Dunkin Donuts ,the American Donuts famous chain has pulled an ad featuring Rachel Ray in the TV because she was wearing an Arab scarf or Keffiyeh after the criticism of some Conservatives in the main stream media. They thought that Ray was wearing a
"traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad"
Now believe it or not Non Arabs in the United States are angry 
because they think that it is against freedom , how can a Keffiyeh be a source of danger and a TV commercial is pulled because of it , I mean I would not have noticed what she is wearing except after this.
Keith Olbermann called for a boycott to Dunkin Donuts calling the chain the worst person !!
I feel so angry despite I am not a Palestinian , but may be because I am an Arab. I have enough from this disgusting hate to us.
What Palestinian terror they are speaking about those ignorant fanatics ??
That colourful traditional head scarf is wore in all of north and East of the Arab world ; in Syria,in Lebanon,in Palestine,in Jordan and in Iraq in the north and in the Gulf State in the East but with different shapes and styles , in the north ,they wear it over their shoulders and heads , in the East , they wear it mainly on their head to protect them from the sun.
It is just like the Scottish skirts.
Yes it became associated with Yasser Arafat and the PLO ,but here it 
became a symbol not to terrorism but for a people who were doomed to be in the list of the endangered nations ,the Palestinian Scarf is just like Hanalta , just like the phoenix , just like Ghassan Kanafani, the PLO used to wear it because this is the traditional scarf of the Palestinian people, not because it is a sign of terror .
So what if Yasser Arafat used to wear the scarf ,it is his national custom and did not Arafat received a noble prize for Peace ?? He died as a Peace man !!
It is ridiclous that after all that time Arafat is considered a terrorist , well with my all respect Rabin committed war crimes in 1948 war against the Palestinian villagers and I have the details of the mass murder operations he had done still he is considered a hero of Peace , what a hypocrite world is it ??
With my all respect why no one attacked Angelina Jolie and Brad 
Bitt when they were in Vietnam and Brad wore that scarf similar to the one that Khmer Rouge members wear along with Maddox , their son !!?? Is not the Khmer Rouge did horrible crimes in Cambodia !!??
by the way I remember something from the archives of Egyptian Chronicles , I do not think that Ray was the first American celeb to wear the famous Palestinian scarf which became very popular in Europe and found its way to the American market.
Here she is the , the daughter of their hope in the presidential elections 2008 , the apple of their eye , the daughter of John McCain : Meghan, was not she wearing a Palestinian scarf around her nick ??!
Why no one cared about Meghan ??
Anyhow as I said I feel so angry especially no one is speaking about it in our media and the fact that Dunkin Donuts got branches in the UAE made me more angry. I believe the Arabs should boycott Dunkin Donuts and if you are in the USA even if you are not Arab and angry from what happen then please write to them your feedback
Update : It turned out that Dunkin Donuts got branches in Saudi Arabia , I think they should be boycotted too
P.S : I am proud owner of two Palestinian Scarves ; one is black and the other is red
lmao are yo kidding. soon as I read story I dropped krispy cream and went over to dunkin doughnuts. I really don't think you understand how much we despise you people. your really like barbarians. You have a religion that is your government. Mumbarack has been your president for what 30 years? that ain't a president doll thats a pharaoh lmao.anyways must suck to be a woman in islam.
ReplyDeleteWhenever Number One Son comes to visit, he buys the keffayah (sic?) to take back for all of his friends. They are sold in a multitude of colors at Abercrombie and Fitch. When I wrote my post about Fashionable Fundies, there were several websites deriding the scarf as being "Islamofascist" as they were being sold by Urban Outfitters (they immediately dropped the merchandise,) and a few other outlets. The New York Times even had an article about it.
ReplyDeleteI don't like Rachel Ray, but this is ridiculous, and just goes to show how a few paranoid people (and that's the descriptive term, if you look at the total population in the US) can create fear.
Oh, BTW, Awesome Daughter says this was covered on The View, as well.
@wally banner, and what Mubarak has to do anything with Islam , is not he your ally in the United States ??
ReplyDeleteFYI it does not such at all to be woman in Islam
@vagabondblogger, yeah I read about Urban Outfitters and it also made me angry ,strangely in the 1970s it was "Arabicofasict Palestinian terrorist" now it is Islamofascist !!
I do not like Rachel Ray , she makes me nervous , I prefer more Martha Stewart , Rachel is always screaming
it is good that the view spoke about I bet ELizabeth Hasseleck was with the removal of the ad !!??
despite it shows how people are paraniod mostly from the right , I found out that many Americans against it and this is good
Hi habibti,
ReplyDeleteI was the one to respond with the kuffiyeh and urban outfitters story a while back. It's nice to see this topic brought up again on your blog. I told you it was a big deal, you'd think the media would have forgotten about it by now, but noooooo!
Wally banners, thanks for using this blog to show your hate-filled ignorance, people like you give Americans a bad name. I don't think it's fair to generalize and call all Arabs barbarians, you don't hear us saying that all you American people are racist ethnic cleansing, black enslaving, war mongering, ignorant gun toting, bible-thumping rednecks!
I am a woman, Muslim and proud, so are hundreds of millions of women around the world. If Islam sucked like you said we would have left it a while back. It is sad that alot of people in the US are becoming like sheep, so you have the shepherds (ie the Media) speak for you. You have a brain, so THINK!
As for Mubarak, well, the guy gets paid 3 billion annually by the US government to stay in his current position. So, if you are living in the US you are really in no position to speak, all this is the result of messed up foreign policy. And you got it all wrong, Mum-barak ain't no Pharoah he's an American puppet!
@loveyourblog, yes dear I remember your comment about Urban outfitters , thank Goodness it is back again
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