Malaysian anti-Semite
has leadership dreams

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You have not heard the end of Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, reports Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

His provocative comments last week directed at Jews and the United States during the ASEAN Bangkok conference were, according to sources close to the 77-year-old leader, delivered with the purpose of positioning him as a pan-Islamic leader in the Muslim world.

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Mahathir Mohamad

According to G2 Bulletin, Western diplomats stationed in Kuala Lumpur said they were astonished to learn the outgoing Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad used the conference to lash out against the U.S., especially the global war against terrorism.

Mahathir, who talked to the Bangkok Post, said Washington is incapable of solving the problem of international terrorism and advised the U.S. to deal with the core problem warning that "brute force will never work against terror."

He also explained the anti-American mood in parts of Asia is related to the fact that Americans appear in the eyes of many as enemies of Islam.

He said the U.S. should better look at the cause of why suicide bombers crashed into skyscrapers. Sources said Mahathir's latest anti-Jewish and anti-Western expressions are part of a well-calculated strategy aimed at propelling him to a leadership role in the Muslim world – a position capable of bringing about negotiations between Washington and Islamic pariah states.

President Bush said he pulled the veteran leader aside at the conference in the Thai capital Bangkok to bluntly denounce his "wrong and divisive" charge, dismissed by the United States as "hateful." Mahathir denied any such confrontation with Bush.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon slammed the remarks as "slanderous." Very few other world leaders lined up eagerly to condemn Mahathir's statements.

But the characteristically outspoken Mahathir stepped up his attacks on Jews in an interview on the fringes of the conference despite wide condemnation for saying they ruled the world.

"The Europeans killed six million Jews out of 12 million. But today the Jews rule this world by proxy," he said at last week's summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference in Malaysia.

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"The reaction of the world shows that they (Jews) do control the world," the unrepentant Mahathir said in an interview published in the Bangkok Post. "They are so arrogant that they defy the whole world."

Mahathir was immediately pushed by some to take over the chairmanship of the OIC.

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