Barack Obama is not a muslim!

The New Yorker Magazine is under-fire admist a whirlwind of controversy due to a cartoon cover depicting him in traditional Muslim garb and his wife as a terrorist.

The Obama team obviously isn’t pleased.

The magazine says the cartoon is intended as a satirical comment about some of the distorted right-wing attacks on the Democratic senator.

Some have been out of order and I live in the UK and right wing people stop stressing Barack’s full name, especially your emphasis on HUSSEIN he is not related to Saddam in anyway.

I can see what the New Yorker are doing but it doesn’t realy work for the general mass as in the United States sorry to say this they don’t get IRONY!

The Obama camp is up in arms and a campaign spokesman said the cartoon was “tasteless and offensive”.

A spokesman also for John McCain, Mr Obama’s Republican rival in the presidential election, also criticised the cartoon.

The image, drawn by Barry Blitt and featured on the front cover of this week’s New Yorker, shows Mr Obama wearing traditional Muslim dress, while his wife, Michelle, is dressed in combat trousers and carrying a machine-gun.

The couple are shown standing in the Oval Office, greeting one another with a “fist bump” this a few weeks ago by the (Rupert Murdoch owned) Fox network was claimed to be a Arabic gesture linked to terrorism! “The terrorist fist-jab”

Wow journalists and news corps are so well informed and intelligent! , with an American flag burning in the fireplace, and a portrait of Osama Bin Laden on the wall.

‘Mirror to prejudice’ is the title so it is a visual element and reminds me of the political leanings of Giles comics in the UK and some of the magazines in Spain -The Time magazine in Spain with Pope benedict dressed as Hitler for example..

In a statement, The New Yorker magazine said the cartoon “combines a number of fantastical images about the Obamas and shows them for the obvious distortions they are.”

The New Yorker said the cover, called “The Politics of Fear”, was a critique of unfounded allegations that have tried to portray Mr Obama, a Christian, as a closet radical Muslim (the fear of the Muslim religion in America is due to ignorance and complete misunderstanding).

“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 statement said.

The portrayal of the Obamas “fist-bumping” one another was a reference to a campaign rally in St Paul, Minnesota, back in June, at which the couple were seen to “fist-bump”, an action described by one Fox News commentator as a “terrorist fist-jab”.

The presenter – E D Hill who subsequently lost her Fox News show – later apologised for the comments, and insisted that they had not been meant seriously..

So to this I say ‘YEAH RIGHT’ who are you f*CKing kidding and this is coming from a network who is cleary a republican supporter who has Bill O’Reilly (An Irish racist! Who treats women like Sh*T!) and his un-PC/ethical tongue rammbling crap every week amd has a huge issue towards Hip-Hop acts being one example of his hatred, and they talk about Muslims hatred, look in the mirror people and reject the TV screen.

The New Yorker said that this week’s edition carried two “very serious” articles about Mr Obama.

Content I have yet to read so the part two will be later commented about.

But Obama spokesman Bill Burton dismissed the cartoon, saying: “The New Yorker may think… that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Senator Obama’s right-wing critics have tried to create, but most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree.”

My personnal opinion it is controversial but maybe as the old saying goes

A Picture is better then a million words! Your comments please!