I held the voting for the Dhimmis and Anti-Dhimmis of the Year 2007 in mid-December as usual, and have been holding off announcing the winners until I received a Cox and Forkum cartoon depicting them receiving their awards, as we had in 2006 and 2005, and as they had told me a few weeks ago that they would produce for 2007 also. However, I just received word that Cox and Forkum have decided not to get the cartoon to us after all, so I will announce the winners now:
American Dhimmi of the Year 2007: JIMMY CARTER, for the second year in a row.
Dhimmi Internationale 2007: KEN LIVINGSTONE and EHUD OLMERT.
Anti-Dhimmi Internationale 2007: AYAAN HIRSI ALI.
American Anti-Dhimmi of the Year 2007: MARK STEYN.
Congratulations to all the winners. I suspect that, sans illustration, this is our last annual contest, unless we can find someone else to do it, so now back to our more serious and regularly scheduled programming.
Err...Maybe you could prevail upon one of those Danish cartoonists.
Yep, please don't make this the last. Surely there must be some cartoonist amongst us (I'm not one) who could fill in? It's a beautiful tradition, and worth keeping even beyond Islam, should such a blessed time dawn.
Pffft. So predictable!
Excellent idea MP!
Imagine the Fatwas.
The mind boggles :o
When I read 'reelected' in that header I feared the worst. What a relief!
Peanut Khadr: spit!
"American Anti-Dhimmi of the Year 2007: MARK STEYN"
Er, I thought Mark was a Pom living in Canada? Am I wrong?
Great choice anyway!
Liam1304, what's a 'Pom'? Me European am feeling clueless...
A Canadian should seem American enough for me?
I knew it would happen. Canadians are Americans; North Americans too, just like the Mexicans.
And Poms are English, as in Pommes Frites - "English Fries" or "chips". They're cut chunkier than French Fries.
It takes an outsider (Australian) to know these things.
"what's a 'Pom'?"...
....a backwards mop?...
...it won't take long....jimmy da dhimmi will be running for re-election again....
Re Steyn identity: he has written of receiving letters from Israel addressed to a "fellow Jew." He is not Jewish.
Steyn takes a pragmatic approach to GWOT tactics: if it doesn't work, then try something new. He is antithetical to Bush stubborness, viz export of "freedom" to the slaves of allah.
Former White House insider, David Frum, has just published a repudiation of his earlier work on Bush ("The Right Man"), which is titled: "Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again." Excerpts suggest that Bush coasting into the post-presidential role of Saudi slave, is tiring conservatives. Frankly the first Republican candidate to attack Bush dhimmism, deserves the presidency.
Frum writes:
"In his 2002 State of the Union speech, President Bush pledged to prevent the world's most dangerous regimes - he named Iraq, Iran and North Korea - from acquiring nuclear weapons. Five years later, North Korea has tested a nuclear bomb and Iran looked likely to follow soon.
Republicans won in 1994 (Congress) and 2000 due in large part to voter perceptions of them as the more honest and ethical party. This asset was squandered by Jack Abrahamoff, Duke Cunningham, Mark Foley and Alberto Gonzalez.
More than most presidents, George W Bush has left behind a mixed record of work begun but left unfinished, of challenges confronted but ill articulated, of heroic aspirations marred by ineffective execution, of bold initiatives and tentative results."
His wilfull omission to criticize his Saudi owners, should have been a clue. Bush was born a whore, and he will die a whore.
'Pom' is what Aussies (that's Australians, not Austrians) call Brits.
This is a good study in the contrast between weakness and strength. Do two winners in the international dhimmi category indicate a double dose of weakness? Do two weak guys add up to one strong woman? 'Livingston and Olmert', almost sounds like a vaudeville act. `A little soft shoe, and a dhimmi lie or two will do. Probably Hugh would know more about vaudeville than I. What I want to know, is which of those two guys is Gracie?
May I make a suggestion? Keep the awards, but make them really mean something.
Perhaps Bosch Fawstin could be asked to draw, in classic comic book/ graphic novel style, caricature-portraits of the winners? - the anti-dhimmis could be sent the original of their portrait, signed by the artist. There should be a period of, say, a week within which people could post to jihadwatch a *brief* message of congratulation (no more than ten words, say) to the winners - these could be attached to the portrait.
I am sure that someone like Ayaan Hirsi Ali or Mark Steyn would frame their 'prize' and hang it up on the wall, and that they would be much encouraged to receive, say, a list of personal messages of commendation from thousands of intelligent people all over the world.
The categories for Dhimmi and Anti-Dhimmi are fine.
Subdividing into Internationale and 'National' is also fine.
but I think that within those, there should be a couple of extra categories.
Media: dhimmi and anti-dhimmi awards for the journalist and/or media outlet (radio station/ newspaper/ publisher/ TV station) that most consistently either caves in to Islam, or resists. Give the anti-dhimmi award a name - the international version could be "The Asma bint-Marwan/ Oriana Fallaci/ Manuel Paleologus/ K S Lal Anti-Dhimmi Award", the national [american] version could be "The John Quincy Adams Anti-Dhimmi Award".
Local -
This anti-dhimmi section of this category, which could perhaps be dedicated to the memory of the Martyrs of Otranto? - would give recognition to people such as the black pastor in Florida who was campaigning to stop construction of a mosque in his patch, or to police who by vigilant execution of their duty in defiance of PC, e.g. by searching the car of a pair of suspicious Muslim students caught speeding, have stymied Jihad plots.
The anti-dhimmi awards are far more important than the dhimmi awards.
We need all the heroes we can get - so whenever someone, however 'small', does the right thing, they need to receive lots of positive strokes. Most of us are peer-driven; we're social animals, needing approval, and we do get discouraged when continually attacked. Real, honest, heartfelt praise - not flattery, but genuine gratitude and recognition - is one of the most strengthening gifts we can give another human being, specially when that person is going up against something as spiritually malevolent as Islam.
Why not give the award ever-other year to keep it fresh?
Get rid of the phrase anti-Dihmmi, replace with "Crusader of the year."
When was Mark Steyn naturalized? I thought he was a Briton.
POST-CONTEST ANALYSIS: JW DHIMMI INTERNATIONALE--A Dime's Difference
By J. Crankraft Piggery
Prognosticator and Revelator
Jan. 3, 2008: The Lower Slobbovian Factor
DEAD HEAT--Even as the shape of this race emerged, I was still quite certain that the Lower Slobbovian vote alone would put Ken Livingstone over the top [in a different sense], and propel London's outragiously dhimmified mayor onto JW's stage of inglorious ignominy; effectively eclipsing his nearest rival, embattled Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. But the surge I rightly anticipated from that neglected quarter between East and West never materialized.
Can't completely explain it. Must have been the even more characteristically bad weather in the hinterlands of Lower Slobbovia. My sources there assured me of the expected outcome thusly, to "bet [my] bottomb razbucknik on idt."
The Lower Slobbovian vote was still a potent factor in this race, which helped bring Livingstone to a photo finish with the better-known Olmert. My sources within the Lower Slobbovian diaspora confirm the widespread, reflexive antipathy toward Livingstone among their fellow expatriates, both in the U.K. and elsewhere, and also among their countrymen back home. "Livinkshtone ank hish ilk are symbolshs ofk all iz wronk ank shtupidt ink worldt todayh," says expatriate Tubor Tubirsk. More sympathy is extended to Olmert, given his difficult, damned-either-way position, caught "betweenk rock ank hardt placse."
Lower Slobbovians strongly identify with the State of Israel, which they see, like themselves, as the Rodney Dangerfield among nations. As Dr. Dukor Dukovik, director of Crusader Zionist Hegemony International League of Lower Slobbovia (CZHILLS), in the country's capital, Eyhtkorvush (Eatcrow), pointedly exclaims, "Yishrael ank Lower Shlobbovia, we don'dt gedt anyh reshpect!"
To understand the visceral attitudes of Lower Slobbovians in such consequential matters as world affairs, we must know something about Lower Slobbovia and its people; their history, culture, and beliefs. There is an inseparable link between land and people; a link expressed in the native aphorism, "Can take Lower Shlobboviank oudt ofk Lower Shlobbovia, budt nodt Lower Shlobbovia oudt ofk Lower Shlobboviank."
The harsh adversity of Nature and hostile designs of powerful neighbors have shaped an unbending, fiercely independent national character; imparting to the Lower Slobbovian a resentment of--and fierce resistance to--encroachment by alien influences at odds with his deeply set values: equality, love of freedom, sense of honor, reciprocity, and justice. The harshness and intractability of the land are carved into his very being and reflected in his rock-ribbed resolve. "Iz very leank pickinks ink Lower Shlobbovia," explains Tubor. Consequently, he says, "Lower Shlobbovianks never yieldt."
Lower Slobbovian history bears this out. Over the span of a thousand years, the ambitious expeditions of proud, would-be conquerors--Saracen, Persian, Turkish, and Tatar--have ended in disaster among the rugged peaks and narrow passes of this remote, snow-swept, unforgiving land. Here, the carcasses of once handsomely equipped men, stately horses, and baggage-laden animals have fed fierce, omnivorous packs of Wild Slobbovian Woolly Pigs. The Mongols, on the other hand, had the very good sense to bypass the region. These triumphs of land and people are not forgotten; as Tubor's wife Tulia declares, "Lower Shlobbovianks are alwayhs free."
Key to the origin of the people's self-reliance and spurn of fate, we must also take note of Lower Slobbovian religious heritage. Worship of stones was the ancient indigenous religion of Lower Slobbovia. Once, "living stones" were fetishes held to be the abode of powerful spirits invoked or placated. Litholatry (stone worship) held sway until the Late Late Slobbovian Neolithic Age belatedly ended around 3800 years ago. It was then, following calamitous social upheaval and environmental catastrophe, that Lithoclasm abruptly replaced it, and the talismanic stones [(LS): talibankrap] were ritually smashed and ground down. This sudden ancient transformation is etched in the Lower Slobbovian psyche even to this day, prompting the Lower Slobbovian to express his typical brusque taciturnity by saying, "Talibankrap! Pishh onk livink shtone."
The final results of this spirited contest echo the brusque Lower Slobbovian repudiation of servility, of cultural relativism and elitism, and of kowtowing to an alien creed that turns toward a black stone in its acts of worship. Lower Slobbovians are a body politic that forcefully rejects Sharia-creep, Salafist mosque-beachheads, amplified muezzins and radicalizing imams. They are an individualist assembly that rejects the global proliferation of Londonistans, of Wahabists, of Ikhwanists, of Islamist schemes and subversions. When fully mobilized, this constituency will rise as the daybreak against Islamization, and hasten the moonset of Islamic supremacy.
A Free World, then, needs a bulwark of Lower Slobbovias, a corps d'elite of Lower Slobbovians to stand, like Horatius of old, astride the path of approaching menace. Tulia Tubirska sums it up: "Iz wayh to kHell ank wayh to Lower Shlobbovia; wayh to kHell iz eazy, wayh to Lower Shlobbovia iz nodt. Don'dt meshh widt Lower Shlobbovia." Domine, dirige nos. [Lord, direct us -- motto of the City of London.]
Any red-blooded, male JW'er who did NOT vote for Ayaan Hirsi Ali should be drugged, wrapped in a burqa, and then dumped in Waziristan with a sign reading "I'm an Islamophobic transvestite".
"Your strength can compensate for my weakness, and your wisdom can help to minimize my mistakes."
A quote from Jimmy Carter's Inaugural Address, January 20, 1977
Why wouldn't the provide an illustration this year?
Hey guys, remember that blurry yet disturbing video that was circulating around the internet some while back that showed some girl getting stoned in the middle east for going out with some kid from the wrong tribe or some such? I remember reading that her people--while middle eastern--were actually not Muslim. So it's quite possible that this phenomenon of "honor killings" does not fundamentally stem from religion, though the latter could be an influence.
I come from Somalia and while something like 99% of the country is Muslim--"honor" killings are unheard of.
ignore the above--wrong thread!
jewdog said
I'd vote for her no matter how she looks. She is a powerful figure in the anti-jihad.
I wish I knew how to draw. If I drew stick figures with their names underneath, would you keep the contest going? I'll even throw in a stick-figure Mohammad eating a pork sandwich, if that makes everybody happy.
*throwing ballots from Lower Slobbovian into fire*
Mark Steyn is a Canadian who lives in the US. One of my country's better exports.
Absolutely love the "The Lower Slobbovian Factor", JC. Brilliant.
Long live the Crusader Zionist Hegemony International League of Lower Slobbovia!!!!!!!!
Have to agree, jewdog.
http://blog.thehumanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/060508_fw_ayaanaliex.jpg
PHWOARRR!!!
Ken's friends are at least loyal. A group of "prominent" British Muslims have signed an open letter saying how great he is and how he must be re-elected. Check this out:
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/open_letter/2008/01/supporting_ken_livingstone_as.html
Sadly, many of the more interesting comments were "deleted by moderator". Well, it is the Guardian.
WHY did Cox and Forkum decide not to provide this year's cartoon?
WHO got to them?
If it's a case of money I will be glad to chip in to pay for the cartoon as, I am sure, would many other subscribers to this site.
WHAT is their reason for withdrawing? aahh - not drawing?
Wimbledon Womble and MOT:
First, it was Cox, not Forkum. Forkum has always been very kind and professional.
In December he told me that they would do the cartoon as usual. But then yesterday he told me that Cox had decided not to do the cartoon, but rather to focus on other commitments. I offered to pay more, but to no avail.
That's all I know. I consider it highly unprofessional of John Cox to behave in this way, and hope those who wish to commission a cartoon from him in the future will think twice.
Cordially
Robert Spencer
When I first heard that Cox and Forkum would not be illustrating the awards this year, i was going to send in a sketch (based on last year's winners, since this year's had yet to be announced). When I later heard that Cox and Forkum were going to come through after all, I went back to my graphic novel in progress and my book illustrations.
The Jihad Watch awards are wonderful--please don't end them. I will be sending in a cartoon (preliminary sketch) asap, which I hope you can use.
Cox and Forkum do excellent work. I hope people will like my take on the subject.
Gravenimage
Re ExsgtBrown: The Term POM, or correctly pronounced POMME, originated from former subjects of the United Kingdom and Ireland whom were resettled, (some as convicts) in the Antipodese. The term is somewhat derogatory in nature as P.O.M.M.E. reveals itself to be the capital letters for; PRISONERS OF MISERABLE MOTHER ENGLAND.
Interesting that Mr. Cox declined to pursue his craft despite previous arrangements. Perhaps he prefers to throw his hat into the ring as a contestant for the 2008 award.
It appears that some people only make promises and not commitments. However, Mr John Cox is entitled on reflection to change his mind. Perhaps he is bored with the same old process with the same old predictable results. I never even realised these people were actually paid to do the cartoon. In my naivety I thought they were campaigning JWs like the rest of us. No doubt a champion will emerge from our ranks to take over the mantle ( or should that be 'pencil'?)
gravenimage -
you do graphic novels?
Have you thought of researching, and then depicting, some of the critical episodes in the Defence of the West?
The resistance and ultimate triumph of the Portuguese and the Spaniards would make not just one novel but a whole series.
The battle at Tours/ Poitiers would do nicely for one, as would other heroic episodes: the Siege of Malta, 1565; the Battle of Lepanto 1571; the defence of Vienna in 1529 and then the victory of Vienna in 1683.
There are the lesser-known (today) Infidel reconquistas - of Malta, of Sicily; the liberation of Greece, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary from Ottoman Muslim tyranny.
There is, of course, also the Defence of the East. It would be interesting to collaborate with an Indian writer or artist to tell some of the heroic stories from the Sikh and HIndu resistance to Jihad, using, of course, images inspired by classic Indian art and sculpture.
Really pzz off the antisemites and the palestinianists by collaborating with a Jewish writer/ illustrator to chronicle: 1948; 1967; 1973; the Entebbe raid; the Osirak raid. Deeds of real-life derring-do.
One whole graphic novel could easily be devoted to the exploits of Orde Wingate as he helped teach the nascent haganah how to defend themselves and take the fight to the enemy.
I really thought clueless Condi would take Dhimmi Jimmy this year. It was a real horse race,
ewha 1,
Thank you!
Long Live CZHILLS!!
dumbledoresarmy wrote:
gravenimage -
you do graphic novels?
Have you thought of researching, and then depicting, some of the critical episodes in the Defence of the West?
........................................
Yes, I have. I corrresponded briefly with Bosch Fawstin (Infidel-Pigman) about this. Right now I have a lot of work on my plate--a book of children's rhymes, a book about La Befana (a Santa Clause-like figure from Italy), and a contemporary graphic novel.
I definitely do plan to do some anti-jihad projects, though.
BTW, I love your user name--Dumbledore's Army is very apt for this site.