- Headdresses have been a part of the human race since
humanity first found itself on earth. Headdresses (or head coverings) have
been used for protection from the elements, for ceremonial reasons, or
to signify some sort of an official affiliation. Many headdresses worn
today are often highly symbolic and deeply entrenched in tradition. The
black and white Arab Headdress has, since the sixties, been identified
with the Palestinian people even though it has been worn by many people
in the Arab World. In the West, the Palestinian Keffiyeh became the symbol
of freedom and resistance for many people fighting for many social, economic
and, political issues. In the last Forty years as sympathy for the Palestinian
cause has increased so did the use of the Palestinian Keffiyeh and other
versions of it such as the scarf. People wore the scarf and the Keffiyeh
in Anti-War Rallies, protesting the G-8 Summit, World bank and IMF meetings,
G&L, Union protests, GreenPeace, etc... The Palestinian scarf became
a universal symbol for people seeking freedom and justice in their lives.
Don't blame the Palestinians if their claim to fame happens to be the longest
oppressed people in modern history.
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- Dunkin' Donuts, abruptly canceled a coffee ad in which
homemaking guru Rachael Ray wears a scarf similar to a Palestinian
scarf, even though in actuality it was not even a scarf. This was the result
of the efforts of one Philippino-American Michelle Malkin (hatemonger and
Neocon wannabe) a commentator for <http://www.foxnews.com/>Fox
Newswho played a big part in lying to the American people into going to
war in Iraq after 9/11 as part of the Neocons' planned war in the Middle
East. Too intellectually challenged to do anything substantive, Malkin
has made the business of bashing Arabs and Muslims her reason for being.
Americans of Philippino decent know very well the danger of stereotyping
and profiling as they look back at the concentration camps built in this
country for Japanese Americans during WWII where Philippinos and other
Orientals were imprisoned for no other reasons but their looks. ''The
keffiyeh, for the clueless, is the traditional scarf of Arab men that has
come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad,'' Malkins wrote. Mixing
fashion with politics, she went further in describing it as "hate
couture". She and other bloggers (with similar small-minded-mindsets)
thinking that they had found yet another way of kissing up to their Neocon
masters threatened DD with a boycott. Sadly, DD--like so many other entities
these days fearful of displeasing the Jewish lobby--found themselves 'Malkinized'
and thus succumbed to the brief reign of terror and pulled the ad down,
rewarding Malkin's lies and fear tactics.
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- In September 2001, during a joint session of Congress,
President George Bush in answering why do they (the terrorists) hate us?
said: "They hate our freedomsour freedom of religion, our freedom
of speech..." He said 'We must find the terrorists and stop
them' Well, my dear President, I hate to be the first one to tell
ya, we lost to the terrorists, they don't hate us for our freedoms
any more. When the bride of fear mongering--Malkin--terrorizes an
American corporation and forces it to take down an ad just because the
spokesperson appears to be wearing a scarf similar to
a Palestinian scarf, we definitely lost the war on terror. Our freedoms
you talked about that the terrorists hate us for? Gone, no more.
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- For many years now many Americans used the Palestinian
scarf, to mean freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and freedom period.
Now however, thanks to the Neocons' totalitarian culture so much the fancy
of Mz. Malkin and others like her we do not even have the freedom to wear
a scarf. WE need to clean our house from terrorists before we presume to
deal with someone else's house. Shame on Dunkin' Donuts for compromising
our freedoms, a precious gem for which our Forefathers sacrificed everything
to include them in our constitution and for which many of our people died
to protect. Whatever happened to "I disapprove of what you say,
but I will defend to the death your right to say it'?
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- I exhort my fellow Americans, indeed my fellow lovers
of freedom and justice and REASON to wear your Pali-scarf proudly and head
to the nearest Dunkin' Donuts. Don't give them your money, but instead
just stand there in front of the store eating your favorite non DD brands
while proclaiming your freedom.
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