World’s Most Islamaphobic Individuals
December 30, 2005
Out with the old and in with the new. It was a favorite saying of my Great Aunt Lizzie as she bade farewell to the year with a tipple of whisky. Well thank goodness we, as Muslims, don't drink alcohol, or I have a feeling we'd be seeing out this yearwith bucketfuls of Red Eye rather than the thimbulfull she used to knock back.
I was thinking of her the other day as the Islamic Human Rights Commission dished out its annual awards to the world's most Islamaphobic individuals.
George W Bush has won the global prize two year's running and so I thought it was a racing certainty (just as well we Muslims don't gamble either!) he would collect the hat-trick, but he didn't.
The prize as this year's most Islamaphobic person went to his junior partner in crime ... Britain's own Prime Minister Tony Blair, and the award for the UK's most Islamaphobic individual went to another Blair, Sir Ian, the most senior policeman in England and Wales.
He actually received (well I'm not sure it has been delivered yet) eight golden plated bullets as a reminder of the London Underground shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezez - a young man gunned down because the cops thought he was a Muslim. I await the outcome of that so-called independent investigation with bated breath.
John Howard, the Australian leader won the antipodean section and Vladimir Putin won the top prize for Russia and Europe. Full details can be checked out on the commission's website www.ihrc.org
And since it is time for awards I would like to dish out a few brickbat nominations. The Twins of Evil - Bush and Blair - are chief contenders again for creating the disasters that are Iraq and Afghanistan.
Not only have they forced through phony elections which have seen corrupt politicians, thieves and torturers take control of the country's parliaments, they are also responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocents.
Of course if anyone complains Bush goes running to the nearest podium to bang on about 9/11 ... yes, that old chestnut. You've probably got more chance of succumbing to bird flew than being blown up by an Al Qaida bomb and that is the reality.
At least folks are openly talking about impeaching Bush and even the New York Times has accused him of "recklessness" and states he "may also have violated the law".
Personally, I do believe Bush and Blair will, somewhere, somehow, be charged - probably in their absence - of war crimes.
The Billy-no-mates Award was a tough one and in the end it was a split decision between Donald Rumsfeld and the ever invisible Vice President Dick Cheyney. The pair of them really talk up a good fight and are certainly prepared to pay the blood price ... just so long as it is not a drop of their claret which is being spilled. They like to forget that more than 2000 US servicemen and women have so far paid the blood price for their weasel words and wars.
If there was an anti-human rights award these two would also be prize winners for Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Diego Garcia, the Ghost Detainees. Do you really want me to go on?
The Turkeys voting for Christmas Award was a tough call as well. Muslims for Bush, along with all those craven little individuals from the US Muslim community who went trotting along to the White House for tea with Bush, were strong contenders. But since George W. Bush has done more to revive the Crusades than any other leader since Richard the Lionheart, I guess the TV4C Award must go to Sir Iqbal Sacranie, a community leader in Britain.
Of course he could always redeem himself and renounce his knighthood - I would happily be the first to eat a huge slice of humble pie and salute his courage.
Whoops, sorry I was nearly hit by an airborne pig mid-sentence.
Still, you never know, 2006 could prove to be a better year for the Ummah ... duck, there's a whole flock of swine overhead!Kilde: http://www.dailymuslims.com/