University of California, San Diego, officials are investigating whether students are responsible for distributing a 16-page magazine which portrays Muslim women in sexually explicit images and ridicules Jews and Palestinians.

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Hundreds of copies of the magazine, partially titled An Entertainment Magazine for the Islamic Man, were distributed on the campus this week.

Several Muslim students said they were disturbed by the graphic nature of the images. Some said they no longer felt safe on the campus.

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"I haven't been able to study in two days," Fatima Aimaq, a freshman and practicing Muslim, told the San Diego Union-Tribune. "When hatred surfaces and you see that people hate and disrespect you, it's hard to feel safe on campus."

"Words can't even begin to describe the pain, the violation, the humiliation, of being degraded publicly in such a malicious way," Muslema Purmul, a UCSD junior and a Muslim, told the Union-Tribune.

Muslim Student Association President Amir Fahid said Muslim students in recent months have been cursed at and told to leave the country. "The next step is going to be violence against Muslims," he said.

UCSD Vice Chancellor Joseph Watson on Thursday sent out a three-paragraph, campus-wide memo calling the publication "obscene, vile and deplorable," deserving of the university's "strongest condemnation."

Administrators have begun to investigate whether the publication was written and distributed by UCSD students. No articles carried bylines or publisher information.

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee of San Diego has asked for a hate-crime investigation, and Morris Casuto, the regional director of the San Diego Anti-Defamation League.