Critics, including conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, complained that the scarf wrapped around her looked like a kaffiyeh, the traditional Arab headdress. Critics who fueled online complaints about the ad in blogs say such scarves have come to symbolize Muslim extremism and terrorism.Riiight. She wore a scarf that looked a bit like ones that Arabs might wear. Therefore, she doesn't hate Arabs, therefore she must be an anti-Semite. I think that's how those people's minds work, anyhow. From here.The kaffiyeh, Ms. Malkin wrote in a column posted online last Friday, “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.”
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Dunkin' Donuts cowers in the face of neocon intimidation
Seems that their spokesperson in their latest ad campaign was wearing a scarf that looked, well, a bit too Arab:
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