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	Mahathir bin Mohamad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mahathir rejoined UMNO on 7 March 1972, and was appointed as Senator in 1973.
		Mahathir's relationship with Australia (the closest country in the Anglosphere to Malaysia, and the one whose foreign policy is most concentrated on the region), and his relationship with Australia's political leaders, has been particularly rocky.
		Mahathir is keen that the rise of PRC could to some extent balance the American influence in Southeast Asia, as well as benefiting Malaysia from the PRC's economic prosperity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mahathir_bin_Mohamad (6936 words)

	Abdullah Ahmad Badawi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Originally politically exiled after clashing with Mahathir in an internal UMNO dispute during the 1980s, Abdullah was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister by Mahathir after the sacking of Anwar Ibrahim.
		In 2005, Mahathir began challenging Abdullah on a number of issues, such as the protection of Proton, the flagship national car manufacturer, and the distribution of approved permits for importing foreign-manufactured vehicles.
		Early during Mahathir's tenure as prime minister, a bitter dispute erupted within the ruling UMNO party and the two camps were colloquially known as 'Team A' which was comprised of Mahathir loyalists, and 'Team B', which supported former Minister of Finance Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah and former Deputy Prime Minister Musa Hitam.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abdullah_Ahmad_Badawi (1250 words)

	Asean News Network: Mahathir bin Mohamad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Mahathir bin Mohamad (born December 20, 1925) was the Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003.
		During his twenty-two year rule, Mahathir was seen as a political "strongman", and was criticised for his authoritarian policies and use of state power to suppress opponents via the media, the judiciary and law enforcement agencies.
		Mahathir amended it such that approval by parliament could be legally considered as royal assent after a period of 30 days, notwithstanding the views of the monarchs.
	www.aseannewsnetwork.com /2004/03/mahathir-bin-mohamad.html (2745 words)

	The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Mahathir castigates "interpreters of Islam who taught that acquisition of knowledge by Muslims meant only the study of Islamic theology." Thanks to these interpreters, "the study of science, medicine, etc. was discouraged.
		Mahathir back then was that his strident rhetoric was actually part of a delicate balancing act aimed at domestic politics.
		Mahathir was so adamantly against I.M.F. austerity plans was that he feared that they would disrupt the carefully managed cronyism that holds his system together.
	www.pkarchive.org /column/102103.html (610 words)

	CNN.com - Mahathir attack on Jews condemned - Oct. 16, 2003
		Mahathir, who steps down at the end of the month, has become notorious for controversial speeches during his 22 years as leader and has been a key proponent of a unified political stance among Muslim nations.
		Mahathir has often lashed out at Israel and the United States, which he blames for fueling violence and angst in the Arab and Muslim world.
		Mahathir said, "They invented socialism, communism, human rights and democracy, so that persecuting them would appear to be wrong, so that they can enjoy equal rights with others.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/10/16/oic.mahathir (1150 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Profile: Mahathir Mohamad
		Anwar Ibrahim, once his deputy and heir apparent, is still serving a jail sentence he began in 1998 after the prime minister abruptly dismissed him from his cabinet post and accused him of sodomy and corruption.
		Mahathir Mohamad's political career began in 1946, when at the age of 21 he joined the newly founded nationalist organisation United Malays National Organisation (Umno).
		With the onset of the Asian economic crisis in 1997, Dr Mahathir refused to accept that his grandiose schemes were partly to blame for Malaysia's massive debt.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/2059518.stm (813 words)

	CNN.com - Mahathir fires parting shots - Oct. 30, 2003
		They see Mahathir as a national hero for pulling a third-world, rubber and tin-producing Malaysia out of the mist of British colonial rule and charting a course to become one of Southeast Asia's most modern and wealthy countries.
		Mahathir has taken a tough stance against those who opposed or were against him, jailing opposition figures, shutting down media organizations and altering legislature to suit his visions.
		Mahathir -- who abandoned his own medical practice in pursuit of a political career -- has also been an outspoken critic of his own religion, Islam.
	cnn.com /2003/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/10/30/mahathir.retire/index.html (928 words)

	OIC Summit, Mahathir's speech and post OIC reverberations:
		Mahathir's audience, the world's 1.3 billion Muslims, is also living with economic failure, frustrated irredentist ambition, a sense of lost prestige...
		Mahathir complaining about the reports of his remarks on Jews which were denounced as anti-Semitic by the US, the European Union, Australia and others, said that they “just picked up one sentence in my speech”.
		What became clear watching Mahathir back then was that his strident rhetoric was actually part of a delicate balancing act aimed at domestic politics “Not long ago Washington was talking about Malaysia as an important partner in the war on terror.
	www.saag.org /papers9/paper823.html (3056 words)

	Asiaweek.com \| Political Endgame \| 9/21/2001
		As a young man in the 1940s and '50s, Mahathir was keenly aware of the humiliating position of the Malays as mere tenants in their own land, beggars at the colonial feast.
		Mahathir has scant concern for his critics and always sought to implement his vision regardless of the political consequences.
		Mahathir sees the full-scale imposition of the shariah (Islamic law) and the dominant role of the ulamak (religious scholar) as a dead-end for Malays.
	www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/magazine/ThreeSixty/0,8782,174684,00.html (986 words)

	The Mahathir Affair: A Case Study in Mainstream Islamic Anti-Semitism, by Manfred Gerstenfeld
		The importance of the Mahathir affair is that it has exposed in a short time and in a concentrated way the profound anti-Semitic thought present among major layers of both mainstream Muslim elites and society.
		Mahathir avoided mentioning the near absence of democracy and the presence of major corruption in the Islamic world, responsible for much of its problems.
		The importance of the Mahathir affair is that it has exposed in a short time and in a concentrated way the profound anti-Semitic thought present among major layers of both Muslim elites and society.
	www.jcpa.org /jl/vp506.htm (4170 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Malaysia defends speech on Jews
		Mahathir Mohamad's opening speech at a summit of Muslim leaders in the Malaysian city of Putrajaya on Thursday has been condemned around the world.
		Dr Mahathir, who has used such conferences to make scathing attacks on the West in the past, bows out as prime minister in a week's time after 22 years in office.
		Mahathir's speech was an "absolute invitation for more hate crimes and terrorism against Jews".
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/3196234.stm (662 words)

	Reader says Jared Israel's criticism of Mahathir is 'Out of Context' - - EC Editor Jared Israel responds
		Notice that Mahathir's aide was fully aware of the worldwide political impact of Mahathir's attack on "The Jews," an attack which was very public.
		Media accounts of Mahathir's speech generally described him as a "moderate" and stressed that other parts of the speech were "reasonable." Mahathir clearly understands that by introducing the most extreme anti-Jewish racism into mainstream public discourse, he altered the international political landscape, drastically expanding the influence of the political ideology called antisemitism.
		Mahathir's first claim to fame (or rather, notoriety) was the publication of The Malay Dilemma after the May 13, 1969 racial riots in Kuala Lumpur.
	emperors-clothes.com /letters/hay.htm (3370 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Mahathir calls US, UK terrorist nations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Mahathir, who ruled Malaysia for 22 years before retiring in 2003, also defended his human-rights record in government.
		Mahathir decried the deaths of thousands of Iraqi civilians as a result of the US-led military invasion and occupation.
		Mahathir, who when in power was a US ally in the fight against terrorism although he opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, noted that Washington's reason for invading Iraq was that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/E9B5FE8B-8DC2-4CDA-8B11-128920483F8C.htm (536 words)

	Mahathir, Fear and Tears at the UMNO Annual Shindig
		Mahathir himself was a fundamentalist Muslim, crowed the premier, and proud of it.
		Mahathir stated that Malaysia would be no-where without the Chinese, and despite all his efforts, Malays had done little to "help themselves".
		Mahathir's challenge was quite simply one of organization culture change - and many managers who have tried in private and public enterprise are well aware of how difficult the task.
	www.apmforum.com /news/ap230602.htm (1808 words)

	CNN.com - Mahathir hits back in Jewish row - Oct. 21, 2003
		Mahathir -- who has been no stranger to controversy during his 22 year rule -- said the overall tone of his speech had been conciliatory but blamed the press for quoting it out of context.
		Mahathir also accused the media of being selective in the portions of the wide-ranging speech they reported.
		Mahathir has become notorious for controversial speeches during his 22 years as leader and has been a key proponent of a unified political stance among Muslim nations, often taking aim at Israel over its occupation of Palestinian territory and the U.S. for its Middle East policy.
	edition.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/10/21/mahathir.speech (654 words)

	The Mahathir Mystique - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com
		When Mahathir became prime minister in 1981, Malaysia was recovering from both the traumatic race riots of an earlier decade and a protracted campaign against communist insurgents.
		Mahathir was perceived as anti-Chinese and “ultra-Malay.” He had written a controversial 1970 book titled “The Malay Dilemma,” which offered a chilling race-based analysis of how ethnic Malays were being dominated economically by the more adept Chinese.
		Mahathir almost forcibly modernized a poor country and spoke angrily for the world’s have-nots.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/3339630 (1722 words)

	Asiaweek.com \| Mahathir's Dilemma \| 1/26/2001
		And Mahathir is using it to pander to his fellow Malays by labeling the group and its followers as extremists.
		Mahathir seized on the suggestions in what his opponents say was a shameless attempt to demonize the lobby group and generate support for his United Malays National Organization (UMNO).
		The problem springs partly from distaste at the fate of Anwar, once Mahathir's chosen successor, who was sacked, beaten up in prison and jailed for 15 years on charges of abuse of power and sodomy.
	www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/magazine/nations/0,8782,95656,00.html (2279 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Israel bars Mahathir from Jerusalem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Palestinian Foreign Ministry official Abdullah Abdullah told Aljazeera.net that Mahathir was denied entry into Jerusalem because of his pro-Palestinian stand and outspoken criticism of the Israeli occupation.
		Mahathir laid laid a wreath at Yasser Arafat's tomb in Ramallah.
		Mahathir, who championed the Palestinian cause during his 22 years in power before retiring in October last year, said he was visiting the West Bank as a show of solidarity with the Palestinians.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/42BF3898-F293-4856-8294-6DD04ACBF4CB.htm (612 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Mahathir's economic legacy
		Today, as Dr Mahathir prepares to step down from power, Malaysia boasts a diversified and modern economy, which weathered the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 better than many of its peers.
		Famously, Dr Mahathir denounced the financier George Soros for sparking the Asian financial crisis, which dealt a mortal blow to Malaysia's 1990s boom.
		Dr Mahathir's keen stewardship of the economy has spawned various projects - the latest of which is a "knowledge-based economy master plan" to upgrade Malaysia's electronics industry from low to hi-tech.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/3151942.stm (767 words)

	Malaysia apologises for Mahathir's 'Jews rule world' remark - www.smh.com.au
		Faced with furious criticism from around the world over Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's assertion that Jews rule the world, Malaysia apologised today for any misunderstanding and claimed that no offence was intended.
		Repeated assertions of Jewish dominance dotted the speech to buttress Mahathir's analysis that Muslims needed to embrace modern knowledge and technology and overcome divisions over religious dogma that have left them weakened on the world stage.
		Mahathir said the world's 1.3 billion Muslims "cannot be defeated by a few million Jews," but suggested the use of political and economic tactics instead of violence to achieve a "final victory."
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/10/17/1066364473557.html (455 words)

	Mahathir’s remarks trigger US, British walkout -DAWN - Top Stories; September 10, 2005
		Mr Mahathir, who is famous for his anti-Western rhetoric, described Britain and the United States as liars, terrorists and murderers, prompting diplomats, including British High Commissioner Bruce Cleghorn, to leave the venue.
		Mr Mahathir told the audience of some 350 diplomats and human rights activists that the invasion in Iraq was made on false pretences, and that the claim Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction “was a lie”.
		Mr Mahathir, who was regularly criticized over human rights issues during his two-decade tenure which ended in 2003, defended his own record, saying he had used Malaysia’s draconian internal security laws only ‘sparingly’.
	www.dawn.com /2005/09/10/top11.htm (378 words)

	TIMEasia Magazine: Malaysia - Regime Change
		There is even a pair of superstores from international giants Carrefour and Tesco, and the huge parking lot of each could comfortably house all the vehicles owned by the townsfolk back in the early 1980s.
		Mahathir, 78, is scheduled to step down at the end of this month, after 22 years in power.
		Last week, at a press conference in Bali after his final attendance at a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Mahathir was in characteristically feisty form—cracking jokes, skewering other governments (he lambasted Australia for playing "deputy sheriff" in the region) and showing no sign that his imminent departure was weighing on his mind.
	www.time.com /time/asia/2003/mahathir/story.html (643 words)

	Asia Times: Mahathir's ultimate challenge
		At various points, the Mahathir administration has clamped down on independent groups that he saw as nuisances or threats: activists, opposition and rival politicians, and the judiciary in 1988; the monarchy in 1993, and finally his own deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim, whom he sacked in 1998.
		With economic growth flattening, the flipside of Mahathir's achievements is looking increasingly stark and his legacy more and more shaky.
		For all Mahathir's anti-Western rhetoric, the economy remains heavily dependent on foreign investment, especially in the electronics sector.
	www.atimes.com /se-asia/CG18Ae03.html (1106 words)

	Seachange Malaysia
		Mahathir Feeds Fallacies to Students Mahathir exhorts students to remain blind and mute to the government corruption and abuses.
		Mahathir vs Anwar Kim Quek analyses the truth of the matter as the sodomy trial ends.
		Mahathir's No-Contest Ruling A Hit: A new style of democracy is born in the spirit of "Malaysia Boleh" innovation.
	www.geocities.com /seachange_2000 (2189 words)

	Aliran - Marginalised Mahathir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Much used to the media limelight of yore, Mahathir even called a press conference to explain his side of the story – only to discover that he’s no longer the darling of the mainstream media, a fate that usually befalls those who no longer walk the corridors of power.
		So Mahathir has joined the league of Malaysians who had previously complained when he was premier that it was terribly unjust of him to curb the democratic right of Malaysian citizens to voice their opinions publicly in the mainstream media.
		The continued media marginalisation of Mahathir and concerned Malaysians to this day somehow does not sit well with NST group editor Brendan Pereira's insistence (in his column yesterday, 25 April) that there is deliberate openness in the Abdullah administration.
	www.aliran.com /content/view/47/22 (700 words)

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