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Shakeel Ahmad Bhat is a Kashmiri activist and former militant who has become a minor internet celebrity. Photographs depicting close-ups of him angrily participating in protests in Srinagar appeared in many international newspapers in 2007 and became an internet meme, with several bloggers nicknaming him Islamic Rage Boy. He has been featured in newspapers such as the Times of India, Middle East Times, France 24, and The Sunday Mail.




Biography


Bhat was born into a Sufi Muslim family in Jammu and Kashmir, India, sometime in the late 1970s. His father was associated with Jammu and Kashmir Plebiscite Front He claims that in 1986 during a police raid on his home, his sister Sharifa was thrown down a flight of stairs, following which she became bed-ridden. She died in 1992 at the age of 18. Bhat dropped out of school as a teenager, and in 1991, at the age of 13, he joined a pro-Pakistan militant group called Al-Umar-Mujahideen, which he remained part of until his arrest in 1994. He was arrested and spent three years in prison, during which he was tortured and subjected to electric shocks. A nail was driven through his jaw. He lives in Srinagar, where he began participating in demonstrations in 1997. Due to his angry look, he was often photographed by journalists. He took part in protests against the Indian Army, Israel, Pope Benedict XVI, Salman Rushdie, and the Muhammad cartoons. According to Free Press Kashmir, he has "intermittently spent 24 years and 4 months" in different prisons across India and has 276 FIRs against him. In 2020, he got married.




In popular culture


He was featured in numerous blogs and articles by Christopher Hitchens, Kathleen Parker, Michelle Malkin, and others. On various blogs, he was photoshopped as Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler or as an opera singer. His picture has also been printed on T-shirts, posters, mouse-pads, and beer mugs.




See also


Islam
List of Internet phenomena




References






External links


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