"Why did the Infidels at the Dunkin Donut dishonor Rachel Ray by terminating her commercial?"
Posted on 05/27/2008 4:56:44 PM PDT by pissant
Does Dunkin’ Donuts really think its customers could mistake Rachael Ray for a terrorist sympathizer? The Canton-based company has abruptly canceled an ad in which the domestic diva wears a scarf that looks like a keffiyeh, a traditional headdress worn by Arab men. more stories like this
Some observers, including ultra-conservative Fox News commentator Michelle Malkin, were so incensed by the ad that there was even talk of a Dunkin’ Donuts boycott.
‘‘The keffiyeh, for the clueless, is the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad,’’ Malkin yowls in her syndicated column.
‘‘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.’’
The company at first pooh-poohed the complaints, claiming the black-and-white wrap was not a keffiyeh. But the right-wing drumbeat on the blogosphere continued and by yesterday, Dunkin’ Donuts decided it’d be easier just to yank the ad.
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You can buy these from the mideast, it's about the only thing they make other than trouble. I could be mistaken, but I think I recall a shop in Gaza selling these mail order. If not scarves, flags.
"Why did the Infidels at the Dunkin Donut dishonor Rachel Ray by terminating her commercial?"
Its not all that regular, it is a solidarity movement symbol with the palis, but hey, Rachel can wear whatever she wants and I’m guessing she hasn’t a clue about it.
Yasser Herbawi once supplied much of the West Bank and Gaza with black-and-white checkered scarves, the proud emblem of Palestinian identity made famous by the late Yasser Arafat.But most of his looms now stand idle, his product edged out by cheap imports from the world's newest keffiyeh capital: China.
After a decade of being flooded with Chinese goods, from scarves to toys and bags, the West Bank's largest city is struggling to compete — yet another obstacle to economic independence for Palestinians as they strive for a state of their own.
Two-thirds of Hebron's textile workshops have closed and 6,000 shoe factory workers have lost their jobs in the last eight years, pushing unemployment to 30.5 percent, the highest in the West Bank, according to Hebron's chamber of commerce.
Cheap imports have hit manufacturing towns across the world, but the economic decline of this city of 230,000 is particularly ironic. Hebron long adhered to what is now China's recipe for success: work hard and sell cheap. And Chinese goods are imported to the West Bank by traders from Hebron, the city suffering most.
It's hard to find an upside to globalization here.
The door to China opened for Palestinians in the mid-1990s, after Israel and China forged diplomatic ties. The response among Palestinian business people was especially enthusiastic in Hebron.
Flights from the Middle East to China were soon packed with Hebronites, especially to big trade fairs. China operated a visa office in Hebron for several years, and even street vendors began pooling their cash to send representatives there to shop.
By 2005, Palestinians imported $111 million worth of goods from China annually, compared to $1.8 billion from Israel and $120 million from Turkey, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. The value of Chinese imports was up 20 percent from the previous year, compared to 3 percent higher from Turkey and a 7 percent hike from Israel. Local industry quickly felt the pain.
Herbawi, unable to compete, closed his keffiyeh workshop in 2000 after four decades in operation, switching off 15 looms that used to make about 350 scarves a day. With the support of a dozen loyal customers, he said he reopened last year and rehired one worker who now arrives every day to run four looms for a few hours.
Herbawi wants import restrictions, but these seem unlikely: His son, Izzat, noted that even Arafat's Fatah movement, once a large customer, now buys some keffiyehs from China.
I certainly acknowledge it, my FRiend! I guess I've had enough exes that I'm somewhat immune!
I’m not sure, pissant.
The way she wears it doesn’t mirror the “keffiyeh as scarf” style either. There’s not enough cloth here. This is just a scarf though I’ll be gladly corrected if it is shown that Rachel Ray has pro-muslim/liberal sympathies.
I'm afraid.
Rachel, hold me.
LMAO !!!
I saw a biography on her not too long ago. This lady is living the American dream. Came from nowhere and with much hard work is now making more money than most will ever dream of making.
Sure it helps to be cute, but she also very business savvy and humble.
Why is he wearing his wife’s shawl?
My minor was clothing and textiles...I know a scarf when I see it, too. :) It has roses on it for crying out loud.
Muslims who find the objectionable in everything around them have to be neurotic. EVERY frickin' thing offends them. Shame on Dunkin' Donuts for giving in to the insanity.
That sure looks like a scarf to me. Imagine if she had been dressed as a bellydancer. They might have even boycotted themselves over that one.
That sure looks like a scarf to me. Imagine if she had been dressed as a bellydancer. They might have even boycotted themselves over that one.
We're just funning...
If she dresses like a belly dancer and dances like one, I’d tune in to her show.
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