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A long, boring thumb-sucker about how Islamic Rage Boy is depraved because he is deprived. What Mr. French fails to comprehend is that we do not hate Islamic Rage Boy, and we certainly do not fear Islamic Rage Boy. Rather we mock him and we are amused by his antics.

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[stimpy17]

29 years old.......lives with his Mom........Get a job!

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

What a mamma’s boy.

[federal]

Being islamic rage boy is so easy a caveman could do it.

[listenhillary]

“I want to marry a non-Muslim woman and convert her to Islam.”

Why? I asked.

In a moment that might have come straight out of the Borat film, he answered in a soft, serious voice: “I have been told that if I can convince a non-Muslim woman to marry me – but not convert her by force – then there will be a place for me in heaven.”

[Caipirabob]

THE CULT OF "RAGEBOY"...

Nothing like a good ol' rage boy thread...lol!

[healy61]

Could someone kindly inform Mr. French that Rageboys shy smile is the result of smoking Khat. Probably put it in the hookah. Oh, that Mr. French, what a cut up.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Does Rage Boy get a cut of the profits in the use of his ugly mugg on T shurts and posters?

[Earthdweller]

This story takes on a Palestinian/Israel victimization flavor. In this instance it is Kashmir/India. This is the wrong road to travel.

Rageboy seems like a moderate (wants to spread Islam peacefully) with some real grievances. Although he is illiterate, he does get some things right...like not agreeing with OBL's intolerant ideology. On the other hand, he thinks 9/11 was an inside job.

I'm left with the desire to get the boy a schoolbook and possibly some dental work.

[SuziQ]

Surrounded by other people who lack knowledge of the outside world, is it any surprise that he believes barmy conspiracy theories about the attacks of 9/11?

If that's the reason, then why do seemingly intelligent people in the US believe the same tripe?

[airborne]

“I heard that planes had crashed into the Twin Towers. I thought it was very bad that so many civilians had been killed. But afterwards I was told it was America’s own government that had arranged the attack.”

How could that have happened? “Money can make wonders.”

But why would America have wanted to do such a thing?

“There is a strong lobby in the USA that opposes President Bush. He wanted to attack Afghanistan and Iraq. He had to justify that to his own people.”

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One picture showed what looked like an American preacher holding a microphone while wearing a Rage Boy baseball cap. Shakeel stopped on an image of his face superimposed on a pig.

He looked profoundly shocked and upset by this picture. What did he feel?

“I surely get hurt when I see these pictures,” he said. “This is terrorism for me. The people who do this are showing their own culture, so why do they tell us that we are uncivilised?’

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Rage Boy is a tool and a useful idiot. Like many Americans on the left are. (Rosie and Sean Penn come to mind)

[SampleMan]

Shakeel Ahmad Bhat is a 29-year-old failed militant. Over two days, sitting cross-legged at the home he shares with his mother and smiling shyly much of the time, Shakeel told me, through an interpreter, his life story and why he had come to wave his fists at the cameras

He's 29 and lives with his mother. That's all I really need to know.

[Doohickey]

WTF with this headline? “America’s Hated Poster Boy?” I’m American. I’m relatively well informed. Never heard of him, never seen any merchandise. And best of all, the author never actually talks to any actual Americans.

[George W. Bush]

It's kind of sad that a grown man believes such silliness and can be incited so easily.

He's a symbol of what we must overcome around the world: poorly educated young men with no real future, the prey and tool of demagogues. It is not only their Religion Of Peace™ but their circumstances in life that can turn them into terrorists.

Normally, I wouldn't think much of making Rage Boy a symbol of ridicule but it might actually be helpful over time, just like the cheese-eating surrender monkey thing was with the French, in that it might make more thoughtful Muslims consider whether the face of Islamic rage actually represents them as a religion and a culture and forces them to make a choice about how they present themselves, how they conduct their religious life, and therefore how they are perceived by the world.

[PGalt]

More discussion of Patrick French and IRB here...

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018754.php#comments

Thanks to Robert Spencer and the outstanding posters at jihadwatch.

[ikka]

We should bring him over to America to do a guest appearance on the show “Cavemen”.

[JRios1968]

[Ghengis]

[Albion Wilde]

I can’t believe I read the whole thing. Libfascist claptrap. Awwwwwwww, pooor RageBoy. Meanwhile, this purveyor of journalistic obscenity got a free trip to Kashmir, believing his hippie street creds are still worth maintaining.

[Peter Libra]

Rather we mock him and we are amused by his antics.

There are instances of studied cruelty being enacted on ordinary citizens. This, by coldly calculating muslims in America and is no laughing matter. I refer to incidents on domestic flights and videos of bridges and high rise commercial buildings.

If the majority of the public, can evoke the same kind of absolutely rib splitting laughter right in North America, at these extremists-

Then we have halfways got 'em beat.