Well, it’s that time of the year again, my friends: nominations are hereby open for the renowned and hotly coveted Jihad Watch annual awards!
Awarded this year as usual will be two raspberries:
1. American Dhimmi of the Year 2008.
2. Dhimmi Internationale of the Year 2008.
These should, of course, be those who behaved during the year 2008 in the most pusillanimous, abject, and/or suicidally, self-servingly stupid ways in the face of Islamic supremacist bullying and intimidation, peaceful or violent.
Then we will honor two heroes:
3. American Anti-Dhimmi of the Year 2008.
4. Anti-Dhimmi Internationale of the Year 2008.
I encourage you to search through the archives here — on both the Jihad Watch and Dhimmi Watch sides — and you will find many, many worthy candidates for both honor and dishonor. Please take a moment and scan back to January, or as far as you can, if you’d like to make a nomination: there are many worthies from earlier in the year who could be forgotten.
Please nominate individuals, not groups or entire nations or secret societies. And please do not nominate me, Hugh Fitzgerald, Raymond Ibrahim, or Marisol Seibold: Jihad Watch staff and relatives of staff are not eligible for either the Dhimmi or the Anti-Dhimmi prizes. We are not going to give ourselves our own awards!
The awards will be given at the lavish annual Jihad Watch banquet later this month. I hope that this year we will have another primo cartoon from the world’s premier anti-jihad caricaturist, David Washburn, commemorating the awards banquet.
For your reference, here is a list of the previous winners. You can read about the 2007 winners here, the 2006 winners here and the 2005 winners here. These people can be chosen again, but wouldn’t it be fun this year to honor people who have not already been honored?
2005:
American Dhimmi: Ramsey Clark
Dhimmi Internationale: George Galloway
American Anti-Dhimmi: Tom Tancredo
Anti-Dhimmi Internationale: Oriana Fallaci
2006:
American Dhimmi: Jimmy Carter
Dhimmi Internationale: Jacques Chirac
American Anti-Dhimmi: John Bolton
Anti-Dhimmi Internationale: John Howard and Geert Wilders
2007:
American Dhimmi: Jimmy Carter
Dhimmi Internationale: Ken Livingstone and Ehud Olmert
American Anti-Dhimmi: Mark Steyn (honorary American)
Anti-Dhimmi Internationale: Ayaan Hirsi Ali