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"IT IS NOT NICE"
Islamic Rage Boy is outraged:
"I do not like being called Islamic Rage Boy, it is not nice.”
Presumably this will be the subject of his next protest. The Enraged One turns out to be eco-aware:
He walks to a protest if it is within six miles of his home and hitchhikes or catches a bus if it is further. Sometimes he is the only protester.
(Via those rage mavens at Nose on Your Face)
Umm, if he is the only protestor, then it isn’t a “protest” until he arrives.
How does one set off to a “protest” which doesn’t exist until he gets there.... oh never mind.
Posted by Steve at the pub on 2007 07 23 at 12:28 AM • permalinkHe would be a great catch for some lucky lady. Is Traceee single?
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 07 23 at 12:28 AM • permalinkI do not like being called Islamic Rage Boy, it is not nice.
Have it your own way, Cretinous Illegitimate Fuckhead.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 07 23 at 12:38 AM • permalinkHis work ethic is to be admired. He could cerainly teach a thing or two to those surly youths who hang around shopping centres smoking cigarettes.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 23 at 12:39 AM • permalink"I do not like being called Islamic Rage Boy, it is not nice.”
Hello ISLAMIC RAGE BOY. How are you?
Posted by The Best Infidel on 2007 07 23 at 12:42 AM • permalinkShakeel Ahmad Bhat has been on the frontline of political activism in Srinagar, India, for more than a decade. His constant presence, captured by photographers and beamed across the world, has caught the imagination of rightwing bloggers who have dubbed him Islamic Rage Boy and turned him into an internet phenomenon.
He needs to get a real job.
Sometimes he is the only protester.
A freight train pulls into the dusty rail yard of a city in Pakistan. A familiar, angry figure looks furtively to left and right as he slips out of a box car, carrying a bedroll and a Classic Comics version of the Koran. He pulls some straw from his beard, bids farewell to the goats, and makes his way into the city, where he stops a passerby.
Islamic Rage Boy: Pardon me, kind sir. I am here for the big anti-Rushdie bash and British flag burn-o-rama. Can you direct me to the protest?
Passerby: Protest? I know of no protest.
IRB: But it is a big event! I have come to stir the crowd with my scowling visage.
Passerby: Er, yes, you do look like you might have eaten something that had gone bad. Can I offer you a Tum’s?
IRB: I am not wanting the western quack remedies! I have come all the way to Islamabad for the protest and I mean to find it!
Passerby: Islamabad? Well, there’s your problem right there. This is Islamkot.
IRB: Islamkot? By the beard of the Prophet! (stomps off in a huff, returning to the rail yard, where he finds an urchin playing about the tracks near a freight train preparing to depart).
IRB: Pardon me, boy, is that the Islamabad choo-choo? *
Boy: Yes, yes. Track 29!
IRB: Boy you can give me a shine.
Boy: You’re wearing sandals. And (sniff) - ewwww! - they’re covered in goat dung!
* Apologies to Glenn Miller.
"I am not happy with people joking about me or making me into a cartoon, but I have more important things to think about. My protests are for those Muslims who cannot go out onto the streets to cry out against injustice. This is my duty and I believe Allah has decided this for me."
Plenty of Muslims go onto the streets if there are cartoons published about Mohammed or if Israel kills Islamic terrorists or if the Pope says something about Islam. They appear to only believe in crying out against things that are true about their faith (i.e. Mohammed wasn’t perfect, nearly all terrorists today are Muslims and Islam is in the Dark Ages) yet which they can’t admit is wrong.
Hello Islamic Rage Boy.
Posted by The Best Infidel on 2007 07 23 at 12:47 AM • permalink"His constant presence, captured by photographers and beamed across the world, has caught the imagination of rightwing bloggers who have dubbed him Islamic Rage Boy and turned him into an internet phenomenon.”
Substitute “Islamic Rage Boy” for “Michael Moore” and you pretty much have an even match. Except Michael Moore is fatter.
Posted by The Best Infidel on 2007 07 23 at 12:49 AM • permalinkHe’s 5’2” isn’t he? Probably a little sensitive about the Boy part. And if you think he’s raging now, wait until he finds out he doesn’t get a cut from that merchandise.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 07 23 at 12:56 AM • permalinkAll the rage - victim of US bloggers’ cartoon hits back
Huh? Hmmmmmm..............
"I am not happy with people joking about me or making me into a cartoon, but I have more important things to think about. My protests are for those Muslims who cannot go out onto the streets to cry out against injustice. This is my duty and I believe Allah has decided this for me."
Oh, ouch. That, ummmmm, hurt. Yeah, it hurt. Such a punch you pack, Islamic Rage Boy!
And then there’s this gem o’ wisdom....
A spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Ibrahim Hooper, is unconvinced. Mr Hooper says: “I find the term Islamic Rage Boy offensive, as would anyone who applied the term to their own faith. It’s an Islamophobic product by Muslim-bashers on internet hate sites.”
He compares the cartoon to the anti-semitic imagery of 1930s Nazi Germany. “The cartoon is part of an overall growth of anti-Muslim rhetoric in this country. Someone is trying to link Islam with violence and anger and profiting from it."
Gee, who woulda thunk that Islam is anything but the Religion of Pieces?
<waves at Media Watch>
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 23 at 01:07 AM • permalinkswinish—show a little cultural sensitivity. In Australia, that’s spelled “cretan.”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 23 at 01:08 AM • permalink"Someone is trying to link Islam with violence and anger...”
As if THAT would ever happen!
And, BTW, who would ever believe them if they tried to do something like that?
Who could possibly believe that Islam was linked with violence and anger...?
/sarcasm
Posted by Apparatchik on 2007 07 23 at 01:35 AM • permalinkOT
All round cad and long time commenter at this blog, Tim Blair has abused the prophet, Al Gore!
Mark my words, Blair, one day your air conditioning will break down and it will be uncomfortably warm. Then you’ll be sorry.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 23 at 01:40 AM • permalinkYou’re a fucking disgrace to
the world’s oldest professionjournalism, Blair. Imagine printing an interesting story. If shit like that keeps up, people will start buying newspapers.Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 23 at 02:01 AM • permalinkNo wonder Blair was wishing he became a photographer. Looks like Dunlop - or should I call him Sherlock - has well and truly nailed Blair as being one very opinionated Opinion editor.
Also, if it wasn’t for the byline, another near case of plagiarism.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 23 at 02:13 AM • permalinkMind you, I wonder how that article got into Crikey? Perhaps an editor asked for it? I dunno, just trying to join the dots.
Whatever...full credit to them for breaking their biggest story since discovering that Planet Ark washing powder is manufactured in Melbourne.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 07 23 at 02:21 AM • permalinkWho wants to be a Rage Boy? Remember, to protest you don’t have to accomplish anything or even have any chance of changing anything. Protests don’t even need to make sense. Get this printed on a shirt and you’ll need a a placard.
Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2007 07 23 at 03:24 AM • permalink#18, TRJ:
Someone is trying to link Islam with violence and anger and profiting from it.
Trying to link Islam with violence and anger? Trying? Yes, it’s a hard sell. Sell! That’s it. Maybe it’s the "profiting from it"that he doesn’t like. Just wait until he hears that the profits are being invested and are earning interest! Or that they are being spent on Western debauchery--parties with music, men and women dancing and drinking together.
Let’s hear it for Capitalism!
OT: Tim, if you aren’t careful, they will never declare you to be a National Treasure.
Hello Islamic Rage Midget.
I take it that you are the fabled “Arab street”? I am assuming that because although you admit that you are sometimes the only person to turn up at a protest, Lancet has been reporting those same demonstrations as having “tens of thousands of protesters”.
If you don’t want to be laughed at, may I suggest the age old cure of “Get a job, a shave, a haircut and a suit”.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 07 23 at 05:39 AM • permalinkCan someone photoshop a shot of a single Islamic Rage Midget into a huge protest - Reuters style?
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 07 23 at 05:40 AM • permalinkAs for Al Gore:
My slightly less than two year old was trying to untangle a scooter from a toy dump truck this afternoon and he was having problems. He put the boot into the scooter and yelled out “algore” as he did so.
“algore” has obviously become a swear word at his day care centre. Someone knocks over your milk and you yell out “algore” and hit them in the face with a teddy bear.
Posted by mr creosote on 2007 07 23 at 05:42 AM • permalinkDid anyone notice this picture:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/gallery/2007/jul/20/internationalnews.islam?picture=330235897
September 15 2007: Shakeel Bhat joins Indian Kashmiri activists of the pro-Pakistani Muslim League Jammu Kashmir as they shout slogans against Pope Benedict XVI during a protest in Srinagar
Photograph: Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty ImagesHow exactly do they have a 15/9/07 photo? That’s not for 2 months!
Further to #22 above:
Ms Payne, 46, is married to well-known defence lawyer Andrew Boe, who came to national prominence when he defended murderer Ivan Milat in 1996, and in recent years has acted on behalf of the people of Palm Island in North Queensland.She was the first indigenous person to be admitted as a solicitor in Queensland, and later became the state’s first indigenous magistrate.
The AustralianComment of the Day:
“ ‘I do not like being called Islamic Rage Boy, it is not nice.’
Have it your own way, Cretinous Illegitimate Fuckhead.”Swinish Capitalist at #8 above.
I am stealing that one, forthwith. LOL.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 07 23 at 07:25 AM • permalinkA spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Ibrahim Hooper, is unconvinced. Mr Hooper says:
"I find the term Islamic Rage Boy offensive, as would anyone who applied the term to their own faith. It’s an Islamophobic product by Muslim-bashers on INTERNET hate sites."
Mr Hooper says: “While the majority is not hostile towards Muslims, there is a minority who are, and cartoons like this do not help. You cannot combat one form of extremism with another.”
Think you just fucked up, Ibrahim. Happy that you admitted your “extremism” though.
One more time and you lose your tongue AND get your “extremism” card yanked. What will you do then, you Islamaphobe, you?
Good ol Guardian. Has to finger political leanings of those who use the term.
IIRC, Christopher Hitchens is a frequent user of the term “Islamic Rage Boy”....is he a right-winger now?
Oh, I forget. To oppose religious-nutbaggery is now a “right-wing” thing. Funny. I thought defending secular society was a liberal thing.
Maybe it was, back when “liberalism” meant...actually being liberal, rather than secret code for “socialist dickhead”.
“Right-wing bloggers” indeed.
Posted by Quentin George on 2007 07 23 at 07:36 AM • permalinkIt’s called satire. That’s satire
Lefties: can dish it out but can’t take it.
Posted by ThinAndBritish on 2007 07 23 at 07:51 AM • permalinkFrom Richard’s link at #1:
Sheehan, one of the best-known opponents of the war in Iraq, stayed in her car during the antiwar rally at Bryant Park that drew about 125 people.
I like it. Protesting from the comfort of one’s car. This must be what liberals are famous for calling “something, do something, no matter how small, to make a difference”.
Well, I’m getting in my Jeep Cherokee and will protest, um, something or other. Occasionally I might even roll down my window and shake my fist while chanting. Maybe while I’m at the Dairy Queen drive thru.
Not for long though. It’s summer here and I don’t want to lose the air conditioned air.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 07 23 at 12:06 PM • permalinkI feel for Islamic Rage Boy’s wife. The poor thing has to spend all day giving milk at the dairy so her worthless layabout husband can trot all over hell’s half-acre for his one-man protests. That’s no life for a goat.
Saint Cindy is divorced now - maybe she and IRB should be introduced. It’d be a match made in nutcase heaven.
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 07 23 at 01:26 PM • permalinkVictim? VICTIM?!? Under what effing conceivable system of values is this nutter considered a VICTIM? What the hell is wrong with those asshats at the Guardian?
(Yeah, yeah… I know… Consider it a rhetorical question, don’t bother answering.)
Posted by nofixedabode on 2007 07 23 at 11:22 PM • permalink
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