I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of Rage Boy, but you should have. He is very popular and has become the poster boy for radical Islam after having been photographed at many demonstrations. Over the years, Rage Boy has been photographed at protests against Salman Rushdie, the Kashmir government, Pope Benedict XVI, Danish anti-Muslim cartoons, Kashmir state elections and to stop the execution of a Muslim man. He always has the same crazy, bursting with anger look on his face and it makes for one hell of a photo.

Conservatives have jumped on Rage Boy as an example of what we are up against. It’s the face of crazy, belligerent rage! Eternal idiot Christopher Hitchens explained.

The amazingly retarded Michelle Malkin jumped on board the Rage Boy train and used his picture for her policital message. They love him over at Jihad Watch. (What idiot goes to a sight called "Jihad Watch?") Rage Boy became the visual for everything they hate and fear about Muslims.

And now you can buy Rage Boy T-shirts, mugs, clocks, shorts and bumper stickers. He’s the perfect symbol of everything those Islamofascists are and what we should fear. The comments on the right wing message boards show the lemmings eat it up.

I’m sure it does. Too bad Rage Boy’s real story doesn’t match the right wing created monster.

A reporter for the Daily Mail went to the city of Srinagar in Kashmir and found Rage Boy, whose name is Shakeel Ahmad Bhat. Bhat has not had the best life in the world. He was raised in a religious family who followed a tolerant form of Islam called Sufi. His father taught him to spread Islam by peaceful means.

He dropped out of school at 10. When he was 13, Indian soldiers broke into his home looking for militants and threw his 18-year-old sister out a window. She died four years later from her injuries, which included a broken spine. Bhat decided to join the rebels fighting India.

He went to a training camp and fought, but never killed anyone. He even tried to talk his fellow militants out of killing people, which is bad if your profession is killing people.

At 16, he was arrested and tortured. Ever since, he has been unable to lift anything with his right arm, which means he relies on his family to survive. Today he is 29, not married, unemployed and does not know how to read or write, but he does love a good protest.

Dude loves to get a bunch of people together and shout, who the fuck doesn't? He didn’t think Rushdie should be knighted because he is a “Muslim basher,” big deal. Sounds like something Christians here in America would say -- after their “War on Christmas” ends. He hates to hear about terrorist attacks.

After his face became the poster boy for the right wing, he began apprearing appearing on T-shirts and mugs, the local cops asked him to stop going to demonstrations. That is pretty harsh. What the fuck else is Rage Boy supposed to do? Did I mention he doesn’t have a job, a wife, or know how to read or write? And now you want him to stop screaming in the street? Fuck off.

Although, one officer did offer Bhat a government job with a wife tossed in and he turned it down. (Now I’m worried about him.)

Bhat is aware of his fame because friends have shown him the pictures, many of which have been photoshopped in some not so flattering ways. And it kind of bums him out.

See, now I want to hug Rage Boy. This dude is just uneducated, poverty stricken and handicapped. I guess the right wing will have to find another poster boy for Islamic rage. Or, maybe they won't.

Right, you totally got the gist of it, you right wing asshole. A reporter went to a dangerous place and actually did his job and you call him a liar. At the same time you totally miss the point of the article: He’s just a fucking human being who has had a shit life and is a threat to nobody. He is a political activist who actually goes out and starts protests against shit that pisses him off, like police brutality and people talking shit about his religion. And because he takes a great action photo, he has become the symbol of something he is not. I kinda like Rage Boy, myself, and I'd like to extend an invitation to Thanksgiving.