all-encompassingly

…then we would be spared his anti-semetic diatribes.

But alas, the Jew-hating has taken a back seat to his most recent crusade: ensuring the election of John Kerry! In a not-so-stunning declaration to American muslims, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad said that voting for Kerry “…is truly an ibadah (act of devotional worship) that you perform.”

The fundamental reason to vote for Kerry, according to Mahathir, is that George Bush has been “the cause of the tragedies” around the Muslim world. “In the past four years, during the Presidency of George W. Bush, the Muslims and their countries have suffered oppression and humiliation as never before in the history of Islam.”

Oppression? Humiliation? Maybe he feels that the U.S. is oppressing and humiliating…but give me break, can anything beat their current government and religious practices? I for one would be humiliated if I lived in Saudi Arabia, for example, just knowing that people outside the Islamic world knew how we treated women. Good grief.

As a side note, Mahathir didn’t elaborate his feeling as to whether blowing oneself in terroristic civil disobience was also an “act of devotional worship”, but I’m guessing we can surmise where he stands.

UPDATE: Anti-semites be unafraid! Respected world leaders are coming out in droves to support Kerry. Yasser Arafat has made clear his support for Kerry as well.