I must confess, I watch the Food Network, and probably watch more Rachel Ray than is healthy. Anthony Bourdain has some choice words for her, which I don’t share in their entirety; but when she started pimpin’ the Dunkin’ Donuts, I thought she was just too ubiquitous.
Now I see the backlash against poor RR has begun. Michelle Malkin’s attempt to become as well-known as RR by channeling Britney Spears apparently didn’t work. As a result she’s doing what she does best, speaking about something that she has no background in whatsoever, dumbing down the discourse so as not to offend anyone. It really is political correctness run amok; Americans shouldn’t be afraid to speak their minds for fear of the ignorant screaming “I don’t understand. The thinking, it burns.”
RR is wearing a black and white scarf in a recent ad campaign for DD and MM screams “kufiyah!” (Yes, I’m loving the double initials on everything. Yes, there are a thousand ways to spell “kufiyah.”) Apparently, black and white scarves mean that you support violent jihad. Poor Stevie Wonder, we must now boycott your song “Ebony and Ivory,” and forever foreswear the piano. Perhaps this is all part of MM’s Dr. Evil-like plan to put out keyboards with red and green keys.
While Ted Swedenburg does an excellent and extensive wrap-up of the issues regarding the kufiyah and how others are responding to the “controversy,” MM’s comments show a pattern of finding the “Muslim boogeyman” everywhere. She found a Muslim influence in the memorial to United 93. Since the crescent was red, I’m surprised it wasn’t described as Islamocommie inspired.
In trying to think like MM, to see what she sees, I can only come to one conclusion: MM is really a Muslim Mother. Her attempt to find Islamically-inspired or Muslim-created things all over America surpasses anything that happens around a Muslim dinner table. Put a few Muslims together and inevitably during the conversation someone will say “Muslims created that. Without us, it wouldn’t be in the world.” MM is in that mold and is taking it to a whole new level; she’s giving credit for things Muslims would never think of claiming. As a secret Muslim (she is of Filipino descent after all), her goal is to get everything thinking about Islam all the time: black and white things are Muslim; the moon is Muslim; the sun is Muslim (Allah is described as the “Sun God” by polemicists); the Qur’an mentions stars, rocks, mountains, water, honey, dates, so all these things are about Muslims. By getting everyone thinking about Islam all the time, they will eventually become Muslim. MM is doing a wonderful job getting people to convert. I can’t wait until she “outs” herself and I can embrace her as a co-religionist. She’s doing more good for the faith than any other Muslim I know.
Thinking sanely again, I can only say with certainty that Senator Obama is not Muslim. Is Michelle Malkin a Muslim? I don’t know. Do you?
