"Islamophobe of the Year"

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From the UK's Islamic Human Rights Commission...

And the winner... Raheem Kassam...

"It's an honour to have won such a stupid award from such a devious organisation. It proves that we're on the right side of history that people who back extremists and loons are doing everything they can (which isn't much) to try and smear me. I'm tempted to film an acceptance speech video, and maybe burst into tears like Gweneth Paltrow... I'd like to thank the (Zionist Academy)... that sort of thing!"

Breitbart

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Great News
Worth pointing out that Raheem is himself a Muslim. Also, as the article points out, that despite the cringing dhimmi appeasement of radical Islam, Obama 'won' the award in the US.
Contrast to Raheem who really earned it on genuine merit. He's really a breath of fresh air and I've no doubt we'll be featuring many more articles by him on this site.

Here's the story in full:

Breitbart London's Managing Editor Awarded 'Islamophobe of The Year'

The UK-based Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) – which is noted for its support for Hezbollah – yesterday announced the winner of their risible 'Islamophobe of the Year' prize. The winner was none other than our own Managing Editor, Raheem Kassam!

The IHRC has been called a 'Khomeinist group', and has campaigned on behalf of Omar Abdel-Rahman, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in the World Trade Center bombings of 1993.

In its wisdom, the IHRC decided to hand out awards in absentia at a grotty hotel in Wembley, London.

The winner of the UK prize was Raheem Kassam, Managing Editor of Breitbart London, beating competition from the UK's Home Secretary Teresa May, author Douglas Murray, and Muslim counter-extremism campaigner Maajid Nawaz. Teresa May was initally the favourite to take the award.

Bizarrely, despite his repeated kowtowing to hostile regimes and Islamists, Barack Obama received the honours for the U.S. prize, beating out competition from blogger Pamela Gellar, and others.

Reporting on the 'awards ceremony', the IHRC stated in a press release:

"Obama came in streets ahead of a gallery of fellow rogues which included other prominent politicians including French President Francois Hollande - cited for his country's invasion of Mali - and the British Home Secretary Theresa May for a host of sins including extraditing Asperger's sufferer Talha Ahsan to the United States, stripping Muslims of their citizenship, and most recently thinking about applying “anti-terror” ASBO-style punishments for British Muslims who are merely "suspected" of so-called terrorist activities."

Speaking of Kassam, the IHRC said:

"The clear winner in the UK is a relative newcomer to the Islamophobia industry, Raheem Kassam. Kassam is a Muslim neo-con who has quickly made himself the darling of the British right by attacking Muslim organisations and figures as extremists for defending Muslims' rights."

Kassam comments to Breitbart London: "It's an honour to have won such a stupid award from such a devious organisation. It proves that we're on the right side of history that people who back extremists and loons are doing everything they can (which isn't much) to try and smear me. I'm tempted to film an acceptance speech video, and maybe burst into tears like Gweneth Paltrow... I'd like to thank the (Zionist Academy)... that sort of thing!"

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You'll appreciate this Steevo

What do I need to do to become ‘Islamophobe of the Year’?
Douglas Murray

I was robbed! News has just come in that despite making the shortlist I failed to win ‘Islamophobe of the Year’ in any of the categories.

Proving once again that Ayatollah Khomeini was a big fat liar when he said there are ‘no jokes’ in Islam, the Khomeinist ‘Islamic Human Rights Commission’ last night named President Obama as overall ‘Islamophobe of the Year’. Various other continent-specific categories were closed to me, though it is interesting to note that Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi stormed the ‘Asia and Australia’ section.

Yet the UK results are cause for most bitterness. The shortlist apparently consisted of Theresa May, Maajid Nawaz, Raheem Kassam and me. My money was on Maajid. He had an absolutely excellent start to the year, showing terrific form in, among other things, tweeting a wholly innocuous cartoon of the founder of his own religion and pointing out that he was ‘not offended’ by it. During the fall-out the rest of us could only look on with envy and an air of ‘I wish I had thought of that’.

However, none of us could have foreseen the secret advances made by the appalling young upstart Raheem Kassam, who appears to have imported US-style campaign tactics into this process. Now at Breitbart London, Raheem appears to have triumphed through a hugely successful ‘get out the vote’ campaign in which he urged his readers to click through to the IHRC’s website and vote for him. I must say that I think this is very low politicking. It is true that I provided a link to the IHRC’s voting form on this site, but I chose to leave the question of voting to the consciences of my readers. I feel that I really ought to complain to the Khomeinist IHRC. For if they cannot see how Raheem’s actions were always likely to distort the results then perhaps the group should head to Tehran for a spell to be reminded of how genuinely free, fair and open elections can be performed, with fairly limited use of torture, rape, execution and the assistance of local militia.

Anyhow, I am feeling philosophical. There is always next year, and the year after that. Whether there will be a year after that depends, I suppose, on whether the IHRC’s view of Islam – now backed up, I am happy to see, by our former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams himself – ever comes to dominate in this country.

In the meantime I am going to put my head down for a bit and study the form of this year’s winners. It currently seems to me that to be sure of victory next year I will have to, among other things, ‘get out the vote’ more efficiently, become the most left-wing President in US history, develop a private ‘drone’ force capable of carrying out limited strikes against terrorists in tribal areas, become one of the most revered human rights campaigners in the world and win a Nobel peace prize while spending many years under house arrest. There must be an easier way, surely? Yet I cannot see how. Any ideas from readers would be much appreciated.

Raheem also commented after the article, and with similar tongue in cheek...:

Raheem Kassam • 10 hours ago
Don't hate the player!

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Heh

So Obama's the biggest phobe. Raheem is so right, these are stupid people!