Mahathir and Soros – have had a bitter war of words, According to Mahathir bin Mohamed, Prime Minister of Malaysia from July 1981 to October
2003, Soros — as the hedge
fund chief of Quantum — may have been partially responsible for the economic
crash in the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis,with Tun Dr Mahathir calling George Soros a “moron” , while Soros hit back by describing the Malaysian premier as a “menace to his country”.It seem both person have nothing in common and both do not see eye to eye on each other.
Recently, I have read "A
Doctor in the House : The Memoirs of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad" and another book by Liang Heng, co-author of "Son of the Revolution"《革命之子》. Liang Heng 梁恒, an acquaintances of George Soros wrote a book in Mandarin 《和索罗斯一起走过的日子 》.about his relationship with the hedge fund manager
After reading both book in different language. I find a similarity between George Soros and Tun Dr Mahathir.
Despite a Jew, George Soros help to civilians during the siege of Sarajevo despite they are Islamic people or muslim.
Another book " Soros, The Life, Times, & Trading secrets of The World's Greatest Investor" stated "The Bosnian War in the early 1990s, had reminded himof how much his own Jewish brethren had gone through earlier in the century. After he had funded the reconstruction of Sarajevo's water supply and natural gas line, a reporter asked him why a Jew like himself would sympathize with a muslim country. In a rare comment onhis Jewishness, Soros noted that " it has a particular resonance if you have experienced one type of Holocaust and you see another. I have a particular concern for the Holocause in the fomer Yugoslavia""
In Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Mahathir has been noted as a particularally and sympathetic co-religionist of
that nation. He visited Sarajevo in
June, 2005 to open a bridge near Bosmal City Center signifying friendship
between Malaysians and Bosnians.
He made a three-day
visit to Visoko to see the Bosnian Pyramid of the
Sun in July 2006. He made another visit a few months later.
Both Soros and Mahathir visited Bosnia during that period.
Both Soros and Mahathir visited Bosnia during that period.
Other than Bosnia, Books by Liang Heng 梁恒 also stated that George Soros's Open Society Foundation also send someone to Chechen, whose people are muslim during Chechn- Russian war.
Thus, it seem it is wrong that Mahathir label Soros as enemy of Islam or Muslim.
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