Scarf Controversy
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What's in a scarf????
Well, Rachel Ray wore a scarf in a Dunkin' Donuts commercial that threw the conservatives into a tizzy, according to reports.
Ray wore a scarf that looks like a keffiyeh, a traditional headdress worn by Arab men (see photo above).
Fox News talking head and columnist Michelle Malkin explained, "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."
Dunkin' Donuts at first dismissed the complaints, claiming the black-and-white wrap was not a keffiyeh.
But, the right-wing firestorm continued on the internets and by yesterday, Dunkin' Donuts decided it was easier to yank the ad.
Dunkin' Donuts said in a statement, "In a recent online ad, Rachael Ray is wearing a black-and-white silk scarf with a paisley design. It was selected by her stylist for the advertising shoot. Absolutely no symbolism was intended. However, given the possibility of misperception, we are no longer using the commercial."
What do U think of the controversy?
RaRay's stylist is getting no bonus this Christmas!
Who cares if it looks like a keffiyah?
They pulled a commercial because of a SCARF?
RIDICULOUS
BURN DOWN ALL THE TREES! After all Jesus was hung on a wooden cross!
All topshop twats and trendies wear them hear in england without knowing what they are
too bad…that scarf looks cute on her
You can buy scarves that look like that at Target, for christ's sake. I wish people would relax…
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Ah come on, it's just a damn scarf!!!
Give me a fucking break. Seriously? SERIOUSLY???
She is UGLY! Who cares!
wow it looks terribe
What a load of BS
I fucking hate right wing conservatives. Get over it. You live in this country, and you CLAIM to agree with the constitution. It's a freaking commercial for DONUTS…she is not advertising JIHAD. And it's a scarf, and it is not ONLY worn by terrorists. It's worn by multitudes of people. Including many people…mostly white…in the US today.
Get the fuck over it. I can't believe Dunkin Donuts pulled the AD, get some balls.
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Someone needs to keep the scarf on and pull it TIGHTLY, as to stop all oxygen from entering that annnnnoying thing!
Rachel Ray is awesome!
Who is Rachael Ray?
Looks like something pulled out of Madonna's vagina during one of her 11 abortions.
that story is ridiculous. so what? get over america.
Are you people serious?!!
right-wing = paranoid
OH MY GAWD!!!! People are such Pussies these days. They get offended over anything! It really makes me sick! Suck it up, not everything is intended to "offend" you!
SHE NEEDS THE SCARF TO HIDE ALL THOSE ROLLS OF UGLY FAT
Those scarves have been really fashionable in the UK and Europe for a while now and there has been no controversy whatsoever. If you have a look at any UK clothes websites you'll notice them (topman.co.uk).
I think people have too much freaking time on their hands if they complain about her scarf…Just looks like a plain old scarf to me…granted not a very attractive scarf, but nothing more than a scarf.
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Its a fucking scarf, get over it people.
this is insane. it is a scarf, thats it. soon people will start seeing boogeymen hiding in their closets and then we'll lose what little (if none) privacy we have left thanks to the patriot act. get over it ppl, it's just a scarf.
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I love being talk down like that! I guess I have to get used to that since I,m so clueless!
It's retarded! They're totally overreacting.
Has anyone noticed that when Perez puts up a post that no one really agrees with, we suddenly have to page through posts of pure CRAP like this one to get to them?
You're going down, Perez, like it or not.
STOP BASHING PEOPLE YOU DON'T LIKE and go back to being a celebrity blogger ~ or just go.
You TOTALLY get paid to promote certain crap, and you are destroying other people's careers.
You have major balls to comment on Mariah's thighs - or anyone else's ANYTHING as a matter of fact. Get a life. And, stop being so sneaky with posts that don't go your way.
Guess you "Jewel" isn't as dazzling as you'd like to believe ~ and no one hates Jessica Simpson more than you!
Jealous???
i doubt that's what people thought of when they saw that advert to be honest!
It's not that big of a deal. People need to calm down.
terrorist scares have runied air travel, now they have ruined fashion for everyone. what bullshit.
TOTAL BULLSHIT. It's a scarf. Get off it, Fox.
its a scarf people! who cares!
oh why are we so fucking sensitive…its a piece of cloth, a scarf, a do-dad. jesus…what a waste of time.
wow, these crazies have nothing better to do than watch RR in a DD comercial.
Ok what is the big issue????? it's a scarf…… not less, not more……
This should have been a non-issue, and DD should have not pulled the ad, thereby kowtowing to the right wingers and Fox heads who think anything related to Muslim is related to terrorism.
i cant believe this.
last year EVERYONE in the UK were wearing these things.
so what? it's a scarf. give up the symbolism already
What utter junk?! These scarfs have been all the rage in the UK for months now.. Does that mean all us folks over here are crazy terrorist lovers? Seriously, what is the world coming to when you can't even where a scarf coz it symbolises bad stuff. It is pretty funny tho.. What do they think, she's a dunkin donut lovin' undercover follower of the jihad! Pulllleasse!! lol
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That scarf sucks ass and meant nothing. FOX News need to get their head out of their ASSS!
WOW people need to get over that real fast. I hate how we live in a world where we have to research our clothes before we wear them so we don't offend anybody!
i think its bogus
People have way too much time on their hands.
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Who cares…it's a scarf!! I think it's cute! Classic case of people with NOT ENOUGH TO DO!!!!
Once again people are getting all excited about NOTHING.
tenth! that's stupid. it's just a scarf. people will freak out over anything these days it seems
so fucking stupid… it clearly is just a scarf… the right wing nut jobs need to go fuck themselves
it's just a scarf….get over it
plus if you google keffiyeh and look at the images so many people have worn it including models in fashion shows
It is obvious Rachel is not an Arab Male Terrorists!! Crazy Politicians just like to stir things up for publicity!!
People get so touchy (sigh)
What the hell is wrong with people?! She is wearing a scarf…around her neck..Ahh the conservatives and their bs…
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the ad was yanked because rachael ray is a hipster?
I have one of those scarves and I knew what they represented. Has anyone been to New York lately? Its the new accessory. I've been seeing people wear these for almost two years and finally got a red and white one (which is the typical color of these type of scarves) from New York. Well anyways I did have someone stop me in a bar once and said it gave him flash back from being in Iraq. These scarves are a double edge sword that represents what is going on in the world. Fashion has always been a reflection of real life. I still rock my scarf but I have respect for the troops that risk their lives to the war.
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i own this scarf and it's nothing close to a keffiyeh. it's silk and paisley and i picked it up at urban outfitters. the right wing a$$holes need to get to doing more importing things…like robbing us of our future.
Who fucking cares. boo fucking hoo, she probably liked the design, its not like shes supporting terrorism. What fucking babies, they need to pull the fucking dildos out of their asses and shut their fucking mouths. Its a fucking scarf, if she was wearing a shirt that said "I Support Global Terrorism" that would be different. It has a nifty little design on it and thats probably why she fucking has it.
Her PURSE looks like a weapon of mass destruction as well. Could she be a terrorist?
Wow…Right wingers in the US are RETARDED ASSES… Hmmm …should ppl also stop wearing army inspired clothes..cuz hell its only ppl who kill ppl wear clothes…therfore the rest of the world shouldnt…
I am conservative and I still think that is dumb.
dammmn that is funny shit
Holy crap, can we read much into little people? Paisley? WTF ….since when do terrorists wear paisley?
Firsst! Rachel Ray's a hipster
the stylist shouldn't get blamed for it resembling a keffiyeh, but because it looks like crap on her.
this is soo STUPID! i will never ever walk into dunkin' donuts again
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Well, I just got back from the Middle East in February and I'm here to tell you…. a keffiyeh doesn't have fringes on it like that OBVIOUS pashmina. For fuck's sake America… lighten the fuck up. It's a DONUT ad.
It sucks that they had to pull the ad, but I can certainly understand the reason. It's probably best that the ad is no longer on tv so that no negative sentiments arise.
Michelle Malkin is a C U Next Tuesday to the max. What nonsense. It's more FOX nonsense taking our minds off the crimes and lies of Bush and his crew. Rachael is a doll…and I will NEVER eat another Dunkin' becuase of this.
What a load of fucking bollocks. I have that scarf… they're pretty big in the UK. Why should religion decide what we wear? Why should we disown our clothing if it is similar to another culture? As if they really give a shit anyway? If she wore it around her head then thats another story. It's a fucking scarf. They should start worrying about more serious things rather that what other people might think if a white girl is pictured in a scarf that derives from an arab culture.
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That is ridiculous who cares what they think it symbolizes I'm so sick of people getting mad about the most point less things. Get over your self who cares if shes wearing a scarf because of the thousands of people that complained they have to pull of a commercial looking like something significant in palestine??? I'm so tired of people complaining and saying they will sue if something is not done to their expectations!!! It should not of been pulled
I think its RIDICULOUS! The uproar about Rachel's scarf is yet another example of the ignorance and racism being spewed out by some stupid people against an entire culture and religion. Enough is enough idiots!
Calm the fuck down people.
this is effin' ridiculous! It's a scarf, jesus christ people. There are more important thing going on in the world and much worse things that need to be attended to.
that is the most stupid thing i've ever heard. even more stupid that they pulled the ad. give me a HUGE BREAK!!
grrrr
What a load of crap. It's a scarf.
Stupid conservatives that complained. Everyone wheres scarves like that you idiots. That doesn't mean it is a keffiyeh.
i think it's bullshit. Fox is pathetic. I live in NYC and you see those cheap things sold on the street everyday for 5 bucks. Kids wear them, tourists buy them, I have one and I'm a black male fag. It's nothing.
who cares its a scarf were in America it means nothing,if anyones offended they can leave and go to a country where they'd get their head chopped off for desacrating it.She meant well by it,By the way I'm conservative and I don't give a shit no one but you!!
people are stupid, does everything have to have a double meaning these days
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seriously, in England those kind of scarfs are REALLY in. No joke.
wtf? it's just a trendy scarf!
From Wikipedia
The colors of the stitching in a keffiyeh are also vaguely associated with Palestinians' political sympathies. The iconic "spider-web" black-and-white keffiyeh is often displayed symbolically by members of Arafat's Fatah party (which more generally uses yellow as its party colour), although it has never been able to expropriate it as their exclusive symbol. The zig zag style of stitching is sometimes described as symbolic of their historic struggle and their inability to progress towards their objectives without having to avoid obsticles. This is in contrast to how many members of the radical leftist PLO factions (such as PFLP, PFLP-GC DFLP) prefer the checkered red keffieyhs — red being both the traditional colour of the workers' movement and the red scarf supposedly more indicative of a bedouin and rural (thus poorer, more popular) background. The Islamist factions, such as Hamas, use green — representative of the Islamic faith — as a party color, but for keffiyehs they stick to the traditional black-and-white or red variants, with no particular preference evident. While widely known, this color symbolism is by no means universally accepted by all Palestinians, and its importance should not be overstated — red or black-and-white scarves are used by Palestinians of all political stripes, as well as by those with no particular political sympathies.
It's probably the stupidest "controversy" I've ever heard in my life. The right-wing talking heads need a life.
SOOO stupid. Those scarfs are on everyone here in England and no one cares at all.
gey,
WHO CARES!!!! People need to get a fucking LIFE!!!!!!!!!!
wow, i am evermore surprised by the right wing idiocy. its just a scarf ppl. get over it. Che Guevara was someone who was labeled terrorist by american government, as it is evident everyone has a f'n t shirt with his likeness, or a green button down shirt. really, there are soooo many problems in this world, and this is what the conservatives decided to go crazy about???? morons, pure retards.
That's completely rediculous. Speaking of ignorance….
Why are people so quick to make mountains of of molehills?