Leading NY mag depicts Obama as terrorist

STIRRING CONTROVERSY: The front cover of the New Yorker depicts Obama and his wife as terrorists.

US satirical current affairs magazine The New Yorker is stirring controversy with a front cover that depicts Barack Obama and his wife as terrorist enemies of the United States.

The cover features a cartoon of presidential hopeful Senator Obama dressed in what US media have described as Muslim attire, while his wife is in army fatigues and carries a machine gun.

A picture of Osama Bin Laden is hung on the wall and an American flag is burning in the fireplace of what appears to be the White House’s Oval Office.

Obama’s campaign team has expressed disappointment at the depiction.

“The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Senator Obama’s right-wing critics have tried to create,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton said in a statement. “But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree.”

The magazine’s editor described the cartoon, called “The Politics of Fear”, as satire.

Cartoons have become touchpapers for controversy regarding Western views of Arabs and Islam.

In 2005, a Danish newspaper sparked worldwide protests when it published cartoons that showed the Prophet Mohammed appearing as a terrorist.

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