An ad from Dunkin Donuts featuring Rachel Ray was pulled off the Internet after a conservative right wing blogger decried that it was a propaganda aimed at Muslim terrorists.
Blogger Michelle Malkin wrote in a piece yesterday that the scarf that Ray is wearing is symbolic of jihad terrorists.
I’m sorry, but that is hogwash. In this CNN article, Amahl Bishara (from the University of Chicago) said
“I think that a right-wing blogger making an association between a kaffiyeh and terrorism is just an example of how so much of the complexity of Arab culture has been reduced to a very narrow vision of the Arab world on the part of some people in the U.S.,” Bishara said in a phone interview. “Kaffiyehs are worn every day on the street by Palestinians and other people in the Middle East – by people going to work, going to school, taking care of their families, and just trying to keep warm.”
That is exactly my sentiments here. Americans have become so radical in their thinking, often influenced by mainstream media, that we’ve started to target anyone who remotely looks Muslim as a terrorist.
It doesn’t stop there. Too often than is necessary, Americans have targeted Blacks as criminals and of course there is always the issue of racial profiling. What just happened here with Rachel Ray is a classic example of racial profiling and religious profiling.
Yeah. Did you see Michelle Malkin’s blog?! She’s pretty articulate, so I can see how that’d hide the faulty logic. So now you and I need to go through our closets and throw out everything that might be anti-American.
My espadrilles have to go. I wouldn’t want anyone to think I was pro-Cuban and pro-communist, which OF COURSE simultaneously makes me anti-American and shows my support for people who want to blow up infiedels.