Pulling the Rachael Ray Ad is a Reason Why Muslims Hate Us

I think this is Ad is case-in-point on why Muslims say that the US against them. Here is the ad:

That ugly scarf around her neck is supposed to look like a kaffiyeh which is now somehow tied to Muslim terror groups. Of course if Americans read a little history they would know that kaffiyeh is just a standard headscarf that Arab men wear to ward off the sun. It is about the same thing as a baseball cap is for an American.

How the thing is attached to the PLO is basically because of Yasser Arafat used to wear one. Of course he wore the thing on his head and not around his neck. Hell, it would have to be green and black to represent Hamas or yellow to represent Hezbollah. Even Al-Quida operatives usually wear all-white or all-black turbans and not kaffiyehs. I would understand the furor if Rachael Ray was wearing a black mask and had on a green headband with "Allah Akbar" written on it.

I think this is exactly what fuels Muslim hate against the US. Americans can't even accept something that looks vaguely like Arab headgear without seeing terrorists. Even if it is draped around the neck of a celebrity chef in an ad for Iced Lattes we still see a terror group.

It just proves their point when they say that Americans are stupid and reactionary and that they view Muslims and Arabs as just a bunch of terrorists living in the desert somewhere in the Middle East. Despite what Michelle Malkin says it is not the same symbol as a picture of Che Guevara or Mao Zedong on a T-shirt since they depict evil mass murderers. This is also not the same as a clan hood since that is not a signature garment of anyone other then the Spanish Inquisition. This is instead an everyday piece of clothing worn by millions of Arabs and Muslims that is used to keep your head from getting sunburned. It has been over-inflated into a "terror symbol" and Palestinian liberation fetish and we are taking the bait.

Maybe the terrorists are winning the war since they have us so scared that when we see a Latte ad we immediately see their "message." They want us to see terrorists under every rock or in every Internet banner ad. We see Rachael Ray in a scarf and we think "yup Palestinian terror." We are attacking Latte ads with questionable scarves when we should be attacking radical Madrasas, countering Wahabi thinking with the reason of the West, and trying to create an alternative to the Palestinian Death Cult.