Posted on 05/28/2008 2:45:56 AM PDT by moderatewolverine
I‘ve been a fan of Dunkin’ Donuts for years. Their Munchkins are heaven. Their coffee is better and cheaper than Starbucks. And the company’s management has taken a brave and lonely stand in support of immigration enforcement — refusing to hire illegal aliens and blowing the whistle on applicants with bogus Social Security numbers.
So it was with some dismay that I learned last week that Dunkin’ Donuts spokeswoman Rachael Ray, the ubiquitous TV hostess, posed for one of the company’s ads in what appeared to be a black-and-white keffiyeh.
The keffiyeh, for the clueless, is the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad. Popularized by Yasser Arafat and a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos, the apparel has been mainstreamed by both ignorant (and not so ignorant) fashion designers, celebrities and left-wing icons.
Three years ago, pop singer Ricky Martin donned a traditional red-checked keffiyeh with the phrase “Jerusalem is ours” inscribed in Arabic. Apologizing for his obliviousness, Martin said: “I had no idea that the keffiyeh scarf presented to me contained language referring to Jerusalem, and I apologize to anyone who might think I was endorsing its message.” Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, Spain’s Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, Hollywood darlings Colin Farrell, Sienna Miller and Kirsten Dunst, and rapper Kanye West have all been photographed in endless variations on the distinctive hate couture. So has Meghan McCain, daughter of the GOP presidential candidate, who really ought to know better given that her dad positions himself as the candidate best equipped to “confront the transcendent challenge of our time: the threat of radical Islamic terrorism.”
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Well said.
I think one of our tacticool suppliers could do a lot worse than come up with one made in super-wash merino, loosely woven, in a winter camo colorway. I'm thinking of cleaning off my loom and making a prototype. All we're talking about is a "sleazy" (that's a technical term in weaving) 44"x44" piece of cloth, after all.
I just emailed a letter to DD to complain! I am just sick.
That’s not a keffiyeh. That’s a scarf.
I know kefiyat & that is not a kefiyeh. It’s a paisley scarf.
I’m giving you both the benefit of the doubt here, assuming that you live in rural or nice suburban areas where the anti-Semites don’t parade around in these things to show how hip they are.
It’s a reasonable facsimile thereof. I see lots of people wearing these pseudo-rags because they want to look edgy but don’t have the oo to wear the real one. They can always claim they didn’t know what it was, or was supposed to look like, and thus have it both ways, like lots of lefties like to do.
And here it is in red where you can see the pattern:
It's a paisley scarf.
Only because it’s a black & white scarf. The pattern, cut, & even material have nothing to do with kefiyat. At best you could say that the designer intended to make a scarf that vaguely resembled a kefiyeh, which I doubt, but I couldn’t disprove it.
I know what a real one looks like too. I have one, which I once wore on Fifth Avenue with a black pantsuit and a Hillary mask. You happen to be wrong. That is a pseudo-keffiyeh.
You have a kefiyeh with a paisley design on it?
Paisley? Get a new eyeglasses prescription.
I know keffiyehs, too.
Obviously you don’t, if you think a scarf with a paisley design on it is something seen on Palestinians. Don’t mean to be offensive to you, but it’s just not one. If you can find out if the designer was inspired by Palestinian kefiyat, then what you have is a western imitation of a kefiyeh. If you don’t know where this came from, then you just have a scarf.
Maybe she had a hickey.
Maybe Michelle would like to go over to Iran and help the strict Muslim women there in enforcing the “dress code.” She would be good at it.
Let me know when Michelle will be in town so I can wear my suspicious looking scarf too.
Yep,
considering the paisley pattern is of Indian/Hindi origins.
Which is one way to spot the origins of some textiles.
“rural area”? Yep...it’s pretty rural around here. I probably know some anti-Semites, but they don’t wear their politics on their sleeves too much out here, in the hinterlands.
Shucks...I might even know a muzzie or two... Nah.
However, we do have television...cable even. And, we have FreeRepublic on that Internet thing. Some folks out here still get newspapers, and don’t even have dogs in the house.
I appreciate you giving me the benefit of the doubt, but MM is still a bit over the top on this one.
I stand by my position. I know some of the Hezbollah sympathizers who wear these things. MM was not over the top at all.
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