#MuslimRage: Newsweek And The Future Of News
Monday, September 17, 2012 at 09:43PM The most recent issue of Newsweek features on the cover stereotypically angry Arab men, presumably from inside a recent anti-American protest, with the headline "MUSLIM RAGE." The pushback against the cover was immediate and strong. Yousef Munayyer, the executive director of the Jerusalem Fund, described the cover in an interview with Politico as "extremely unhelpful" and "playing to Islamophobic stereotypes."
In promoting their cover story by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Newsweek attempted to engage with those outraged at the cover image by promoting the hashtag #MuslimRage on twitter:
Want to discuss our latest cover? Let's hear it with the hashtag: #MuslimRage.
-- Newsweek (@Newsweek) September 17, 2012
This has led to some genuinely humorous responses that effectively illuminate the problem with Newsweek's cover story on their own, but the situation is deeper than that.