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All the rage - victim of US bloggers' cartoon hits back ('Islamic Rage Boy')
Guardian (UK) ^
| July 23, 2007
| Riazat Butt
Posted on 08/06/2007 8:47:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
With his clenched fists, wild eyes and gnashing teeth he has become the face of Muslim fury, protesting against the enemies of Islam. Shakeel 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.
Typing his nickname into a search engine yields more than 75,000 results. He has inspired a cartoon character and merchandise.
But the 30-year-old Kashmiri activist is puzzled, not angered, by his overseas fame. In his first interview with a British newspaper, he says he is carrying out Allah's wishes.
From his home in Fateh Kadal, Malik Angan, he says: "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."
Mr Bhat, a school dropout and former militant with a pro-Pakistan rebel group, has been arrested more than 300 times.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom; War on Terror
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To: ovrtaxt
Laughter is good for you, many thanks.
181
posted on
08/07/2007 3:24:31 PM PDT
by
nw_arizona_granny
( Today is a good day for working on some heavy praying. The world needs God to hear them.)
To: FARS; DAVEY CROCKETT; Calpernia; CarolinaGOP; Founding Father; Velveeta; milford421
Take a minute and see which one gives you the biggest laugh.
182
posted on
08/07/2007 3:27:32 PM PDT
by
nw_arizona_granny
( Today is a good day for working on some heavy praying. The world needs God to hear them.)
To: nw_arizona_granny
“Take a minute and see which one gives you the biggest laugh.”
Can’t decide...great stuff.
183
posted on
08/07/2007 3:58:17 PM PDT
by
milford421
(U.N. OUT OF U.S.)
To: Gengis Khan; dead; Clemenza; ken5050
I'm series... what does Islamic Rage Boy have to do with the METS?
184
posted on
08/07/2007 5:11:35 PM PDT
by
nutmeg
("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
To: stanz
O.K.............I just needed the Heimlich maneuver during my bagel break.Sorry! ;-D
Keep checking back... more "images" of IRB are being added as I type this...
185
posted on
08/07/2007 5:14:28 PM PDT
by
nutmeg
("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
To: unspun; potlatch
That's likely entertaining....from a distance. I don't think I'd want to meet up with you "enraged." : )
To: ovrtaxt
To: nutmeg
Islamic Rage Boy has been a huge Mets fan since forever.
188
posted on
08/07/2007 6:25:49 PM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: nicmarlo; devolve; unspun
I think it would look something like this!
189
posted on
08/07/2007 6:53:21 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(MIZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_MIKAZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_MAZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_))
To: indcons; 2ndDivisionVet
To: potlatch; devolve; unspun
What’s “this”? I don’t see anything.
To: potlatch
Oh....or were you talking about what he said to you last night?
lol!
To: nicmarlo
You don’t see the dog and the ‘mummy’?
193
posted on
08/07/2007 7:00:19 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(MIZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_MIKAZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_MAZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_))
To: potlatch
To: dead
Now, if you could just photoshop a baseball into his gaping enraged pie hole...
195
posted on
08/07/2007 7:28:54 PM PDT
by
prairiebreeze
(PUT AMERICA AHEAD! VOTE FOR FRED!!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
To: Roscoe Karns
That is one of the funniest photoshops I’ve ever seen!! LOL
197
posted on
08/07/2007 7:36:06 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum)
Comment #198 Removed by Moderator
To: Gengis Khan
Now that funny I like to know reaction when he think he going get faulty Ipod LOL!
199
posted on
08/07/2007 8:02:55 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
To: Gengis Khan
Now that funny I like to know reaction when he think he going get faulty Ipod LOL!
200
posted on
08/07/2007 8:02:55 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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