The Muslim world must outsmart and defeat the Jews, Malaysia’s prime minister said. “The Europeans killed 6 million Jews out of 12 million. But today the Jews rule this world by proxy,” Mahathir Mohammad said on Thursday in his address as host of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. “We cannot fight them through brawn alone. We must use our brains as well.” Mahathir, an avowed fan of Henry Ford’s anti-Semitic polemic “The International Jew,” is due to retire Oct. 31 after 22 years in power.
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