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Newsweek asked people to tweet reactions to its new cover story on "Muslim rage." Using the hashtag, #MuslimRage, hundreds of people responded, with many using humor to poke fun at the magazine's stereotyping of the world's 1.5 billion Muslims. Author Reza Aslan tweeted, "Memo to those few violent MidEast protesters, this is how you fight Islamophobia. You make fun of it."

Here's a sample of a few of the funniest tweets.