For someone who is low on cognitive sufficiency, you must have not realized that Rachael is by no means an “internationally” renowned celebrity. A foreign advertisement market is usually reserved for actors and actresses with broader set of viewers. You don’t expect an Indian cricket star to sport in a bubble gum ad here in the US, do you?

Maybe I should have been more explicit as to whom I was directing my discontent to. I am cognizant of the fact this hate monger, Malkin, was the pestilent agent behind the orchestrated McCarthyism witch hunt. As you have adequately put it:

“Does the thought of someone being Muslim, or of their Muslimhood being accepted by advertisers, scare us so badly that we must now rage not only against the belief but against even the mere shade of a possible appearance of the belief? Note that when we, as a country, decide that Islam as a religion and Middle-Eastern garb as a fashion choice that we are raging against a wide-ranging portion of humanity that probably doesn’t appreciate our fervent aggression.”

But I do not understand why you are trying to school me on how Keffiyeh convenes a fashion of its own — that’s entirely irrelevant. What baffles me is that we are even discussing the subtleties of various patterns when the question should be on, “WHY THE FUCK Keffiyeh IS BEING DEPICTED AS A NEFARIOUS ENSEMBLE OF ‘TERRORISM’ IN THE FIRST PLACE?”

Keffiyeh is a traditional “headdress” worn by the “Arab” men to protect their head from sun exposure. It comes in divers manifolds which sometimes can be plain white, in other cases with some sort of mesh pattern distinguished by the geographical and tribal tokens. Oh heck, the British used to wear them as a testimony to their practicality. I remember back in college, a Jordanian classmate had a checkered red-white.

The point I am trying to make is that keffiyeh is merely a clothing accessory just like thawb, a long garment mostly worn by the men in the Gulf region. You cannot possibly associate certain group’s action to the region’s traditional attire and insidiously label them, as Malkin likes to call them, “hate couture” (for fuck sake). The same analogy can be applied to any culturally significant attire, for instance, we do not label anyone who wears “trench coat” as a deranged shooter just because Columbine High School gunmen had them on — they don’t have “monopoly” over the garment. Another example, Osama wears a turban which is a style engraved in many societies stretching from African all the way to south Asia, however, we don’t fraternize “all” the Indians, Arabs, or North African under a brand of “terrorism,” do we?

As I have iterated this case before, keffiyeh is a cultural phenomenon, an accessory in this case, and cannot be furnished to a particular group existing under the umbrella of broader refining spectrum. Moreover, even keffiyeh with certain pattern that has become known as an illustration of solidarity with Palestinians is merely an icon for their “struggle” and has no relation with deeds of a few men. The smearing attacks are simply an attempt to persuade the impressionable minds of credulous Americans because it is somehow more “marketable” in the age of MSM.

And you entirely lost credibility when you said, “I can intellectually understand Michelle Malkin’s argument about the mainstreaming of the keffiyeh…” “Intellectually!!” Do I have to remind you that she is an unprincipled propaganda mouthpiece whose opinion is merely a loose collection of intellectual conceits? You are giving this paid political prostitute way too much credit where it is not due. And for these goons remotely manage to devise a wide-spread commotion over this is beyond me.

P.S. pablum “lowercase” is the same as pabulum:

pab·lum /ˈpæbləm/
1. Trademark. a brand of soft, bland cereal for infants.
–noun
2. (__lowercase__) trite, naive, or simplistic ideas or writings; intellectual pap. <– Intended semantic

pab·u·lum /ˈpæbyələm/
–noun
1. something that nourishes an animal or vegetable organism; food; nutriment.
2. material for intellectual nourishment.
3. __pablum__.

I think the real issue isn’t even the scarf, but the fact that Rachael Ray’s career has been brought to the level of endorsing DUNKIN DONUTS in the American market.

Real celebrities do that endorsement work in foreign markets. This only reaffirms me belief that Rachael Ray is oddly intriguing, yet always annoying….like her scarf.