Spot on.
Regards
Thanks Tun for your blogging.
Please help to protect the repulation of Islam and Malaysia. Due to your status, your opinion represent the Islam world and Malaysia. Due to your status, every word that you says will be read by millions from all over the world. Please help to make sure the word you used bring us fame.
JIKA MIC DAN HINDRAF TAKUT HILANG WANAKAM TO NASMATE, THEY CAN MINTA PUTRAJAYA DEVELOPER TO GAZZETE A PIECE OF LAND TO BUILD THEIR OFFICIAL KUIL IN THERE SINCE PUTRAJAYA IS ‘FUNDED’ BY CURRENT AND FUTURE INCOME PAYERS, KAN TU DUIT KITA, BUKAN DUIT SRI SENSE, FARID ISLAM MAHU PUN HAJAR.
SHUT UP?
MEREKA SEBAGAI TUAN RUMAH PON TAK RASA APA2, WHY SHOULD I GET MAD WITH THE PEMBODEK AND PENYAMPAH OF THE BLOG OWNER?
BESIDE BULLYING WITH POLITICAL CABLE CONNECTION OF I KNOW THIS VVIP, THAT VVIP, I DONT SEE WHAT HAVE THEY DONE SO FAR.
I ALREADY SAID, THE WORST PARENTING STYLE IS WHEN WE COMPARE OUR CHILDREN WITHOUT BOTHER TO ASK THEM FOR THEIR PERMISSION.
WE HAVE GONE THROUGH THAT, AND TDM’S YOUTH WAS WORST SINCE HE WAS BORN IN THE ERA OF WW2.
HE WAS LUCKY BECAUSE OF PENJAJAHAN BRITISH, AND HIS RACE WAS NOT THE TARGET OF JAPANESE IMPERIALISM.
JAPANESE SURRENDERED WHEN 2 NUCLEAR ATOMIC BIG FAT BOYS WERE DROPPED IN NAGASAKI AND HIROSHIMA, NOT TOKYO.
WHY DID HE PUSH FOR BUY BRITISH LAST WHEN HE BECAME PERDANA MENTERI?
I ALSO DIDNT KNOW UNTIL I JOINED THIS BLOG.
I DONT CARE YOU INI SUKA SIAPA JADI PERDANA MENTERI MU AS LONG AS LU TARAK BOLEH KACAU AKU TO MAINTAIN MY CHINESE ROOTS.
HABIS CERITA.
Tun,
@Fariq Islam is spot on.
Paragraphs 12 and 13 of your article Tun. (especially 12)
Assalamualaikum, Tun.
Present world’s civilization does not allow any to simply kill. If one perceives another to have insulted, then he kills, is it right?
We, Muslims, should follow the right path and right teachings of Allah SWT. Do not preach the wrong to spoil our young generation’s thinking.
We can feel frustrated for insulting words/acts unfairly made on us. That doesn’t mean we can kill. Rule of law prevails.
We are blessed now for not having a leader that advocates “an eye for an eye” revenge and uncivilized behaviour. At the end of the day, when we visit “Dunia Akhirat” later, we will all be subject judgement.
Salam Dearest Tun Dr. Mahathir,
Wow! Tun has become a sensation overnight!
Moral of the story: There is no such thing as absolute FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
I also believe that Tun is conducting some kind of ‘testing’ here…Tun has received whatever responses that Tun had expected to get from those naïve (stupid?) readers.
To those who believe that Tun ‘promotes violence’, please make an appointment with Tun (if approved) and look directly at Tun’s face and eyes (and sweet smile 🙂 ) and see for yourselves how humble and sincere Tun really is (I’ve met and ‘salam’ Tun many times – since my school days).
Mr. Macron must retract his stupid public statements (as stupid as the person who suggested that if someone insults our religion, we should simply insult their religion in return. It is NOT possible to insult a group of people who openly insult their own religion…).
Mr. Macron must apologize to all Muslims for his rude and insensitive opinions. He needs to be more civilized in his approach.
We must learn to RESPECT OTHERS – Tun’s main message. Be very careful with our words.
And, NEVER insult an entire race or religious group just because of one angry person (reminds me of a stupid fellow from Sabah who insulted the entire Malay race for his own stupidity /weakness).
Different people have different values that they treasure the most.
Some people would rather die than being publicly insulted / humiliated.
P/S: HBT456 must heed Tun’s advice – respect others! This ill-mannered racist/bigot said that she continues writing in CAPS because “THE BLOG OWNER PUN TAK KATA APA” (using her own rojak BI-BM rude style – in CAPS). This stupid psycho (HBT456) needs to learn some manners – i.e. respect other readers.
Thank you Tun.
– May Allah SWT bless Tun and family –
For HBT456.
WILL YOU SHUT UP
Inflammatory words.
Tun,
It would be good if Tun can review and alter paragraphs 12 and 13 in Tun’s above article. Certain sentences need to be deleted, in my view.
They can mean differently when read by various quarters around the world, including in Muslim countries where there are lots of French tourists and expats. Tun is after all, still a respected Muslim leader and whose name can be used and misused by people with various agendas.
Thanks for the blog, Tun.
HIDDEN HANDS, ITU DAH LAMA BUKAN TOP SECRETS AS OUR YOUNG POPULATION’S MINDSET ALREADY SHIFTED.
THEY ARE MORE EDUCATED, MORE DEMANDING, AND OPENED UP AND KNOW WHAT THEY WANT TO ACHIEVE, BOLEH ATAU TIDAK, NO ONE KNOWS.
AT LEAST, AS PARENTS, WE MUST MAKE SURE THEY DONT GET THEMSELVES HURT FIRST.
DIDIK, MANJA ATAU DERA, CAN YOU DRAW THE LINE?
GREATER DEMOCRACY IN ASIA TOO NEED TO BE RESHAPED/REIMAGINED WITH SAFER NATIONAL POLICIES SO THAT NO ONE SHOULD BE LEFT OUT, OR GET HURT DUE TO FREE SPEECH OR EXPRESSION.
MAMPU, ATAU TIDAK, THE CHOICE IS WITH ALL MP AT FEDERAL AND STATE LEVELS.
PANDAI-PANDAI MU YANG MENGELARKAN DIRIMU SEBAGAI PERJUANG DAN PENDEKAR BANGSA MELAYU DAN ISLAM MASING-MASING IN POST SOCIAL MEDIA ERA, ATAU 5G.
IT IS TIME TO RELEASE MADAM WEN TO GO HOME TO HER ANCESTOR LAND SINCE CANADIANS IN GENERAL CANNOT ACCEPT HER DUAL NATIONALITIES.
DONT FORGET, SHE TOO HAS THE BASIC RIGHT TO PROTECT HER ANCESTOR LAND AND PEOPLE FIRST IN WHICH CANADIAN TOP JUDGE CANNOT DENY JUST TO PLEASE THE POLITICAL PARTIES IN DIVIDE TO GET VOTES OF MOSSAIC MULTI-NATIONALITIES.
DON’T DO AS I DO, DO AS I SAY, IZZIT SO HARD FOR YOU ALL TO UNDERSTAND?
GDP, SOP AND BRANDS ARE DEEPLY RELATED, SO PANDAI-PANDAIMU JAGA NAMA BAIK KELUARGA, NEGERI DAN NEGARA.
ADAKAH ITU FORCE LABOUR, OR CHEAP LABOUR, PLEASE REFER ANNUAL HANDBOOK OF THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE, OR KEMENTERIAN SUMBER MANUSIA, IZZIT SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND?
CAN YOU DIFFERENTIATE TIRU KUCHING FROM COPY CAT?
BAK KATA, TAK TAHU TAK PA, JANGAN BODOH SOMBONG DAN BIADAP TAK ERTI TEMPAT.
GLORIFYING VIOLENCE DOES NOT MAKE ANYONE HOLIER THAN THOU INCLUDING TDM.
WE HAVE SEEN THIS DURING ‘REFORMASI’ PERIOD SIMILAR TO MEI 13 KERANA MELAYU MENGAMUK TAPI TAKUT KEPADA ALLAH SAW, OBVIOUSLY, CHINESE, INDIAN DLL MINORITIES ARE BEING USED AS THE PUNCHING BAGS TO SHOW THEY ARE THE BOS.
BOS BOLEH PILIH, PARTI-PARTI POLITIK TANAHAIR DAN PENGUNDI PUN BOLEH PILIH SINCE PERDANA MENTERI MUST CALL FOR NEW MANDATE WHEN HIS/HER TERM ENDS.
AS SAYING GOES, THERE IS NO FREE LUNCH IN THIS WORLD.
WHY?
LAW MADE ARE MEANT TO BE BROKEN TO HEDGE AGAINST FUTURE INFLATION, OR TO MAKE MONEY OUT OF THIN AIR SINCE NO ONE KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE.
EITHER WE PAY NOW, OR OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS PAY BASE ON RULE OF LAW APPROVED IN FEDERAL PARLIAMENT, TAK PAYAH PENING KEPALA.
Freedom of speech.
There is NO complete freedom of speech. Not even in the West. This is a fallacy. Freedom of speech is a basic human rights, all the more reason that communist countries like China and North Korea MUST be wiped out sooner or later, and transformed into democracies.
Look, when a country has laws against slander and libel, and most countries do (except a country like China where it is not required as they have no clue what it is for), These defamation laws are to protect against those who abuse their freedom to speak to simply say things that aren’t true about another person. That defamed person has a recourse in the justice system to clear his name and the person defaming him will be punished by the court system, if found guilty. The system is there to ensure that the freedom of speech is guaranteed for the rest of society. A defamed person need not take the laws into his own hands.
In France and ALL Western countries, there aren’t yet any laws that protect an oppressed group of people (eg. blacks or Muslims) against the kind of things that was done by the male white teacher who met his death in the hands of a fed-up member of the oppressed group. The last time France did not have the judicial system to stop a certain French queen making fun of poor hungry people, the country ended up in a revolution where thousands were slaughtered by angry mobs. What is needed is not just a relook at the welfare of disadvantaged minorities in Western countries, but definitely a need to enact anti-hate laws, not to fetter freedom of speech but to suit it better for an increasingly multiracial society like France and Germany. An alien introduction probably not welcome by White Westerners but in the end all will have to adjust their expectation if they want to live in peace.
The one thing that irks sensible people about these couple of weeks is that, had the Muslim extremist used a gun instead of a machete, shot his victim instead of beheading him, the public reaction worldwide would probably had been, “oh, just another shooting like in America”. But it happened (most probably not by chance) that the killing was done in the most barbaric manner considered in modern society (the last common beheadings were probably done during the headhunting days in the East and when guillotine was a common apparatus used by judges in the West). It is significant that it was done this way, perhaps to make the French government sit up and take notice about the plight of an oppressed group. In the same context, it is almost predictable that the French far right will take arms and start campaigning for support (they probably will get) and President Macron trying to match the far right with his own anti-Muslim rhetoric (to avoid losing). They are politicians, after all. No different from politicians in Malaysia, for that matter.
p/s. I am completely neutral on this, not with the West or the Muslims.
If I am a French.
I represent all French.
I represent all West.
Some people refuse to see,
I only want to be me.
I am my only tree.
No matter.
I am a brand first,
Human being next.
Some people will not accept,
there is only one kind of race.
And they always err.
A lesson for French President Emmanuel Macron. You can said anything for “Freedom of Speech”. Many western countries agreed with Macron. Why when Tun Dr Mahathir said something, they are not agreed?. Where is the “Freedom of Speech” that they glorified very much?. I strongly believe, this is just “Test” from Tun Dr Mahathir for western countries. Definitely, Freedom of speech is not absolute.
You promote violence against our people. It will not be forgotten.
EVEN BANGLADESHI FOREIGN WORKER CAN DO GREAT JOB IN SINGAPORE WITH THE RIGHT ENVIROMENT.
SINI, A BANGLADESHI WAS BEING DEPORTED FOR REPORTING FORCE LABOUR OR SOMETHING JUST A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO DUE TO POLITICAL PRESSURE JUST TO PLEASE THE POLITICAL MASTERS.
MELAYU MEMANG MUDAH LUPA.
BUT, LONDON BRIDGE DID NOT FALL, AND STILL THERE, TWINPEAKS.
I BELIEVE RED PHONE BOOTH/BOX WOULD BE FALLING DOWN, AND REMAINED AS STRUCTURAL OR CULTURAL OF MODERN ARCHITECT TO REMEMBER AS A THING OF PAST.
I WATCHED THE STATUE OF A VICTORIA FAT LADY WITH GRUMBLE FACE SITTING ON A CHAIR IN LONDON, IF I AM NOT MISTAKEN, MADE ME WONDER BEING A LADY IN THE HOUSE MUST BE TOUGH, AND STRESSFUL, AND DOWN THE STATUE, I SAW LOTS OF CIGGIE BUTS.
IN LONDON MUSEUM, I SAW A LOTS OF HUGE STATUES AND PAINTINGS BUT THOSE THAT REALLY CAUGHT MY EYES WERE THOSE COSTUMES DONATED BY CHINA, JAPAN AND KOREA.
THESE COSTUMES WERE SO SMALL, AND FROM HERE, I BELIEVE OUR GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT ANCESTORS MUST BE STARVING ALL THE TIME.
THE CHEONGSAM OF SHANGHAI MADE ME WONDER THESE GIRLS OF AGE 12 OR 13 MIGHT BE USED TO PROMOTE CIGARETTES IN 30S, I WONDER.
YOU DONT NEED TO GO LONDON, YOU JUST GO TO KL, AND SEE FOR YOURSELVES, WITHOUT ASIAN YELLOW SKIN, YOU ARE NOTHING, TWINPEAKS.
DO NOT TRY TO DELETE CHINESE IN HERE FOR YOUR OIC TO PLEASE TDM AGAIN, YOU ARE NOT QUALIFIED, TWINPEAKS.
3RD FORCE STILL CAN BREAK VOTES, SURE OR NOT SRI SENSE?
I ALREADY KNOW WHATS GOING ON, SO IT WONT MATTER WHO WILL BECOME THE NEXT PERDANA MENTERI AND DPM.
WHY?
HEPI TAK HEPI, PERDANA MENTERI DOES NOT HAVE THE DISCRETION TO DISOLVE PARLIAMENT BEFORE THE TERM ENDS, AND SUCH ACTION COULD LEAD TO POLITICAL UNCERTAINTIES, BUT HE CAN CALL FOR PARTY ELECTION WITHIN PN FIRST.
ME TOO HOPE HE TOO CAN REST, JUST LIKE ABE SAN BY PASSING THE BATON TO SUGA SAN.
Retaliation and punishment.
I understand what Tun meant, by the “right to punish” the French for wrongs committed against the Muslims. It is common feeling of frustration shared by oppressed communities. And I believe that it is the role and failure of the state in enforcing the laws, and in enacting anti-hate laws where none exist. In my view, the killing was an evident failure of the French government (perhaps pandering to freedom of speech proponents?) to enact anti-hate laws that would have prevented ordinary people from taking the laws into their own hands, so to speak.
This episode is another lesson for politicians to work their a** off and look after the welfare of their society, rather than sitting on their hands. France is not the only multiracial country in the world. Time has changed.. it is not 1939 anymore, not an empire world anymore. Macron should take note.
This French tragedy is a lesson not only for France, but for the whole world.
Correction: THESE MURDERERS/HIRED KILLERS AFTER KILLING, THEY JUST WANTED TO GET RID OF THE BODIES OR BUKTI, CONTOHYA BAKAR, TONG-SIMENKAN, DUMP INTO THE SEA, OR RIVER ETC BECAUSE THESE CRIMINALS KNOW OUR RULE OF LAW, OR THE STAIL OF THE POLITICAL MASTERS MORE THAN ANYONE IN THIS COUNTRY.
BAK KATA, MARAH NYAMUK, KELAMBUR DIBAKAR.
WHAT IS THE MEETING OF UMNO SUPREME COUNCIL ABOUT?
HOW MANY MORE ‘YB’ JASA SEATS OR SENATORSHIPS CAN BE CREATED FOR THEM TO POUNDER SINCE ALL VVIP IN STATE AND KLFT INCLUDING PUTRAJAYA ARE HOLD BY MALAY BUMIPUTRA & BUMIPUTERA?
LET US HOPE FOR THE BEST, PREPARED FOR THE WORST SINCE NO ONE KNOW WHATS IN THEIR MIND THIS TIME.
On Western countries.
I have lived in England half of my life, and let me say a few things that I had experienced and observed.
Almost ALL (with a few exceptions) the older (over 75) generation of White English people are respectful of people from other cultures and religions, including Islam. They use to be a lot of literature and knowledge gathered about non-Western cultures by older generation of English people. Even though they are a bit snobbish when they lived here, but they have absolute respect and awe for things in the East. I can guarantee that the older generation Westerners equally despise their own younger generation. Of course there is the minority of far right supporters of Hitler and other fascist leaders, just like there are extremist fanatical Muslims in Malaysia and Indonesia who think that all non-Muslims/non-believers belong in Hell. That’s normal.
The younger (my) generation who grew up in the West are ALL equally mad, whether they are Whites, Blacks, Christians, Muslims. I once was lambasted by a Muslim British Pakistani young lady at university for questioning the “universality” of the UN Universal Human Rights. Universal according to who, I asked. So, the current madness on freedom of speech is not only promoted by non-Muslims, but equally by young Muslims themselves in Britain. That is what I call madness.
In my view, the entire world has degenerated in decent social values whether in the West, and in the East as a result of globalization and spread of modern views on sex and family. Same sex parenting is not a Western idea but a modern idea that is increasingly accepted by all people of such communities whether in the West or East.
Religions in my view will play an ever increasing role in preventing further degeneration of decent social values, values that had kept us defined as proper human beings in the past. The world is increasingly worsening in terms of its basic values, in the West and the East.
It is something that the UN needs to put on its agenda, even in the face of opposition by the modern generation. By the way, there are a lot in the modern generation who long for decent social values of the past, but they are the silent ones. It is going to be a battle to save the world from uncontrolled modernization.
A tough but worthy battle.
ITU LAH SEBABNYA, I TANYA, ABANG IB DARI ‘PASIR SALAK’, K’TAN, WHEN CASES LIKE THIS RE-OCCURRED, AND WHEN TDM PUT HIS VIEW WITH RESPECT TO SUCH KILLING IN THE NAME OF JIHAD, ABANG IB BOLEH TAHAN KE?
I SURE HOPE THEY WONT GO TUNJUK BUNTUT IN FRONT OF RUMAH SESIAPA PUN.
THESE CASES ARE DIFFERENT FROM THOSE HAPPENED IN MALAYSIA.
THESE MURDERERS/HIRED KILLERS AFTER KILLING, THEY JUST WANTED TO GET RID OF THE BODIES OR BUKTI, CONTOHYA BAKAR, TONG-SIMENKAN, DUMP INTO THE SEA, OR RIVER ETC BECAUSE THESE CRIMINALS KNOW OU RULE OF LAW MORE THAN ANYONE IN THIS COUNTRY.
I PREFER TO VIEW THESE CASES AS SOME KINDS OF CULT, OR RITUAL WOSHIPS, THAT COULD LEAD TO ISLAMPHOBIA.
THIS IS MURDER CASE, SIMPLE AND STRAIGHT FORWARD.
CELAKA BETUL, YOU SURE OR NOT, TWINPEAKS?