According to the BBC he not only said what is below, but that the west wants to dominate all non-white peoples.
This is dramatic rallying call transcends the nation state.
Perhaps the US will win Iraq, but will lose the world. Especially economically.
Chris Burford
Reuters. 23 February 2003. Malaysia's Mahathir Says West Wants to Rule World.
KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Sunday the world was in a state of terror, allowing a fear of Muslims to affect international policy, and a war on Iraq would be seen as a war on Muslims.
He spoke on the eve of a three-yearly summit of leaders of the 114-member Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) that is to issue a declaration calling on Baghdad to comply with U.N. disarmament resolutions while challenging Washington with vociferous opposition to any U.S.-led war on Iraq.
"The attack against Iraq will simply anger more Muslims who see this as being anti-Muslim rather than anti-terror," Mahathir, chairman and summit host, told a business forum.
"The world is in a state of terror...We are afraid of Muslims, of Arabs, of bearded people," he said of feelings since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
Ahead of the two-day summit that opens Monday, Mahathir told fellow developing nations the United States wanted to conquer the world. "I'm certain if they are successful in Iraq they will turn to Iran next and then to North Korea," he told a state-sponsored anti-war rally of 200,000 in a reference to the three nations President Bush has branded an "axis of evil."
"After that, who will become their victim? It is clear the Western powers want to conquer the world again."
Mahathir told NAM members U.S. inaction on North Korea was evidence of the polarization of the world over Iraq.
"The fact that North Korea's open admission that it has weapons of mass destruction has met only with mild admonishment by the West seems to prove that indeed it is a war against Muslims and not against the fear of possession of weapons of mass destruction by the so-called rogue countries," he said.
