July 23, 2007

Islamic Rage Boy is "Offensive"

Are we sure Ibraheem Hooper isn't just a bit played in a Carlos Mencia CAIR sketch? Our friends at The Nose on Your Face make the pages of the Guardian:

Buckley F Williams, from the "conservative leaning" satirical news blog The Nose On Your Face, says: "We're anti-Muslim-extremism, the loudest voice of the Muslim world right now, which would lead one to believe it is the dominant voice of the Muslim faith.

The intention of the cartoon is, he claims, to open up debate. "Muslim fanaticism is the problem, not Muslims. Islam is not coming across, to the average person, as a friendly or inviting religion. There must be many Muslims who don't like what's going on, but we're not hearing it."

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."

The main difference, of course, is that Islamic Rage Boy is a real person. Go to The Nose on Your Face for all your Islamic Rage Boy swag needs.

UPDATE: A good observation.

By Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. at 09:35 AM | |