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2004-06-28 Britain

The "Islamophobia Awards" (This is too much LOL)

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Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-06-28 12:56:49 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What? Our own Fred and LGF's Charles Johnson not even mentioned? This is an outrage! We was robbed!

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-06-28 1:08:34 AM|| 2004-06-28 1:08:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 "Islamic Human Rights Commission"

I need a new oxymoron detector. My old one just exploded...

Posted by PBMcL 2004-06-28 1:14:48 AM|| 2004-06-28 1:14:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 PBMcL, you have to put an extra-large resistor in the main circuit.

Posted by Steve White 2004-06-28 1:21:07 AM|| 2004-06-28 1:21:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Unsurprisingly, Jacques Chirac was a double winner with the "Most Likely to Bend Over and Take One from Big Daddy Mohammed" award.

Posted by ed 2004-06-28 1:29:42 AM|| 2004-06-28 1:29:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 In the last 2-3 years the public opinion in Western Europe, USA and Russia started linking the idea of "terrorism" and Islam.

Yeah.... I noticed that myself! Kinda puzzling, really....

Of course, nobody says publicly that all Moslems are potential terrorists....

Um.... okay.... but what's the connection between that and "linking the idea of "terrorism" and Islam"? Aren't they obviously different propositions? But wait....

.... this idea can be traced in the press articles and the statements of experts saying that radical Islamic groups pose the biggest threat nowadays.

Got it! It's all those pesky news stories linking Islam to "terrorism", from Thailand clear 360 degrees around the globe to Indonesia.

Getting rid of the formed stereotype can be hard.

No, not all. All you have to do is place your hands firmly over your ears and your eyes-- easy!

And I'm pretty sure it'll work, since I'm pretty sure it explains why "The Islamic world also has stereotypes about the West."

You see, we in the West must learn the Path of Ignorance from our Islamic cousins.... just that simple!

Posted by Wuzzalib 2004-06-28 1:36:39 AM|| 2004-06-28 1:36:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Of course, nobody says publicly that all Moslems are potential terrorists....

No, publicly we say that not all Moslems are terrorists. There's a difference.

Posted by Steve 2004-06-28 8:17:50 AM|| 2004-06-28 8:17:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 So do they win a new car? A case of Zam Zam? A statuette with no head? C'mon, you cheap fucks, where's the prize?

Posted by tu3031 2004-06-28 9:01:38 AM|| 2004-06-28 9:01:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Damn! The Islamophobe Awards, what an honor roll they have (inadvertantly) created. I only hope that I can earn one someday. All it needs is a catchy name, as in "Grammy", "Oscar", etc.

How about the 'Slammy?

Posted by docob 2004-06-28 9:20:38 AM|| 2004-06-28 9:20:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 prize? you get to see the dreaded red notebook

Posted by Frank G 2004-06-28 9:41:13 AM|| 2004-06-28 9:41:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#10
nobody says publicly that all Moslems are potential terrorists

Practically all terrorists are Moslems.
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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-06-28 10:17:46 AM|| 2004-06-28 10:17:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Definition for the ages:
Islamophobia...fear of Islamic fundamentalism. I suppose Middle Eastern psychiatrists will be telling us soon that this is an irrational fear unsubstantiated by the facts on the ground...like beheadings, suicide car bombings, honor killings...hmmm, funny how everything associated with Islamicists involves death. I think these Islamic zombies will have a hard time justifying to Allan why they thought they could take his place, killing the lives he created.

Posted by jules 187 2004-06-28 10:20:05 AM|| 2004-06-28 10:20:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Ol' Froggy #1 can't catch a break.

Just cause Chirac doesn't like head scarves!
Doesn't matter how much he kissed Saddahm's backside. . . .

Posted by BigEd 2004-06-28 10:51:41 AM|| 2004-06-28 10:51:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 I am kind of disappointed because I worked hard this year to make the list and nada! Must be some Moslem conspiracy against Catholics. Maybe Chirac and Bush can tutor me this year and I can finally break onto the list.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2004-06-28 11:27:52 AM|| 2004-06-28 11:27:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 How come I don't hear about the evil, unkind Christianophobes and the Conservativeophobes.

I got hurt feelings too.

Posted by Anonymous5440 2004-06-28 12:07:29 PM|| 2004-06-28 12:07:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Islamic Human Rights Commission

Too bad it wasn't the Islamic-Gay Pride Human Rights Commission. Then they could award the "Islamophobe Homophobe of the Year"...

Posted by Pappy 2004-06-28 12:11:11 PM|| 2004-06-28 12:11:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 We've had a rise in Methodist terrorism lately. And the damn Jehovah's Witnesses keep highjacking planes. I can't imagine why people want to link Islam to terrorism.

Posted by Formerly Dan 2004-06-28 12:24:42 PM|| 2004-06-28 12:24:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 AC, I'd suspect that Rantburg isn't exactly kosher with the Middle East; no doubt it's somehow blocked, or else Fred would be up there on the list for next year.

Once again, however, they've missed the point. This is not humor that's going to reduce tension. This is simply another way of saying things that they've been saying all along. For humor to work, people have to be willing to laugh at themselves. Make fun of mullahs, or Arafat, or the Saudi Royals, along with Western figures. One of the many problems with Islam, at least the most vocal version right now, is that it sucks all the joy out of life in the name of "piety." This is just another example of that, as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by The Doctor 2004-06-28 1:12:27 PM|| 2004-06-28 1:12:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Those damn Mormons on bycicles showing up during the Sox-Cubs game to discuss my salvation are a terror threat yet addressed in Bushes so called War on Terror...
Why hasn't the cabel linked Salt Lake City to the Axis of Evil???

Posted by Capsu78 2004-06-28 1:33:11 PM|| 2004-06-28 1:33:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Probably the only awards show where the acceptance speeches would be interesting and the fashions would tend to body armor.

Posted by RWV 2004-06-28 2:05:04 PM|| 2004-06-28 2:05:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 What the Muslim world in generaL. AND THE JIHADIS IN PARTICULAR, need to understand about the Americans, as encapsulated by "Ice Cube":

"Y'all done picked the wrong nigga ta FUCK with."

Posted by mojo 2004-06-28 9:16:15 PM|| 2004-06-28 9:16:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Capsu78, you should be careful offending Mormons. Their death squads might come after you, dressed in all black, wearing black watch caps and bellowing "I WANT MY TWO DOLLARS!"

Posted by Silentbrick 2004-06-28 9:20:49 PM|| 2004-06-28 9:20:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Forget about the Mormons, Silentbrick. It's the Jehovah's Witnesses I'm worried about, always coming to the door . . .

Posted by The Doctor 2004-06-28 9:29:56 PM|| 2004-06-28 9:29:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 they'll be the only survivors in a big Quake - always in the doorways

Posted by Frank G 2004-06-28 9:31:48 PM|| 2004-06-28 9:31:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 To be an Islamophobe, don't you have to fear Islam? I don't think either Sharon or Bush qualify.

As for the Islamic Human Rights Commission - never heard of them. Hope they start work on honor killings, though, as I don't think NOW has much interest in women that die for the honor of punks - they don't seem to care much for the Afghan women who immolate themselves rather than marry their uncles. If it doesn't involve somebody's reproductive rights, NOW is LATER.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-06-28 10:16:53 PM|| 2004-06-28 10:16:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 The Mormons did their share of terror back in the day, but, like the Ismali Muslims, they learned that it's an idiot's game.

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