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{{short description|Kashmiri activist}}
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{{Infobox person
|name = Shakeel Ahmad Bhat
|birth_date = {{circa|1978}}
|birth_place = [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]], India
|death_date =
|death_place =
|death_cause =
|occupation = Islamic [[activist]]
|known_for = Muslim Rage Boy [[internet meme]]
}}

'''Shakeel Ahmad Bhat''' (born around 1978) is a [[Kashmiri people|Kashmiri]] activist.<ref name=saxf.org /> He has been in photographs on the front pages of many newspapers and has become a [[List of Internet phenomena|cult figure on the Internet]]. He has been featured in newspapers such as the ''[[Times of India]]'',<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Kashmirs_Rage_Boy_invites_humour/articleshow/2164387.cms|title=Kashmir's 'Rage Boy' invites humour, mirth|last=Rajghatta|first=Chidanand|date=1 Jul 2007|work=[[Indiatimes]]|access-date=6 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071028031439/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Kashmirs_Rage_Boy_invites_humour/articleshow/2164387.cms|archive-date=28 October 2007|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Middle East Times]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070705-023815-9625r|title=Muslim 'Rage Boy' says he is really angry|last=Wani|first=Izhar|date=5 July 2007|work=Middle East News|access-date=6 November 2010|location=SRINAGAR, India|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926231217/http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070705-023815-9625r|archive-date=26 September 2007}}</ref> [[France 24]],<ref>[http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/administration/afp-news.html?id=070705024929.1cr624yt&cat=null France 24] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080120025902/http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/administration/afp-news.html?id=070705024929.1cr624yt&cat=null |date=20 January 2008 }}</ref> and ''The Sunday Mail''<ref name="French2011">{{cite book|author=Patrick French|title=India: A Portrait|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bf48JIIoLVoC&pg=PT464|date=27 January 2011|publisher=Penguin Books Limited|isbn=978-0-14-194700-6|pages=464–|access-date=7 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331202859/https://books.google.com/books?id=bf48JIIoLVoC&pg=PT464|archive-date=31 March 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Croft2012">{{cite book|author=Stuart Croft|title=Securitizing Islam: Identity and the Search for Security|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h4iRXzjHPUUC&pg=PA217|date=9 February 2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-02046-7|page=216|access-date=7 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331125019/https://books.google.com/books?id=h4iRXzjHPUUC&pg=PA217|archive-date=31 March 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Nasr2009">{{cite book|author=Vali Nasr|title=Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Hindu Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4eNp-IAeILkC&pg=PT256|date=15 September 2009|publisher=Free Press|isbn=978-1-4165-9194-8|pages=256–|access-date=7 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331210828/https://books.google.com/books?id=4eNp-IAeILkC&pg=PT256|archive-date=31 March 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jul/23/india.digitalmedia | title=All the rage - victim of US bloggers' cartoon hits back | newspaper=[[The Guardian]] | date=23 July 2007 | access-date=28 December 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131229111317/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jul/23/india.digitalmedia | archive-date=29 December 2013 | url-status=live }}</ref> He has been nicknamed '''Islamic Rage Boy''' by several bloggers.<ref name="Rajghatta_Chidanand">{{cite news|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2007-07-01/us/27994267_1_t-shirts-poster-boy-protests|title=Kashmir's 'Rage Boy' invites humour, mirth|last=Rajghatta|first=Chidanand|date=1 July 2007|location=India|access-date=16 February 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127222740/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2007-07-01/us/27994267_1_t-shirts-poster-boy-protests|archive-date=27 January 2012|work=[[The Times of India]]|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Biography==
He was born into a [[Sufi]] family in [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]], [[India]]. He claims that, around 1990, during a raid on his home, Indian police allegedly threw his sister Shareefa out of an upstairs window; she apparently broke her spine and died four years later.<ref name="saxf.org">[http://news.sawf.org/Lifestyle/39550.aspx APF: "Muslim 'Rage Boy' says he's really angry"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615053421/http://news.sawf.org/Lifestyle/39550.aspx |date=2013-06-15 }}</ref>

He lives in Kashmir, India, where he is often seen participating in demonstrations. Due to his angry look, he is often photographed by journalists. He took part in protests against the [[Indian Army]], [[Israel]], [[Regensburg lecture|Pope Benedict]], [[Salman Rushdie]], and the [[Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy|Muhammed cartoons]].<ref name=autogenerated1 /> He was captured and spent three years in prison.<ref name=saxf.org /> He claims that he has been detained almost 300 times since 1997.<ref name=saxf.org />

== In popular culture ==
He was featured in numerous blogs and articles by [[Christopher Hitchens]],<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.slate.com/id/2169020/|title=Let's stop channeling angry Muslims|author=Christopher Hitchens|journal=Slate Magazine|date=25 June 2007|access-date=17 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110918091327/http://www.slate.com/id/2169020/|archive-date=18 September 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Kathleen Parker]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/06/rage_boy_vs_civilization.html|title=Rage Boy vs. Civilization|last=Parker|first=Kathleen|date=29 June 2007|work=[[RealClearPolitics]]|access-date=6 November 2010|location=Washington|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126220633/http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/06/rage_boy_vs_civilization.html|archive-date=26 November 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Michelle Malkin]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://michellemalkin.com/2007/06/29/laughing-at-islamic-rage-boy/|title=Laughing at Islamic Rage Boy|last=Malkin|first=Michelle|date=29 June 2007|work=michellemalkin.com|access-date=6 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101120021757/http://michellemalkin.com/2007/06/29/laughing-at-islamic-rage-boy/|archive-date=20 November 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> and others. On various blogs, he was [[Photoshop contest|photoshopped]] as Aerosmith singer [[Steven Tyler]] or as an opera singer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.snappedshot.com/archives/976-Islamic-Rage-Boy-Parody-Roundup.html|title=Islamic Rage Boy Parody Roundup|last=Ledbetter|first=Brian C.|date=22 June 2007|work=Snapped Shot|access-date=6 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101221144549/http://snappedshot.com/archives/976-Islamic-Rage-Boy-Parody-Roundup.html|archive-date=21 December 2010|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://arewelumberjacks.blogspot.com/2007/06/rage-boy.html|title=Rage Boy|author=lumberjack|date=29 June 2007|work=Are We Lumberjacks?|publisher=[[Blogger (service)|Blogger]]|access-date=6 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708023655/http://arewelumberjacks.blogspot.com/2007/06/rage-boy.html|archive-date=8 July 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> His picture has also been printed on T-shirts, posters, mouse-pads, and beer mugs.<ref name=saxf.org /><ref

name=autogenerated1/>

==See also==
*[[Islam]]
*[[List of Internet phenomena]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://archive.today/20130415215820/http://news.sawf.org/Lifestyle/39550.aspx Muslim 'Rage Boy' says he's really angry]

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[[Category:Internet memes]]
[[Category:Kashmiri people]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from Jammu and Kashmir]]
[[Category:Rage (emotion)]]
[[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]]
[[Category:Indian Muslim activists]]

Shakeel Ahmad Bhat - Revision history

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