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!
everyone in the UK wheres them. whats the problem?
boo fucking hoo hoo. get over it. gosh is our world coming to this?!
Practically every hipster in NY is sporting one of those scarves right now
FOX NEWS IS RACIST!!!
That scarf is worn by many arab men and 99.9999% of them are not terrorists. That's like saying a dewrag is a symbol of a gang member.
What do I think!!! America is becoming a ridiculous country!!
So much for the first world!!!
That's what I think!
I guess I dont see why there IS a controversy… it's an AMERICAN ad, who cares if Arabs are offended by it?
Wait……Don't we live in the USA where we can wear what ever the he!! we want? That is lame that they pulled the commercial. We should all go on DD website and let them know how screwed up the heads they are!
Re: lana – Ditto
everyone and their cousin wears this scarf in most metropolitan cities in the world. leave it to middle america to lose it over something that looks like a traditional muslim cloth and cause such a controversy.
Seriously, with all that's going on in the world this is what's important??? Wow how very sad!
im sick of this lady YUM-O'd out!
education is the best antidote to ignorance. many people were ignorant about hitler, but that was no excuse.
there are 1.5 billion muslims in the world. there are 42 muslim countries where muslims can live and worship freely.
there are only 12 million jews in the world. they have been exiled from their homes in following countries and put in refugee camps or on boats- iraq, syria, jordan, egypt, iran, yemen, germany, poland, russia, darfur (4000 jews were murdered there in recent years), france, england, switzerland, etc.
those refugees came to israel and lived in refugee camps and built a nation.
jews make up 72% of the isreali population. the rest are muslim/druze/bedouin etc. they participate in the Isreali army and have equal representation in the government and are in major positions of leadership.
in any other country where jews are allowed, jews only make up .05% of the general population. except in america, where jews are 2% of the population.
i'm having difficulty seeing how such a small population with such a small place is the world is "occupying" or "oppressing" such a massive population with a massive presence.
what fucking bullshit, people have been wearing these all over europe for years now…as a fashion statement. What it started as…who gives a shit?!?! Why dont we stop all trends that started off as traditional dress….and walk around naked…hurrah!…total crap
Oh come on !!!!! First of all, it's NOT a Keffyieh (eventhough it looks like one)!!! + There are a LOT of european models, women & men, that wore REAL Keffyiehs & nobody said a word + It's trendy, it's fashion (I don't see any harm on people wearing them) !!!!
Rachel Ray is a terrorist? That must be why she's so annoying, she's trying to annoy everyone to death, it all makes sense now!
I can't stand right-wing conservative flaps, but they have a point here. Rachel Ray shouldn't be so ignorant. If she had worn it on purpose, I'd say, fine, freedom of speach, but she is just totally ignorant as to what's going on in the world and other cultures. Especially no excuse if she lives in New York City, jeez. Get out once and a while, will ya.
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It reminds me of the story of Cameron Diaz, who did some photo op/charity bullshit in Peru, wearing her army green bag with the red star, not realizing that it was a symbol of COMMUNISM and that the country she was in had a history of violence with communist revolutionaries.
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Please, all of you famous for nothing hags, take a few thousand of your millions of dollars and instead of getting a 3000 dollar body polish, take a class at the university. Just this once, please.
honestly the scarf is heinous…but it doesnt look like anything other than a tattered scarf
I live in France and EVERYONE has those scarves (we call them terrorist scarves). c'est la mode.
Give me a freakin' break.
Her stylist should get a bonus! I've seen scarves like these worn all over D.C. and NoVa. They're very trendy now. The scarves are very similar to the keffiyah but anyone who knows anything about fashion can tell they're not!! It's a trend. Leave it alone conservatives, geez.
Whos cares what it looks like! Its a damn DONUT commercial!! As for it looking like a Keffiyeh, bomb them all fuck em!!!
education is the best antidote to ignorance. many people were ignorant about hitler, but that was no excuse.
palestine was divided into two states by the UN. the jewish state of israel and the palestinian state of jordan. a majority of palestinians still live in jordan, the country and land alloted to them.
jews were given israel instead of jordan because it was all desert and malaria ridden.israel is the only nation in recorded history who has exiled its own people from conventionally won lands including syria (given back to egypt), gaza and the galillee in order to give the land to its aggressors.
despite the fact that when israel withdrew from gaza jews were forced to hand over 350 working farms that had been built for generations by jewish families, those farms have gone to rot. instead, jews continue to ship millions of dollars of aid into gaza on a daily basis even as the palestinians are shooting rockets into schools, homes and daycares in sderot, ashkelon and ashdod on a daily basis murdering hundreds of israeli children and students.
Damn I can't believe they hate Muslims that much….Who cares about a fucking scarf..as long as its hot…it don't matter… Look at all the wars and shit thats going on in the world…and they choose to put this on the news……
Rachel Ray is state sponsor terrorism??
People REALLY need to get a life! Have we all become that nitpicky? Seriously, a black anchor in Alabama just got fired for calling a black producer a negro! What else would you call a person of color? Seriously! People call me white…cause guess what….I'm white.
YEAH. THIS IS A FREE COUNTRY ALRIGHT!!! NOT!!
maybe it's just a scarf.
Conservatives are TARDS! They see Jesus in Cheetos!
I think the media needs to calm the fuck down…any moron can see that it's just a scarf - I've seen the very same designs at the mall and it is not a keffiyeh. Don't the journalists have REAL news to report on? Must be a planned controversy by the conservatives - they're nothing but whining cry babies.
We live in a fucked up world…………………..it's a scarf, they have them at the Gap, H&M, Target, …..should I go on…??
The add i am sure is about iced coffee?
Not about murder, DD wants to sell coffee and make $$, not murder.
Oh Lord, people get a fucking life.
There is SO SO SO much more to worry about that a scarf R.R. is wearing in a DD add!
many people in europe were not offended by the swastika either, so i'm not surprised. they were very quick to turn it into a fashion statement. not much has changed.
Fuck you people that think Rachel is wearing a death scarf its a damed piece of clothing and she has no fucking taste in cloths but he's food is divine
In Canada, these scarfs were popular but last year. It's already over with that!
eeh….i have those in lots of colours………i went to a fancy dress wearing it on my head as a muslim a week ago (but its ireland, noone cares were not involved ha) but seriously…………you see non-catholic people wearing rosary beads as necklaces!! (not how they should be worn!) but thats fashion too, im not offended by that…its a fashion trend, not the end of the world
Everyone in New York has one of those. Street vendors sell them all over, from Brooklyn to the Village. I'm sure her stylist didn't think anything of it. A little too much overanalyzing going on..
So what? All the ugly/evil/stupid scarves in the world ain't goin to make her suddenly grow a neck….
they should have pulled the commercial because the Joker is in it. fuck that chunky bitch - i can't even go to dunkin donuts anymore because of the fug twat!
Give me a fucking break
That's what is wrong with the world today, it's not like their saying hey look at me I'm an American with a Arab rag around my neck. Instead of letting the barage of e-mails go they just yanked the ad, have some BALLS America and leave those kinds of things up, so people get there panties in a bunch if it wasn't this it would be some other made up stuff
i think it's a cool scarf, i have one myself XD for over 2 years now, it's so fashion =)
Once again FOX NEWS is all about distraction. We are at war, their is an election going on and we just had a major earthquake in China and they are talking about Rachel Ray's scarves. Hell, I see them all the time on all kinds of people. Fox News is hardly news - they just want to distract.
Stupid, it's just a scarf, she doesn't like like a muslim terrorist at all!
everyone wears them scarves in england. whats wrong with them???
No one is really paying intrest in what she is wearing anyway
This "fucking scarf" has a very strong sinification…People who wants to wear it should, at least, know what it means (whatever they think of its symbolisation once they know it)…
the only problem with that scarf is that those things were 'in' 5 years ago!
the europeans also thought that the swastika was a cool fashion statement. why am i not surprised they still think genocide of jews is cool? the sentiments here are a sad testimony to the lack of knowledge and world events on this board. also, the anti-semitism and hatred of jews on this board.
This is AMERICA and it's a freaking scarf!
Yes Dunkin Donuts is using hidden messages to Al Queda people are really getting stupid. Is there something in the water?
ESO ES UN PAÑUELO ROLINGA!
No..fuck YOU leftist douchebags that would scream bloody murder if someone decided to fly the confederate flag, or, God forbid, put a cross or Christmas scene at a public building.
I don't know if you're just gigantic hypocrits or astoundingly retarded.
yeah..those jews who are offended they're being murdered are SO uptight!
it's cool to murder jews in europe and it's totally catching on in america too!
maybe it was a publicity thing………………..if it was its really good. it makes me want an iced coffee and a doughnut!! a normal ad wouldnt have the same effect
Typical America..
These things have been around for aggess.. GET A GRIP!!
The Neo-Cons should be spending their time trying to get their lame canidate John McSame ready to get his ass whipped. Dunking Donuts should have told them to stuff it.
Are you SERIOUS?!?!?! Why don't they worry about OTHER things like, the f-ing economy or the presidential election, or the state of our world today… gets lost when all people can gripe about is a freaking stupid ass scarf in a dumb commercial..
So sad. Americans are a bunch of ignorant, racist idiots.
WTF? Of course some right-wing yahoo fuckwit is going to say that. Assholes.
fox news and the idiots who believe this propeganda need to get their heads out of their asses and read something and go see the world and realize a kafaya is for all men.
god what is this country coming to!!!1
That's the most retarded thing I've ever heard. People wear scarves like that all the time. It clearly does not mean anything. People are just so ridiculous these days.
david duke wore that scarf when he met with the pres. of iran last year at the holocaust denial conference!!
birds of a feather! terrorists, left wing liberals and redneck kkk!
they are one in the same! all violent hatemongers!
WHAT A BUNCH OF LOONS!!! WHO FUCKING CARES!!! ISLAMIC SCARF OR NOT…IT DOESN'T MEAN SHE A GOD DAMN TERRORIST!!!! CRAZY CONSERVATIVES ARE SO FUCKING RIDICULOUS!!!! I'M PROBABLY GOING TO BUY ONE AND WEAR IT AROUND ALL THE TIME. I LIVE IN THE DEEP SOUTH AND I'D LOVE TO SEE IF ANYONE SAYS ANYTHING. WHAT A FUCKING JOKE!!! DUNKING DOUNUTS WERE WEAK TO PULL THE ADD.
Who cares if it looks like a keffiya?? It's not like she was burning it? Since when it there a ban on anything arab looking in America?
RIDICULES!!!
Not only has it been worn by terrorist and murders but by millions of normal Arab's.
So now we cant wear the scarf. What about trenchcoats i mean think about all the murders have made that its trademark oh No now i remember they were NOT murders they were government officials. Stupid ignorant me
are you kidding me???? those scarves are around everywhere… they're a trend
such bullshit!
in the forbes list of world's 100 richest people, only 4 are jewish.
I really hate keffiyeh, I'm from Spain and here everybody wears it.
But here we call it PALESTINAS (I think because of the country) in my opinion are horrible.
At the begins only dark people wore it but now posh people wears it too.
Months ago, I heard somenthig about keffiyeh has got a terrorits meaning.
FUCK FOX NEWS. They just look for ANYTHING to criticize. It's a FUCKING SCARF. WHO THE FUCK CARES? It's not supposed to be a statement, it's a cute scarf. Get over it, Bill O'reiley, and fuck you
if some one wore a t shirt with mickey mouse on it in a be heading video would disney stop using him? would people stop buying merch? dont think so…
I think this is beyond ridiculous! I'm sick of this country given in to everyone. First we can't say Merry Christmas, then the Christmas tree has to be called the Holiday tree, THEN Santa Santa can't say ho ho ho, and now this?! It's a damn scarf!!! I fucking hate right wing conservatives. Grow some balls Dunkin' Donuts and put that commercial back on! You don't like it, well then leave the country!
LoL
I love it when you say "internets"
Why didn't you post something about the former press secretary of the White House, McKellan, and his books about how we were led to war with propaganda and that he blames the PRESS for not asking tougher questions?
Re: WONDER TWIN – way to prove what people think about the deep south? that you are all racist and support the genocide of the jews? wow. way to show us that you're any different than david duke grand wizard of the kkk who also wears the scarf! or jimmy carter who gave his support of the hamas mission to "murder all jews"!
This is what pisses me off about Conservatives: they sit around looking for things to get pissed off about, especially when it has to do with something other than the Juedo-Christian religions. Fuck 'em all.
Thats not a keffiyeh. I live in the middle east and see people wear keffiyehs everyday, I in fact own one and I can tell quite easily that what she is wearing is not a keffiyeh. The pattern is distinctly different. What the fuck does it matter if she did wear a keffiyeh anyways? Should all Americans get offended by any piece of Arab culture now? Fucking idiots
OH MY GOD
it isnt a controversy! i have something like that from nordstrom. stupid assholes.
Well, Michelle, I guess I'm clueless. Along with about 99.5% of the general, American public who would not have noticed this unless you brought it to our attention.
Are you FUCKING KIDDING ME? Has it come to this - I mean really? Seriously, there are far more serious issues our Society should be concerned about. If what Rachael Ray is wearing might be REMOTELY considered offensive is our biggest conern - we have truly lost sight of the bigger issues. Dunkin Dougnuts should have just laughed silenty and focused on providing faster drive-through and in-store service - I mean they are REALLY slow at moving the line (hint, hint Dunkin).
Isn't she Jewish? If yes, then a Jewess not having a problem with a scarf supposedly reminiscent of arrafat means conservatives need to STFU and get a life.
You people are so stupid! Can't we do anything anymore without being accused of being racists, terrorists, or feminists? Good Lord, let her wear the damn scarf! Last time I checked, we are in America? Please correct me if I am wrong and send me a ticket so I can get back there as soon as I can. Thanking you!
are you serious ?
i have that scarf in pink.
they sell it in H&M.
give me a break.
everyone and their mom wear that now-a-days.
It's ugly anyway and doesn't go with the outfit. When I first saw it I thought, "Ugh!" It's like an afterthought.
This is by far one of the MOST ridiculous things that i have ever heard in my ENTIRE life…… wow the sheer idiocracy of our country…..
That is quite possibly the stupidest thing ever! Its a scarf! Everyone wears them in London, I thnk they're cute…I have 2!
what?! I just saw those scarves on canal street the other day, in a plethora of colors. how silly.
I think this is extremely ridiculous….we can't do anything without much scrutiny these days….. sad…..very sad
i'm in iraq right now, and can tell you that thing dosen't even look like a keffiyah. plus those scarfs have nothing to do with terrorists. republicans need to worry about REAL issues, not about what a woman pimping out donuts is wearing.
It's a fucking scarf! The same people who got upset about the Starbucks logo are probably in on this. Can anyone do anything anymore without the fear of it being politically incorrect?
Who cares….why don't they spend their time on other things, like worrying and figuring out what to do about the environment or the war…….People have been wearing those scarves in Canada for over a year as well. Get over it.
oh jesus christ. people need to take the sticks out of their asses. it's a SCARF! looks like a typical scarf i see people wearing EVERY DAY.
I'm sorry. Remind me again why anyone is listening to Fox News? I believe they aren't even considered a "news station", but more an entertainment station of some sort. And yet they have nothing better to do that to focus on a scarf worn by Rachel Ray.. Shouldn't we be focusing on the jihad themselves and not some lame-O scarf seen on tv…?
She looks like a Filipino lady-boy in this pic.
She's obviously anti-American.
I love how Fox news takes any nugget of something that can be misinterpreted to mean that the boogie man terrorists are lurking outside in the bushes. Give me a break. It's a scarf. And Fox news is nothing but fear mongering idiots. And people are dumb enough to feed into their crap every time. Ugh.
It is an ugly scarf and if it is worn by terrorists, than why is she wearing it?
Thats absolutely ridiculous! Here in the UK,those scarves are all the rage! So what,shes wearing what she wants to wear! Sucks to those who dont like it
Ooooo wow… and what about all the Palestinian people… stupid americans!!! Really stupid! On the other hand I have the real palestinian scarf and I wear it with pride not coz I support terrorist I just want the Jewish people tio treat the Palestinian people as they deserve to be treated… like human beeings… read some about palestina and izrael…
peace
Every one wants to find some cause to yell about. It's just a damn scarf. I also think that the comment Michelle Malkin made is completely ignorant. Like he said a keffiyeh is a traditional garment and I don't think it should be associated with terrorism because men who are terrorists have worn it. Thats like making skirts something evil because a group of women wearing them do something evil. It's stupid
DONT WEAR IT IF YOU DONT UNDERSTAND IT!!!!
Only in a BUSH era would this sorta thing happen…booo. It's a cute scarf- and my GOD, it is dunken donuts! The possibility that they had any intention of representing what
That is a little of what is wrong with country.
WHY ALL THE ANTI AMERICAN COMENTS WHY DO SO MANY OF US DISLIKE THIS COUNTRY AND LIVE HERE,YOU ARE BLESSED TO BE HERE KEEP THE "AMERICA IS SCARY" COMMENTS TO YOURSELF AND LIVE IN A COUNTRY THAT IS REALLY SCARY WHERE THEY CHOP OFFWITH YOUR HEAD AFTER YOU ARE FALSELY ACCUSED OF SOMTHING.BE HAPPY AND STOP BITCHING,WE ARE TRULY A GOOD COUNTRY AND GOOD PEOPLE WE TRULY DO HELP THE WORLD WHEN IN TROUBLE.EVERYONE WANTS OUR HELP YET IF IT WERE US THEY'D TURN THERE BACK ON US,EX UN AFTER 9/11 BUSH HAD TO TAKE ON THE TERRORISTS WITH NO COOPERATION FROM THEM,ONLY TOO PROTECT US.
people need to settle the FUCK down.
keffiyeh's are, as stated, a traditional head dress, not JUST worn by terrorists.
and it's just a scarf. a harmless scarf. fuck, i remember being seven years old and drawing swastika's on desks because i thought they looked cool. i got in trouble for it and no one even explained to me WHY. was i a Nazi? no. i was a seven year old girl who thought something i saw looked interesting, just like she is wearing that scarf because her stylist thought it was nice.