Michelle Malkin spots the kiffiyeh on Rachel Ray’s ad for Dunkin’ Donuts
By Clarencia Cynrae on May 28th, 2008Michelle Malkin had sharp eyes. Michelle Malkin said that Rachel Ray’s ad for Dunkin’ Donuts had a Muslim scarf on her. Michelle Malkin is a Fox contributor and syndicated news columnist.
Michelle Malkin said that Rachel Ray’s scarf looked like a kiffiyeh. A kiffiyeh was a traditional looking scarf usually worn by men from the Middle East. Yasser Arafat and many Muslim terrorists wore similar looking scarves.
Rachel Ray’s clothes for the ad were chosen by a stylist. Everybody denied any association with kiffiyeh, Muslims or any implicated messages.
The kiffiyeh or kaffiyeh or keffiyeh all mean the same thing because some people spell it differently. The way it was worn as a head piece had a purpose. It was to shield the wearer from the dust from the desert. The kiffiyeh (or kaffiyeh or keffiyeh) was also used as a covering for warmth.
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May 28th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
being in the army, we wore these “kiffiyeh” in iraq and afghanistan all the time. so I guess that makes us terrorists too
May 29th, 2008 at 12:17 am
It cuts deep. I think the design is the most common one. Checks, plaids and similar ones are found everywhere on many items.
Thank you for your service to mankind.
May 29th, 2008 at 2:17 am
Um, maybe Michelle Malkin should get her eyes checked.
And Dunkin Donuts should grow a backbone.
It’s a stylish scarf.
May 29th, 2008 at 2:40 am
The only problem I see here is that the scarf is kind of fugly. How dare that Michelle Malkin insinuate anything more than that? The person to look at here is Michelle Malkin and her intent. Obviously Rachel & Dunkin Donuts have no terrorist connection! So yes, they should grow a backbone and continue to play the ad.
May 29th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
it is a keffiyeh and i wear them too – but then i am from ‘over there’ = the way she is wearing it shows she is american (sloppy dresser) – when the europeans wear them it is done with panache, at least
May 30th, 2008 at 4:25 am
Thank you for your confirmation.
July 8th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Did she consider what Timothy McVeigh wore the day he bombed Oaklahoma? IDIOT!!! So, that must mean that a white guy who wears a hooded sweatshirt must be involved with a terrorist act?
Forget racial profiling…it’s now come to “fashion cultural profiling.”
If she was in the Middle-East, she would buy one to protect her face from the sands and harsh sun. But, we all know, she would never go there.