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PIC: The Malay MailKUALA LUMPUR: The Western world has no right to lecture other nations on freedom of speech as it too practices censorship of anti-Semitic views, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad claimed today.

Malaysias former prime minister - known for his controversial views about Jews - alleged today that should anybody say anything bad about the Jews, they would be censored and any of their publications would be blocked from being published or sold in even major bookshops.

Dr Mahathir had previously stoked controversy when he suggested in 2010 that the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States had been staged as an excuse to mount attacks on the Muslim world.

In 2003, he also sparked outrage when he said that Jews ruled the world by proxy by getting others to fight and die for them.

The West has therefore no right to lecture others about freedom of speech, of the media or of publication, Dr Mahathir wrote in a posting on his blog today.

They themselves do not practice what they preach. They are the worst censors in the world.

According to Dr Mahathir, the censorship was a result of the Jews demanding that nothing bad be said about them, which was accommodated by the governments of the Western world.

In making his point, he cited the case of English writer David Irving, who was according to him arrested in Austria, tried, and jailed for being anti-Semitic after claiming that the number of Jews killed by the German Nazis were fewer than six million.

That is the extent of censorship in Europe. Even if you say anything supposedly anti-semitic in another country, you may be jailed by any European country, added Dr Mahathir.

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