Malaysian MP in Hitler controversy

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Malaysian MP admires Germany win - and Hitler - in tweet

(BBC) A Malaysian member of parliament has sparked controversy after he expressed admiration for Germany's win over Brazil in a World Cup semi-final - and Adolf Hitler.

Shortly after Germany's 7-1 win, Bung Moktar Radin tweeted: "WELL DONE..BRAVO...LONG LIVE HITLER..."

His tweet was instantly met with outrage on social media and made headlines in national newspapers.

Germany's ambassador to Malaysia said the reference was "unacceptable".

Mr Bung, however, has remained unapologetic about his tweet, saying that it was just for fun.

He told Malaysian newspaper The Star that he meant to compare the German team's performance to how Hitler fought in World War Two.

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-28227713


-- BBC 2014-07-10

[Crossy]

But Hitler and the Third Reich lost.

It seems to be an Asian problem that they really don't understand what Hitler and his cronies actually did.

[englishoak]

LOL what an idiot.

[daoyai]

But Hitler and the Third Reich lost.

It seems to be an Asian problem that they really don't understand what Hitler and his cronies actually did.

Losing the war but succeeding in eliminating millions of the the hated people may still make Adolph a hero in Malaysia and elswhere.

[Payboy]

Clearly prime ministerial material this guy.

[hanno]

Not just LOS where they have no clue about Hitler, Nazis, or the Third Reich.

And this guy is obviously a Moron but I'd be surprised if there were any consequences.

Losing the war but succeeding in eliminating millions of the the hated people may still make Adolph a hero in Malaysia and elswhere.

Most of his ilk deny that the Holocaust ever happened....

[skildpadden]

I guess their politicians are just as clever as their counterparts here?

[Maroon Watcher]

... isn't there a rule about being mentally sound to vote OR be a member of parliament....

[klauskunkel]

"long live Hitler"...

for your edification Mr. Bung (hole) Moktar Radin: Hitler is looong time dead, and therefore can't live any longer. May I suggest the more culturally appropriate "Hitler Akbar"...

[EiranCikguLow]

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But Hitler and the Third Reich lost.

It seems to be an Asian problem that they really don't understand what Hitler and his cronies actually did.

don't think it is an Asian problem....

http://www.jta.org/1993/04/20/archive/study-finds-ignorance-about-holocaust-widespread-among-u-s-adults-students

http://www.eurojewcong.org/Preserving%20the%20Shoah%20memory/6573-european-jewish-congress-president:-%E2%80%9Ceuropeans-have-already-forgotten-the-holocaust-and-now-politicians-are-making-it-official%E2%80%9D.html
http://www.jta.org/1993/04/20/archive/study-finds-ignorance-about-holocaust-widespread-among-u-s-adults-students

Not just LOS where they have no clue about Hitler, Nazis, or the Third Reich.

And this guy is obviously a Moron but I'd be surprised if there were any consequences.

sad truth about the lack of proper democracy in Malaysia...
unfortunate that morons can pushed into positions of authorithy but armed with the IQ of a rock...
worst is the fact that they are a poor reflection of the populace...it's no wonder many westerners think that Malaysians stay in trees.... =.=

[sawadee1947]

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But Hitler and the Third Reich lost.

It seems to be an Asian problem that they really don't understand what Hitler and his cronies actually did.

don't think it is an Asian problem....

http://www.jta.org/1993/04/20/archive/study-finds-ignorance-about-holocaust-widespread-among-u-s-adults-students

http://www.eurojewcong.org/Preserving%20the%20Shoah%20memory/6573-european-jewish-congress-president:-%E2%80%9Ceuropeans-have-already-forgotten-the-holocaust-and-now-politicians-are-making-it-official%E2%80%9D.html

http://www.jta.org/1993/04/20/archive/study-finds-ignorance-about-holocaust-widespread-among-u-s-adults-students

Not just LOS where they have no clue about Hitler, Nazis, or the Third Reich.

And this guy is obviously a Moron but I'd be surprised if there were any consequences.

sad truth about the lack of proper democracy in Malaysia...

unfortunate that morons can pushed into positions of authorithy but armed with the IQ of a rock...

worst is the fact that they are a poor reflection of the populace...it's no wonder many westerners think that Malaysians stay in trees.... =.=

I wouldn't say it's a lack of democracy....it's more a lack of education and therefore knowledge. Shame that he is MP. But look around...there are LePen, Wilder and Farage over there...all MP's too.....

[hanno]

I wouldn't say it's a lack of democracy....it's more a lack of education and therefore knowledge. Shame that he is MP. But look around...there are LePen, Wilder and Farage over there...all MP's too.....

This. And many more like that; intelligence is obviously not a prerequisite for becoming a politician in most countries.

[PiPiFFS]

Mention of Hitler and you are jumped on and demonised immediately. WHY ? The Socialists / Communists can revere the likes of Stalin, Lenin and Mao who killed far more people than Hitler ever did and yet escape all censure simply because Hitler is associated with killing just jews, which is untrue unlike the others. Is it about the race of people killed that make you a monster or the amount of people you starve and murder ?

[hanno]

Mention of Hitler and you are jumped on and demonised immediately. WHY ? The Socialists / Communists can revere the likes of Stalin, Lenin and Mao who killed far more people than Hitler ever did and yet escape all censure simply because Hitler is associated with killing just jews, which is untrue unlike the others. Is it about the race of people killed that make you a monster or the amount of people you starve and murder ?

What BS, Stalin, Lenin, and Mao are just revered by a few idiot, just like Hitler.

I for one am damn glad that he lost, after the Jews who would have been next?

[Benmart]

Mr. Rain should do some research before he makes exclamations of this sort.

What did the Nazis really think about Muslims?

According to the Nazis' racist ideology, Arabs are racial Semites and thus subhumans, similar to Jews. In his book, Mein Kampf, Hitler described the struggle for world domination as an ongoing racial, cultural and political battle between Aryans and non-Aryans. He envisaged a "ladder" of racial hierarchy, asserting that German "Aryans" were at the top of the ladder, while Jews and Gypsies were consigned to the bottom of the order. On Hitler's racial ladder, Arabs and Muslims occupied a servile place, held in much the same contempt as the Jews.

Hitler made a personal remark in 1939 in which he referred to the populace of the Middle East as "painted half-apes that ought to feel the whip".

As in other instances, however, the Nazis never allowed their ideological views to get in the way of more urgent political considerations. The Nazis recognized the importance of wooing the Arab and Muslim world to their side and, in their public proclamations, downplayed their real views of Muslims and Arabs. When Mein Kampf was being translated into Arabic in 1938, Hitler himself tactfully proposed to omit from it his "racial ladder" theory.

[Scott]

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But Hitler and the Third Reich lost.

It seems to be an Asian problem that they really don't understand what Hitler and his cronies actually did.

don't think it is an Asian problem....

http://www.jta.org/1993/04/20/archive/study-finds-ignorance-about-holocaust-widespread-among-u-s-adults-students

http://www.eurojewcong.org/Preserving%20the%20Shoah%20memory/6573-european-jewish-congress-president:-%E2%80%9Ceuropeans-have-already-forgotten-the-holocaust-and-now-politicians-are-making-it-official%E2%80%9D.html

http://www.jta.org/1993/04/20/archive/study-finds-ignorance-about-holocaust-widespread-among-u-s-adults-students

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The links have to do with the holocaust and the amount of knowledge about the holocaust will vary, but most westerners will know what it is. Knowledge about Hitler is much more widespread in western countries. In Asia it is largely absent from the textbooks and if it is taught it is only a cursory discussion.

I remember an exam given to a group of high school students here who had been studying European history (in English) starting with WW I and going through WW II and up to the early days of the EU. A great deal of time was spent on WW II. The most common answer (on multiple choice) for Hitler was "The capital city of Spain". The most common answer for what was the Holocaust was "A movie".

[Benmart]

Mention of Hitler and you are jumped on and demonised immediately. WHY ? The Socialists / Communists can revere the likes of Stalin, Lenin and Mao who killed far more people than Hitler ever did and yet escape all censure simply because Hitler is associated with killing just jews, which is untrue unlike the others. Is it about the race of people killed that make you a monster or the amount of people you starve and murder ?

The mere mention of Hitler does not denote condemnation. A beast to be sure, but he is not alone in that category. The glorification of him, or the others mentioned, would be controversial to put it in mild terms.

Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot, Napolean, G. Bush, Julius Caesar, General Sherman and countless others embarked on programs and behaviors that caused death, destruction and human suffering on a grand scale. The challenge is to understand the insanity of those behaviors in an attempt to ensure they are not repeated.

Rash statements, innuendo and conjecture only serve to muddy waters that are unclear to begin with.

[NeverSure]

-snip-

I remember an exam given to a group of high school students here who had been studying European history (in English) starting with WW I and going through WW II and up to the early days of the EU. A great deal of time was spent on WW II. The most common answer (on multiple choice) for Hitler was "The capital city of Spain". The most common answer for what was the Holocaust was "A movie".

Unreal.

[jaapfries]

Bung Moktar Radin is a Muslim; perhaps the fact that the Nazis, under the leadership of A.H. managed to kill 9,000,000 Jews may have something to do with his "joke" ? ? ?

Shame on this Moron Bung Moktar Radin and may karma catch-up with him sooner, rather than later.

Shalom to him too ! ! !

[jaapfries]

-snip-

I remember an exam given to a group of high school students here who had been studying European history (in English) starting with WW I and going through WW II and up to the early days of the EU. A great deal of time was spent on WW II. The most common answer (on multiple choice) for Hitler was "The capital city of Spain". The most common answer for what was the Holocaust was "A movie".

Unreal.

And herein lies the problem; the "Post baby-Boom Generation" has less than a vague understanding of what actually took place between 1939 to 1945. Because the atrocities committed by the Nazis were so indescribable & unspeakable; this younger generation simply cannot get their heads around this and hence they lose interest.

This part of our history should be compulsory reading all across the world - Lest We Forget ! ! ! !

[rbt]

The reason why muslims have not much against Hitler is because of what he did to the jews. Muslims are always conscous of the fact that the jews, with the help of muslim-hating westerners, stole Palestine from them, resulting in horrendous suffering for their fellows muslims which continues to this very day with Israel's bombing of gaza.

[sunshine51]

The man himself...Mr Bung Mokhtar Radin & who knows who else...

[PiPiFFS]

Mention of Hitler and you are jumped on and demonised immediately. WHY ? The Socialists / Communists can revere the likes of Stalin, Lenin and Mao who killed far more people than Hitler ever did and yet escape all censure simply because Hitler is associated with killing just jews, which is untrue unlike the others. Is it about the race of people killed that make you a monster or the amount of people you starve and murder ?

What BS, Stalin, Lenin, and Mao are just revered by a few idiot, just like Hitler.

I for one am damn glad that he lost, after the Jews who would have been next?

I'm quite happy he lost as well but why is he a monster and the others who killed far more not ? That is my point here ?

Just who decides who is a monster and evil ?

[WitawatWatawit]

Does anyone else like The Wizard of Id?

[PiPiFFS]

Bung Moktar Radin is a Muslim; perhaps the fact that the Nazis, under the leadership of A.H. managed to kill 9,000,000 Jews may have something to do with his "joke" ? ? ?

Shame on this Moron Bung Moktar Radin and may karma catch-up with him sooner, rather than later.

Shalom to him too ! ! !

Ah I see it is up to 9 million now. How many next year. 10 ? How many Russians did Stalin kill ? Why can people admire him as a great Socialist leader ?

History seems to have been written by a very small group of people with their own interset first and foremost.

[Thaddeus]

The reason why muslims have not much against Hitler is because of what he did to the jews. Muslims are always conscous of the fact that the jews, with the help of muslim-hating westerners, stole Palestine from them, resulting in horrendous suffering for their fellows muslims which continues to this very day with Israel's bombing of gaza.

Do they understand that if Hitler had won, they would have probably been next.

Apparently, at least one of them doesn't.

[Cuchulainn]

People don't seem to realise that Hitler hated the Muslims almost as much as the Jews. As a boy, hatred of 4x2s was instilled in him as they seemed to be profiteering from the economic disaster of the Great War.

[Baerboxer]

But Hitler and the Third Reich lost.

It seems to be an Asian problem that they really don't understand what Hitler and his cronies actually did.

Yep - and Hitler didn't actually doing any fighting himself!

Apart from the lack of understanding, could it be by chance an MP from a Moslem country admires Hitler?

Several German friends are appalled by this reference.

[lungmi]

The German Team is fighting against Hitler -Admirers too.

Khadira (Tunesian roots), Özil (Turkish roots, Muslim), Boateng (Ghana roots), Klose and Podolski (Polish roots).

The Team of Good Football is the answer to fight ignorance.

[Baerboxer]

People don't seem to realise that Hitler hated the Muslims almost as much as the Jews. As a boy, hatred of 4x2s was instilled in him as they seemed to be profiteering from the economic disaster of the Great War.

Then how come Bosnian Moslems were recruited into SS police regiments?

You might need to check the actual facts first.