The NRA is accused of using anti-Semitic imagery in its “portrayal of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as an octopus.”:http://wcbstv.com/local/local_story_108175220.html Even though the eight-tentacled sea creature has been used as a metaphor for “Jewish conspiracies”:http://www.amazon.com/Big-Book-Jewish-Conspiracies/dp/0312334397 throughout the ages, “NRA spokeswoman”:http://www.amny.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny–nraoctopus0418apr18,0,163505.story?coll=sns-ap-investing-headlines Ashley Varner said possible parallels between the magazine cover and the historical context of the octopus were accidental.
I don’t whether to be more outraged about this potentially fueling antisemitism among the NRA riffraff or forcing me think of Mayor Mike when I’m trying to enjoy my calamari.
Awesome article. I only wish that the picture attached didn’t work to reinforce every stereotype Americans already have about Arabs. I doubt even a single Arab-American woman mentioned in this article dresses like this shoe-fetish chick. Come on guys,
So it’s kinda like…now that the act of beating your wife is socially unacceptable it should suddenly become vogue to wear tank tops with beer and mustard stains down the front in a show of solidarity to the sad misunderstood guys who beat their wives. F
The photos that accompany this article (in the magazine, there are 5 more, depicting the
burkaniqab-clad model in different stereotypical hipster locales) can certainly be seen as provocative, but our intention is to mock the enthusiastiI get it, R. I was making a dig too and not against Heeb. My problem is with the lame-ass people who dress up just so they can run up a flag and they don’t even know who’s flag it is or what it symbolizes. The indifference to a symbols actual meaning for
But, how is the reader supposed to know that the person in the niqab (burkas are the screened things in Afghanistan – ie, not an Arab thing) is a hipster who is appropriating Arab fashion and not just an Arab-American doing hipster things? The image to m
i am always extremely happy when zionists vehemently & passionately express their misunderstanding of arabs & muslims. this is symptomatic of their perpetual blindness, which is continuously accelerating their already advancing downfall. YEAH!
IbeenInJail…durka-durka. LOL
Yeah that actually is not a burka. Like propagandin said it’s an abaya with a niquab. The picture is silly.
it should suddenly become vogue to wear tank tops with beer and mustard stains down the front in a show of solidarity to the sad misunderstood guys who beat their wives. Fantastic.
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Only time will tell whether or not Obeidallah gets his prime-time series, but who can blame him for dreaming?
Well put Rocku.
Yes, Rocku certainly has a way with words.
I think the picture is really funny.
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