The Annual Islamophobia Awards are awards given by the Islamic Human Rights Commission each year to politicians and journalists whom the Commission judge to have expressed the most Islamophobic opinions in the course of the past year. An award is something given to a person or group of people to recognize excellence in a certain field. ... The Islamic Human Rights Commission, or IHRC, is a non-profit organization that campaigns against violations of the human rights of Muslims. ... Islamophobia is term used by Islamic advocates to discredit proponents of criticisms of Islam and Islamic culture. ...
Although the awards are intended to make a serious political point, they are presented in a lighthearted and satirical way. Satire is a literary technique of writing or art which exposes the follies of its subject (for example, individuals, organizations, or states) to ridicule, often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. ...
Controversy
During the 2003 award ceremony, when Ariel Sharon was announced as the "winner" of the "Most Islamophobic International Politician of the Year’," the host told the "Palestinian freedom fighter" who accepted the award on Sharon's behalf to "give this to Sharon personally," essentially advocating suicide bombing the Israeli Prime Minister. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For more detail of Sharons recent illness, see Illnesses of Ariel Sharon. ... A suicide bombing is an attack using a bomb in which the individual(s) carrying the explosive materials composing the bomb intend(s) and expect(s) to die upon detonation (see suicide). ... The Prime Minister of Israel is the elected head of the Israeli government. ...
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Islamophobia is an unreasonable and large unfounded hate or fear of people who have a Muslim background and it applies to people who are perceived to be Muslim.
It is not Islamophobia that makes parents take 14 year old bright girls out of school to marry illiterate men, and the girl has again to bring up the next generation who will again be denied not just education but the value of education.
What Islamophobia does is it just becomes a convenient label a figleaf a reason that is so comfortable for Muslims whenever they have to look at why they aren't in the places that they have to be.
The IHRC has been criticized as a front for radical Islamists by the Stephen Roth Institute, an organization studying anti-Semitism based in the University of Tel Aviv.
It opposes the banning of the Islamist Hizb-ut-Tahrir party and feels that the adoption of sharia law is a legitimate religious idea.
AnnualIslamophobiaAwards -- A satirical 'awards ceremony' overseen by the IHRC.
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