In 1997, there were 20 Jews living in Indonesia, some of them in Jakarta and a few Jewish families of Iraqi origin in Surabaya, who maintain a small synagogue.
If one billion muslims are so terrified of a few million Jews, more than half of whom must be women and children, then there's got to be something evil and sick about islam. Methinks the clerics know mohamMAD plagiarized most of the koran from the Orginal Testament while living with the Hebrews who gave him and his band of beggars shelter and food. Islam wants to wipe out the Jews and Christians to conceal the fact mohamMAD was a fraud.
But he is cunning. He knows islam is hurting itself and wants the 'Arab world to negotiate for peace'. He might as well have said, 'islam must stop killing itself.'
Being islamic means to be eternally cursed by the mental illness of the 'prophet' who contemplated suicide as the result of the disturbing voices in his head IMO.
From the same link:
The 77-year-old Mahathir, who retires at the month's end, was roundly criticised by the United States, Australia, Canada, Israel, Britain and the European Union, which said the comments about Jews "have no place in a decent world".
He made the comments at the opening of the Organization of Islamic Countries summit in Kuala Lumpur.
In his speech, Mahathir called on Muslims to use brains as well as brawn to fight Jews who, he said, "rule the world by proxy".
The OIC brings together 57 nations home to one billion Muslims.
http://www.primetimecrime.com/APNS/20031023Mahathir.htm
He told the leaders of the Islamic world that 1.3 billion Muslims could not be "defeated by a few million Jews".
"This tiny [Jewish] community has become a world power. We cannot fight them through brawn alone. We must use our brains as well," he said. Jews, said the Malaysian prime minister, had "invented socialism, communism, human rights and democracy" to avoid persecution and gain control of the most powerful countries.
He added that "the Jews" were "beginning to make mistakes" and Muslims could have "windows of opportunity... in the future".
The Malaysian prime minister also condemned what he called irrational terrorist attacks motivated by anger and suggested the Arab world should negotiate for peace.
While the speech sparked outrage in Jewish communities and the Western world, Muslim leaders and the Malaysian public were quick to defend the hugely popular leader.
Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar defended Mahathir, saying he had been misunderstood. "I am confident he has no anti-Jewish feeling," he said.
"Don't get emotional, overreacting to something and trying to create a storm when there is no storm at all."
Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre - which pursues the perpetrators of the Nazi genocide of the Jews - has expressed shock that Mahathir could make such comments, and at such a level.
"What is profoundly shocking and worrying is the venue of the speech, the audience and coming in the time we're living in," he said .
Oh never mind, you get a load of crap if you even have an Israeli visa stamp in your passport... in fact the locals (Malaysian) passports are marked "This passport is valid for all countries, except Israel."