This week, the cover The New Yorker Magazine will feature a cartoon of Barack and Michelle Obama. Not usual right? Wrong!The cover features Barack in traditional Muslim clothes, fist bumping his wife Michelle who is sporting a big 70's afro with a machine gun strapped to her back. On the wall is a picture of Osama Bin Laden with the American flag burning in the fireplace.
The "liberal" magazine's editor, David Remnick, said that the image was supposed to "satirical" and that the cover “combines a number of fantastical images about the Obamas and shows them (the images) for the obvious distortions they are.”
Satire is one thing, but when 12 percent of voters incorrectly believe he's Muslim as reported in a recent Newsweek poll suggests, "satirical" covers like this can be quite damaging not for only for the Obamas (who unfairly has to constantly proclaim their love for Christ), but also practicing Muslims in American and around the world who are being painted with the broad brush of terrorism.
--Kevin Lockett
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