Gotta go with Bolton-he beats his head against the dhimmi wall harder than any other government official type.

Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at December 11, 2006 12:38 PM

Bolton.

Posted by: Concerned Canadian at December 11, 2006 12:40 PM

Bolton may be anti-PC, but he's not necessarily anti-Dhimmi -- a regrettably real distinction. He probably roughly shares Bush's myopia about the problem of Islam itself.

I vote for Wafa Sultan.

Posted by: remote_control at December 11, 2006 12:46 PM

Brigitte Gabriel, with Bolton a close second.

Posted by: Sasha at December 11, 2006 12:53 PM

Bolton has been a powerful maverick which is admirable.

However, Tancredo has most specifically indicated an awareness of what Islam really is. Moreover, Tancredo doesn't always use some phrase like radical Islam, he can come right out and say Islam is the problem.

My vote goes to Tancredo for laying it on the line on Islam.

Posted by: Old Atlantic at December 11, 2006 12:59 PM

Tough choice there. I was going to vote for Wafa Sultan who I greatly admire, but went with Brigitte Gabriel because she is technically a 'dhimmi' being non-muslim. She's nobody's dhimmi!

Posted by: Urban Infidel at December 11, 2006 1:08 PM

Tancredo hands down. It's critical that anti-Dhimmism be raised up out of the grad school muck. Most people don't read books anymore, and it's most people that we need on the bandwagon.

The man has nuts. By comparison, where did John Bolton ever call out Islam for what it is?

Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer at December 11, 2006 1:12 PM

The choices here are very good, I was torn between Bolton and Tancredo, I went with Tancredo. He's been a beacon and isn't afraid to say what needs to be said. Refreshing for an elected official.

Posted by: Proud Infidel at December 11, 2006 1:21 PM

My vote goes to Tancredo for laying it on the line on Islam.

Posted by: Old Atlantic

I agree. Tancredo for me too. He's also in position to do something major in the political arena in 2008. He needs to know there are many of us who pin our hopes on him.

Posted by: germaninamerica at December 11, 2006 1:24 PM

I voted for Bridgette Gabriel, but stiil think Robert Spencer is more deserving.

Posted by: the czar at December 11, 2006 1:24 PM

Again the list is incomplete..

I would add Robert Spencer and Hugh Fitzgerald to the list, and whooosssh!!!they would sweep away the best american anti-dhimmi award at a light speed.

Posted by: Icarus_Project at December 11, 2006 1:27 PM

I rolled laughing when I found out they put the new Muslim congressman in the office next to Tom Tancredo.

Posted by: No1 Infidel at December 11, 2006 1:31 PM

1# Wafa Sultan
2# Brigitte Gabriel

Posted by: EliasAlucard at December 11, 2006 1:40 PM

I voted for Ginny Brown-Waite and I knew she is not going to win but for a member of congress to tell CAIR to kiss off she deserves at least the recognition of that and I am glad she was on the list. Good for her.

Posted by: greatcometof1577 at December 11, 2006 2:08 PM

Shouldn't Robert Spencer be on this poll?

Posted by: twoCents at December 11, 2006 2:52 PM

Tough choices here, I think I will abstain from this one for the moment and think about it for a while.

Posted by: km at December 11, 2006 3:04 PM

Tancredo for me has it right

Posted by: Daffersd at December 11, 2006 3:06 PM

Tancredo. For a congressman, he's fighting the fight where on the mountaintop itself. Congress needs to get a clue...

Posted by: Gabriel_the_American at December 11, 2006 3:07 PM

Somehow Diana West did not get enough nominations in this category...but deserves mention for her consistent, sober, unapologetic, and widely-read articles on the Islam problem.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 11, 2006 3:25 PM

As long as votes are still coming in, I'd like to ask why John Bolton is on this ballot.

Maybe I'm mistaken, but can anyone give us even a single quote from Bolton to indicate that he has a grasp of the Islam problem? Would he even comprehend what an anti-dhimmi prize was if JW awarded it to him?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 11, 2006 4:05 PM

My vote goes to Wafa Sultan. Her appearance on Al Jazeera was a cultural watershed, one of those unique moments when you know a sacred cow has been shattered and history has been made.

Posted by: Cornelius at December 11, 2006 4:23 PM

Brigitte hands down...Bolton is close, but his rhetoric had to be too constrained to fit the diplo-dink talking heads at Useless Numbnuts, Inc...aka, the UN.

Posted by: jcom972 at December 11, 2006 4:30 PM

Maybe I'm mistaken, but can anyone give us even a single quote from Bolton to indicate that he has a grasp of the Islam problem? Would he even comprehend what an anti-dhimmi prize was if JW awarded it to him?

Posted by: Archimedes

Good Question???

But he did side with Israel and attacked the UN while he was in the UN.

So he is getting votes for that and Gabriel and Sultan are spliting the votes.

Posted by: greatcometof1577 at December 11, 2006 4:36 PM

Archimedes said

Maybe I'm mistaken, but can anyone give us even a single quote from Bolton to indicate that he has a grasp of the Islam problem? Would he even comprehend what an anti-dhimmi prize was if JW awarded it to him?

I haven't noticed any change in the U.N. since Bolton's tenure. I see French troops being deployed to protect the Lebanese and Syrian Muslims from Israel, I don't see any troops defending the civilians in Darfur from the Muslim Janjaweed. Bolton is anti-UN, which I like, but I have seen/heard nothing prescient about Islam/jihad from him.

Brigitte Gabriel gets my vote.

Posted by: special_guest at December 11, 2006 4:47 PM

Archimedes and Special Guest

To the extent that John Bolton has attacked anti-Semitism in the UN, and stopped tolerating one sided attacks on Israel, and that too in a hostile climate (as opposed to, say, Brigette Gabriele or Wafa Sultan), he deserves this award. Note that to date, he hasn't issued any inane ROP statements about Islam: while he can't condemn Islam given the position of the Administration, the least he could have done, and has done, is stay silent about Islam, while condemning anti-Semitic moves in the UN. For that, I believe he is more deserving than other figures who are making their speeches in the US with a mix of friendly, doubtful and hostile audiences.

My choice.

Posted by: Infidel Pride at December 11, 2006 4:52 PM

IP,

If Bolton wins--and that's what it looks like at this point--I'd love to see his reaction upon being told he's won the anti-dhimmi award.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 11, 2006 5:24 PM

AIG:

Tom Tancredo has the support of 81% of Americans, according to a poll about illegals and terrorism, but that's another story...
...good thing is, when some lunatic from nation of islam spews his masqueraded hate speech here, that same 81% (read that as roughly 240 out of 300 million Americans) see it and react nastily.
I wouldn't worry about Tancredo vs. ellison. There are other elements at work there, and it will start from within ellisons own ranks, not from without...

;-)

Posted by: jcom972 at December 11, 2006 5:41 PM

It's ok, AIG...

remember, Minnesota is often "odd man out" when it comes to politics...

...after all, MN was the only state to support mondale in the '84 ass-handed-to-him election against Renaldus Maximus who won it walking away.
lol

Posted by: jcom972 at December 11, 2006 6:27 PM

"...after all, MN was the only state to support mondale in the '84 ass-handed-to-him election against Renaldus Maximus who won it walking away.
"

That's the funniest and most truthful thing I've seen all day.

Posted by: RollingThunder at December 11, 2006 7:20 PM

Why, Thank You RT (nice nostalgia nick there, too)

"You ain't seen nothin' yet!"

Ooops, did I say that?
Oh, damn...I went there.
lol

Posted by: jcom972 at December 11, 2006 7:35 PM

Tom Tancredo

Posted by: Foehammer at December 11, 2006 7:38 PM

Tancredo

FRom WIKI...during a radio interview on Orlando talk-radio station AM 540 WFLA, Tancredo responded to a question asking about a potential U.S. response to a nuclear attack on U.S. cities by al-Qaeda by saying that one response would be to retaliate by "taking out" Muslim holy sites (specifically, Mecca) if it were clearly proven that Islamic terrorists were behind such an attack . Days later, in an interview on CNN together with James Zogby, Tancredo claimed he meant the comment as merely a threat to retaliate and refused to apologize.

Posted by: kevin at December 11, 2006 8:49 PM

Bolton was needed sane voice in the UN, especially during the Israel conflict with the Hez boys. Bolton was steadfast. It is too bad that even the RINO from Republican party did not support him. He is too much man for the Wash. crowd. oh how the US and free world will miss this great man!

Posted by: ZenaWarriorPrincess at December 11, 2006 9:58 PM

Wafa Sultan gets my vote. This lady walked into the lion's den (Al Jazeera) and debated the Jihadists. She did not mince her words and told it like it is, in their face, and in their own language, very eloquently I might add. She beamed her image and her voice into the Jihadists living rooms, told them they are backwards and have no place in the civilized world, even though she understood the full implications of her deed. As an apostate, she had made herself a target and put her life in danger. In my opinion, she has shown more courage and guts than all the other nominees combined. John Bolton get my runner-up vote for refusing to buckle in front of the corrupt and despicable United Nations. I'm sad to see him go.

Posted by: Mishka at December 11, 2006 11:54 PM

The vote goes to Brigitte Gabriel

I recently heard her speak (while under pain of islamist threats) last week at the University of Michigan.

This lady is a fearless champion of the anti-jihad cause and she backs down from NO ONE! Ms. Gabriel radiates strength and courage as she names names and gives specifics and calls out the enemies. What more can one person do than she has done to take a stand and to motivate others in our cause? (Yes--RS and Hugh are up there too--but not on the ballot)

http://www.americancongressfortruth.com

You who voted for the pope(in the international vote)--you can emulate his mealy-mouth islamic rear end appeasing approach --- I want to be like Ms. Gabriel--and back down from no one.

Posted by: BB at December 11, 2006 11:57 PM

None of them deserves the award. For none of them demonstrated the high courage required for such high honours.

ALLOW THE AWARD to lapse this year, for want of worthy candidates. Better not to make an award then to allow it to become diluted by extending it to unworthies.

No American earned the anti-dhimmi award this year. And that's a sad fact. And a sad commentary upon our time.

ACTUALLY there is a man of courage, distinction, who made signal contributions to the cause of anti-dhimmitude during the last twelvemonth.

And he is the author of THE TRUTH ABOUT MOHAMMAD.......................................THAT'S A MAN worthy, fully worthy of such an award.

None of those on the list is even remotely close in stature, dignity, courage and high resolve.

And that's a fact.

Posted by: Dan at December 12, 2006 2:06 AM

Wafa Sultan:
None of the others are Muslim or former Muslim. None of the others speak Arabic except for Bridgitte Gabriel (who is Lebanese Christian).
Therefore, Wafa Sultan has more authority in the Arabic speaking Islamic world than all the others. She has also been the most "point-blank" in her articulation of Islam's problems. Only Wafa Sultan gave a pure, unadulterated, full-strength dose of reality to her fellow Muslims in their own language on their own network (Al-Jazeera).

Posted by: Xero G at December 12, 2006 2:33 AM

Heavens, why isn't Mark Steyn on the US list or the world list???!!!

Posted by: carol mcl at December 12, 2006 3:30 AM

First, I agree wholeheartedly with those who are puzzled about why Robert's name is not on the list.

Second, it would be easier to vote if the categories were subdivided - e.g. "Which politician "gets it" and has the courage to "say it like it is" (Tom Tancredo), which "insider" confronts the enemy with the greatest courage in its own backyard (Sultan), which person has had the greatest courage and persistence in educating the American people in the uphill battle against PC (Robert), which professional newsperson is tireless in telling it with the authority of one who has survived (Gabriel), etc. etc.

I wish the list had included many others; there are truly heros among us, and they all deserve our recognition and support.

Posted by: Cubed at December 12, 2006 6:00 PM