Muslims and Islamophobia
New Yorker depicts Obama as radical Muslim: sparks uproar
By Barbara Ferguson, Arab News
Tuesday 15 July 2008 (11 Rajab 1429)
In a statement yesterday, the magazine said the cover “combines a number of fantastical images about the Obamas and shows them for the obvious distortions they are.” “The burning flag, the nationalist-radical and Islamic outfits, the fist-bump, the portrait on the wall... All of them echo one attack or another. Satire is part of what we do, and it is meant to bring things out into the open, to hold up a mirror to prejudice, the hateful, and the absurd. And that’s the spirit of this cover,” The New Yorker statement said. It also pointed to the two articles on Obama contained inside the magazine, calling them “very serious.” Predictably, The New Yorker cover has become candy for cable news.
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