• UPDATED 1.00AM | Mahathir's Facebook post on the same issue has also been removed.
• UPDATED 11.15PM | The offending tweet has been removed.

Microblogging service Twitter has removed one of former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s tweets after initially flagging it for “glorifying violence”.

As of 10.50pm today, the offending tweet has been replaced with the message “This tweet violated Twitter rules”.

The tweet was part of a series of tweets reiterating the content of the former premier’s latest blog post, which was written in response to French President Emmanuel Macron's purported remarks about Islam...