http://www.atlargely.com/2008/05/shiksa-malkin-s.htmlShiksa Malkin stars in Scarf Wars...Either Michelle Malkin is insane or she has a serious drug problem and neither will bring her any closer to her life-long dream of becoming a Jew no matter how much she waves the Likud talking points. The reality is that most Jews do not hold the world-view of the right-wing Likud party and most Jews think even less of non-Jews who support such extremism.
Her latest insanity results in censorship of a commercial over a scarf:
My syndicated column today examines the keffiyeh kerfuffle with Dunkin’ Donuts and Rachael Ray that I noted on the blog last week. As you’ll recall, I linked to an item by LGF’s Charles Johnson about the scarf she wore in a recent Dunkin’ ad. Keffiyeh chic has been covered on this site and at Hot Air extensively (see here, here, and here). Anti-American fashion designers abroad and at home have mainstreamed and adapted the scarves as generic pro-Palestinian jihad or anti-war statements. Yet many folks out there remain completely oblivious to the apparel’s violent symbolism and anti-Israel overtones. Left-wing bloggers responded with complete scorn, deliberate mischaracterizations of the debate, and then outrage when Dunkin’ Donuts commendably showed sensitivity to the concerns and pulled the ad. The Boston Globe accused me of “yowling.” If you actually read my post and the column below, you’ll see no such thing.
The scorn is much deserved Michelle. I am a Jew and I own a scarf like that. You are not a Jew and you scream bloody murder over a scarf like that. What does that tell you, Michelle? Let me help here, it should tell you that you are incredibly ill-informed and running purely on hate. In other words, the usual Malkinism.
Yes, there is ugly symbolism for some who wear the keffiyeh and also in how they wear it. But do not for a moment confuse the keffiyeh, and its westernized versions as akin in anyway to the swastika, which your faux outrage implies.
These two things are not remotely in the same category, not by a million. The keffiyeh is a cultural, regional garb that has been used by some to symbolize oppression, by some to symbolize terrorism, by some as a pretty trinket purchased at a market. That is why many folks "are completely oblivious to the apparel's violent symbolism." People are oblivious to it because it is only a symbolism of violence for some people and not all of them Muslim either. Others have borrowed this symbol as a way to express their opposition to what they see as Palestinian oppression. But mostly, it is a regional and cultural piece of clothing that has nothing to do with anything political, despite what others have used it for. In other words, to most people, it is just a scarf.
The swastika, on the other hand, which is actually an ancient Indian mystical symbol has so thoroughly been corrupted by the Nazis, that no one is oblivious to what it now means. I am not saying that Malkin is comparing the two directly, but rather indirectly, inspiring her brain-dead readers to make the comparison outright. (read the comments)
See what happens when you have an uninformed bigot inspiring other uninformed bigots? I cannot fathom how a woman who usually stalks children has suddenly started stalking Dunkin Donuts. Is this an illness?
But all kidding aside, I think it time we seriously have a discussion about Malkin's motives in so aggressively using Judaism to further her bigotry and political views.
Welcome to the family?Malkin is an extremist for Jews and Israel when she herself is neither a Jew or a citizen of Israel. There are plenty of extremist zealots in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, but I feel more comfortable addressing the Jewish zealots than other religious extremists because I am myself a Jew. So I will speak on that point only.
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But what of Malkin?
How then do we account for a woman who is not a Jew and is not a citizen of Israel, but who defends both through extremism and hatred? Did Michelle loose family in the Holocaust or at the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood?
No, Michelle married a Jewish man and although his family may have lost loved ones in the Holocaust, it still does not account for her rabid hatred of a people that have no relationship to her own history.
Who is this woman smearing and exploiting my religion, people and history in order to justify her hate of another religion, people and history? What is even worse, is that Malkin is not alone in her exploitation of my religion, people and history to justify hate and violence. One need only look at the Bush administration's propaganda to see how Judaism is being exploited and prostituted, even by some Jews.
Malkin is not liked by the larger Jewish community, but I also think she is probably not much appreciated at her in-laws house either. Would you welcome this brainless, propagandist who has argued in defense of concentration camps as vigorously as she now argues for the hatred and destruction of Muslims? And if they do welcome her, what does that say of them? I dare say it reflects rather badly on the Malkin clan in general, but on her husband in particular.
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