Top Five Favorite #MuslimRage Tweets

Critics are calling Newsweek’s new cover, which portrayed recent protests across the region as an act of Muslim Rage, offensive and Islamaphobic.

Luckily, the good people of the Internet have taken to Twitter to respond to the American magazine’s unfair portrayal of the protests with some fine trolling tactics.

Here are our top five favorite #MuslimRage Tweets:

Lost your kid Jihad at the airport. Can’t yell for him. #MuslimRage

— Leila ليلى (@LSal92) September 17, 2012

“A new column by Thomas Friedman” #muslimrage

— المشير أبو كار (@Sarahcarr) September 17, 2012

Shawarma with no garlic sauce? #MuslimRage

— Omar (@AllWeAskFor) September 17, 2012

Television ‘experts’ saying Iran is an “Arab” country.#MuslimRage

— Juan Cole (@jricole) September 17, 2012

My parody of @newsweek‘s ridiculous #MuslimRage Cover: #MuslimRager twitter.com/bensilverstein…

— Benjamin Silverstein (@bensilverstein) September 17, 2012

And, in case you missed it, the Newsweek cover that set off the Twitter backlash: