Michelle Malkin, one of the most prolific purveyors of all that is culturally ignorant and simpleminded, recently beat her little fearmongering drum so loud that she managed to get Dunkin' Donuts to pull an online advertisement for its Iced Coffee.
Claiming that ad spokeswoman Rachael Ray (pictured left) is wearing a kaffiyeh--a black and white fringed scarf commonly worn in Arab cultures throughout the Middle East--Malkin turned up her bully-horn, calling it "jihadi chic" and "hate couture."
While we all know the Food Network's darling Rachael is a notorious closet supporter of jihad--just look at the way she mixes tuna salad, people!--it's pretty clear from the still of the ad that what she's wearing is a paisley scarf, as Dunkin' Ds has claimed, and not a kaffiyeh. And even if she was wearing a kaffiyeh, so what? It's a traditional Arab textile meant to be worn as a headdress by males, the origins of which date back long before Yasser Arafat, the PLO or current Muslim extremist movements ever existed. If we were truly looking for something to rile up the blood, we could get mad at RR for wearing the kaffiyeh inappropriately, but that's about it.
Okay, so let's take the high road here and give Malkin a nice, slow round of claps for scoring such a big win in our seemingly endless Fight Against Terrorism™, shall we? Now, if we could just find someway to convince her of the fact that Arab and/or Muslim does not equal terrorist. On second thought, I think it'd be much more productive, not to mention more pleasant, to beat my head against a wall.
Not much to add other than that Malkin is also a proponent of the anti-new Starbucks logo craze. This stuff is really scary. . .it reminds me of a German book called "Die Welle".
Posted by: Michael Miller | May 29, 2008 at 09:43 PM