Mahathir on killings in France: Muslims have right to be angry

Three more people slain in Nice, as former Malaysian PM cites attack on teacher

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Mahathir Mohamad, the former Malaysian prime minister, called French President Emmanuel Macron "primitive" for blaming Islam in recent French slayings. © Reuters

Nikkei staff writers

PARIS/NEW YORK -- Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad sent out a series of tweets Thursday over the recent killing of a French teacher who used cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a classroom, writing that he believed in freedom of expression but that it should not be used to insult others.

One of his more controversial tweets said that Muslims have a right to "kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past." That tweet was later removed by Twitter on grounds that it violated the social media platform's rules.

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