[View the story "Outrage over #MuslimRage" on Storify ]Outrage over #MuslimRage Newsweek cover causes controversy online. Storified by The Stream · Mon, Sep 17 2012 10:04:04
This week's Newsweek cover, on newsstands & the iPad today: #MuslimRage! Ayaan Hirsi Ali writes on how she survived it http://pic.twitter.com/QPnlRtf9Newsweek
The image sparked outcry over Twitter within minutes.
Now I remember why cancelled my subscription. #pt #NewsweekDeanna Othman
Things is getting supra-colonial up in here. #MuslimRageSubMedina
Breaking: @Newsweek awarded the #PamelaGeller / #MicheleBachmann Award for Outstanding JournalismChristianChristensen
Some claimed double standards in the way Arab protesters are portrayed:
In its own ugly way, this Nwesweek cover is almost as inflammatory as the Muhammad video itself: http://is.gd/BDIsM6Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald Unfair. Don't u remember all of the "American Rage" covers with screaming white people that Newsweek has done? After 9/11, IraqMr. LV426
imagine the Newsweek 'Muslim Rage' cover with any other minority, would the ignorant and inflammatory stereotyping pass the editorial board?Ayesha A. Siddiqi
While others argued that protesters against the anti-Islam video did not represent the majority of Muslims:
As cheap a shot as can b @Newsweek: protesters were a MINORITY. "Muslim Rage: How I Survived it" http://pic.twitter.com/t8cYsEXX" via @monaeltahawyRadwa Al Rifai
Extremists in MENA claimed the video represented all Americans. Now Newsweek claiming few thousand protesters represent all Muslims.Zeynep Tufekci
For its part, Newsweek attempted to capitalise on the outcry by directing Twitter users to discuss the cover using the hashtag #MuslimRage
Want to discuss our latest cover? Let's hear it with the hashtag: #MuslimRage.Newsweek
Some users declined the invitation:
No thanks. RT @Newsweek Want to discuss our latest cover? Let's hear it with the hashtag: #MuslimRage.Jared Keller
Let's not, actually RT @Newsweek Want to discuss our latest cover? Let's hear it with the hashtag: #MuslimRage.Chris Scott
@Newsweek Let's discuss your failing revenue stream, and how this is a desperate attempt to fix that. #boycottNewsweekJames Miller (ميلر)
Wow, they would. Not even negligence. Willful abuse: @Newsweek Want to discuss our latest cover? Let's hear it with the hashtag: #MuslimRageAshley Baxstrom
Others proposed alternatives:
#NEWSWEEKRAGESarah Hall
