Twitter labels Mahathir's tweet on France for violating rules and 'glorifying violence'

Social networking platform Twitter on Thursday labelled Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's tweets on the France knife attack as glorifying violence.

It comes after Mahathir made a bizarre assertion saying that Muslims had the right to be angry and to "kill millions of French people".

In an apparent reference to the colonial times, Mohamad justified this 'right' by mentioning ''massacres of the past".

He posted a series of 13 tweets from his personal Twitter handle and aired his opinions on issues ranging from women's clothing in western countries, West's adherence to their 'own religion', gender equality among other things and lashed out at French President Emmanuel Macron for not being "civilised" and for being "primitive" for targetting Muslims and Islam.

Following which, Twitter issued a warning that the tweets violated its guidelines about ''glorifying violence''.

Beheading of Samuel Paty, the teacher who showed Prophet Mohammed cartoons in school has prompted Emmanuel Macron  to promise a crackdown on Islamic extremism. But the move has inflamed tensions, with protests against France erupting in several Muslim countries, with some urging a boycott of French goods.

Since Paty's killing, French officials have re-asserted the right to display the cartoons, and the images have been widely displayed at marches in solidarity with the slain teacher.