Good comment from the New Yorker message board:
""The sad truth is that a large majority Americans (I am speaking as one) are too ignorant and close-minded to understand nuance. To attempt to make them see something through an unfamiliar paradigm and maybe, just maybe, understand that thing a little clearer for having looked at it from a different perspective is just too much for them to comprehend. Therefore, you get this ridiculous outrage. The cover depicts a terrorist as perhaps just a kid, an american, an immigrant, and maybe a rockstar. That is what makes it all the more inexplicable as to what led him to do what he did. But given the stupidity as evinced by the commentary they should have just given the ignorant masses what they wanted and put him next to a crescent and star or something that they can relate easily with evil. Unbelievable....."