CLAIMScreengrab of a tweet attributed to former Malaysian PM
Mahathir Mohamad
is being circulated across social media. As per the content of this tweet, Mohamad can be seen justifying Islamic terror attacks on
French citizens
and says Muslims have a right to be angry and kill millions of French people.
Among many others, US activist
Amy Mek
put out the screengrab and claimed that “left-wing Twitter” stands with Islamic terrorists waging war against the west.
Many users, in disbelief, replied to Amy wondering if the screengrab she put out was real.
Some even said the tweet must have been put out by a fake account in the name of Mohamad.
TRUTHMohamad indeed put out a hateful tweet saying “Muslims have a right to be angry and kill millions of French people”.
Since the tweet was later taken down by
Twitter for violation of its rules, many users on social media could not trace it on Mohamad’s timeline and thus concluded that the screengrab must be fake.
In a long tweet thread put out from the verified Twitter handle of Mohamad on October 30, 2020, he said many hateful, misogynistic and anti-Chrisitianity things. The thread can be accessed
here.
One of the tweets in this thread was about Muslims having the right to kill millions of French people. It remained on Twitter for sometime before it was taken down for violation of rules.
Several credible news outlets reported about it, Times of India being one of them.
VERDICTTimes Fact Check has found that former Malayian PM Mahathir Mohamad did tweet about ‘Muslims having a right to kill million French citizens’ before it was taken down by Twitter.