2003 馬哈蒂爾談世界變遷

2003  馬哈蒂爾談世界變遷

Mahathir's speech on a changed world

馬哈蒂爾·穆罕默德  來源：IVIEWS 2003年6月20日 59條評論
https://www.islamicity.org/2075/mahathirs-speech-on-a-changed-world/

 

馬來西亞已變

獨立46年來，我們經曆了諸多變化。從一個僅限於馬來半島的國家，到沙撈越和沙巴自願加入，我們發展成為馬來西亞。馬來西亞人口從最初的500多萬增長到如今的2500萬。

馬來西亞的基礎設施發展速度飛快。其中包括連接半島南北、東西的高速公路。沙巴和砂拉越的主要道路尚未建成高速公路，但比英國統治時期要好得多。機動車幾乎可以到達全國所有城鎮和村莊。

農村地區煥然一新，鋪設了柏油路，學??校、診所、電力和供水都已到位。

城鎮發展迅速，摩天大樓拔地而起，甚至在昔日的橡膠和棕櫚油種植園也拔地而起。首都吉隆坡以其雙子塔和吉隆坡塔而聞名。布城作為行政首都，擁有氣派而尊貴的辦公大樓。蘇丹阿都沙末大廈曾是馬來西亞首都的地標建築，如今已被布城的精美建築所取代，這些建築反映了馬來西亞的文化和進步。

得益於第一任首相東姑阿都拉曼·普特拉的政策，馬來西亞的多種族人民和平和諧地生活在一起。不同種族之間的經濟財富差距正在縮小。土著水稻種植戶和漁民的子女如今已成為專業人士、高級政府官員、教授、軍隊將軍和商界百萬富翁。

馬來/土著企業高管的才能從他們被大型外國公司選為高管可見一斑。

馬來西亞國家石油公司（Petronas）是一家全資國有企業，由馬來經理、高級管理人員和非馬來人共同管理。Petronas從一家通常在國內運營的國家石油公司，發展成為一家業務遍及全球32個國家的跨國石油公司，在全球範圍內勘探、生產和銷售石油和天然氣。Petronas還涉足大型石油化工行業。

Petronas是全球500強企業之一，利潤曾一度位居榜首。

還有更多馬來人成為國內外成功的商人、實業家和大型企業的管理者。馬來承包商不僅在本國，還在許多國家修建道路和建築。

顯然，許多馬來人和其他土著在經商方麵擁有與其他族群同等的才能。他們能夠並且已經展現了自己的能力。

他們的精神和自信體現在他們準備獨自環遊世界、攀登珠穆朗瑪峰、從大陸遊48公裏到蘭卡威島、成為羽毛球冠軍等等。

馬來統治者成功地發展了馬來西亞，並受邀為其他國家提供各種行政和發展方麵的建議。

如今，馬來西亞因其在國際事務中發揮的作用而聞名於世。馬來西亞以獨特的方式應對1997-1998年金融危機的能力也得到了認可。

世界已變

但世界本身也已變。噴氣式客運和電信技術的進步使世界變得非常小。如今，世界各國都成了近鄰。沒有什麽可以隱藏或保密的。

不幹涉獨立國家內政的概念已被間接或直接介入的概念所取代，包括外國勢力參與改變某些國家的政府。如有必要，將為此使用武力。

東歐共產主義陣營的崩潰使世界變成了單極世界，獲勝的資本主義陣營將隻允許在世界範圍內實行資本主義自由市場和自由民主製度。

全球化已被引入，這是西方國家為加強其對世界經濟的控製而設計的。

顯而易見，歐洲人希望再次控製世界。雖然起初這種控製是間接的，但如今他們開始入侵和統治某些國家，表麵上是為了這些國家的安全，但實際上是為了掠奪這些國家的財富。

自二戰結束以來，東亞經濟快速增長。從日本開始，韓國、台灣、香港和東南亞也迅速發展。但現在關注的焦點是中國，它放棄了中央計劃經濟，接受了有限的

自由市場體係。在很短的時間內，這個貧窮的共產主義國家就變成了一個富裕的國家，並有可能擁有強大的軍事力量。

這一發展令中國的近鄰和宿敵——日本和韓國——感到恐懼。

西方國家對中國成為一個擁有強大軍事實力的經濟大國感到不安。

由此，國際環境變得非常緊張，對包括馬來西亞在內的所有國家都充滿挑戰。歐洲人也表現出想要重拾昔日強悍生活方式的意願。

英國統治時期馬來人的曆史可以為我們了解歐洲人的性格提供很多指導。

我們曾被三個歐洲民族殖民。450年來，我們一直處於他們的殖民統治之下。現在，我們和其他亞洲人麵臨著再次被他們殖民的可能性。

需要了解歐洲人

因此，我們需要充分了解歐洲人，這關乎我們的命運，我們的生活將取決於我們如何與他們以及他們的同胞互動。這裏所說的歐洲人包括那些移民到美洲、澳大利亞和新西蘭並建立新國家的人。他們通常被稱為白人或西方人。但許多人確實是白人，許多生活在西方的人並非歐洲人。歐洲人是歐洲各國的人民。這就是為什麽我稱他們為歐洲人，甚至不稱馬特·薩利赫為歐洲人。英國人說“實話實說”（call a spade a spade）。任何事物都應以真名稱呼。因此，在這次演講中，我將稱呼歐洲人為歐洲人。

我並非反歐洲。我有很多朋友和熟人是歐洲人。我羞於批評歐洲人，因為我認識的人會感到受傷。對我們友好的歐洲國家也會感到受傷。他們的媒體當然會譴責我是種族主義者。但我認為，揭露歐洲人的身份非常重要，必須冒這個險。

所有歐洲人都有相同的起源和文化，即基於希臘和羅馬文明。他們非常聰明、勇敢，並且擁有永不滿足的好奇心。他們永不滿足於現狀，總是渴望改進，使其更加完善，無論出於何種目的，都更具生產力。無論是工具、製度還是意識形態，他們都在不斷改進。

有時，他們為了追求進步而瘋狂地破壞事物，並帶來惡果。但他們並未因此而卻步，而是繼續努力改進自己或他人擁有的一切。

不幸的是，他們也非常貪婪，喜歡用武力奪取他人的領土和權利。在他們兩千年的曆史中，為了奪取領土、擴張全球勢力，戰爭從未停止。

起初，他們的掠奪範圍僅限於歐洲。但當他們掌握了遠航技術後，他們的掠奪和戰爭擴展到了世界各地。中國人、阿拉伯人和印度人更早到達東南亞，但他們並沒有為征服這一地區而戰。但當歐洲人到來時，東南亞的領土，如同非洲、北美洲、南美洲、澳大利亞和太平洋島嶼的領土一樣，被他們用武力奪取，意圖將這些領土據為己有，攫取財富，壓迫、詆毀，甚至進行種族滅絕。

由於他們喜歡發動戰爭，侵占他人領土，他們的主要興趣在於研發和生產更有效率的武器。所有武器都被改造成致命武器，以便在戰爭中取得勝利。

中國人發明了炸藥，並用它們製造噪音來驅趕“蛟龍”，阻止它們在日食期間吞噬日月。或者，在節日期間，人們用它們來燃放爆竹。但當歐洲人接觸到中國的炸藥時，他們首先想到的是如何利用它們將炮彈射得更遠。

從那時起，許多武器被發明出來用於遠距離殺戮。炸彈、火箭、導彈、核彈頭等等，都隨著大炮的出現而出現。如今，他們擁有的核武器足以毀滅整個世界，但他們仍然不滿足。

他們仍在研發威力更大、效果更佳的核彈頭。在世界曆史上，隻有歐洲人投擲過原子彈，僅用兩顆原子彈就能摧毀城市，造成最多的人員當場死亡。

汽車發明後，不久之後裝甲車也應運而生。飛機催生了轟炸機和戰鬥機。商船則催生了軍艦和潛艇。所有這些都在不斷改進，以便更有效地殺傷更多人。

如今，數十億美元被用於研發更先進的武器，為戰爭機器提供武器，訓練軍隊備戰，即使在沒有敵人的情況下也做好戰鬥準備。

他們時刻準備著，不惜捏造謊言，發動戰爭，殺害兒童、老人、病人以及任何人，並將這些人視為純粹的附屬品，絕不允許他們成為他們實現目標的障礙。

在歐洲人眼中，戰鬥和殺戮的技能是光榮的。他們中的勇士被授予“騎士”的尊稱。他們時不時地會發動攻擊，擴張其主人或領主的領地。正因如此，自古以來，他們的村莊和城鎮都被石牆和寬闊的護城河環繞。

對他們來說，所有分歧都必須通過實力較量來解決。勝者為王，有權獨攬大權。敗者則一無所有。這也是他們解決工人和雇主之間分歧的方式。工業行動的勝利者將得到他想要的一切。

歐洲的曆史就是戰爭史，也是實力較量的曆史。當他們與非洲、美洲和亞洲的非歐洲人接觸時，他們立即發動戰爭，試圖奪取當地居民的領土，建立新的國家和帝國。

他們毫無仁慈或善意。當地居民被驅逐，毫無悔意地被殺害。

許多部落因他們的襲擊而滅絕。對他們來說，種族滅絕是最終的解決辦法。

事實上，他們應該同情當地居民，因為他們自己也曾被驅逐出自己在歐洲的故土。但當他們到達他們所謂的“新世界”，也就是當地居民的舊世界時，他們卻將當地居民趕出自己的土地，並奪取了所有財產。任何反抗的人都會遭到攻擊、殺害或奴役。

為了盡可能地奪取領土以建立新的帝國，歐洲人內部發生了爭鬥。當地人常常被迫參與戰爭和掠奪。

他們之間的敵意日益加深，因為他們都想擴張領土，建立帝國，成為世界上最強大的國家。為此，他們發動了席卷全球的更大規模的戰爭。

第一次世界大戰於1914年爆發，並於1918年結束，當時超過2000萬來自各個帝國的人民和士兵喪生，價值數十億美元的財產遭到破壞。

然而，他們並不滿足。第一次世界大戰結束僅僅20年後，他們又發動了第二次世界大戰。這一次，歐洲人的破壞性暴力達到了頂峰。超過5000萬來自他們帝國的人民和人民喪生。他們使用地毯式轟炸，將整座城市夷為平地，所有居民都被夷為平地。

最終，他們向日本廣島和長崎投下了原子彈，而這片土地並非歐洲國家。盡管這些核彈為他們帶來了勝利，但歐洲人仍然震驚於核武器的威力以及其輻射，這些輻射在原子彈投下多年後仍可能殺死受害者。

歐洲人擔心彼此之間會爆發核戰爭，他們的人民會被核武器殺害，他們的國家會被核武器摧毀。出於這種恐懼，他們達成了一項國際協議，以控製核武器的生產、試驗和在戰爭中的使用。

但其中一些國家拒絕簽署《不擴散核武器條約》。他們繼續研究、開發和試驗各種用於炸彈和彈頭的新型核武器。

歐洲人在皈依基督教之前就憎恨猶太人。成為基督徒後，他們指責猶太人，因為一個猶太人背叛了基督，投奔了羅馬人，並被釘死在十字架上。

因此，直到二戰結束後，歐洲人仍然壓迫移民到他們國家的猶太人。他們每年都會進行大屠殺和宗教裁判，大肆屠殺猶太人。解決猶太人問題的嚐試在二戰期間達到頂峰，當時有六百萬猶太人被殺害。

但二戰結束後，猶太人仍然留在歐洲。為了迫使猶太人離開歐洲，他們占領了巴勒斯坦阿拉伯人的領土，建立了以色列國。他們不僅奪取了巴勒斯坦阿拉伯人的土地、房屋和農場，還把阿拉伯人趕出了他們的土地，也就是後來的以色列國。

從那時起，西亞就再也沒有過和平的日子。巴勒斯坦人試圖奪回自己的領土，卻遭到了歐洲人的反對。相反，他們支持以色列占領更多巴勒斯坦土地並殺害巴勒斯坦人。

巴勒斯坦兒童投擲石塊，遭到以色列軍隊的槍擊，兒童被殺。但歐洲人並沒有譴責以色列，反而譴責了巴勒斯坦人的自殺式爆炸襲擊。

2001年9月11日美國遭襲事件，支持以色列，卻被當作借口。

盎格魯-撒克遜歐洲人重蹈覆轍，重蹈覆轍，暴力相向。

他們打擊恐怖主義的策略是攻擊穆斯林國家和穆斯林，無論他們是否有罪。

他們通過各種毫無根據的指控，對穆斯林國家發動襲擊，使用大規模殺傷性武器，屠殺平民，摧毀城鎮。

美國和英國根本不關心世界對其行為的譴責。他們本國人民的反對也被置之不理。他們隻想向世界展示他們的強大，任何挑戰他們的人都會遭到他們的軍事攻擊。

我在這裏所說的都是事實。我並非有意恐嚇我們，讓我們認真對待我們將要麵臨的危險。我想再次重申，我不是反歐洲主義者，也不是種族主義者。我無意製造對歐洲人的仇恨。但了解這個種族及其過去的活動至關重要，因為他們將在我們的生活、我們的種族、我們的宗教和我們的國家中扮演重要角色。如果不了解這些，我們將難以為自身安全做好準備並製定戰略。

反對馬來亞聯邦和爭取獨立的鬥爭已經結束。我們不僅在獨立後成功地治理了國家，而且還迅速發展了國家。我們許多人認為，一旦獨立，我們將永遠保持獨立。

但今天我們麵臨的危險比20世紀中葉英國試圖奪取馬來土地建立馬來亞聯邦時更大。

我們麵臨的危險

今天，我們看到有人試圖通過貶值我們的林吉特來讓我們淪為乞丐。今天，我們看到列強如何攻擊和占領弱國。聯合國顯然無力保護任何人。如果我們成為攻擊對象，沒有任何其他力量願意保護我們。

在新的幾十年和幾個世紀裏，我們將要麵對的世界將見證歐洲人無數次試圖以間接或直接的方式殖民我們。如果我們的國家沒有受到攻擊，我們的思想、文化、宗教和其他方麵都將成為攻擊目標。

在文化和社會領域，他們希望看到個人享有無限的自由。對他們來說，個人自由不容置疑。他們拒絕婚姻和家庭製度，反而將包括雞奸在內的自由性行為視為一項權利。他們正式承認男女之間的婚姻。我們所謂的亂倫在他們看來並不嚴重。

穆斯林禁止改變宗教的禁令，以及與他們不同的法律，都將受到質疑。他們的媒體將被用來詆毀我們的一切實踐。非政府組織將被顛覆，以要求審查歐洲人不喜歡的一切，修改並最終拒絕那些被認為剝奪個人權利的行為。

他們將強迫我們接受的文化和價值觀將是享樂主義、對快樂的無限追求、對基本欲望（尤其是性欲）的滿足。我們的生活方式必須與他們的生活方式相同。亞洲價值觀在他們那裏並不存在。

我們的經濟體係必須遵循他們構想的自由市場體係。政府不能介入或製定規章製度來幫助弱者。平衡不同種族之間的發展問題並非自由市場的責任。自由市場是大國、強國和資本富豪們獨占一切。

一個國家的國民不能享有特殊待遇。外國公司必須可以自由進入任何國家，與當地企業和銀行競爭。他們的巨型企業很可能會吞並當地的小型企業，而我們將成為他們麾下的雇傭工人。據說一切都取決於實力，而不是與那些經驗豐富的大型企業進行不平等和不公正的競爭。其結果是，他們將完全控製每個國家的經濟。

如果有人拒絕世貿組織提出的自由市場體係，他們將遭受旨在摧毀其經濟的懲罰性措施。歐洲人通過世貿組織引入了基於規則的貿易，即所有國內外貿易都必須遵守他們製定的世貿組織規則。任何不遵守這些規則的國家都將麵臨各種製裁，以摧毀其經濟。

盡管西方陣營和東方陣營之間的冷戰仍在繼續，但世界經濟得以複蘇。20世紀60年代、70年代和80年代，世界經濟取得了顯著發展。

相對而言，當時的世界和平，沒有威脅。隨之而來的是，旅行和飛行的習慣逐漸興起，以及噴氣式飛機的製造，為世界上許多國家的經濟做出了貢獻。

百萬

大量遊客和商務旅客湧入世界各地的機場，迫使機場逐年擴建和增加客運量。波音、洛克希德和空客等公司研製出更大、航程更遠的客機，並生產和銷售了數百架。豪華酒店在世界各地拔地而起，為包括發展中國家在內的人們創造了大量就業機會。

微芯片（即微型電路）的發展徹底改變了製造業。微芯片使計算速度提高了數千倍，促成了計算機的發明，使其不僅用於計算，還用於通過語音、文字和圖像將信息傳遞到世界各個角落。

對微芯片的需求迅速增長，包括馬來西亞等發展中國家在內的許多國家都建起了生產微芯片的工廠。一些國家財富的增長導致對包括汽車在內的製成品的需求激增，許多從農業轉向製造業的國家也實現了快速發展。

馬來西亞實現了GDP連續10年超過8%的高速增長。似乎沒有什麽能阻止馬來西亞在2020年成為發達國家。

我們的政策是促進鄰國繁榮。這不僅僅是施舍或幫助他人的願望。事實上，當鄰國繁榮時，我們也會繁榮，因為我們能夠增加與他們的貿易。另一方麵，當鄰國陷入困境時，這些問題就會蔓延到我們國家。顯然，促進鄰國繁榮是一種開明的利己主義政策。這項政策給我們帶來了諸多益處，促進了地區穩定和經濟增長。

二戰後的世界確實非常繁榮。但歐洲人試圖通過改變商業、政治和社會規範的體係和實踐來改善現狀，使其變得更好、更公平。

曾經如此成功的日本，如今卻成了這些新體係的受害者。迄今為止，日本人仍無法重振其疲軟的經濟。

馬來西亞原本發展勢頭強勁，卻遭到了那些聲稱有責任約束政府的流氓貨幣交易員的攻擊。結果，馬來西亞乃至東亞地區的經濟增長停滯不前，甚至出現倒退。迄今為止，經濟仍未恢複到之前的水平。

隨著美國欺詐和商業犯罪行為的曝光，經濟複蘇變得更加艱難。那些股價無緣無故上漲的網絡公司紛紛倒閉。之後，安然、世通、安達信以及其他數十家大小企業被發現存在會計舞弊行為。

當犯罪分子劫持客機時，“劫機”一詞便成了家喻戶曉的話題。劫機事件的高峰出現在恐怖分子劫持客機並將其用作導彈摧毀紐約世界貿易中心時。這驚恐萬分，令美國和其他地方的遊客和商務旅客驚恐不已，導致客運量降至30%以下。

這導致酒店和其他與旅遊相關的行業大幅下滑。幾乎所有美國航空公司都破產了，損失高達數千億美元。

對恐怖分子的追捕使世界變得緊張不安。炸彈在世界許多地方爆炸。阿富汗和伊拉克遭到襲擊，敘利亞和伊朗也麵臨類似的威脅，除非它們更換政府。

因此，第二次世界大戰結束後30年的繁榮與和平就此終結，因為有人試圖改善原本運轉良好的局麵。隨著世界經濟發展模式的改變，隨著對財富的狂熱追求，隨著對世界上眾多貧困和苦難的漠視，隨著對四處掠奪領土的縱容，所有先前取得的進步都被摧毀了。

如今，將世界經濟恢複到1997年水平的可能性已變得渺茫。這不可能實現，因為當權者不去試圖安撫世界，而是一心想使用武力來實現其目標。

民主有缺陷

在政治上，所有國家都必須實行自由民主。我們承認，民主是人類有史以來最好的政府製度。但它並非沒有缺陷。對於那些不了解民主局限性的人來說，統治者很可能是軟弱或腐敗的政府。有時，實行自由民主會導致無政府狀態。

民主依賴於民眾的支持。這種支持可以通過候選人或政黨善於治理和發展國家來獲得。但民眾的支持也可能因為種族主義、故意的誤解而獲得。

宗教解讀，或通過賄賂選民。

與此同時，選民也可以利用種族主義、宗教禁令，或為自己或團體索要賄賂。如此一來，組建政府的贏家將不再是那些合格且有能力的人，而是那些種族主義色彩濃厚、曲解宗教或腐敗的人。由這樣的人執政將毀掉國家，而那些有能力且廉潔的政黨將會失敗。

歐洲人強迫發展中國家接受民主的初衷或許是好的，他們並非有意損害發展中國家的利益。他們或許認為民主會像幫助自己國家一樣幫助發展中國家。但他們忘記了自己花了很長時間才理解並從這一製度中獲益。

在一個新興民主的發展中國家，權力鬥爭導致了數百個政黨的形成。如果選民被數百個政黨分裂，一個強有力的政府就不可能形成。不會有一個政黨能夠獲得足夠的代表來組建一個強有力的政府。

政權更迭

我們馬來西亞成功地實踐了民主。但歐洲人卻不高興。他們希望看到政府頻繁更迭，這樣就不會穩定，發展也無法實現。他們的新口號是“政權更迭”。由於這並沒有發生，我們的國家仍然保持和平與繁榮，他們就指責我們不民主、獨裁。

他們憑什麽指責我們的政府獨裁？他們難道不是曾經的殖民者，他們的統治是獨裁和壓迫的嗎？他們難道不是入侵一個弱國，屠殺無數平民，才奪取了政權嗎？他們實現政權更迭的方式是民主的嗎？先照照鏡子。歐洲人的問題在於，他們自以為有權評判自己的觀點。

但他們的批評可能另有目的。因為我們不民主，所以他們幹涉我們的內政也是情有可原的。這個國家會有很多人受到他們觀點的影響，譴責政府。其結果將是國家動蕩，無法發展，人民將受苦受難。

他們會譴責這種指控。他們沒有惡意，也沒有圖謀阻礙任何人的進步。他們隻是批評。但我們絕不能忘記，他們的批評，即使毫無根據，也被用來為他們對一個國家的攻擊和占領辯護。

第一個談論政權更迭的人是以色列總理阿裏埃勒·沙龍。阿拉法特必須被一位他們能接受的領導人取代。今天，歐洲人談論著許多國家政權更迭的必要性。不要以為我們不會成為攻擊目標。他們之前候選人的失敗讓他們感到失望。他們會再次嚐試。

這就是我們現在和將來都將麵臨的外部環境。感謝真主，迄今為止，我們成功地捍衛了我們的自由和獨立。這是因為我們謹慎行事，能夠避免落入他們設下的陷阱。

國內挑戰

國內環境同樣充滿挑戰。凝聚不同社群的努力尚未完全奏效。新一代人由於選擇根據種族就讀不同的學校而產生了分歧。

為了凝聚不同種族的學生，增強人民和國家的競爭力，政府引入了英語學習，並用英語教授科學和數學。家長們對此表示歡迎，但各政黨一如既往地試圖將這一問題政治化。

我們還計劃為所有社群提供國民服役，目的是拉近年輕一代的距離。國民服役的性質尚未最終確定，但願上帝保佑，我們將在2004年實施。

伊斯蘭教在馬來西亞絕大多數人民的生活中扮演著重要的角色。馬來西亞的穆斯林都是遜尼派，都是伊瑪目沙菲益的追隨者。因此，他們應該團結一致，彼此之間不應發生爭執。

不幸的是，在爭取獨立的鬥爭中引入民主製度後，那些受過宗教教育的人為了追求高位和權力，脫離了巫統的主流，成立了“馬來亞伊斯蘭黨”（Party Islam Se Malaya），即泛馬來亞伊斯蘭黨（Pan Malayan Islam Party，簡稱PMIP）。現在，這個政黨被稱為“伊斯蘭黨”（PAS），這是“馬來西亞伊斯蘭黨”（Party Islam Malaysia）的不恰當縮寫。

事實上，為了爭取支持，伊斯蘭黨故意曲解了伊斯蘭教義。隨著時間的推移，他們的解讀變得越來越牽強和極端。他們從指責巫統成員是異教徒而不是穆斯林，發展到宣稱真主會像他們自己的黨魁一樣使用粗言穢語，並且真主是暴徒或幫派。

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伊斯蘭黨領導人對伊斯蘭教義的解讀有很多，這些解讀違背了伊斯蘭教的真正教義。馬來西亞的穆斯林陷入了混亂，無法團結。他們的分裂削弱了穆斯林的力量，而此時穆斯林正需要團結起來自救。

為了克服這個問題，最好的辦法是讓人民，尤其是年輕人，掌握正確的伊斯蘭教義，使他們能夠抵禦錯誤的教義。

不幸的是，這些錯誤的教義在孩子們還小的時候就被灌輸，在幼兒園和人民宗教學校，有時甚至由國民學校的宗教教師灌輸。我們看到，當這一代人成熟時，他們盲目地相信這種對伊斯蘭教的錯誤解讀。

他們不懂感恩，不懂感恩，喜歡誣告其他穆斯林，聽信某些人的胡言亂語，並與其他穆斯林為敵。他們現在已經到了試圖用武力推翻民選政府、恐嚇民眾、搶劫殺人的地步。

因此，政府必須采取行動，阻止這些錯誤教義在學校和其他機構中傳播。政府之所以援助人民宗教學校，是因為家長們喜歡把孩子送到這些學校，相信他們能更好地了解宗教。

但由於這些學校教授的並非真正的宗教，而是違背伊斯蘭教義的教義，政府無法再援助這些學校。如果我們支持任何違背伊斯蘭教義的行為，政府和政府中的穆斯林領導人都將犯下罪孽。

我們沒有關閉學校，我們隻是不提供援助。那些繼續援助的人將承擔罪孽，因為這些學校並非宗教學校，而是伊斯蘭黨的灌輸中心。

政府將監督所有偏離伊斯蘭教義的行為，並在國家學校提供學習正確伊斯蘭教義的設施，以確保新一代不僅能夠拒絕錯誤的伊斯蘭教義，而且能夠明辨善惡、是非。

另一個挑戰我們的內部問題是經濟和財政管理。為此，我們製定了一項政策和戰略，需要人民之間的理解與合作。我們不能像那些已經富裕起來的人一樣，因為我們還是一個發展中國家。

在我們目前的發展階段，我們隻能擁有某些設施。當我們的收入增加時，我們應該願意為使用的更好、更昂貴的設施支付略高的費用。我們中的一些人要求一流的設施，但卻隻願意支付三等價位的費用。如果我們想要一流的東西，就必須支付一流的價格。

現在，我們已經成為一個城市人口多於農村人口的國家。吉隆坡超過一百萬居民產生的垃圾，兩年內足以將整座城市掩埋在垃圾山之下。

我們必須清除這些垃圾。露天傾倒垃圾會汙染空氣，產生惡臭，引發非典等疾病，滋生老鼠和昆蟲，汙染地下水，最終流入河流，引發其他問題。露天焚燒會產生煙霧和有毒氣體，汙染大氣。

為了保護人民免受這些汙染，政府準備斥資超過15億令吉建造最先進、最安全的焚化爐。它比日本等發達國家的大多數焚化爐都要先進。

在日本，普通的焚化爐非常清潔，可以建在居民區中心。居民們把焚化爐用作休閑娛樂、遊泳俱樂部和其他活動的場所。沒有人對此提出抗議。人們為焚化爐支付了高昂的費用。

我們計劃建造一座最先進的焚燒爐，比日本和其他發達國家的許多焚燒爐更清潔，並將其建在遠離居民區的地區。這樣一來，就不會產生會汙染空氣的粉煤灰，從而保障人民的安全。

但是，這個國家比發達國家貧窮十倍，卻因為據稱會產生有毒氣體而抗議焚燒爐。我們變得如此傲慢，以至於比我們富裕十倍的人所能接受的汙染水平對我們來說都不夠好。

尚不富裕

我們還不富裕。我們甚至無法享受與發達國家相同的標準。但我們現在要求的標準要高於發達國家。相信我，如果我們這樣做，我們不會更加安全和健康，反而會因此而受苦。

在經濟方麵，我們的策略是量入為出，不過度借貸，並根據我們的財政能力和需求來管理我們的發展。

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我們希望確保成本具有競爭力的同時，生活水平不會過低。目前，我們人均收入約為4,000美元（15,200令吉），但憑借這些收入，我們在美國可以購買價值約9,000美元（34,200令吉）的商品和服務。

另一方麵，許多國家的工資很高，但商品和服務的價格卻高得多，導致生活水平實際上下降。

這些國家的人都是百萬富翁，但實際上都很窮。在馬來西亞，收入增長的速度超過了成本增長的速度。這意味著盡管物價上漲，我們仍然可以購買更多東西。

馬來西亞的工資水平可能與發達國家相比較低，但這並沒有導致我們的生活水平下降。在許多情況下，公共設施與發達國家相同，但使用這些設施的人的成本還不到發達國家的一半。

我們隻需支付7令吉即可過檳城大橋。日本人支付500令吉使用較短的橋梁。

我們可以提高工資，但如果工資增長與生產力增長不匹配，我們將失去競爭力。這樣一來，就不會有新的投資，現有的投資可能會轉移到其他國家。

就業機會將減少，許多人將失業。在這種情況下，由於工人數量超過了就業機會，工資不可能再上漲。

有些人認為可以通過罷工來提高工資。歐洲就是這麽做的。但如果我們研究一下就會發現，歐洲的經濟增長速度不如我們，失業率也比我們高。

他們發放失業津貼。隻有在失業人數較少且經濟增長良好的情況下，才能發放這種津貼。但當經濟低迷、政府收入減少時，失業人數就會增加，需要更多的資金來支付救濟金。這將對政府財政產生不利影響。

此外，由於失業津貼的存在，許多工人選擇不工作或隱瞞工作。這大大加重了政府的負擔，以至於政府現在不得不堅持要求必須完成某些工作才能領取津貼。換句話說，“失業津貼”是不可持續的。

馬來西亞沒有失業津貼。如果工人不工作，他的家人就必須供養他。失業者會為此感到羞恥，不願依賴家人，因此會尋求工作。然而，當失業的畢業生過多時，政府會為他們提供工作機會，並向他們發放臨時津貼。

我們需要自己的方法和策略。我們不能盲目地效仿歐洲的做法。但有些馬來西亞人喜歡效仿歐洲的做法，有些人已經很富裕了。他們不考慮國家的發展水平和我們的財政能力。他們喜歡我們揮霍無度、借錢。

如果政府為了贏得民心而答應他們的巨額支出要求，我們可能會變得像一些發展中國家一樣，無力償還外債，最終破產，並受製於國際機構。

還有很多內部問題需要處理。我就不一一贅述了。雖然我們在平衡不同種族之間的經濟財富方麵取得了一些成功，但在這個過程中，馬來人和其他土著變得過於依賴政府，隻能與政府打交道。沒有政府，沒有新經濟政策，他們就會崩潰。這威脅著馬來人和土著、馬來西亞人民以及我們摯愛的國家的未來。

黨員決定

巫統的命運

我們可以通過一個強大的政府來處理國內外問題。但黨內、巫統內部的問題，政府無法解決。唯一能夠解決的，是黨和黨員自己。

許多領導人和黨員在長期的成功之後，已經失去了真正的精神，而是將自身利益放在首位。黨內職位的爭奪變得如此激烈，以至於黨的利益、我們種族的利益和國家的利益都被置之不理。

巫統和馬來人正因這種態度而變得軟弱。自從巫統烏裏瑪分裂成伊斯蘭黨以來，我們看到巫統成員三次因為無法得到自己想要的東西而成立了分裂政黨。重建該黨需要付出巨大的努力和時間。

感謝真主，上次分裂的影響已不再像1999年大選那樣對黨產生影響。但仍然存在的威脅是，一些領導人和黨員蓄意破壞黨。

黨內競爭是為了選出最佳候選人和最佳領導人，而不是為了爭吵、生悶氣和尋求解脫。

報複，這可能會給黨和國家鬥爭帶來損失。懂得民主的人會在競選結束後團結一致，支持勝選的候選人，共同確保鬥爭的成功。

由於黨內競爭不健康，而且常常導致分裂，我們一直未能在區部和最高理事會層麵進行競爭，尤其是在選舉臨近的時候。

但就大選而言，無論我們是否願意，候選人都必須被選出。當一位候選人被選中時，未被選中的候選人可能會試圖確保候選人失敗。他們忘記了候選人失敗就是政黨失敗。但他們的態度是，寧願看到政黨失敗、反對黨獲勝，也不願看到黨內同事獲勝。記住，一旦他們被選中，他們也會成為這種態度的受害者。

目前，這種態度並不普遍。但它指向一個危險的方向。如果更多的人采取這種態度，政黨失敗的原因並非反對黨強大，而是因為巫統成員間接地與反對黨勾結。事實上，這是對黨、宗教、種族和民族鬥爭的背叛。

我們必須接受，我們終將退休，將我們的任務移交給下一代。如果黨員和領導人無法更新，如果新成員和領導人得不到接納，黨就無法繼續鬥爭。

我對此心懷感激，因為公主黨的成立得到了認可，公主黨和婦女組之間的合作也十分緊密。但在支部和部門層麵，有些人不願接納新成員，尤其是那些有資格的新成員，因為他們害怕失去職位。這種態度必須消除。否則，黨將與現有的老黨員和領導人一起消亡。

作為我國政府的骨幹力量，巫統麵臨的挑戰來自國外、國內以及黨內。如果我們不知如何應對這些挑戰，如果我們缺乏正確的精神和政治意願，巫統輝煌的曆史將會消逝，巫統將步其他國家那些已不複存在或失去權力的民族主義政黨的後塵。

堅守伊斯蘭教義

麵對這些挑戰，我們必須做好哪些準備？我已提到伊斯蘭教在馬來人生活中的作用。在增強馬來人的力量和抵抗力方麵，沒有什麽比伊斯蘭教更具有影響力。

但重要的是，我們要堅守真正的伊斯蘭教義，這些教義都是積極向上、富有建設性的，它們成就了我們的先知穆罕默德，它們也為早期穆斯林帶來了巨大的成功，使他們能夠將穆斯林的疆域擴大到幾乎全世界，並維持了1300年之久。

如果我們仔細研究，就會發現伊斯蘭教義強調善良和高尚的價值觀。我們被要求誦讀“Iqra”（求知）。我們被勸誡要成為伊斯蘭的兄弟，無論黨內、黨外還是國外。

我們被告知要信守承諾。我們被要求努力工作，學習各種有助於提升國防的技能，以及更多積極和建設性的技能。我們還被囑咐要拒絕邪惡和消極的事物。

如果我們堅持所有這些美好的價值觀並付諸實踐，並在麵臨挑戰時參考它們，如果真主願意，我們就會成功。

伊斯蘭教不會讓我們失望。真主並沒有注定穆斯林的命運總是悲慘的。《古蘭經》證實，真主不會改變任何群體的命運，除非該群體努力改變自己的命運。真主也明確指出，一切不幸都是我們自己造成的，隻有好運來自他。

因此，我們目前的厄運不可能完全來自真主。這種想法來自那些隻知道呼籲和祈禱求助，卻從未認真嚐試過拯救和改善自身命運的穆斯林。如果我們故意選擇住在火山腳下，那麽當火山爆發，房屋倒塌砸在我們頭頂，我們死去時，不要責怪真主，也不要認為這是命中注定。

巫統並非一個普通的政黨

巫統並非一個普通的政黨。巫統是執政黨。在馬來西亞，巫統扮演著非常重要的角色。如果沒有巫統及其鬥爭，我們的國家就不會在1957年獨立，也不會像現在這樣穩定和成功。這一點是所有人——包括馬來人、華人、印度人和馬來西亞各部落——以及外國人——都承認的。

因此，巫統各級黨員和領導人肩負著沉重的責任。隻有我們每個人都具備必要的價值觀、知識和技能，才能肩負起並成功履行這一責任。

沒有個人或團體

順利地建立起來。巫統有很多問題。感謝真主，到目前為止，我們已經成功地處理了大部分問題。

未來我們黨將麵臨更多問題和挑戰。巫統能否成功應對這些問題和挑戰，很大程度上取決於我們作為黨員和領導人的素質。

事實上，群體的成功將為群體中的每個成員帶來成功和利益。另一方麵，個人的成功並不能保證群體的成功。

更糟糕的是，個人的成功可能會給群體帶來不幸。巫統作為一個重要的群體，如果受到損害，將給馬來人、馬來西亞人、伊斯蘭教和國家帶來不幸。因此，巫統中的每個成員都必須努力為群體，即巫統帶來成功，而不是為了個人利益而進行不必要的鬥爭。作為穆斯林，我們必須懂得犧牲的意義，必須願意為群體的成功做出犧牲。

在戰爭中陣亡的人，今生將無法品嚐勝利的果實。我們並非要求巫統參戰並犧牲生命。我們隻是要求巫統優先考慮黨的成功。隻有黨的成功才能造福我們，而不是個人的成功。

在民主製度和政黨中，機會有限且偶然。它們並非我們奮鬥的理由。請記住，我們奮鬥是為了我們種族、宗教和祖國的榮譽和進步。身居高位是為了讓我們的鬥爭取得成功，而非我們奮鬥的目標。

如果我們自己沒有獲得這個高位，但那些獲得高位的人成功地實現了我們的目標，我們也不應該失望。我們種族、宗教和國家的成就也將由我們分享。我們也會獲得榮譽和高度評價。相反，如果因為我們不體麵的鬥爭而削弱了黨，我們可能會失去一切。

黨員必須做出犧牲

正因如此，巫統黨員必須做好犧牲的準備，才能獲得諸多利益。捫心自問，我們是否真的一無所獲，就因為我們不是支部領袖、區部領袖、最高理事會成員、選舉候選人、國會議員、部長或首相？

答案是，我們每個人都有所收獲。正因如此，我們才能停止個人鬥爭，確保黨的成功。破壞黨的人不應該留在黨內。黨內叛徒比公開宣稱的敵人更危險。

不要背叛黨和我們自己的種族。

其實，反對黨並不強大。他們無法擊敗巫統。但巫統可以擊敗巫統。我無需贅述。我們都知道。反對黨沒有贏。隻有巫統輸了。

如果我們對黨、對宗教、對種族的忠誠不被私利所削弱，巫統就不會輸。沒有任何一個政黨像巫統一樣，在恢複種族榮譽方麵取得如此巨大的成功。

馬來人從被殖民和壓迫的種族，如今被視為一個取得了巨大成功的種族，並成為世界許多人的榜樣。巫統為馬來人、土著、馬來西亞人民和馬來西亞做出的貢獻顯然非常巨大。不要讓我們的個人失望再次摧毀我們種族的榮譽。

請允許我重申，我們——巫統、馬來人和土著——的鬥爭尚未結束。我們還有很多事情要做。僅僅為了確保繼續保持獨立和自由，就需要持續不斷的巨大努力。更何況我們想通過成為一個發達國家的發達民族來徹底恢複我們的榮譽呢？

我再說一遍，巫統並非一個普通的政黨。巫統是統治這個摯愛國家的政黨的骨幹和主要推動者。如果巫統強大，那麽國民陣線就會強大，馬來西亞政府就會強大，馬來西亞也會強大。一個軟弱的巫統會給我們所有人帶來災難。

這是我最後一次正式為巫統大會致開幕詞。如果我耽擱了太多時間，請您原諒。我真心希望回報巫統，它給了我機會去實現我的想法，即恢複我的種族和人民的榮譽，幫助他們和我的國家進步。我是否成功，並非由我來評判。人民和曆史將評判和決定我的服務是好是壞。

我非常珍視巫統、馬來人、其他土著以及馬來西亞人民的支持，我感激並感謝他們所有人。我懇請您原諒我在領導這個神聖政黨期間所犯下的錯誤和過失。

感謝真主，感謝他給了他微不足道的仆人這個機會。我祈求他保護我的種族免受不良品質的侵害，使他們成為一個成功和受人尊敬的民族，完全服從我們神聖宗教的一切

教誨我們，要讓他們努力工作，這樣您才能保護我們的人民，讓他們獲得成功，成為穆斯林烏瑪的榜樣，成為那些服從您所有訓誡的人民的榜樣，噢，阿拉，阿敏。

懷著沉重而喜悅的心情，我謹以此祈禱，宣布巫統第54屆全體大會正式開幕。

較早的評論：
尼日利亞的BASHIR BARAU說道：
我出生在尼日利亞，但Mohathir博士的這篇文章改變了我的想法，讓我豁然開朗。我會再讀一遍，重新規劃我的未來。非常感謝，願您繼續保佑我。
2013年1月12日
MAGARET EMMS（來自NO DOUBLE STANDARD PLEASE）說道：
馬來西亞真可恥！我的意思是，你們所謂的歧視性新經濟政策，竟然把非穆斯林和原住民當成齊米對待。我們西方的政府雖然不是穆斯林，但對所有人都一視同仁，不分宗教、種族或信仰，一視同仁。為Ben點讚，因為他告訴了世界真相！
2005-08-02
來自澳大利亞的LAURIE BURGESS說：
這篇文章真是可恥。一個人和一個政府，如此腐敗暴虐，執掌政權，令人作嘔。這篇文章，無論出自作者本人，都值得認真思考。
2004-08-24
來自馬來西亞的NAZRUL說：
對於那些相信馬來西亞實行種族隔離的人，請親自來這裏看看。思考並形成自己的觀點。
2004-07-21
來自澳大利亞的BEN CHONG說：
你知道嗎，馬來西亞目前是世界上唯一實行種族隔離的國家。不信的話，去看看就知道了。問問那裏的少數非穆斯林華人和印度人就知道了。不幸的是，所有穆斯林占多數的國家慣用的伎倆就是恐嚇少數卡菲爾（異教徒），迫使他們屈服。在穆斯林軍隊的支持下，伊斯蘭民兵在20世紀60年代肆虐，焚燒、搶劫（以及強奸華裔婦女）無辜少數華裔的財產，並殺害他們，迫使他們屈服於臭名昭著的“新經濟政策”。這項政策實施了30多年，至今仍在實施。可笑的是，隻有大多數穆斯林人口支持這項政策。即使在今天，卡菲爾在馬來西亞境內表現出的任何流言蜚語或不滿情緒，幾乎都會立即導致穆斯林政客威脅他們，並提醒他們5月13日（那天警察和軍隊罷工，穆斯林民兵組織肆意屠殺無辜的卡菲爾華裔男女老少平民）。這種歧視性政策的運作方式是向勤勞的華人（齊米）征稅，無論貧富，然後將這些稅金以施舍和補貼的形式分配給穆斯林，無論貧富。今天，所有公共服務機構都由穆斯林擔任，公共獎學金隻提供給穆斯林，交通運輸執照也發給穆斯林，高等公共機構的席位也隻留給穆斯林，等等。穆斯林就是馬來人，而所謂的馬來人不過是來自印度（例如馬哈提亞博士）、沙特阿拉伯（例如外交部長賽義德·阿爾巴爾）、爪哇、蘇裏威西、亞齊等地的穆斯林移民。土著（原住民）或他們所稱的 orang asli 隻受到粗略的關注，他們正在積極地皈依伊斯蘭教。拋開虛偽。訪問馬來西亞，與非穆斯林交談。就像在《動物莊園》中一樣，在這裏，有些人比其他人更平等。 Marhathia博士應該更仔細地研究一下《聯合國憲章》。
2003-09-13
來自馬來西亞的AFIFI說道：
assalamualaikum……
首先……我非常感謝Mus兄弟，因為他很熱衷於回複我的信息……我接受他的第二種意見……在這裏，我認為馬來西亞人或世界上其他穆斯林應該避免……使用巫統、伊斯蘭黨、安華·易卜拉欣這樣的詞來形容馬來西亞穆斯林……因為…… ...我認為這隻會使情況變得更糟...畢竟這隻是一個政黨...他們不是天使...但到目前為止，我認為他們努力將馬來西亞打造成一個理想的伊斯蘭國家....我們應該研究或討論如何將烏瑪視為一個整體，我們也應該聚集我們的“力量”，以便未來生活得更好..此外，現在的穆斯林太弱了，無法自助，一直指望歐洲人來幫助他們...真主啊...必須做點什麽...馬來西亞自己已經開始使用金第納爾作為貨幣與其他伊斯蘭國家進行貿易，媒體稱馬來西亞和伊朗將在 12 月底左右實施它...我期待它成為現實，並希望其他穆斯林國家能夠支持並效仿...本周左右還將舉行“在布城舉行的世界伊斯蘭學者（烏萊瑪）會議”...也許會有一項可以實施的決議..讓穆斯林的未來更加光明...Alhamdulillah 因為我的國家已經嚐試過了我希望穆斯林世界能夠更加強大……其他穆斯林也能這樣做……願真主保佑我們。
2003-07-07
來自馬來西亞的MUZ說道：
Asslamualaikum，
親愛的Afifi，我的兄弟，我有沒有說過，我很高興看到我的同胞兄弟們信仰崩塌？從過去的曆史來看

奧裏說過，沒有任何種族或任何人能夠永遠掌握政治權力。這包括馬來人。我自己的種族。

如今，華人和印度人在經濟和教育方麵更加強大，因為他們比馬來人付出了更多努力才能取得成功。真主是公平的……任何奮鬥更多的人都會得到更多。我再重複一遍——任何人，無論他是不是穆斯林、馬來人，因為真主對所有人都是公平的。

我們不應該過多談論你的種族。穆斯林的義務是服務於伊斯蘭教，無論他是什麽種族。伊斯蘭教不是巫統，伊斯蘭教不是伊斯蘭黨。這意味著——伊斯蘭教就是伊斯蘭教！而且我不是伊斯蘭黨或巫統——我是一名穆斯林，正在觀察和思考我們的領導人所做的事情。巫統或伊斯蘭黨並不總是正確的。他們是政客，那麽我們就知道今天的政治是怎樣的了。他們互相說壞話。對於好事……他們隻是試圖掩蓋，有時他們不承認。我們不能說巫統好或伊斯蘭黨更好……因為他們都是政客！讓我們向真主祈禱，願馬來西亞乃至全世界的所有穆斯林都能再次團結一致。

無論如何，我感謝真主今天賜予馬來西亞的恩賜。
2003-07-05
來自加拿大的MOHAMED FARAH說：
不以史為鑒的人注定要重蹈覆轍。看來人類
又陷入困境，貪婪的人掌控了一切。
2003-07-04
來自馬來西亞的AFIFI說：
Assalamualaikum……對於馬哈蒂爾的演講，我沒什麽可說的，我認為馬哈蒂爾……隻是表達了他對當今世界，尤其是穆斯林世界和馬來世界所發生的事情的看法。
在這裏，我隻想就馬來西亞的Nazli和Mus對演講的評論發表我的看法。1)..Dr.去年，馬哈迪曾試圖要求伊斯蘭黨加入巫統。我認為他可能想要停止伊斯蘭黨和巫統之間的爭吵，進一步加強該國的伊斯蘭教，但是...伊斯蘭黨不同意加入。2）對我來說，作為馬來人，我知道他所說的馬來人的消極態度是完全正確的......因此，除了馬哈迪博士之外，還有誰想糾正馬來人的態度，因為他是他們的領導人......馬來人需要聽取歐洲人的意見嗎......我不這麽認為......3）關於馬來西亞的教育，作為一名學生，我認為......現在已經走上正軌。關於獎學金或在馬來西亞深造的資金。我認為這不是問題，因為馬來西亞政府已經在預算中提供了一大筆錢，以滿足國家經濟的需求，因為馬來西亞仍然是一個發展中國家。4）我不知道納茲利怎麽說。馬哈迪沒有想過要培養馬來企業家，他已經想了很多，我不想談論它...但如果你問馬來西亞人關於 PNB、petronas、proton 的事情，他們知道所有這些都是“馬來人”的...然而馬來人不能隻是等著得到政府的幫助。他們還必須努力提高自己..當然政府不能總是喂他們吃奶..5）我討厭穆茲先生這麽說..馬來人會崩潰..我想問他..他喜歡這樣嗎？他怎麽能這樣？我們能想象一個穆斯林……樂意看到另一個穆斯林垮台嗎？（……不過，我想在這裏說的是……馬來人對其他種族過於寬容……其他種族也欣賞馬來人……大多數非馬來人尊重並愛戴他們的總理。6）馬來西亞也正在遵循伊斯蘭教義，但需要時間來落實，否則對非穆斯林來說就不公平了。
2003-07-04
來自美國的RIAZ SURTI說：
馬哈蒂爾總統的評論很有啟發性。我喜歡他提出的國家應該量入為出的觀點（許多其他國家都衰落了）。此外，我也喜歡伊斯蘭教對本國公民和鄰國采取的平衡和善意的態度。最後，我喜歡他警告人民即將到來的某些危險。我很高興讀到這篇文章。
2003-07-02
來自英國的SHARIF說：
好文章。Alain Jean-Mairet，你到底怎麽了？我們現在都知道你是猶太複國主義者，所以承認吧。與其像往常一樣無視事實，不如讀讀Uri Avnerny和Noam Chomsky的書。事實上，你應該從鴕鳥心態中清醒過來，麵對現實。
2003-07-02
來自馬來西亞的MUZ說：
Assalamualaikum，
在第一頁和第二頁，用“Nas-ra-ni”（這個詞在《古蘭經》中可以找到——請查證）代替“歐洲人”這個詞更準確。並非所有歐洲人都是壞人，《古蘭經》中也提到Nas-ra-ni要從各個方麵摧毀穆斯林——我們可以和他們做朋友，但必須非常小心，不要落入他們的陷阱。
在第三頁，
關於民主製度的事實是正確的。所以……如果現行的民主製度會讓我們走向毀滅，那就讓我們思考並研究一下我們偉大的哈裏發（阿布·巴卡、奧馬爾、奧斯曼和阿裏）時期的“正義與發展”（Syu-Ra）製度。你會找到答案，哪個製度最好！
關於伊斯蘭黨，
伊斯蘭黨並不像你說的那麽糟糕，巫統也不像你想的那麽糟糕。他們都是政客……哪一個更好？……如果你想要答案，那就研究一下“正義與發展”（Syu-Ra）製度吧！
對於馬來人來說，
馬來西亞現在發生的事情並沒有完全遵循伊斯蘭教義，馬來政府對其他種族不公平……現在，其他種族，比如華裔/印度裔，正在崛起。

經濟實力日益強大，甚至超過了馬來人。總有一天，馬來人會因為其他種族遭受的不公平待遇而崩潰。為什麽？因為真主對所有人都是公平的！
2003-07-02
來自馬來西亞的納茲裏說道：
馬哈迪關於西方的言論在某種程度上是正確的。然而，他對馬來人、穆斯林、多種族群體以及馬來西亞的所作所為，還有很大的改進空間。
1. 為什麽他不能支持在現有的狹義伊斯蘭教法下，為馬來西亞的穆斯林群體實施伊斯蘭刑事法？他一直以穆斯林領袖自居。難道他不能運用他“天才”的頭腦，找到一個最明智的方法來實施這項法律嗎？如果他這麽做了，伊斯蘭黨的問題就迎刃而解了。
2. 為什麽他總是把馬來人持續的消極態度歸咎於他們？難道他就不能想想辦法，製定一個建設性的計劃，在中學和小學階段增加一些以培養正確態度為重點的科目嗎？
3. 非馬來人不滿的主要原因在於最近推行的“都市政治”（Metrocracy）教育政策。難道他不能確保每個決定深造的人都能進入符合自身興趣的大學，並幫助所有需要經濟援助的人——無論他們是否需要！？
4. 他難道不能充分利用不同種族的人力資源，為國家發展做出貢獻嗎？
5. 他難道不能想想如何尋找和培養馬來企業家，以平衡他與非馬來人的股權嗎？

……以及其他諸多問題！

最後，他擅長籌備所有基礎設施建設，但在國家建設方麵卻失敗了。
2003-07-02
來自孟加拉國的納茲穆爾·阿赫桑（NAZMUL AHSAN）說：
這種言論會給發展中國家製造替罪羊。缺乏教育是落後的根源。如果我們總是譴責撒旦，將我們的惡行歸咎於撒旦，那麽情況隻會變得更糟。我們應該先挑自己的毛病，然後再挑別人的毛病。無論哪個國家，鄰國都有一種本能，那就是趁著鄰國動亂不順風順水。我們沒必要走得太遠。日本對鄰國的所作所為，我們最近就有先例。
2003-07-02
來自美國的 MAHBOOB HASAN 說：
馬哈蒂爾博士是當今穆斯林世界唯一一位有遠見和勇氣闡明事實的領導人。他的演講非常精彩……這是一篇必讀的文章。
2003-07-01
來自美國的 KHAN 說：
這篇文章太棒了！
2003-06-30
來自美國的 YADI KON 說：
大家好。我非常欣賞總理的演講。我希望所有第三世界國家的領導人都能收到這位誠實無畏的人一生難得的講話。讀到這裏，我禁不住淚流滿麵。這個世界正在走向錯誤的方向。為什麽其他種族停滯不前，讓歐洲人（包括美國人）主宰一切？我們生死一次，讓我們活得有尊嚴。我隻是敬畏真主。我們穆斯林和其他人必須在為時已晚之前捍衛我們與生俱來的權利，否則我們所有人都將付出高昂而昂貴的代價。歐洲人正在帶領人類走向自我毀滅。幾個世紀以來，他們一直對其他種族施暴，並且從那時起就一直在使用分而治之的製度。我的兄弟姐妹們，請醒醒吧，不要被利用。每當他們關起門來的時候，他們都會團結起來，為非洲人、亞洲人、拉丁美洲人和南美洲人謀福利……即使在上次伊拉克危機期間，法國人也在為自己的利益而玩遊戲，而不是因為同情伊拉克人民。我會為下一代保留這份演講的副本，我會確保盡可能多的人閱讀它。為了人類的生存，我們需要像馬哈蒂爾兄弟這樣的領導人。任何不這樣做都是不文明的。請告訴我在哪裏可以得到法語的抄本。我來自法語國家，但住在美國。我希望這篇演講能在那裏發表，讓我的人民閱讀。願真主保佑他，賜予他祝他健康長壽，免受惡人的侵害，並在來世賜予他至高無上的天堂。AMINA
2003-06-30
來自加拿大的 JALEELA RAFEE 說：
我欣賞他敢於說出真相的勇氣。
2003-06-30
來自美國的 DEWSON INJEASI 說：
雖然馬哈蒂爾關於歐洲人種的說法是正確的，但他本人就是個種族主義者。歐洲人屠殺並趕走了他們征服的土地上的原住民，這是事實，馬來人也是如此，事實上，馬來人幾乎在馬來人之前就使馬來半島的原住民部落（現在被稱為尼格利陀人的部落）滅絕。我認為馬來西亞是一個非常成功的國家，需要繼續發展。
2003-06-29
來自索馬裏的 J.A 說：
真主保佑。如果有人想知道真相，就應該讀一讀。wasalamu aleykum
2003-06-29
來自馬來西亞的 NURAINI 說：
我的國家並不完美，我接受一些人在評論中提出的一些批評。其他批評我持矛盾態度，但對於一些批評，比如我們（馬來人）與原住民和非穆斯林的團結，我必須提出質疑。盡管這並非沒有種族間差異。

盡管存在誤解，但我們是一個不分種族和宗教、守望相助的民族。我猜米爾斯先生指的是原住民（馬來人和土著人）相對於最初的華人和印度人移民（碰巧他們大多數都不是穆斯林）的特殊地位。我要指出，雖然這種優惠政策白人無法理解，但我相信如果你問美洲原住民或澳大利亞原住民，他們會理解的，因為如果沒有他們，馬來原住民早就在我們先輩和血脈相連的土地上陷入經濟和政治貧困。問問那些土地被偷走的美洲原住民，我們給予馬來人特殊地位的政策是否合理。在我們獨立時，移民們甚至同意了這一點——他們允許我們這樣做，作為交換，我們給予他們所有人公民身份。他們對此沒有質疑，就像我們也沒有質疑他們作為我們兄弟公民的權利一樣。在我們國家，很少有人會說任何侮辱他人宗教的話。在海外，我們彼此吸引，馬來西亞人與馬來西亞人之間，盡管從種族角度來看，馬來西亞的馬來人應該與印尼馬來人吸引，馬來西亞的華人應該與華人吸引。我的國家有些事情我不認同，但正因如此，我比任何外國人都能理解地熱愛它。而且我並非唯一一個有這種感覺的人。
2003-06-29
來自美國的G.LYKINS說：
馬哈蒂爾博士的評論讓我讀起來非常痛苦，但不幸的是，這些評論有其道理、必要，而且太真實了。我們的世界已經變得太狹小、太危險，以至於我們無法不麵對真相。我祈禱西方能夠覺醒自我意識。
2003-06-29
RUBEN MILLS FROM BIG BULLSHIT 說：
英國人說“實話實說”。任何事物都要直呼其名。那麽馬哈蒂爾應該知道他是印度穆斯林。我不明白，一個開創了種族隔離式歧視性新經濟政策、歧視非穆斯林30多年、至今仍在繼續的人，怎麽會說些胡話！
2003-06-28
MARLENE 說：
首相的講話有一定道理，但也存在很多前後矛盾之處。
推斷隻有“歐洲人”才是好戰分子，仿佛這是一種遺傳特征，這簡直荒謬。不幸的是，這是人類自古以來的共同特征。我猜首相忘了珍珠港事件，或者忘了馬來西亞現在很可能隻是日本的一個省，除了那些好戰的“歐洲人”。

可能是在迎合大眾，但錯失了良機。

2003-06-28
來自美國的 ROB M 說：
非常有啟發性。有助於更好地理解穆斯林世界如何看待西方（歐洲）世界，尤其是我國。雖然很少有美國人會同意首相對歐洲種族的評價，但這番觀點引人入勝，我從未在美國聽到過這樣的表達。
2003-06-27
來自美國的 S.C. WEAVER 說：
我覺得文章中的一切都令人悲傷，但卻是事實。
2003-06-26
來自加拿大的 MOHAMED RIAZ 說：
非常誠實，信息量很大。我希望馬哈蒂爾先生能夠詳細闡述如何抵抗歐洲的入侵，或者避免被吞噬。他正確地指出，歐洲的入侵不僅會以物質形式出現，還會以文化、學校、宗教以及其他許多隱蔽的方式出現。現在馬來西亞民眾知道是怎麽回事了嗎……還是他們已經被卷入其中，卻渾然不知？
2003-06-26
來自泰國的 MITCH 說：
研究一下他，你就會明白什麽是偉大的領導力！
2003-06-25
來自新加坡的 SHAHARI AHMAD 說：
這相當準確地描述了歐洲/美國的隱藏議程。
2003-06-25
來自馬來西亞的 MAT 說：
人們必須明白，馬哈蒂爾的總理任期即將結束，所以他會在十月退休前留下任何痕跡。我並不完全同意他最近的演講，也不完全同意他之前的演講，因為作為一名穆斯林民主黨人，我反對他的大部分獨裁政策。

我同意，在他的任期內，盡管他貢獻甚微，但他為我國帶來了許多發展，華人應該得到更多讚譽。他的政黨是個騙局！腐敗、徇私舞弊等等接踵而至，馬來西亞現在最令人擔憂的情況是，他試圖培養另一個獨裁者，因為他規定不選舉下任副總理，這意味著下任總理將親自挑選他的副總理。民主就這樣了，不是嗎？媒體被他掌控（TV1 注意這裏），公開演講是禁忌，除非你在自己家裏，互聯網是監控器等等。

至於他的世界觀，我非常同意他的一些觀點，但是嘿！事已至此，我們必須應對。不要用你那薄弱的警衛來縱容你的黨員，當真正的威脅來臨時，他們就會分崩離析。以世界公民的身份思考，世界就會認可你。
2003年6月25日
來自美國的薩伊德·S說道：
阿蘭-讓·邁雷先生，

我們又看到一篇發人深省的文章。我們感謝馬哈蒂爾先生的努力。簡而言之，我相信

我認為這篇文章的許多事實都值得稱讚。西方文明總體上對人類文明做出了巨大貢獻，這得益於它借鑒了東方文明，尤其是穆斯林文明。這一點無人可否認；否則，人們需要查閱世界各地圖書館的曆史書籍。此外，歐洲人確實在各大洲造成了最大的破壞。這裏提出的問題是：哪些歐洲人？答案是：殖民時期的歐洲人。我認為，如今的歐洲，除了英國以外，在處理世界事件時都相當理性。沒有人能如此確定它今後的意圖。
邁雷先生，
我推薦一位作家供您閱讀，以便您核實您關於世界曆史的事實。諾姆·喬姆斯基是一位美國學者，他肯定能證實馬哈蒂爾的一些事實。話雖如此，我是一名穆斯林，移民到美國是為了享受美國帶來的好處，包括像我現在這樣自由地表達自我。我愛她，我選擇她作為我永恒的家園；然而，沒有人能夠否認歐洲人過去的成就，更不能說其他種族是完美的。

2003-06-24
來自瑞士的阿蘭·讓-邁雷說：
哈迪先生：
一個誠實的人不能把美軍對阿富汗和伊拉克的幹預稱為“暴行”。相反，盡可能客觀地審視事實表明，美國竭盡全力將其行動集中在真正的軍事目標上，而伊拉克人則一再試圖混入民眾之中，以便盡可能多地製造平民受害者，因為對於一個為了在民眾中維持恐怖和尊重而例行施以酷刑的政權來說，這很正常。哈迪先生，這些人正是您現在所捍衛的。

如果我們統計一下歐洲、非洲、亞洲和其他領導人造成的慘痛傷亡和苦難，我不太確定我們能否找到證據來支持你所謂的歐洲人最壞的論點。

把對馬哈蒂爾先生的批評者與薩達姆·侯賽因的態度相提並論簡直是瘋了。薩達姆·侯賽因殺害的穆斯林比美國殺害的還要多。如果每次有人譴責美國霸權行徑時，美國就發動戰爭，那麽它首先會摧毀美國。西方是言論自由（Droits de l'homme）的聖地。馬哈蒂爾先生使用的所有論點實際上都來自西方。你也能在美國找到對美國過去和現在外交政策最激烈（受過良好教育）的批評者，其次是歐洲。馬哈蒂爾先生對局勢的描述是先入為主且帶有偏見的。他試圖把事情說得很糟糕，為此他不得不在曆史問題上耍花招（講述特定事實，總是用同樣的眼光），以至於任何知情人士都不會認真對待他。他所做的就是宣傳，他想取悅民眾普遍存在的反西方情緒，因為他知道這種情緒存在於民眾中，他想通過轉移公眾對他自身缺點的注意力來取悅民眾。
願真主幫助我們所有人，讓我們都能自立。
2003-06-24
來自印度（古吉拉特邦）的 SOHEL 說：
文章中的一切都是真實的。
2003-06-23
來自美國的 MUHAMMAD HADI 說：
關於之前的帖子，我認為 Alain Jean-Mairet 先生試圖掩蓋歐洲人持續不斷的暴行，而你卻說“批評過去毫無意義……”。

統治全球的願望在西方人心中根深蒂固。阿富汗和伊拉克戰爭並非曆史遺留問題。即使是小孩子也能理解西方在這些暴行中所暗藏的帝國主義陰謀。我並非說普通西方人也參與其中。但如今，沒有人能夠否認西方統治精英的思維模式，他們會不擇手段地滿足全球企業體係“錢生錢”的邏輯，而這又是西方獨有的惡毒設計。

這位評論員認為馬哈蒂爾毫無勇氣可言。我倒要問問，在中東或亞洲，哪位領導人敢於公開批評美國，因為他們若無其事地將遭受與那位殘暴的伊拉克獨裁者（反正他對美國來說已經毫無用處）相同的命運？事實上，一位亞洲國家領導人拒絕國際貨幣基金組織的貸款，或公開反對歐洲人的壓迫，都需要勇氣。無論你是否意識到這一點，都無關緊要。

歐洲人談論自由、不受譴責等等，其“幼稚的傲慢”毋庸置疑，而普通西方人則被少數媒體大亨灌輸的觀念所蒙蔽。

最後，我懇請穆斯林們設法提升自身的知識水平，並利用一切合適的資源自力更生。願真主保佑我們所有人。

2003-06-23
來自美國的賽義德·汗說道：
馬哈蒂爾博士的演講非常精彩。他是一位真正的世界領袖。政府

其他地方的做法如果能聽取並踐行他的想法，就會有所改善。
2003-06-23
來自馬來西亞的努萊尼（NURAINI）說：
第一頁和第二頁本不該有爭議——它們都是事實，而且以一種引人深思的方式呈現。但對於非馬來西亞人來說，請注意，雖然第三頁也包含真相，但它是用標準的巫統政治辭令表達的——伊斯蘭黨（PAS）沒那麽糟糕，巫統本身也有一些缺點。事情並非如此黑白分明 :)
2003-06-23
來自美國的穆罕默德·哈迪（MUHAMMAD HADI）說：
大家好，祝大家平安！

我想，像馬蒂爾·穆罕默德這樣的領導人就應該發表這樣的言論。我希望第三世界的穆斯林（和非穆斯林）人民能夠意識到資本主義和自由市場經濟的邪惡陰謀，它無視任何生命價值和道德倫理準則。

據我觀察，穆斯林國家正與世界銀行、國際貨幣基金組織等“八爪魚”糾纏不清，尤其是巴基斯坦、孟加拉國、印度尼西亞等人口稠密的穆斯林國家。

我希望土耳其現任領導人能夠認真聽取我的講話，找到讓土耳其在加入歐盟之外再次強大起來的方法。他們應該努力與穆斯林國家加強合作，增加貿易往來。埃爾多安先生最近確實訪問了馬來西亞。我希望這種趨勢能夠持續下去。

如果穆斯林政府不改變盲目遵循國際貨幣基金組織和世界銀行處方的政策，那麽大多數人民將任由本土和西方超級富豪擺布。到那時，我們所有的倫理、道德和人生價值觀都將被徹底摧毀，以至於沒有任何抵抗力量能夠存在。

但他們在計劃，真主安拉也在計劃。願真主在穆斯林中興起堅定、敬畏真主、高瞻遠矚的領袖，以維護生命準則和人道精神。
2003-06-23
來自瑞士的阿蘭·讓-邁雷 (ALAIN JEAN-MAIRET) 說道：
作者實際上在重複他所說的“歐洲人”所犯的錯誤。他假裝了解情況，擁有正確的解決方案，並能夠應用它們，實際上卻把更多的時間花在批評他人上，而不是揭露他如此自信於自身品質的動機。這種幼稚的傲慢確實是西方經常犯的錯誤。但至少在這裏，它受到了公開的批評。評論家們認為說出這些話需要勇氣，這是一種錯覺：在西方，批評無處不在；譴責通常被認為是極其錯誤的，權力的行使是公眾不斷反思的對象。

如果你無法將過去的經驗結晶為真正的智慧，那麽批判過去毫無意義。世界需要的不是新的無所不知的領導者。無論他們提出什麽建議、做什麽（是的，即使是先知），最終都是錯的。世界需要的是一種反思的機製，將我們最好的知識和技能應用於當前的具體情況，一種將過去已知的錯誤中和的機製。我們已經犯了太多錯誤。我們至少應該努力避免重蹈覆轍。
2003-06-23
來自澳大利亞的R說：
這是一篇由一位優秀領導者撰寫的優秀文章。他直言不諱，敢於表達自己的想法。這一點必須得到尊重。
2003-06-23
來自美國的ARD說：
感謝Islamity刊登這篇文章，其中包含了我對歐洲文化的諸多見解，而歐洲文化也正是我自己的文化。對你們的許多讀者來說，我的文化很容易與“資本主義”、“帝國主義”、“享樂主義”等聯係起來。但請特別注意馬哈蒂爾博士對歐洲人的描述：“他們永不滿足於現狀，總是想改進，使之變得更好、更高效，無論出於何種目的。任何事物，無論是工具、製度還是意識形態，都經過他們的不斷改進。”

共產主義是歐洲文化的產物，它試圖取代主流社會製度，但最終失敗了。它的缺陷導致了它的消亡。但我們中的許多人仍在繼續致力於引入新的思維方式、信仰方式和組織方式。我們並不滿足於今天的我們。我承認我們在非歐洲國家侵略者所犯下的危險和破壞性行為——馬哈蒂爾博士對此進行了準確的記錄——與此同時，我也為我文化中永不停歇的精神和活力感到自豪。 1933年，歐洲人阿爾弗雷德·科日布斯基（Alfred Korzybski）在其著作《科學與理智》（第521頁）中，將歐洲文化描述為“我們所謂的文明，處於幼稚的非社會化水平，建立在自私、‘感官’滿足、強權、殘酷競爭、貪婪等等之上……商業主義，即‘供求規律’，作為副產品，也源於幼稚的世界觀。”我們中的許多人，冒著個人風險，致力於通過改進科學、教育、通訊等手段的應用，來改變你我所譴責的歐洲人的行為。

等等。伊斯蘭教通過提供類似這樣的評論平台，進一步推進了這一目標。
2003-06-23
來自加拿大的 MANNA 說：
看到一位領導人敢於說出真相，即使這意味著冒犯當權者，也令人感到欣慰。更令人欣慰的是，他敢於以自己的宗教信仰為指導。最重要的是，這位領導人是一位穆斯林，並且自豪且無所畏懼，這讓我對我們穆斯林的未來充滿希望。願真主賜福這位好醫生。iviews，感謝您分享這篇精彩的演講。
2003-06-22
來自美國的 KAMRAN JAMEEL 說：
我讚同馬哈蒂爾博士的觀點。在他的領導下，馬來西亞的成功證明了他政策的正確性。我希望看到馬來西亞在伊斯蘭國家的領導地位中發揮更大的作用，以便廣大穆斯林都能從他的領導和清晰的思路中受益。

我也希望他能更加寬容地對待反對意見，無論這些反對意見來自他自己的黨內還是其他黨派。
2003-06-22
來自阿聯酋的穆罕默德·法齊說道：
願真主保佑馬哈蒂爾兄弟，寬恕他的錯誤。我自豪地稱他為一位領導者，他身上體現了伊斯蘭教義中一些非常優秀的品質。

他的評論富有洞察力，表明真主賜予他知識和智慧。在穆斯林領導人似乎放棄伊斯蘭教作為解決自身弊病的良方的時代，這位領導人卻從伊斯蘭教中尋求解決方案。即使真相不受歡迎，他也會講真話。伊斯蘭教教導我們，麵對暴君說真話是一種良好的品格，而馬哈蒂爾兄弟正是這樣做的。

願真主賜予他豐盛的祝福，也願我們擁有那些尋求真主及其使者指引的領導人。
2003-06-22
來自英國的塔爾哈·艾哈邁德說道：
穆罕默德·穆罕默德，如同任何一位偉大的領袖一樣，雖然優點眾多，但也有缺點。他對當前世界局勢的評估非常準確，他對真正伊斯蘭教義的呼籲也非常明確。但我不得不說，他攻擊他人的方式，主要是針對伊斯蘭黨，以及他對安瓦爾·易卜拉欣的間接攻擊，令人遺憾。我出生在遠離馬來西亞的孟加拉國，現在生活在西方，但由於我的家庭傳統，我有幸了解馬來西亞、馬哈蒂爾、安瓦爾·易卜拉欣和伊斯蘭黨。事實上，安瓦爾是我叔叔和父親的好朋友。我認為我非常敬佩的穆罕默德·穆罕默德博士，因為他渴望維護真正的伊斯蘭教義，並希望看到伊斯蘭教取得勝利，因此他需要重新思考他對伊斯蘭主義者的看法，以便他自己的觀點能夠占據主導地位，並實現他希望看到伊斯蘭教取得勝利的夢想和願望。除了他在國內政治中將黨派置於個人思想和願望之上之外，他的演講堪稱一位偉大領袖的演講，他洞悉挑戰，並找到了出路。
願真主保佑我們所有人，賜予我們知識，寬恕我們所有的罪孽，哪怕是最大的罪孽！馬薩拉姆。
2003-06-22
來自巴基斯坦的穆吉塔巴·艾哈邁德說：
好吧，馬哈蒂爾博士說的大部分內容都切題，甚至是正確的。但在閱讀了他對資本主義為滿足物質欲望而進行的掠奪的評估後，我們很希望我們的好博士能啟發我們，如何戰勝隨之而來的、受國際貨幣基金組織和世界貿易組織啟發的新殖民主義。請問有什麽想法？
2003-06-22
來自波黑的KLGIRL70說：
一位偉大領袖的精彩演講！值得我們所有人深思。我在 http://www.pmo.gov.my/WebNotesApp/PMMain.nsf/fsMainPM 上也找到了他鼓舞人心的演講集。

願上帝保佑馬哈迪博士，請繼續寫作。筆比劍更有力量！:)
2003-06-22
來自加拿大的 R.ISHAQ 說：
祝馬哈迪博士和所有讀者一切順利！
現在，他是所有伊斯蘭國家領導人的領袖！我希望他們讀到他的文章，並效仿他！
先生們，你們無需躲藏！
團結起來，你們就是力量。
Wa Salaam
Rauf。
2003年6月22日
來自美國的邁克爾·阿卜杜勒-哈基姆說道：
Assalaamu 'alaikum，
我感謝真主，他讓我看到了這個世界生活中的種種弊端。我要告訴你們，要踐行《古蘭經》，真主會保護我們免受任何所謂超級大國的侵害。請教導你們的男女信徒學習《古蘭經》，真主會保佑我們，並賜予我們所需的幫助，讓我們能夠保護自己。我很高興讀到馬哈蒂爾兄弟的演講，他的觀點非常正確。
2003年6月22日
來自加拿大的姆迪安·馬茲布迪說道：
願真主保佑馬哈蒂爾博士以及像他一樣，敢於直言，不懼怕任何強大真主的人。
我們需要像他這樣的領導人，這樣世??界和人類才能安然無恙。

Abu Saad
2003-06-21
來自美國的TAPIWA說：
As salam u alaykum。非常好的演講，alhamdulilah。這位兄弟明辨是非，除了真主之外無所畏懼，我們所有人都應該如此。希望我們都能從他的演講中汲取教訓，回歸《古蘭經》和聖訓，如果真主願意的話。
2003-06-21
來自巴基斯坦、居住在加拿大的ISHTIAQ MUHAMMAD說：
馬來西亞總理的分析非常出色。我認為這樣的演講和文章應該繼續發表。
2003-06-21
來自美國的SRDALBIZU說：

太聰明了！隻有了解自身曆史的人，才能為即將到來的心理、道德甚至肉體上的戰爭做好準備。而戰爭總是來自一個群體：白人。
2003-06-21
來自印度的F.M.QURESHI博士說：
感謝您開明的演講。其他所謂的穆斯林領導人需要從您基於事實的闡述和深刻的思考中獲得啟發。在當今的單極世界，隻有您才能說出真相。非常感謝。令人深切擔憂的是，歐美所謂的民主國家正一心想通過對第三世界國家采取侵略姿態和戰爭販子行徑來毀滅世界。看來，中東國家以及其他第三世界國家被歐洲人（美國人）殖民以獲取經濟利益的日子已經不遠了。
2003-06-21
來自加拿大的NASREEN RAHMAN說：
我完全同意馬哈蒂爾博士的演講，他說得非常正確。
2003-06-21
來自澳大利亞的阿裏說：

關於歐洲的評論是正確的，我完全同意。然而，馬哈蒂爾的激進姿態隻是為了使他針對伊斯蘭運動的討伐合法化而做的幌子。他比那些明顯的美國傀儡更危險。
2003-06-21
來自加拿大的阿克巴爾·汗說：
As-Salaam-U-Alaiykum，

ALHUMDULILLAH！

這位親愛的穆斯林兄弟，對我讀過的近50年來西方殖民曆史、目標和西方人行為的真相進行了最精彩的總結！這位醫生描述“民主”弊端的方式也總結得非常到位！我們應該在講真話的同時，尊重他的勇氣和卓越！有一件事是肯定的：盡管西方一遍又一遍地試圖用謊言塑造曆史，現在他們又試圖用謊言塑造未來的思想，但我知道，隻要像您這樣勇敢的兄弟們能夠看到真相並繼續宣揚它，希望就永遠存在！無論人類如何努力掩蓋真相，有一件事永遠不會改變，那就是真相……我同意馬哈蒂爾博士的觀點，他不是種族主義者，或者諸如此類的人……他正在為人們打開大門，讓他們去研究這篇演講中概述的這些真相要點，以便人們能夠真正地發現自己。詛咒黑暗更好，還是照亮光明更好？？？嗯，考慮到曆史上美國或英國政府在講真話方麵很糟糕，很明顯，糾正謊言是一回事，詛咒黑暗又是另一回事。這位博士勇敢地揭示了這個問題！

Wa-Salaam-U-Alaiykum。
2003-06-21
來自澳大利亞的MATHUSIN說：
說得好，其他人總是避而不談。
2003-06-21
來自加拿大的ANAS說：
看到領導人有勇氣站出來反對美國人和歐洲人，說出真相，真是令人欣慰。

馬哈蒂爾博士加油！
2003-06-21
來自美國的AHMEDABUL說：
正如伊斯蘭教先知穆罕默德（願主賜福於他）告訴我們的那樣，讓我們??變得軟弱的是對這個世界的熱愛。願真主指引我們所有人。阿門。

這是一次精彩的演講。感謝iViews發布這篇演講稿供大家欣賞。這是一次真誠的演講，似乎發自內心。演講中對所有穆斯林提出了真誠的建議。願真主保佑馬來西亞，保佑伊斯蘭教和所有穆斯林，引導我們走上正路，讓我們在兩世再次獲得成功。阿門。
2003-06-20

Mahathir's speech on a changed world

 BY: MAHATHIR MOHAMAD   SOURCE: IVIEWS JUN 20, 2003 59 COMMENTS 

https://www.islamicity.org/2075/mahathirs-speech-on-a-changed-world/

 

MALAYSIA HAS CHANGED

There have been many changes during the 46 years we have been independent. From a country limited to the Malay peninsula only, we have grown to become Malaysia with the voluntary accession of Sarawak and Sabah. The population of Malaysia has increased from just over five million to 25 million now. 

The rate of development of the infrastructure in Malaysia has been rapid. Among them are the expressways linking the North to the South and the West to the East of the peninsula. In Sabah and Sarawak the main roads are not yet expressways but are far better than during the British period. Motor vehicles can reach practically all the towns and villages throughout the country. 

The rural areas have changed with tarred rural roads, schools, clinics, electricity and water supply. 

The towns have grown rapidly with skyscrapers even in the former rubber and palm oil estates. Kuala Lumpur, the capital, is well known for its Petronas Twin Towers and the Kuala Lumpur Tower. Putrajaya has been built as the Administrative Capital with handsome and prestigious office buildings. The Sultan Abdul Samad Building which was before the landmark of the Malaysian capital has now been replaced by the handsome buildings of Putrajaya which reflect the culture and the progress achieved by Malaysia. 

The multiracial people of Malaysia live in peace and harmony, thanks to the policy of the First Prime Minister, YTM Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra. The disparities in the economic wealth of the different races have been reduced. The bumiputra padi farmers and the fishermen now have children who are professionals, high ranking government officials, professors, generals in the armed forces and millionaires in business. 

The skill of Malay/bumiputra business executives is evident from their being chosen as executive managers in giant foreign corporations. 

Petronas, a fully-owned government company, is managed by Malay managers and senior executives together with non-Malays. From a national petroleum company which normally operates within the country, Petronas is now a multinational petroleum corporation operating in 32 countries in the world, exploring, producing and marketing oil and gas worldwide. Petronas is also involved in large petro-chemical industries. 

Petronas is listed among the 500 biggest corporations in the world and had once been highest in terms of profits. 

And many more Malays are successful as businessmen, industrialists and managers of large successful companies within the country and outside. Malay contractors build roads and buildings in many foreign countries apart from their own country. 

It is clear that many Malays and other bumiputras have the same ability in business as other communities. They can and they have demonstrated their capabilities. 

Their spirit and confidence can be seen when they are prepared to sail round the world alone, climb Mount Everest, swim 48 kilometers from the mainland to Langkawi Island, become badminton champions etc. 

The Malay administrators succeeded in developing Malaysia so well that they are invited to advise other countries on various aspects of administration and development. 

Now Malaysia is well-known throughout the world because of the role it plays in international affairs. The ability of Malaysia to handle the financial crisis in 1997-1998 in its own way is now acknowledged. 

THE WORLD HAS CHANGED 

But the world has also changed. The advances in jet passenger transportation and in telecommunication technology have made the world very small. All the countries of the world are now close neighbours. There is nothing that can be hidden or kept secret. 

The concept of non-interference in the internal affairs of independent nations has been replaced by the concept of involvement indirectly or directly, including in changing certain governments by foreign powers. If necessary force will be used for this purpose. 

The collapse of the Eastern Communist Bloc has made this world a unipolar world, where the bloc which won, the capitalist bloc, will allow only the capitalist free market and liberal democratic system to be practiced in the world. 

Globalization has been introduced, designed by the Western countries to facilitate their control of the world economy. 

It can be seen clearly that the Europeans wish to control the world again. Although at first this control was indirect, but today they have begun to invade and rule certain countries, ostensibly for their security but in fact to exploit the wealth in these countries. 

The economies of East Asia grew rapidly since the end of World War II. Beginning with Japan; South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia grew rapidly. But the focus of attention is now China which dropped the Centrally Planned economy and accepted a limited free market system. In a very short space of time this poor Communist country has become a rich nation with the possibility of having a powerful military force. 

This development has frightened China's close neighbours and the old enemies of China; i.e. Japan and South Korea. 

The Western countries feel uncomfortable about China becoming a big economic power with a powerful military competency. 

With this, the international climate has become very tense and challenging for everyone including Malaysia. And the Europeans have demonstrated a desire to return to their fierce old ways. 

The history of the Malays during the British period can give us a lot of guidance regarding the character of the Europeans. 

We have been colonized by three European races. For 450 years we have been under their colonial rule. Now we and other Asians face the possibility of once again being colonized by them. 

NEED TO KNOW EUROPEANS 

Because of this we need to know the Europeans well for our fate, our life will depend on how we interact with them and people of their origin. Here Europeans include those who migrated and set up new nations in America, Australia and New Zealand. They are often called white men or Westerners. But many are white and many who live in the West are not Europeans. The Europeans are people of the nations of Europe. That is why I call them Europeans, not even Mat Salleh. The English say "call a spade a spade". Call anything by its real name. And so in this speech I will call the Europeans, Europeans. 

I am not anti-European. I have many friends and acquaintances who are Europeans. I am embarrassed to criticize Europeans because those whom I know will feel hurt. The European countries which are friendly towards us will feel hurt. Certainly their media will condemn me as a racist. But I consider exposing who the Europeans are has become so important that the risk must be taken. 

All Europeans have the same origins and culture i.e. based on the Greek and Roman civilizations. They are very clever, brave and have an insatiable curiosity. They are never satisfied with what they have and always want to improve on them, to make them better, more productive for whatever purpose. There is nothing, whether instrument or system or ideology which is not continuously improved by them. 

Sometimes in their frenzy to improve everything they damage things and bring about bad results. But they are not deterred and they continue to try to improve things which they have or which other people have. 

Unfortunately they are also very greedy and like to take forcibly the territories and rights of other people. Their 2,000-year history is full of endless wars to seize territories and enlarge their power worldwide. 

At first their seizure was limited and confined to Europe. But when they mastered the skills of long distance sailing they extended their seizures and wars throughout the world. The Chinese, Arabs and Indians reached Southeast Asia earlier but did not fight to conquer this region. But when the Europeans arrived, the territories of Southeast Asia, like the territories of Africa, North and South America, Australia and the Pacific Islands, were seized by force of arms by them in order to make these territories their own, to seize the wealth, to oppress and denigrate and to commit genocide. 

Because they like to wage war and seize other people's territories, their main interest is in the development and production of weapons to kill people more efficiently. There is no implement that is not modified to become lethal weapons, to give victory to them in war. 

The Chinese invented explosives and used them to make noise in order to chase away the "dragons" and stop them from swallowing the sun and the moon during eclipses. Or simply as firecrackers during festivals. But when the Europeans came across the Chinese explosives, the first thing that they thought of was how to use them to propel their cannon balls further. 

Since then many weapons were invented to kill from long distances. Bombs, rockets, missiles, nuclear warheads and many more followed the cannon. Today the nuclear weapons that they have can destroy the whole world, but still they are not satisfied. 

They are still researching and developing warheads which are more powerful and effective. In the history of the world only the Europeans have dropped nuclear bombs which destroyed cities causing the biggest number of people to be killed instantly merely with just two bombs. 

When they invented the motorcar, soon after the armored car made its appearance. The airplane resulted in bombers and fighter planes. Merchant ships resulted in warships and submarines. And all these are improved constantly in order to kill more people more efficiently. 

Today billions of dollars are being spent to develop more sophisticated weapons, supplying them to their war machines, training their forces for war, getting ready to fight even though there are no enemies presently or in the future which threaten them. And they have demonstrated that they are ready to invent false allegations in order to go to war to kill children, old people, sick people and just anyone and consider all these people as mere collaterals, which cannot be allowed to come in the way of the achievement of their objective. 

Fighting and the skills in killing are regarded as honorable by the Europeans. The champions among them are given the honorific title of "knights". Every now and then they would launch an attack to expand the territories of their Masters or Lords. That is why since ancient times their villages and towns are surrounded by stone walls and wide moats. 

For them all differences must be settled by tests of strength. Whoever wins is right and is entitled to take all for himself. The loser loses all. That is also the way they settle the differences between the workers and the employers. The winner in the industrial action will get what he wants. 

The history of Europe is the history of wars, the history of tests of strength. When they came into contact with non-Europeans in Africa, America and Asia, they went to war immediately in order to seize the territories of the local people, and to set up new countries and empires. 

They did not show any charity or kindness. The local inhabitants were chased away and killed without compunction. 

Many were the tribes which were made extinct by their attacks. Genocide for them is the final solution. 

Actually they should feel sympathy for the local inhabitants because they themselves were expelled from their own countries in Europe. But when they reached what they consider the New World which is the old world for the inhabitants, they chased off the local inhabitants from their own land and seized all the properties of these people. Whoever resisted was attacked, killed or enslaved. 

In their attempts to seize as large a territory as possible to create their new empires, the Europeans fought among themselves. Often the locals were forced to take part in their wars and pillaging. 

The enmity between them increased because each of them wanted to expand their territories, to build empires, to become the most powerful nation in the world. Because of this they launched bigger wars involving the whole world. 

The First World War was launched in 1914 and ended in 1918 after more than 20 million of their people and soldiers from the empires were killed and billions of dollars worth of property was destroyed. 

Still they were not satisfied. Only 20 years after the First World War, they fought again in the Second World War. This time the destructive violence of the Europeans reached a peak. More than 50 million of their people and those of their empires were killed. They employed carpet-bombing to flatten whole cities with all the people. 

Finally they dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, in a non-European country. Although these nuclear bombs gave victory to them, the Europeans were shocked at the power of nuclear weapons and the radiation which could kill the victims years after the bombs were dropped. 

The Europeans felt frightened that a nuclear war between them would break out and their people would be killed and their countries destroyed by nuclear weapons. Because of this fear they made an international agreement to control the production, testing and use of nuclear weapons in war.

 

 

But several of them refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. They continued to study, develop and test various new nuclear devices for their bombs and warheads. 

The Europeans hated the Jews even before they embraced Christianity. When they became Christians they blamed the Jews because a Jew had betrayed Christ to the Romans and was killed by crucifixion. 

Because of this, until after the Second World War, the Europeans oppressed the Jews who had migrated to their countries. Every year they carried out Pogroms and Inquisitions indulging in the massacre of the Jews. The attempt to resolve the Jewish problem reached a peak during World War II when six million Jews were killed. 

But after the Second World War the Jews were still in Europe. To force the Jews out of Europe, they seized the territory of the Arab Palestinians to create the state of Israel. Not only were the land, houses and farms of the Arab Palestinians seized, but the Arabs were chased out of their land which became Israel. 

Since then West Asia has never been at peace. The attempts of the Palestinians to get back their territory were opposed by the Europeans. Instead they supported Israeli's seizure of more Palestinian land and the killing of Palestinians. 

The throwing of stones by Palestinian children was met by bullets from Israeli forces which killed the children. But the Europeans did not condemn Israel. Instead the suicide bombings by the Palestinians were condemned by them. 

The Sept 11 (2001) attack on America which supported Israel was made an excuse for the Anglo Saxon Europeans to return to their old violent ways. 

Their strategy to fight terrorism is through attacking Muslim countries and Muslims, whether they are guilty or not. 

By making all kinds of baseless accusations they launched attacks against Muslim countries, using their weapons of mass destruction, killing civilians and destroying the towns. 

America and Britain did not care at all the condemnation of the world against their actions. Oppositions by their own people were ignored. They wish to show the world how powerful they are and anyone challenging them would be attacked by their military forces. 

What I say here is all true. It is not the intention to frighten us, so that we will take seriously the danger that we will face. Again I would like to repeat that I am not anti-European or racist. It is not my wish to create hatred for the Europeans. But it is very important that we know this race and their activities in the past because they will play a big role in our life and our race, our religion and our country. Our failure to know them will make it difficult for us to prepare and strategise for our own safety. 

The struggle against Malayan Union and for independence is over. We have succeeded not only in ruling our country well after independence, but also in developing our country fast. Many of us think that once we become independent we will remain independent forever. 

But today the danger that we face is greater than that which we faced in the middle of the 20th Century, when the British tried to seize Malay land to set up the Malayan Union. 

DANGERS WE FACE 

Today we see how an attempt was made to make beggars of us by devaluing our ringgit. Today we see how the big powers attack and take over weak countries. The United Nations is clearly unable to protect anyone. There is no other power prepared to protect us if we become the object of attack. 

The world that we have to face in the new decades and centuries will see numerous attempts by the Europeans to colonise us either indirectly or directly. If our country is not attacked, our minds, our culture, our religion and other things will become the target. 

In the cultural and social fields they want to see unlimited freedom for the individual. For them the freedom of the individual cannot be questioned. They have rejected the institutions of marriage and family. Instead they accept the practice of free sex including sodomy as a right. Marriage between male and male, between female and female are officially recognised by them. What we call incest is not regarded as serious by them. 

The injunction against changes of religion among Muslims, laws which differ from their laws will be questioned by them. Their media will be used to denigrate all that we practise. The NGOs will be subverted in order to demand for reviews of whatever is not liked by the Europeans, to amend and finally to reject what is considered as denying the rights of the individual. 

The culture and the values which they will force us to accept will be hedonism, unlimited quest for pleasure, the satisfaction of base desires, particularly sexual desires. Our way of life must be the same as their way of life. Asian values do not exist for them. 

Our economic system must follow the free market system conceived by them. Governments cannot be involved or have rules and regulations in order to help the weak. The problem of balancing the developments between the races is not the responsibility of the free market. The free market is about the big, the strong, the capital rich taking all for themselves. 

Nationals of a country cannot be given special treatment. Foreign companies must be free to enter any country to compete with local businesses and banks. The likelihood is that their giant corporations would swallow up the small local businesses, and we will become paid workers under them. Everything is said to depend upon merit and not the unequal and unjust competition with their big and experienced corporations. The result is that they will control every country's economy completely. 

If anyone rejects the free market system proposed by the WTO, they will be subjected to punitive action intended to destroy their economy. Through the WTO the Europeans have introduced rule-based trading, that is, all trade within and outside the country must be subjected to the WTO rules invented by them. Whichever country fails to follow these rules will be subjected to various actions, such as sanctions etc. in order to destroy the country's economy. 

Although the Cold War between the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc was still on, the world was able to recover. The 60s, 70s and 80s saw remarkable progress in the economy of the world. 

Relatively speaking the world at that time was peaceful and free from threats. With that the habit of traveling grew and flying as well as the manufacture of jet aircrafts contributed to the economies of many countries in the world. 

Millions of tourists and business travelers flooded the airports throughout the world forcing their expansion and increases in numbers yearly. Passenger jets which are bigger and able to fly further were developed and hundreds were produced and sold by companies like Boeing, Lockheed and Airbus. Luxury hotels were built worldwide, creating numerous jobs for people including those from the developing countries. 

The development of the microchip, i.e. tiny electric circuits, revolutionized manufacturing. The microchip enables calculations to be speeded up by thousands of time and made possible the invention of the computer, and its use not only in calculating but in transmitting information by voice, in writing and through pictures to every corner of the world. 

The demand for the microchips grew fast and plants to produce them were built everywhere, including in developing countries like Malaysia. The increasing wealth of some countries caused the demand for manufactured goods including motor vehicles to shoot up and many countries which switched from agriculture to manufacturing developed fast. 

Malaysia achieved high growth with GDP above 8% continuously for 10 years. There seems to be nothing to prevent Malaysia from becoming a developed country by 2020. 

Our policy is to prosper our neighbours. This is not just charity or a desire to help. The fact is that when neighbours are prosperous we will also become prosperous because we will be able to increase our trade with them. On the other hand when neighbours are beset with problems, the problems will spill over into our country. Clearly prospering your neighbour is a policy of enlightened self-interest. And this policy has brought a lot of benefit to us, contributing to regional stability and also the growth of the economy. 

Truly the world after World War II was very prosperous. But the Europeans tried to improve things by changing the systems and practices of commerce, politics and social norms so as to become better and more fair. 

Japan, which was so successful before, has become a victim of these new systems. Until now the Japanese cannot resurrect their ailing economy. 

Malaysia, which was growing so well, was attacked by rogue currency traders who claimed that they had a responsibility to discipline governments. The result is that the growth of Malaysia's economy and those of East Asia have been stunted and even reversed. Until now restoration to the former level has not succeeded. 

The restoration has become more difficult when the cheatings and commercial crimes in America were exposed. The dot com companies whose shares appreciated for no valid reason collapsed. After that the giant corporations like Enron, World Com, Arthur Anderson and tens of others big and small, were found to have cheated on their accounting. 

Hijack became a word on everyone's lips when criminals seized passenger aircraft. The peak in this hijacking came when terrorists seized passenger aircraft and used them as guided missiles to destroy the World Trade Centre in New York. This frightened the tourists and the business travellers so that passenger loads fell below 30% in the US and elsewhere. 

This has caused a tremendous decline in the hotel and other industries related to tourism. Nearly all American airlines became bankrupt with losses of hundreds of billions of dollars. 

The hunt for the terrorists has made the world tense and unsafe. Bombs explode in many parts of the world. Afghanistan and Iraq were attacked and Syria and Iran were similarly threatened unless they changed their governments. 

Thus the prosperity and the peace of 30 years in the world after the end of the Second World War has been brought to an end because of the attempt to improve on what was already working well. With the introduction of new approaches in the development of the economy of the world, with the frenzy to acquire wealth, with the disregard for the poverty and sufferings of so many in this world, with allowing the seizure of territories here and there, all the progress that had been made before has been destroyed. 

Now the possibility of restoring the world's economy to the level of 1997 has become uncertain. It cannot be attained because instead of trying to calm the world, the powers that be are bent on using force in order to achieve their objectives. 

DEMOCRACY HAS DEFECTS 

In politics all countries must practice liberal democracy. We admit that democracy is the best system of government ever invented by man. But it is not free from defects. For those who do not understand the limits of democracy, the likelihood is that governments which are weak, or corrupt will rule. At times anarchy will result from practicing liberal democracy. 

Democracy depends on popular support. This support can be obtained because the candidate or the party is skilled at governing and developing the country. But popular support can also be obtained because of racialism, because of deliberate misinterpretation of religion, or through bribing the voters. 

At the same time the voter can also make use of racialism, religious injunctions, or demand for bribes for self or group. With this the winner which forms the government will not be the qualified and able, but those with thick racialism, or those who misinterpret religion or those who are corrupt. Government by such people will ruin the country, while the able and clean party will lose. 

Maybe the intention of the Europeans to force the acceptance of democracy is good and they do not plan to damage the developing countries deliberately. They probably believe that democracy will help the developing countries the way it helped their own countries. But they forget the long period of time they took to understand and get benefits from this system. 

The struggle for power in a newly democratic developing country has caused hundreds of parties to be formed. A strong government cannot possibly be formed if the electorate is divided by hundreds of parties. There will not be a party which will get enough representatives to form a strong government.

REGIME CHANGE 

We in Malaysia have succeeded in practicing democracy. But the Europeans are not happy. They wish to see frequent changes of government so that there will be no stability and development cannot take place. Their new slogan is "Regime Change". Because this has not happened and our country remains peaceful and successful they accuse us of being undemocratic and dictatorial. 

Who are they to accuse our government as dictatorial? Aren't they the former colonialists whose rule was dictatorial and oppressive and have they not just invaded a weak country, killing many civilians in order to gain power over that country? Is their way of achieving Regime Change democratic? Look first in the mirror. The problem with the Europeans is that they award themselves the right to judge over their own views. 

But their criticism may have a hidden agenda. Because we are not democratic, then interference by them in our domestic affairs would be justified. There will be many people in this country who will be influenced by their views and condemn the Government. The result will be instability for the country and it will not be able to develop and the people will suffer. 

They will condemn this accusation. They have no ill intentions, no conspiracy to obstruct anyone's progress. They merely criticize. But we must not forget that their criticisms, even if baseless, have been used to justify their attack and occupation of a country. 

The first person to talk of a Regime Change is Ariel Sharon, the Prime Minister of Israel. Arafat has to be replaced by a leader acceptable to them. Today the Europeans talk of the need to have Regime Change in many countries. Do not think that we will not be targeted. They were disappointed when their former candidate failed. They will try again. 

This is the external environment which we face now and will face in the future. Allah be Praised until now we have succeeded in defending our freedom and our independence. This is because we are careful and able to avoid falling into the trap set by them. 

DOMESTIC CHALLENGES 

Within the country the environment is no less challenging. The efforts to bring together the different communities have not been fully successful. The new generation is divided because they choose to attend different schools according to race. 

In order to bring the students from the different races together and to make the people and the country more competitive, the Government has introduced the study of English and the teaching of Science and Mathematics in English. The parents accept well this move but as usual political parties try to politicize the issue. 

We also plan to have National Service for all communities with the objective of bringing the younger generation closer together. The nature of the National Service has not been finalized but God willing we will implement it in 2004. 

Islam plays an important role in the life of a great majority of the people of Malaysia. The Muslims in Malaysia are all Sunnis and followers of Imam Shafie. As a result they should be united and there should be no altercations between them. 

Unfortunately when democracy was introduced during the struggle for independence, the desire to gain high places to have power had influenced those with religious education to break away from the mainstream Umno in order to set up Party Islam Se Malaya, the direct translation of Pan Malayan Islamic Party, or PMIP. Now this party is known as PAS, an improper acronym for Party Islam Malaysia. 

The fact is that in the attempt to gain support for itself, PAS deliberately misinterpreted Islam. Over time their interpretation became more far fetched and extreme. From accusing Umno members as being infidels, not Muslim, they have reached the stage of declaring that God uses obscenities like their own party leader does and that God is a thug or gangster. 

There are many more interpretations of the teachings of Islam by PAS leaders which are against the true teachings of Islam. The Muslims in Malaysia have become confused and they cannot be united. Their split weakens the Muslims at a time when the Muslims need to unite to save themselves. 

To overcome this, the best way is to equip the people, especially the young people with the right teachings of Islam, in order that they can ward off the wrong teachings. 

Unfortunately these wrong teachings are implanted while the children are still small, in the kindergarten and the People's Religious Schools, and sometimes by religious teachers in the national schools. We have seen that when this generation matures they believe blindly this wrong interpretation of Islam. 

They do not know how to thank people and to be grateful, love to falsely accuse other Muslims and to hear the fitnah by certain people and they make enemies of other Muslims. They have now reached the stage of trying to overthrow the elected government by force of arms, to terrorise, to rob and to kill people. 

Because of this the Government has to take action to stop the spread of these wrong teachings in the schools and other institutions. The Government gave aid to the People's Religious Schools because parents like to send their children to these schools believing that they would become more knowledgeable about religion. 

But because it is not the true religion that is taught at these schools and instead teachings which are against the true teachings of Islam, the Government cannot give aid to these schools anymore. The Government and Muslim leaders of the Government would be committing a sin if we give support for anything that is against the teachings of Islam. 

We did not close the schools. We merely do not give aid. Those who continue to give aid will bear the sins because these are not religious schools but are indoctrination centres for PAS. 

The Government will oversee all deviations from the teachings of Islam and it will provide facilities to study the proper teachings of Islam in the national schools to ensure the new generation can reject not only the wrong teachings of Islam but can distinguish between what is good and what is bad and what is right and what is wrong. 

Another internal problem which challenges us is the management of the economy and our finances. For this we have designed a policy and strategy which requires understanding and co-operation among the people. We cannot behave like people who are already rich when we are still a developing country. 

At our present stage of development, we are able to have certain facilities only. When our income increases we should be willing to pay slightly more when the facilities we use are better and cost more. There are some of us who demand first class facilities but are prepared to pay only third class rates. If we want first class things we must pay first class prices. 

Now we have become a nation where more people live in urban areas than in the countryside. The more than one million inhabitants of Kuala Lumpur produce rubbish which can bury the city underneath a rubbish mountain in two years. 

We have to get rid of this rubbish. Dumping in open land will pollute the air, will cause bad smell, cause diseases such as SARS, breed rats and insects and poison underground water which will flow into the rivers and cause other problems. Open burning will pollute the atmosphere with smoke and toxic gases. 

To save the people from all these, the Government is prepared to spend more than RM1.5bil to build the most modern and safe incinerator. It is more modern than most of the incinerators in developed countries such as Japan. 

In Japan ordinary incinerators are so clean that they can be built in the middle of residential areas. The residents use the incineration plant as a place for recreation, swimming clubs and other activities. No one protested. The people pay a high rate for their incinerators. 

We propose to build a most modern incinerator, cleaner than many found in Japan and other developed countries and place it far from residential areas. The safety of the people is ensured because there will be no fly ash which will pollute the air. 

But the people in this country, which is 10 times poorer than the developed countries, protest against the incinerator because it allegedly will produce toxic gases. We have become so arrogant that the acceptable level of pollution of people who are 10 times richer than us is not good enough for us. 

NOT RICH YET 

We are not rich yet. We cannot even enjoy the same standards as the developed countries. But we now demand standards higher than the developed countries. Believe me if we behave in this manner we will not be more safe and healthy, but we will suffer from it. 

In economic matters our strategy is to live within our means, not to borrow too much, and manage our development according to our financial capacity and our needs. 

We want to ensure that while our costs are competitive, our standards of living will not be too low. Today our per capita income is about US$4,000 (RM15,200) but with this income we can buy goods and services worth about US$9,000 (RM34,200) in America. 

 

On the other hand, many countries where the pay is very high but the price of goods and services is much higher causing the standard of living to actually fall. 

All their people are millionaires but all are really poor. In Malaysia, incomes rise more than cost increases. This means that we can buy more although there is an increase in prices. 

The wages in Malaysia may be low compared to those in the developed countries but they have not caused our standard of living to fall. In many instances the public facilities are the same as in developed countries, but the cost to the people using these facilities is less than half for those in developed countries. 

We pay only RM7 to cross the Penang Bridge. The Japanese pay RM500 to use a shorter bridge. 

We can raise wages but if the increase is not balanced by an increase is productivity, we will become uncompetitive. With that there will be no more new investments and the existing investments may move to other countries. 

Job opportunities will be reduced and many will be unemployed. In this situation there cannot be any more increase in wages as the number of workers exceeds the job opportunities. 

There are people who believe that wage increases can be obtained through industrial action. This is what is done in Europe. But if we study we will find the European economy does not grow like ours and there is more unemployment than here. 

They pay unemployment allowances. Such allowances can only be paid if the number of unemployed is small and the economy grows well. But when the economy is down and government revenue decreases, that is the time when the number of unemployed people increases and more money is required to pay the dole. And this will affect adversely government finances. 

In addition because of unemployment allowances many workers choose not to work or to hide their jobs. This increases the burden of the government so much so that now the government has to insist that certain work must be done if the allowance is to be claimed. In other words "Unemployment Allowance" is not sustainable. 

In Malaysia we do not have unemployment allowance. If a worker does not work his family will have to support him. Ashamed about this and unwilling to be dependent on the family, an unemployed person would seek to work. Still when there are too many unemployed graduates the Government gives them exposure to work and pay them temporary allowance. 

We need our own approach and strategy. We cannot follow the European ways blindly. But there are Malaysians who like to follow European ways and those people who are already rich. They don't take into consideration the country's level of development and our financial capacity. They like us to be spendthrifts and borrow money. 

If the Government in the desire to be popular were to accede to their big spending demands, it is possible that we will become like some developing countries and will not be able to pay our foreign debt, become bankrupt and be under the direction of international agencies. 

There are many internal issues which have to be handled. I will not elaborate on them. Although we have succeeded a little in balancing the economic wealth between the different races but in the process the Malays and other bumiputras have become too dependent and can only do business with the Government. Without the Government and without the NEP they will collapse. This threatens the future of the Malays and the bumiputras, Malaysians and our beloved country. 

MEMBERS DETERMINE 

UMNO'S FATE 

We can handle our foreign and domestic problems with a strong government. But the problem within the party, within Umno, cannot be resolved by the Government. The only ones who can is the party and the members themselves. 

Having been successful for so long many of the leaders and members are without the true spirit anymore, but instead they give priority to self-interest. The struggle for posts in the party has become so critical that the party's interests, the interest of our race and the nation's interest have been pushed aside. 

Umno and the Malays have become weak because of this attitude. Since the split of the Umno ulamas to form PAS we have seen splinter parties being formed thrice by Umno people who were not able to get what they want. A lot of effort and time have to be spent to rehabilitate the party. 

Allah be Praised, the effects of the last splintering no longer affect the party as it did during the 1999 elections. But the threat which still remains is the willingness of some leaders and members to sabotage the party. 

The contest within the party is in order to get the best candidate and the best leaders, not in order to quarrel and to sulk and to seek revenge, which can cause a loss to the party and the national struggle. Those who understand democracy will close ranks behind the successful candidate after the contest is over and together ensure the success of the struggle. 

Because contests within the party are not healthy and often cause a split, we have not been able to have a contest at the divisional and Supreme Council levels, especially when elections are near. 

But for the general elections, whether we like it or not, the candidates have to be chosen. When a candidate is chosen the one who is not chosen may try to ensure the candidate will lose. They forget when the candidate loses, the party loses. But such is their attitude that they are willing to see the party lose and the opposition win rather than see their colleague in the party win. Remember when they are chosen, they too will become victims of such attitude. 

At the present time this attitude is not widespread. But it points in a dangerous direction. If more people adopt this attitude, the party will lose not because the opposition is strong but because indirectly Umno members collude with the opposition party. In truth this is a betrayal against the struggle of the party, the religion, race and nation. 

We have to accept that the time must come when we have to retire and hand over our tasks to the succeeding generation. The party cannot carry on its struggle if there is no renewal of members and leaders, if new members and leaders are not accepted. 

I am grateful because the founding of Puteri is accepted and the co-operation between Puteri and Wanita is strong. But at branch and divisional levels there is some unwillingness to accept new members especially those who are qualified because of the fear of losing their posts. This attitude must be got rid of. If not, the party will die together with the present old members and leaders. 

The challenges facing Umno as the backbone of the Government of this country come from outside the country, within the country and within the party. If we do not know how to handle these challenges, if we don't have the right spirit and the political will the brilliant history of Umno will fade and Umno will follow the fate of those nationalist parties in other countries which no longer exist or which have lost power. 

UPHOLD ISLAMIC TEACHINGS 

Faced with these challenges what preparations must we make? I have mentioned the role of Islam in the life of the Malays. There is no influence greater than Islam in building the strength and the resistance of the Malays. 

But the important thing is that we cling to the true teachings of Islam, the teachings which are all positive and constructive, the teachings which had given success to our Prophet Muhammad s.a.w., the teachings which had given great success to the early Muslims so much so that they were able to enlarge the Muslim territories to include almost the whole world and to maintain it for 1,300 years. 

If we study closely we will find that the teachings of Islam stress good and honourable values. We are asked to read "Iqra" i.e. to seek knowledge. We are exhorted to be brothers in Islam, including in the party, outside the party, outside the country. 

We are told to keep our promises and undertakings. We are asked to work hard, to acquire all kinds of skills which can help upgrade our defence and many more which are positive and constructive. We are also enjoined to reject what is bad and negative. 

If we stick to all these good values and practise them and we refer to them when faced with challenges, God Willing, we will succeed. 

Islam will not disappoint us. Allah has not ordained that the fate of the Muslims will always be bad. The Quran has testified that Allah will not change the fortunes of any group unless that group strives to change its fortune itself. Allah has also clarified that all misfortunes are our own doing and only good fortunes come from Him. 

And so it is not possible that our ill fortune at present is all from Allah. It comes from Muslims who only know how to appeal and pray for help but never try seriously to save and improve our fortunes. If we purposely chose to live at the foot of a volcano, do not blame Allah or regard it as preordained when the volcano erupts, bringing down our house on the top of our heads and we die. 

UMNO NOT JUST ANY PARTY 

Umno is not just any party. Umno is the ruling party. In Malaysia Umno plays a very important role. If not for Umno and its struggle our country would not have become independent in 1957 and would not be stable and successful as it is now. This is admitted by everyone, by the Malays, the Chinese, Indians and the tribes in Malaysia and also by foreigners. 

Because of this the members and leaders of Umno at all levels have a heavy responsibility. This responsibility can only be shouldered and be implemented successfully if we all equip ourselves with the required values, knowledge and skills. 

There is no individual or group without problems. Umno has a lot of problems. Allah be Praised, up till now we have been able to manage most of these problems successfully. 

The future will bring more problems and challenges for our party. Whether Umno can manage these problems and challenges with success depends very much on the qualities which we have as members and leaders. 

In truth the success of the group will bring success and benefits to every individual member of the group. On the other hand the success of the individual does not guarantee the success of the group. 

Worse still the success of the individual can bring misfortune to the group. Umno as an important group, if it is damaged, will bring misfortune to the Malays, to Malaysians, to Islam and to the nation. Because of this every individual in Umno must strive to bring success to the group, i.e. Umno and not struggle unnecessarily for personal gain. As Muslims we must know the meaning of sacrifice, must be willing to sacrifice for the success of the group. 

In war, those who are killed will not taste the fruits of victory in this life. We are not asking Umno to go to war and be killed. We merely ask Umno to give priority to the party's success. Only the success of the party can bring benefit to us, not success as individuals. 

The opportunities in a democratic system and in a party are limited and incidental. They are not the reasons for our struggle. Remember our struggle is for the honour and progress of our race, our religion and our homeland. The high positions are for enabling us to make a success of our struggle and are not the objective of our struggle. 

If we ourselves do not get this high position but those who get are successful in achieving our objectives, we should not be disappointed. The success of our race, our religion, our country will be enjoyed by us also. And we too will be honoured and highly regarded. Instead if because of our unseemly struggle the party is weakened, we may lose everything. 

MEMBERS MUST SACRIFICE 

Because of that the members of Umno must be ready to make sacrifices in order to get a lot of benefits. Ask yourself if it is true that we have got nothing at all because we are not branch leaders or division leaders, members of the Supreme Council, election candidates or members of Parliament or Ministers or a Prime Minister. 

The answer is that we all get something. Because of that stop the personal struggle and ensure the success of the party. People who sabotage the party should not be in the party. The traitor within is far more dangerous than the declared enemy. 

Do not betray the party and our own race. 

Actually the opposition is not strong. They cannot defeat Umno. But Umno can defeat Umno. I need not elaborate. We all know. The opposition did not win. Only Umno had lost. 

Truly Umno cannot lose if our loyalty to the party, to our religion and to our race is not weakened by self-interest. There is no political party anywhere which has been more successful in restoring the honour of the race as Umno has. 

From being a colonised and oppressed race, the Malays are now regarded as a race which has succeeded so much as to become a model for many people in the world. The service rendered by Umno to the Malays, bumiputras, to Malaysians and Malaysia is clearly very great. Do not allow our personal disappointment to destroy again the honour of our race. 

If I may repeat, our struggle, Umno and the Malays and the bumiputras (indigenous people) is not over. There are still many things that we have to do. Merely to ensure continued independence, freedom, requires great effort continuously. What more if we want to restore our honour fully by becoming a developed people in a developed country. 

Umno, I repeat, is not just any party. Umno is the backbone and prime mover of the party which rules this beloved country. If Umno is strong then the National Front will be strong, the Malaysian Government will be strong and Malaysia will be strong. A weak Umno will bring disaster to all of us. 

This is the last time that I can deliver the speech to officially open the Umno General Assembly. I crave your pardon if I took too much time. I truly wish to repay the party which had given me opportunities to realise my ideas on restoring the honour of my race and people, to help to progress them and my country. It is not for me to say whether I have succeeded or not. The people and history will judge and determine whether my service was good or bad. 

I value very much the support of Umno, the Malays and other bumiputras and the people of Malaysia and I am grateful and I thank them all. I crave your pardon for the mistakes and wrongs that I have committed during the length of my leadership of this blessed party. 

Allah be Praised, for having given His insignificant slave this opportunity. I pray to Him to protect my race from the bad qualities and make them a people who are successful and honoured, who submit fully to all that our holy religion has taught us, to make them work hard, that You may protect and bring success to our people in order to become the model to the Muslim ummah, the people who submit to all your injunctions, Oh Allah, Amin. 

With this prayer, with a heavy heart yet with happiness, I declare officially open the 54th General Assembly of Umno.

Older Comments:
BASHIR BARAU FROM NIGERIA said:
I am a Nigerian by birth but this article by Dr.Mohathir changes my thinking and gives me an insight. I will read it again so that I will redesign my future. thanks alot and remain blessed.
2013-01-12
MAGARET EMMS FROM NO DOUBLE STANDARD PLEASE said:
Shame on you Malaysia! I mean the way you treat the non-Muslims and aborigines like dhimmis with your so-called discriminatory New Economic Policy. Our governments in the West though not Muslim is fair to all and treat everyone equally regardless of religion, race or creed. Thumbs up for Ben for telling the world the truth!
2005-08-02
LAURIE BURGESS FROM AUSTRALIA said:
What a disgraceful article. One man and one Government, so corrupt and tyrannical in its administration and clutch for continuing power, was a sickening spectacle. This article, from any one other than the author, may have merited some consideration.
2004-08-24
NAZRUL FROM MALAYSIA said:
For those who believes that malaysia runs aparteid, come here and see by yourself. Think and make your selfopinion.
2004-07-21
BEN CHONG FROM AUSTRALIA said:
Did you know that currently Malaysia is the only country in the world that practises aparthied. Don't believe me. Go check it out. Ask the minority non-Moslem Chinese and Indians there. Unfortunately, the usual modus operandi in all Moslem majority countries has been to terrorise the minority kafirs (infidels) into submission. The Islamic militias, backed by the Moslem military, went on a rampage in the 60s burning, looting (and raping of Chinese women) the property of innocent minority Chinese and killing them into submission to the infamous "New Economic Policy" which is still in force today after more than 30 years in operation. The joke is only the majority Moslem population is in favour of it. Even today any whisper or discontentment shown within Malaysia by the kafirs will almost instaneously result in Moslem politicians threatening and reminding them of May 13 (the day when the police and miltary went on strike and Moslem militia groups had a field day massacring innocent kafir Chinese men, women and children civilians). This discriminatory policy works by collecting taxes from rich and poor hardworking Chinese (dhimmis) alike and distributes them as hand-outs and subsidies to the rich and poor Moslems alike. Today, the entire PUBLIC service is Moslem, public scholarships are only given to Moslems, transport licenses are given to Moslems, places in higher public institutions are reserved for Moslems, etc. The Moslems are the Malays and the so-called Malays are but an assortment of Moslem immigrants from places like India (eg Dr Marhathia), Saudi Arabia (eg Syed Albar, the Foreign Minister), Java, Sulewesi, Aceh, etc. The aborigines (indigenous people) or as they call them the orang asli are but given cursory attention and are aggressively being converted to Islam. Cast aside the hypocrisy. Visit Malaysia, speak to the non-Moslems. Like in Animal Farm, here some are more equal than others. Dr Marhathia should look closer at the UN Charter.
2003-09-13
AFIFI FROM MALAYSIA said:
assalamualaikum...
first off all... i really appreciate to Bro. Mus coz keen to reply my msg... I accept his second opinion.. . here, i think the Malysian or other Muslim in this world should avoid.. to use word such as UMNO, PAS, Anwar Ibrahim to describe Malysian Muslim... coz. .. I think it only make the situation to become worse... after all it's only political party... they are not angel.. but so far I think they tried hard to make Malaysian an ideal Islamic country.... we should look or discuss how the Ummah can be be look as one, we also should gather our 'power' to live better in future.. futhermore Muslim nowaday are too weak to help themself, keep looking to the european to helping them... masyaallaah.. Something have to be done... malaysian itself have starting to use gold dinar as money to trade with other Islam country, the media said that MAlaysia and Iran will implement it around the end of dicember... i look forward it will become reality and hope that other muslim country will support and do the same... around this week also there will be held "The world Conference Of Islamic Scholars(ulama) at Putrajaya"... maybe there will a resoltion that can be implement.. to make the muslim future brighter... Alhamdulillah coz my country have tried to strenghten the muslim world i hope.. other muslim will do the same.... may Allah bless us
2003-07-07
MUZ FROM MALAYSIA said:
Asslamualaikum,
Dear Afifi my brother, Did I said that Im happy to see my own brothers with same faith collapse? From the past history stated that no race or anybody will got a political power forever. Its including Malay. My own race.

Chinese and Indian now days more stronger in economical and educational aspect because they have to struggle more than Malay to success. Allah is Fair... anybody who r struggle more will get more.I repeat again - Anybody, no matter he is Muslim,Malay or not because Allah is Fair to all.

We must not to talk much on what race u are. Muslim duty is to serve Islam regardless on what race.ISLAM is not UMNO,ISLAM is not PAS. That mean - ISLAM is ISLAM! And Im not PAS or UMNO - im a Muslim watching and thinking on what our leader has done . UMNO or PAS is not always correct. They are polictician then we know how about politic today. They said on bad things to each other. On good things... they just try to hide it and sometime they do not admit it.We cant say Umno is good or Pas is better... because they all politician! Let pray to Allah, hopefully all Muslim in Malaysia and the world will be united as one again.

Anyhow I thanks to Allah on what He gift to Malaysia today.
2003-07-05
MOHAMED FARAH FROM CANADA said:
He who does not learn from history is doomed to repeat it. It looks mankind is
in trouble again and the greedy are in control.
2003-07-04
AFIFI FROM MALAYSIA said:
Assalamualaikum..
nothing much to say about mahathir speech for me, I think Mahathir.. only express with he feel is right by what is happpened to the world today, especially the muslim world and malay world.
Here I just want to give my opinon on what Nazli and Mus both from Malaysian..had comment about the speech.. 1)..Dr. Mahathir have try to ask PAS to join UMNO, last year.. I think he may want to stop the quarrel between PAS and UMNO furthermore to enhance the ISlam religion in country but... PAS don't except to join. 2)For me, as Malay, I know what he said about Malay negative attitudes is totally right...Hence ,who else want to correct malay attitude beside Dr. Mahathir as he's their leader... do the Malay need to hear it from the european... I don't think so... 3) About education in Malaysia, I'm as student think that... it's now on the right track. Aboutscholarship or money to futher study in Malaysia. I think it can't be a problem,coz Malaysian Gov had provide a large ammount in it Budget that fit with the coutry economy as Malaysia is still a developing county.4) I don't know how can Nazli said that dr. Mahathir didn't think to develepoe malay enterpeneurs, he have done alot of think, I don't want to talk about it.. but if you ask Malaysian about PNB, petronas , proton, the know that all of this is "MAlay"..however the Malay can't just wait toget help from the gov. they also must try hard to improve themself..of couse the gov. can't always spoonfed them..5)I hate when Mr Muz saying that..the Malay will collapse.. I want to ask him..did he enjoy about it?. How can he be like that., can we imagine that a muslim..love to see another muslim to collapse:'(..How ever I want to state here that..Malay is too tolerant with other races..and the other races is appriciate with it..majority of the nonMalay respect, and love their PM.6) Malaysia also is on the way to follow ed what islam had taught but it need time to implement it, if not it will be unfair to nonmusl
2003-07-04
RIAZ SURTI FROM USA said:
The president Mahathir makes enlightening comments. I like how he states that the country should live within its own means (the fall of so many other countries). Also, I like the Islamic approach of balance and good will to your own citizens as well as to your own neighbors. Lastly, I like the fact that he warns his people of certain dangers that are coming. I am glad that I read this piece.
2003-07-02
SHARIF FROM UK said:
Excellent article. Alain Jean-Mairet, whats your problem? We all now you're a Zionist, so just admit it. Instead of ignoring the truth like you usually do, read books by Uri Avnerny and Noam Chomsky. In fact, take your head out of the sand and face the music.
2003-07-02
MUZ FROM MALAYSIA said:
Assalamualaikum,
On page One and Two, its more accurate when the words "European" replace by "Nas-ra-ni" (this word can be found in Al-Quran - pls. check) Not all European is bad and Nas-ra-ni has been mention in Al-Quran to destroy Muslim in every side - we can be friend with them but must very carefull not to felt down on their trap.
On page three,
The fact on democracy system is true. So... if current democracy system lead us to destruction then lets think and do research on Syu-Ra system during our great Chaliph.(Abu Bakar,Omar,Othman and Ali). U will find an answer on which the best system!
About PAS,
PAS is'nt bad as mentioned and UMNO is'nt bad as what u think. They all Politician..... which one better? ...If u want the answer, do the research on Syu-Ra system!
For Malay,
what happened in Malaysia now is not fully followed what Islam taught, Malay goverment is not fair to other race....Now, other races like Chinese/Indian gaining economical power and getting stronger day by day than Malay .One day Malay will collapse because of their unfair treatment to other races. WHY? . Because Allah is Fair to all!
2003-07-02
NAZLI FROM MALAYSIA said:
What Mahathir said about the west in a way is true. However, what he has done to Malay, Muslim, multiracial ethnics and Malaysia are a lot to improve.
1. Why can't he be supportive to implement Hudud's law for Muslim community here under existing Narrowed-Syariah law, as he is always claimed as Muslim leader. Can't he use his "genius" brain to find a wisest way how to implement it? If he did, closed PAS issues.
2. Why he keeps blaming Malay for their unchanged negative attitudes, Can't he think to come out with constructive plan which offer additional subjects focusing on developing right attitudes during secondary and primary schools ?
3. The main major issue that cause dissatisfaction among non-Malay is about educational policy which lately Metrocracy is introduced, can't he just plan to ensure everybody who decides to further their studies get a place at Universites, suitable for their interest and help everybody who needs help financially-regardless!?
4. Can't he fully utilizes the human resources from different ethnics to contribute in developing the country?
5. Can't he thinks how to search and develop Malay entrepreneurs to balance the equity holdings with Non-Malay?

..and other many issues!

At last, he is good in preparing all the infrastructures but a failure in nation building.
2003-07-02
NAZMUL AHSAN FROM BANGLADESH said:
This type of speech will create scapegoats for the developing countries. Lack of education is the root of underdevelopment. If we always condemn Satan for our bad deed, then thing will get worse. We should find faults in ours first, then to others. Regardless of a country, a neighbor has a basic instinct of taking chance of the unrest of another neighbor. We need not go far to west. We have recent example of what Japan did to its neighbors.
2003-07-02
MAHBOOB HASAN FROM USA said:
Dr. Mahathir is the only leader in the current Muslim world who has the vision and courage to spell out the facts. Very impressive speech...a must read article.
2003-07-01
KHAN FROM USA said:
This article is awesome!
2003-06-30
YADI KON FROM USA said:
Greetings everybody.I was very pleased by The Primer Minister's speech.I wish that all third world countries leaders get a copy of this once in a lifetime message from a very honest and fearless human being.I could not hold my tears while reading it.This world is going in the wrong direction.Why others races stand still and let europeans (americans included) dictate everything.We live once we die once .Let's just live with dignity.i'm just fearful of ALLAH.We the muslims and other human being being have to stand up for our birth rights before it's late or we all are going to pay a very high and costly price. Europeans are leading humanity to self-destruction.They always have been violent toward others races for so many centuries and they have been using the system of divide and conquer ever since.Wake up my fellow brothers and sisters from being taken advantage of.whenever they are behind closed doors they stick together for the best use of africans,asians , latin and south americans,...Even during the last iraqi crisis,the french were playing game for there own interest but not because of sympathy for iraqi people.I'll keep copies of this SPEECH for the next generation and i'll make sure that as many people as possible will read it.We need leaders like brother Mahathir for the survival of the human race.Anything less would be uncivilized.Please would you direct me where i can have a transcript of it in french.I'm originally from a french speaking country but living in the USA.I'd like this speech to be published over there for my people to read it .May ALLAH BLESS HIM ,GIVES HIM A HEALTH AND LONGLIFE,PROTECT HIM AGAINST EVIL DOERS,REWARD HIM WITH THE HIGHESS JANNAH IN THE OTHER LIFE.AMINA
2003-06-30
JALEELA RAFEE FROM CANADA said:
I appreciate his courage to speak out the truth.
2003-06-30
DEWSON INJEASI FROM U.S said:
Although,what Mahathir sayed about the European race is true,he is himself a racist.The Europeans killed & chased away the indeginous people of the lands they conquered,that's true,so did the Malays,the Malays did infact made the indeginous tribes of the Malay Peninsula(the tribes now called The Negritos) before the Malays almost, extint.I think Malaysia is very succesful country that needs to keep developing.
2003-06-29
J.A FROM SOMALIA said:
maa shaallah.if anybody want to kwon the truth the should read it.wasalamu aleykum
2003-06-29
NURAINI FROM MALAYSIA said:
my country is not perfect, and i accept some of the criticism that some have pointed out in the comments. other criticism i treat with ambivalence, but some, like our (Malay) solidarity with our aborigines and non-Muslims, i must challenge. though not without inter-racial misunderstandings, we are a people who stick by each other, regardless of race or religion. i assume Mr. Mills refers to the special status of the natives (Malays and aborigines) compared to the originally immigrant Chinese and Indians (who incidentally happen to be non-Muslims most of them). I point out that although this policy of preference is not comprehensbile to white people, i'm sure if you asked Native Americans, or Australian aborigines, they would understand, as without them the native Malays would have long ago been economically and politically impoverished in the land of our own fathers and of our own blood. Ask the Native Americans whose land was stolen from them, whether our policy of the special status of Malays makes sense or not. It was even agreed with by the immigrants at the time of our independence - they allow us this, in exchange we give all of them citizenship. they do not question this, as we do not question their right as our brother citizens. ours is a country where few would say anything that would insult another's religion. when overseas, we gravitate to each other, malaysian to malaysian, even though in terms of race the malay malaysian ought to gravitate to indonesian malays and the chinese malaysian ought to gravitate to China chinese. there are things in my country i do not agree with, but for this, i love it more than any foreigner can understand. and i am not alone in this.
2003-06-29
G.LYKINS FROM USA said:
Dr. Mahathir's comments are very painful for me to read, but unfortunately warranted, necessary and much too much true. Our world has grown too small and dangerous not to face truth. I pray for an awakening of self-awareness in the west.
2003-06-29
RUBEN MILLS FROM BIG BULLSHIT said:
The English say "call a spade a spade". Call anything by its real name. Then Mahathir should know he is an Indian Moslem. I can't understand how a man who started the aparthied discriminatory New Economic to discriminate the the non-Moslems for more than 30 years and still going can talk cock!
2003-06-28
MARLENE said:
There is some truth in the prime minister's speech, but an awful lot of inconsistencies.
To infer only "Europeans" are warmongers like it was some genetic trait is absurd. It is unfortunately a common trait of mankind since the beginning of time. I guess the prime minister forgot about Pearl Harbor or that Malaysia could well now be a province of Japan except for those warmonger "Europeans".

Probably plays to the masses, but a missed opportunity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

2003-06-28
ROB M FROM USA said:
Very enlightening. Helpful in gaining a better understanding of how the Moslem world sees the Western (European) world, and our country in particular. Although few in America would agree with the Prime Minister's assessment of the European races, it's an intriguing view which I've never heard expressed in America before.
2003-06-27
S.C. WEAVER FROM USA said:
Everything in the article I felt was sad but true.
2003-06-26
MOHAMED RIAZ FROM CANADA said:
very honest and informative. i wish mr mahathir had elaborated a bit on how to resist, or not get devoured in, the european invasion he rightly says would come not only physically but in culture, in schools, in religion and in many other disguised ways. right now does the malaysian populace know how....or are they already sucked in but are blissfully unaware?
2003-06-26
MITCH FROM THAILAND said:
Study him, you will learn what great leadership is all about!
2003-06-25
SHAHARI AHMAD FROM SINGAPORE said:
A fairly accurate describtion of European/ American hidden agenda.
2003-06-25
MAT FROM MALAYSIA said:
People must understand that Mahathir is on the end of term in office as a PM, so he will leave any traces he can before he retired in October.I am not totally agree with this last speech and so were his speeches before, because as a Muslim Democrat I am opposed most of his autocratic policy.

I am agree that under his terms, he brought many development in our country although he did very little in that process, the Chinese should get the credits more.His party is sham!. Back to back corruptions, favoritisme and so on and the most alarming situation in Malaysia now is he trying to groom a another autocrat as he rule no election for the next deputy PM, that mean the next PM will hand pick his deputy.So much for the democracy, eh?.The media is handsomely in his hand(TV1 take note here), public speaking is no-no, unless you are in your own house, the internet is monitor and so on.

As his world view, I quite agree with some of his points but Hey! that the way it is, we have to deal with it.Don't pamper your party members with your's filmsy guard, the will break apart when the real threat come.Think as a world citizen and the world will recognize you.
2003-06-25
SAID S FROM USA said:
Monsieur Alain-Jean Mairet,

Here we are again, another article which is quite thought-provoking. We appreciate the effort on the part of Mr. Mahathir. In brief, I believe that the article deserves credit for many of its facts. The West in general contributed so much to human civilization based on what it leaned from the Eastern civilization esp. that of the Muslims. No one can deny this; otherwise, one needs to consult the historical books contained in libraries all over the world. Furthermore, the Europeans, especially, did in fact cause by far the most destruction on every continent. The question which proposes itself here is: which Europeans? Well, the answer is: the colonial Europeans. I think that Europe of nowadays with the exception of England is quite rational in its approach to world events. No one could be so sure of its intentions from here-on.
Monsieur Mairet,
Let me recommend an author for you to read for you to double-check your facts on world's history. Noam Chomsky is one American scholar who will definitely confirm some of Mahathir's facts. Having said that, I am a Muslim who migrated to the US for the good which she offers including the freedom to express oneself in such ways like what I am doing right now. I love her and I have chosen her to be my eternal home; nevertheless, no one could deny what the Europeans have done in the past, not to say that other races are perfect.

2003-06-24
ALAIN JEAN-MAIRET FROM CH said:
Mr. Hadi:
A honest man cannot call "atrocities" the intervention of the US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the contrary, an (as) objective (as possible) exam of the facts shows that the US has made great efforts to concentrate their action on genuine military targets, whereas Iraqis repeatedly tried to mix among the population in order to make as many civil victims as possible, as it was but normal for a regime which had been used to routinely torture people, guilty or not, just for maintaining terror and respect among the population. These are the people you are defending right now, Mr. Hadi.

If we'd made a macabre count of bodies and sufferings caused by European, African, Asian, and other leaders, I'm not so sure that we would find evidences for your thesis that the Europeans are the worst ones.

To compare the critics of Mr. Mahatir to the attitude of Saddam Hussein is insane. Saddam Hussein killed more Muslims than the US ever will. If the US should run a war each time someone is condemning its hegemonic deed, it would have destroyed America first and foremost. The west is the very land of free opinion (Droits de l'homme). All the arguments used by Mr. Mahathir are actually coming from the west. It is in the US as well that you will find the most vocal (educated) critics of the past and present US foreign policy, and the next more vociferous are in Europe. Mr. Mahathir's picture of the situation is pre-digested and biased. He tries to make it sound very bad, and for that he has to make such acrobatics with history (telling of a specific selection of facts, always in the same light) that no informed person will take him seriously. What he is doing is propaganda, he wants to please the general anti-west feeling he knows is present in the population for diverting the public opinion away of his own shortcomings.
May Allah help us all, indeed, to stand on our own mental feet.
2003-06-24
SOHEL FROM INDIA (GUJURAT) said:
everything in the article is very true.
2003-06-23
MUHAMMAD HADI FROM USA said:
With respect to a previous post, I think Mr. Alain Jean-Mairet is trying to cover up the CONTINUOUS attrocities of the Europeans while you are saying "It is of no use to criticize the past....".

The wish to rule the globe is ingrained with the westerners. The war in Afganistan and in Iraq is not an event of the past. Even a child would understand the imperial design of the west in these attrocities. I am not saying common westerners are involved in these scheme. But today no one can deny the mind-set of the western ruling elite who would make no mistake to go any length to satisfy the money-for-more-money sequence of the Global Corporate system which is again a unique vicious design from the west.

This commentator does not see any courage on the side of Mahathir. Let me ask you which leader in the middle east or asia would dare to critisize USA openly when whitout any other reason they would suffer the same fate as the brutal Iraqi dictator (when he already was useless to US anyways) had faced. Indeed it requires courage for a asian-country leader to refuse IMF loan or to speak out against the opression of the Europeans. It does not matter if you reaslise it or not.

There should be no confusion about the 'childish arrogance' of the European talking about freedom, no-censure etc where as common westerners are fed with what a handful no. of media mogul wants them to percive.

At the end I ask the muslims to find ways to improve their know-how and exploit all the suitable resources to stand on their own feet. May Allah help us all.

2003-06-23
SAEED KHAN FROM USA said:
DR.Mahatir's speech was excellent.This man is a true world leader.Governments elsewhere would be improved by listening to and implementing his ideas
2003-06-23
NURAINI FROM MALAYSIA said:
there ought to be no quarrel about pages one and two - they're facts, and presented in a way that would make you think. but for non-malaysians, be advised that although page three also contains truth, it is couched in standard UMNO political rhetoric - PAS isn't as bad as that, and UMNO itself has a few faults of their own. it's not so black and white :)
2003-06-23
MUHAMMAD HADI FROM USA said:
Salam and Hello to all

I guess this is kind of speech that was due from a leader like Mahthir Mohammad. I wish that muslim (and non-muslim) third world people realize the vicious scheme of the Capitalism and Free Martket economy which diregard any life-value and moral or ethical code of life.

From my observation, I see that the muslim countries are getting more and more entangled with the octupus like World Bank, IMF etc. Specially the densly populated muslim countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh,Indonesia etc.

I hope the current leaders of Turkey would pay some heed to this speech and find ways to make Turkey strong againg irrespective of European Union membership. They should try to work more closely and increse commerce with the muslim countries. Mr Erdogan did recently visted Malaysia. I hope that this trend would continue.

If the muslim goverments do not change their policies of blindly following the prescription of IMF, World bank the majority of the people will be at the mercy of native and western super-rich people. And then all our ethical, moral and life values would be wiped out so that no resistance remains.

But they plan and Allah Suhanu Wa Taala plans too. May Allah bring among the muslims the determined Allah-fearing and far-sighting leaders to uphold the code-of-life and humanity.
2003-06-23
ALAIN JEAN-MAIRET FROM CH said:
The author is actually repeating the same mistakes than he says "Europeans" have done. He pretends to have grasped the situation, to have the correct solutions, to be able to apply them, and is actually spending more time criticizing others than exposing the motives of his being so sure of his own quality. This kind of childish arrogance is indeed a frequent mistake of the west. But at least here it is openly criticized. The commentators' impression that it needs courage to say such things are victims of a delusion: in the west, critic is omnipresent; censure is generally perceived as profoundly wrong, and the exercise of power is the object of a permanent public reflection.

It is of no use to criticize the past when you aren't able to crystallize its learning into real wisdom. What the world needs is not new all-knowing leaders. Those are eventually always wrong, whatever they propose and do (yes, even prophets). What the world needs is a structure of reflection where the best of our knowledge and know-how is applied to present and concrete situations, a structure where the known errors of the past are neutralized. We have done so many mistakes. The least we can do is to work hard not to make the same ones again.
2003-06-23
R FROM AUSTRALIA said:
This is a great article by a good leader. He said things as they are and was not afraid to speak what he thought. This must be respected
2003-06-23
ARD FROM UNITED STATES OF AMERICA said:
Thank you, Islamicity, for printing this article with so many insights about the European culture, which is my own. To many of your readers, my culture will be identified closely with "capitalism," "imperialism," "hedonism," etc. But please pay special attention to these phrases in Dr. Mahathir's characterization of Europeans: "They are never satisfied with what they have and always want to improve on them, to make them better, more productive for whatever purpose. There is nothing, whether instrument or system or ideology which is not continuously improved by them."

Communism, a product of European culture, failed as an attempt to replace the dominant social system. Its defects brought about its demise. But many of us continue to dedicate ourselves to introduce new ways of thinking and believing and organizing. We are not satisfied with who we are today. At the same time that I acknowledge our dangerous and destructive conduct as agressors in non-European lands -- accurately documented by Dr. Mahathir --, I am also proud of the restless spirit and vitality in my culture. In 1933, the European Alfred Korzybski, in his book Science and Sanity (p. 521), characterized European culture as "our so-called civilization, being at an infantile asocial level, based, as it is, on selfishness, 'sense' gratification, might, brutal competition, acquisitiveness, etc. ... Commercialism, the 'law of supply and demand', as a by-product, also follows from infantile world-outlooks." Many of us, at some personal risk, dedicate ourselves to transform the European behaviors that you and I deplore through improved application of science, education, communication, etc. Islamicity furthers that objective by providing vehicles for comment like this one.
2003-06-23
MANNA FROM CANADA said:
It is very reassuring to see a leader who is not afraid to say the truth even if it means stepping on the toes of the powers that be. It is even better to see one who is not ashamed to draw on his religious guidance to direct him. Best of all, to have this person be muslim and proud and unapologetic gives me great hope for our future as muslims. May Allah reward the good Doctor. iviews, thank you for sharing this phenomenal speech
2003-06-22
KAMRAN JAMEEL FROM USA said:
I share the views of Dr. Mahathir. The success of Malaysia under his leadership attests to the soundness of his policies. I would have liked to see Malaysia play a stronger role in the leadership of Islamic countries so that the Ummah at large could benefit from his leadership and clear thinking.

I would also like to see him become more tolerant of opposition, whether it comes from within his own party or other parties.
2003-06-22
MUHAMMAD FAWZI FROM UAE said:
May ALLAH bless brother Mahathir, and forgive his mistakes. He is one I am proud to call a leader, he embodies some very good characters that Islam teaches.

His comments here were insightful, and shows that ALLAH has bless him with knowledge and wisdom. At a time where Muslim leaders seem to be abondoning Islam as a solution to their ills, here is a leader that looks to it to find solutions. He speaks the truth even if it is unpopular, Islam teaches that it is a good character to Speak the Truth in the face of the tyrant, and brother Mahathir does that.

May ALLAH bless him abunfantly, and bless us with leaders who look to ALLAH and HIS messenger for guidance.
2003-06-22
TALHA AHMAD FROM UNITED KINGDOM said:
Mohatir Muhammad, Like any great leader, has some short comings which outnumber though his qualities. His assesment of the current world situation is perfect and his call for true islamic teaching is extremely tiely. But I have to say his way of attack on others, Mainly on PAS and his indirect attack on Anwar Ibrahim is unfortunate. I born far from Mlayasia in Bangladesh and living now in the west, But due to my family tradition I had the pleasure to learn about Malyasia, Mahatir, Anwar Ibrahim and PAS. In fact Anwar was a good friend of my uncle and dad. I think Dr. Mohatir Muhammad whom I admire very much, according to his desire to uphold true Islamic Teaching, and to see islam victorious need to rethink in His view on Islamists for his own views to prevail and his dreams and desire to see Islam victorious come true. Apart from the part he goes on to domestic politics where he put party before his thought and desire, his speech was one of a great leader who realise the challanges and knows the way out.
May allah help us all, grant us knowledge, and forgive us of all sins, be it greatest! Ma'assalam.
2003-06-22
MUJTABA AHMED FROM PAKISTAN said:
Okay most of what Dr. Mahatir says is relevant, even correct. But after reading his assessemnt of Capitalist depredations in order to fulfill its material quest, one would like to be enlightened by our good Doctor as to how to defeat the ensuing IMF-WTO inspired neo-colonialism. Any ideas please ?
2003-06-22
KLGIRL70 FROM BIH said:
An excellent speech from a great leader! Something for all of us to ponder. I also found a collection of his inspiring speeches at http://www.pmo.gov.my/WebNotesApp/PMMain.nsf/fsMainPM

May God bless u Dr M & please keep on writing. The pen is mightier than the sword! :)
2003-06-22
R.ISHAQ FROM CANADA said:
Asalaam Alaykum to Dr Mahathir and all readers!
Now this is the leader of all leaders of Islamic Nations! I hope they read his article and act likewise!
You have no need to hide gentlemen!
Unite and you are the might.
Wa Salaam
Rauf.
2003-06-22
MICHAEL ABDUL-HAKIM FROM USA said:
Assalaamu 'alaikum,
I am thankful to Allah for showing me what was wrong in this world's life and I will say to you live The Qur'an and Allah will protect us from any so call super power. Please teach your woman and men The Qur'an and Allah will be please with us and will give us the help we need to protect our selves. I was very happy to read of Bro. Mahathir's speech, it is on the mark.
2003-06-22
M'DEAN MAZBOUDI FROM CANADA said:
God bless Dr. Mahathir and others like him who says the truth and not afraid exsept from the mighty god.
We need few leaders like him, and the World and the humenity will be in safe hands.

Abu Saad
2003-06-21
TAPIWA FROM USA said:
As salam u alaykum. Very good speech alhamdulilah. This is a brother whose eyes are open to the truth and fears none but Allah(swt) as we all should. Hopefully we may all learn a lesson from this speech and turn back to the Qur'an and sunnah inshaallah.
2003-06-21
ISHTIAQ MUHAMMAD FROM PAKISTANI LIVING IN CANADA said:
Excellent analysis by Malaysian PM. I think such speeches and articles SHOULD be continued in future.
2003-06-21
SRDALBIZU FROM USA said:
Very clever!Only those who know their history will be prepared for the psychological,moral and even physical wars to come. Always from one group:THE WHITE MAN.
2003-06-21
DR F.M.QURESHI FROM INDIA said:
Thanks for your enlightened speech. Other so called muslim leaders need to get inspiration from your fact spelling and mindful thoughts. Only you can speak the truth in todays unipolar world. Thanks a lot. This is matter of deep concern that so called demoncracies in Europe and America are bent upon destroying the world by adopting their aggressive posture and warmongering towards third world countries. It seems, the days are not far when middle eastern coountries along with other third world countries will be colonised by Europeans (Americans) for their financial benefits.
2003-06-21
NASREEN RAHMAN FROM CANADA said:
I agree totally with Dr.Mahathir's speech he has right on the money.
2003-06-21
ALI FROM AUSTRALIA said:

Comments on Europe are correct and I totally agree with them. However Mahatir's radical posture is only a veneer to legetimise his crusade against Islamic movement. He is more dangerous than obvious American stooges.
2003-06-21
AKBAR KHAN FROM CANADA said:
As-Salaam-U-Alaiykum,

ALHUMDULILLAH!

The dear Muslim brother, has made the best summation of the truth of Western colonial history, objectives, and actions of Westerners I have ever read, from like 50 years!! The way the doctor described the drawbacks of "democracy" was also very well summarized! We should take into account his bravery and excellence while speaking the TRUTH! One thing is for certain, that with all the lies that the West tries to shape history with over and over, and now they try to shape the future minds with lies, I know that there is always hope, as long as courageous brothers like yourself see the TRUTH and continue to speak about it! The one thing that never changes no matter how hard mankind may try to bury it, TRUTH....I agree with Dr. Mahathir, he is not a racist, or anything of the sort...he is opening doorways for people to go and research on these points of TRUTH outlined in this speech, so that people can truly discover themselves. Is it better to curse the dark, or to shed light???? Well when you consider the fact that historically American or British governments are terrible in telling the truth, it is obvious that correcting lies is one thing, and cursing the darkness is another. THE DOCTOR HAS BRAVELY SHED LIGHT ON THIS MATTER!

Wa-Salaam-U-Alaiykum.
2003-06-21
MATHUSIN FROM AUSTRALIA said:
well said,,,what others always avoided
2003-06-21
ANAS FROM CANADA said:
It's very pleasing to see leaders having the guts to stand up aginst the americans and europians to sa the truth.

go Dr. Mahathir go
2003-06-21
AHMEDABUL FROM USA said:
As the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad(peace be upon him) informed us, what weakens us is the love of this world. May Allah(swt) guide us all. Ameen.

It's a great speech. I thank iViews for posting this speech for all of us to look at. It is an honest speech and seems to be coming from his heart. There is sincere advise for all muslims in the speech. May Allah protect Malaysia, may Allah protect Islam and all muslims and guide us to His straight path and make us successful again in both the worlds. Ameen.
2003-06-20