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*bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem **In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful *=== News Update === Obama team decries cartoon image *Should Muslims too ?* [image: New Yorker cartoon depicting Mr Obama as a Muslim and his wife as a terrorist] The magazine said the cartoon "combines… fantastical images" *Barack Obama's team has decried The New Yorker magazine for a cartoon cover depicting him in traditional Muslim garb and his wife as a terrorist. * The magazine says the cartoon is intended as a satirical comment about some of the distorted right-wing attacks on the Democratic senator. An Obama campaign spokesman said the cartoon was "tasteless and offensive". A spokesman 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", with an American flag burning in the fireplace, and a portrait of Osama Bin Laden on the wall. Read the rest of this entry »<http://musliminsuffer.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/obama-team-decries-cartoon-image-should-muslims-too/#more-2627> === -muslim voice- _____________________________________________ *BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW*
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