KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 6 — Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad came to Datuk Ibrahim Ali’s defence today, claiming the Malay rights leader had not meant it as an insult when he suggested burning Malay language bibles for using the word “Allah”.
Dr Mahathir (picture), who is the patron of Ibrahim’s Malay rights group Perkasa, told a press conference here that the Pasir Mas MP had merely been referring to a common practice of burning publications that have been identified as illegal.
“Usually, if there is a publication that has been banned, the action taken is to burn these books.
“So his (Ibrahim) view is that if this Bible is illegal in terms of policy, he chose to opt for the common method of burning them,” he said after launching the coffee table book “Antartica: Malaysia’s Journey to the Ice” at Universiti Malaya here.
“So I don’t think that he (Ibrahim) had any intention to insult the kitab injil... it was not his intention.”
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