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!
ITS A SCARF!!!!! people need to worry about more important things like gas prices then this.
every second teenager wears a scarf like that in Austria!! this is the latest shit over here!!
I think it's stupid-the scarf looked great and it takes somebody with absolutely no life to complain about it.
i'm from the netherlands and ik my country is this scarf a trend,
everyone had it
it is definitely a paisley print … why do people react so badly to everything and kick up such a fuss over a scarf? Don't they have better things to do?
Right-wingers are such idiots and crybabies. Michelle Malkin and everyone else on FoxNews needs to focus on the real issues and not stupid things like this. Damn, Republicans are dumbasses!
bullshit, it's a piece of fabric, and she's not even wearing it like the muslims do. even if it is a keffiyah it doesnt matter. If i made a pair of socks out of a few swastikas, would i suddenly be hitler?
tisk tisk she shoulda wore uproar! apparel
i have that scarf! i got mine at urban outfitters
You can buy that exact one at H&M I just saw it there on Monday>
you can get these scarves everywhere in the uk- primark, topshop, river island etc. Yet another example of over sensitive america.
Americans!!! Maybe there's also a breast of Janet Jackson in the scarf???!!! Super Bowl HelloooO!!!! Europe is always laughing with U guys!!! You're so funny!!!! Everything a double moral standard!!!! Land of the, land of the brave!!! Pfffaahhhh
Doesn't it honor and prolong the life of the extremist group to isolate a symbol exclusively for their use. The only way to defeat a society, religion, cult, (i.e. jihadists, Scientologists, etc.) is to assimilate their culture and redefine their language and symbols. So, if everyone was wearing a t-shirt that said I am a Thetan and talked about themselves as Thetans, being a Thetan would not require its own religion. If everyone wore those scarves Rachel is accused of wearing, no one would notice them anymore and they would lose their meaning. So, if you don't believe in what a group is doing don't honor them by supporting the symbols.
Good god I wish they had Dunkies in LA. This place would be so much better with it!
She needs to go away!!!! I can't stand that women, she used to be ok, now she is just down right annoying!!!!
GO AWAY…. NO ONE WANTS YOU AROUND ANYMORE!!!!
Even the employees at the local Dunkin Donuts can't stand her!!!
In Europe and in UK it is really IN because most people are dumb think it's just a scarf and should know what it represents and NO it's not JUST a damn scarm, a keffiyeh is a symbole Americans should know by now.
WHO
FUCKING
CARES???
Except some news media trying to make controversy. Go piss up a rope.
in the uk the keffiyeh style scarf has been extremely popular for the last few years particularly among indie/hipster/scene people. It is a fashion accessory and shouldnt be interpreted in an offensive manner.
the whole thing is S.T.U.P.I.D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I doubt Dunkin Donuts is dressing RR in garmets to 'symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad'…
Cancel DR. Phil, hes bald which means he's a nazi! But seriously…cancel DR. Phil….
It is what it is. 'GOOGLE IT! Before you start whining that people have too much time on their hands and suggest it isn't what it appears to be. It is what it is! What's she trying to say or is she just stupid? 'Google it and then ask yourself what's her message or is she just as dumb as her whole fan-base? And for what? A cooking show? 'Good Grief the masses are retarded.
It's ugly anyway. That woman already doesn't have a long neck. That scarf looks terrible on her. I can't even look at the coffee she's holding
It's an effin scarf!!!
I'm sure her stylist, Ms. Kahfid el-Massoud, had no intention of putting a terrorist scarf on her. Noooo……….
Its a SCARF!!!!!!!!
I had no idea! I wear my scarf like that and will continue too. That's a little much and sucks for rachel and dunkin donuts.
they can't be serious! get a life! i am so infuriated by this. we are in the middle of a war with tons of people dying and these crazy right wingers they are targeting a scarf on a dunkin donuts commercial. i can't even believe their priorities. however, i am happy to see LESS of rachel ray on tv, so thanks for that.
this is stupid EVERYONE wears those scarfs its trendy and hip right now and before it was trendy and hip and personally I think they are cute people need to not always look for the negative and bad in everything
Obviously just another diversion tactic on Fox News's behalf to distract the American public from paying attention to more real and threatening issues involving terror: the role our government is/has/will be playing in Iraq, Bush's Patriot Act, our gov.'s negotiations with and aiding of the Israelis, etc.
Please stop watching TV and read independent news sites online. Within the next 5 years we could very realistically be living in a dictatorial militarized police state where all of our freedoms cease to exist–not that they haven't essentially already. Please, for the sake of the youth's nation, read, research, and question the policies being enacted by our president and Congress. If we don't, it's inevitable that this country will be almost unrecognizable in a decade or two.
thats ridiculous.. those scarves are all over the streets of London, mostly worn by young white girls!! they are quite the fashion trend here in england, good job rachael ray!
Free palestine!
Re: jim – Um.. it's pretty hard to send money back to fund extremists when you work for minimum wage. Just because I'm brown doesn't mean I'm a terrorist.
Fox News-HAHAHAHA
Michele Malkin-HAHAHA
Conservatives = failed white trash who are so miserable and unhappy, usually in the form of racists
Christian values=HAHAHAHAHA, i just shit in my pants thinking about them!
Dunkin Donuts Coffee= Watered down crap only americans would think is great!
they way over reacted with the scarf…the conseratives need to find more important things to worry about
That is crap. So many people wear that scarf, in so many colors. It does not sybolize terror. It is tradition arabic scarf and its sad that these idiot would turn it into something it is not. Its a beautiful peace of clothing. I LOVE IT.
Your country is seriously fucked. Where do people get off being such disgusting racists!!
Wow… people are stupid. Not everything has a political meaning! yeash
come on! people are just overly sensitive, give me a break! I have that scarf, bought it at urban outfitters and it kicks ass! i loveee it……
I wear those types of scarfs all of the time. I simply love them, and I don't see them to be offensive in any way what-so-ever.
that scarf is from URBAN OUTFITTERS. what an insanely stupid thing to dwell on.
i love this scarf! i got it last october from urban outfitters
Oh give me a fucking break! There are people starving in this world and the right wing has to complain about this. I can't wait until November.
Can u beeeeeeeeeeeelieve this ish???!!
This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen! I'm pretty sure that Rachael Ray isn't trying to give out some undercover terrorist message.
more importantly, why is racheal ray's face so fat?
Un-fucking-believable. Sometimes I think the USA is the scariest country in the world, I really do. I know that the majority of Americans (I hope) would surely disagree with Fox's completely ignorant narrow-minded comments, but seriously….
If scarves are a symbol of terrorism, then all French female teenagers are also terrorists, as scarves are a major fashion accessory there and other European countries. It has also become an item of fashion for young men in the UK following a recent spate of rock/indie bands who wear these scarves on stage etc. Are these all terrorists too??
I don't suppose the people who made those comments could even point to any part of Europe (or Iraq, or Pakistan, or anywhere else other than the USA)on a map, so who knows what they might argue back on that one…
"The murderous Palestinians" are dying of starvation in what amounts to prison camps because Israel has taken all their land. These people were farmers.
These statements reek of racism and hypocrisy.
a keffiyah does not look like that, it is black and white but looks totally different, scarves like what she is wearing are so in now in europe …
I think we are going to end up with 4-8 more years of a republican if Americans keep up with this BS.
This is ridiculous! Oh wait… this is America… we can't do anything without offending at least one person, group, race or religion.
America needs to get the sand out of its vagina and stop being so p.c.
I think it's ridiculous that they would say it represents terrorism to wear a scarf even in the slightest resemblence to what some terrorists wore. I wouldn't have known the difference if it hadn't been pointed out.
Um, newsflash it IS just a scarf. Gosh, I hate having to live in a world where we have to research background information before we decide to put on something as simple as a sock because it might offend someone.
ARABS and their fucking scarves should all burn in HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OHHhh surrrreee……
all hell breaks loose because she is wearing a keffiyeh…
and what if she sympithazies with the Palestinian Jihad.
after all it symbolized is thr struggle of palestenian to get their land back.. which was illegally taken away by jewish migrants . who claim it was their land … Because God says so…. ( yeah sure ..)
but the USA is sooo controlled by the Israeli lobbiest.. that anything that has a remote hint of synpathizing with the 1/2 MILLION people that have been left with out a home and are now refugees in neighboring nations because they were kickout of their land to make room for the jews so they could have a homeland after the holocaust…. then everyone then throws a whooha.
on both side are victims and on both sides are heros and villains… both sides have done wrong… who is the media to decide then who is the bad one …
I dont see a problem with showing some solidarity to the palestenians by wearing the scarfs….
ohh wait I forgot… the media is own by jews both is washington and los angeles … so what they say goes …..
absolutely ridiculous.
bahahhahahahahahahhahahah i knew this hipster bullshit would come around and bite someone in the ass…. the only crime here though.. is that she probably got it at urban outfiters and so scarves are so over
well im here to correct our dear ignorant Fox News talking head and columnist Michelle Malki…this traditional head dress is worn by many many muslims or arabs.
Is she implying that all the men who wear the Keffiyah are islamic murderers??? way to stereotype Michelle…GOOD JOB….!
And for her to call these fashion designers ignorant right after her judging all muslim men……i think its a good idea for us to be comfortable with other races, religions and ethnicities, who the hell cares if she wants to wear a Keffiyah…
Dunkin' Donuts is a weak company for pulling the ad, not that they were all great before that.
this obviously is not a world-changing controversy that will forever impact american lives. the bigger issue this post has to do with is the fact that the keffiyeh has become fashionable in the first place in the west. there are so many creative and talented people in the world and there are definitely other things to contribute to fashion than keffiyeh's. popularizing the keffiyeh is condoning the message that it does symbolize for some people, particularly those in the middle east. whether you are a devout muslim or jew, what you wear is very much a demonstration of your political and religious leanings. this is not a fair comparisson, but this is just like taking gang colors and symbols and printing them on shirts, hats, and engraving them in jewlery to sell all over the place, but then ignoring the roots of those symbols.
in the same way that one should be responsible to know where they get their diamonds and coffee, every person is equally responsible to know what it is they are wearing and not just blindly accept that it does not matter because everyone else is wearing it.
at the end of the day, rachel ray's scarf looks is pretty clearly not a keffiyeh and i don't think any one needs to worry about adding her to the f.b.i's terrorist watch list.
and more importantly, even if it was a keffiyeh and ray was aware of that and its political symbolism, that's her choice. it's the gift of being american.
Well, aside from what THEY say it looks like, it's ugly and distracting….she needs a new stylist!
right wing? try compassionate.
ignorance is no excuse for intolerance. and it's intolerant to wear this scarf.
if you've ever been bombed or shot coming out of a wedding or family event by folks wearing this scarf as most of my family has been, you might feel differently.
it's really the equivalent to many of us of a swastika. wearing this scarf is incredibly insensitive.
That's not a keffiyeh, apart from the colors it looks nothing like it, man you americans are so friggin paranoid.
that is the stupidest shit i've heard this week.
This is ridiculous!! My husband is in the British army and they give these scarves to the soldiers to wear in Afghan to protect from the heat/dust etc… I wish people would educate themselves before fueling the right wing fear propaganda!
Re: op – I agree. We should all boycott Dumbkin Donuts. If that corporation is as stupid as that to believe that BS, then they don't deserve to exist in our society.
dunkin donuts coffee=watered down no flavor coffee that americans think is out of this world..LOL
The scarf looks horrible with the shirt anyway. Who the hell would wear that? It looks tacky as hell.
This is retarded - America needs to chill the eff out already.
Oh come on, these right-wing annoying conservatives need to take the stick out of their asses and fucking calm down. It's just a scarf, I don't think Rachel Ray or her stylist or Dunkin Donuts gives a rats ass about Palestinian Fundamentalists, frankly I don't either. Dunkin Donuts should tell every conservative who has an issue with a simple silk black and white scarf to fuck off and don't look at the ad if they want to see it that way. Idiots.
last i checked, paisley isn't a muslim symbol… it's more of a western symbol. and i mean the wild west.
WAAAh…
oh please. so much actual evil is going on in the world. shouldn't these people be concentrating on that stuff instead of RACHAEL RAY???
hahaha Rolling stones fans use that scarf in argentina!!!! it's not supposed to have nothing to do with anything they say!
Every wonder why the rest of the world laughs at us as ignorant? Wonder no more!!!
it seems like a keffiyah but it's so damn cool. i have an original one
GEE… RACIST MUCH??
oh god help the world if we see anything positive come out of the middle eastern culture! (sarcasm)
wow america is still incredibly anti-semitic.
they don't have any sensitivity for murder of jews. period.
america is full of nazis.
I wore a scarf like that for years as a symbol of support of Palestinians. You know, the oppressed people iof Gaza and the West Bank. Malkin is talking crazy. What should be addressed is why people are wearing it without knowing the meaning behind it.
This is extremely RIDICULOUS !!!!!!!!!!!!!
By dunkin doughnuts removing this add it is agreeing that anything related to any Arab culture is terrorist related. That is extremely IGNORANT of FOX
It just like arab's refusing to drink STARBUCKS because it represents America and they don't want to support a war-encouraging, double-faced, world-dividing violence-supporting country. The SCARF and STARBUCKS are completely irrelevant to what a minority of Arab's or American's do and believe in.
and THIS is why the rest of the world laughs at Americans.
This is ridiculous. I have a couple of versions of this type of scarf. I got my first one 10 years ago when I was 13 for a festival. I wasn't making a statement, it just kept protected from the sun - hence why people in the middle east wear them! But obviously in the eyes of Fox News I'm a 'muslim terrorist' not a fair skinned skin cancer magnet.
oh please… american people are so retarded. those scarves have been fashion items in europe for several years, now totally passé. if rachel should be punished of anything, it should be of being two years behind in her dress sense.
and any idiot knows that the best way of demystifying a symbol is by popularizing it. if teenagers everywhere wore those scarves, no one would care.
"has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad" –> give me a break!
whats wrong with arab men? i dont understand the controversy. oh, i get it. racism. if you have brown skin you must be a terrorist. and all those bad middle eastern people read the koran so anyone here who does is a terrorist. now i totally get the bush logic. damn. it took 8 years.
why is fox news even reporting on this? not only are we fighting a war we should have never been involved in, but we are headed into a major recession. instead of focusing on a made up controversy, fox news should get over their right wing egos and report on real news.
I agree — Who cares if it looks like a keffiyah? I wear one to show my solidarity with the Palestinian people, and since I am a pacifist, it is certainly not a call to jihad!
Thought you might find this kind of hillarious. Nice work Dunkin Donuts stylist, someone definitly just got fired!
Re: JASCD – Just keep believing the BS, cause that don't make it true. What liberals want is equal treatment accross the board, which means if I don't believe in your mythical religion I don't have to pray in school.
That is pure bullshit.
I hate it when people go on a rampage just to get attention.
This is honestly one of the stupidest things I have ever read, DUMBASSES.
i think she should wear a symbol that calls for the murders of gay people or animals instead of jews. then people would care. then there would be an outrage. welcome to nazi america.
THE IGNORANCE, RACISM, AND FEAR MONGERING THAT IS ENGULFING THIS COUNTRY IS ASTOUNDING. THE SCARF HAS BEEN WORN FOR AGES IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH TERRORISM.
i bought the exact scarf from h&m.
I call it the Arafat scarf. In Europe it is fashion for a while now to wear it… The past 2 winters a lot of people were walking around with one. It used to be only the 80's punk style people that were wearng it..
Anyways, I wouldn't wear the one that resembles the Arafat scarf exactly wit the colors and all. I do have one in pink with silver though
I think it's a little overreacted to not air the commercial..
But what's up with her stylist… it doesn't really match her outfit and she's wearing it the wrong way (and i dont mean she should wear it on her head!)
i fuckin hate FOX NEWS and michelle malkin aka the white washed asian
its a fuckin scarf people! get over it! i wasnt even thinkin about no fuckin terrorist, arab or whateva the foxnew suckas are crying about! they worry about that, but the people at foxnews are the biggest racists jerks in America…hypocrites! their worry about the ad giving off a bad image but foxnews itself is shitty!
that's retarded.. don't people have any real problems to deal with??
it's just a friggin scarf.
i think she should wear a symbol that calls for the murders of gay people or animals instead of jews. then people would care. then there would be an outrage. welcome to nazi america.
the swastika was just a design too.
what's next? throw her in a pond and if she drowns, she's not a terrorist sympathizer? I'm boycotting dunkin donuts for being stupid and cowardly.
i think she should wear a symbol that calls for the murders of gay people or animals instead of jews. then people would care. then there would be an outrage. welcome to nazi america.
the swastika was "just a design" too.
give me a break. fox news=fear mongering, mis-truth, spin, arrogance, & intolerance.
so if a terrorist wear pants we're not allowed to wear pants ?!! theses peoples are stupids !
this scarf is worn everywhere by everyone .. kanye even wears somehting similar to it … however complained is gay
Jeez!
You americans really should start thinking about important things instead of crap like this.
There is no controversy here, it´s just a scarf!
You should all be ashamed of yourselves!