Thursday, October 16, 2003

"Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it"

I'm horrified to read that Dr Mahathir, the outgoing Malaysian Prime Minister in a speech to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference has called upon muslims to use brains as well as brawn to fight the Jews who, he says, "rule the world".

Dr Mahathir, as I understand it, the prophet Mohamed referred to Jews (and for that matter Christians) as Peoples of the Book, to be treated with consideration. Exactly how do your comments fit in with this, then?

Of course, we've heard this hateful nonsense before. It's very reminiscent of the lunatic mouthings of a failed Austrian would-be artist some 80 years ago and look at what he caused.