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Article: Islam: facing two ways with Dr Mahathir part II.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 2004
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THE sting in Dr Mahathir's sensational speech to the Organisation of Islamic Conference was truly reserved for the tail. Having deplored a pattern of futile struggle against Israel, he concluded as follows:
'We are actually very strong. 1.3 billion people cannot be simply wiped out. The Europeans killed six million Jews out of 12 million. But today the Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them'. It would be sufficient if we get a third of our Ummah and our states to act together (after all, the Prophet started out with small numbers), and then our oil wealth will compensate for military weakness. Another advantage is that not all ...