IT'S HARD TO BE A WINGNUT

First, a definition from Merriam-Webster:

Main Entry:
kaf·fi·yeh
Variant(s): also kef·fi·yeh \kə-ˈfē-ə\
Function: noun
Etymology:
Arabic kūfīya, kaffīya, from al-Kufa Al-Kufa, town in Iraq
Date: circa 1817
: an Arab headdress consisting of a square of cloth folded to form a triangle and held on by a cord

This seemingly innocuous bit of clothing is a red flag to the Islamophobic wingnuts and they take it as a symbol of Jihad, anti-Semitism and all sorts of other nasty things. Internment Malkin and Charles of LGF first "alerted" us to this ad by Dunkin Donuts:



Here's what Malkin had to say in Jewish World Review:

The keffiyeh, for the clueless, is the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad. 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.

What's really sad about this latest in a long series of wingnut outrages is the fact that Dunkin Donuts caved in to these extremists:

Dunkin’ Donuts abruptly pulled an ad featuring its pitch woman Rachael Ray after a conservative commentator wrote that the scarf Ray wore in the ad looked like a keffiyeh, a traditional headdress worn by Arab men.

Ray, who hosts a daytime talk show and two programs on the Food Network, wore a silk scarf with a black-and-white paisley design in the commercial. Some thought it looked too much like a keffiyeh.

This gives a little more plausibility to Zbig's claim of a new McCarthyism when it comes to Israel.