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Urban Outfitters Terror Scarf - Now with Nazi Imagery

Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 7:59:05 am PST

Urban Outfitters continues to sell the Palestinian kaffiyeh, symbol of the intifada and decades of violence and terrorism, now calling it a Skull Desert Scarf. Just the thing for stylish urban guerillas who need protection from the fierce sandstorms of Manhattan.

And their trendy little skull image is a direct knock-off of the Nazi SS skull insignia:

UPDATE at 2/12/07 8:20:00 am:

And here’s another version of the kaffiyeh at Urban Outfitters, this time called a Shemagh Scarf.

UPDATE at 2/12/07 11:31:27 am:

Nazi SS skull imagery has also popped up at Walmart. The Consumerist has covered this one extensively: Walmart Sells Nazi Skull Tshirt.

Walmart Nazi Shirts In Chicago Tribune, Thanks To Our Readers.

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1 Clemente  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:00:21am

no one who wears one will have the slightest clue

2 fierceseaman  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:00:44am

it just looks dumb.

3 acwgusa  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:00:47am

Time to put Urban Outfitters on my do not buy from list.

4 JetPilot1101  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:02:27am

Urban Outfitters has been on my "do not buy from" list for years. Not because of their recent antics but because their clothes just plain suck!

Does anyone else feel like they are living inthe 1930's?

5 Ayatrollah  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:02:53am

I can't see it can you enlarge the image?

6 WriterMom  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:03:01am

How dumb is dumb? Sickening and stupid. Imagine marketing an item that ups the ante on anti-Jew from intifadah to SS.

7 Just_A_Grunt  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:03:06am

In other news Anna Nicole Smith is still dead.

8 JammieWearingFool  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:03:31am

Leave the outfit, take the model.

9 FreakyBoy  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:03:41am

Scarf, or Moonbat Drool Rag?

10 Clemente  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:03:52am

Indeed... ninth on this adl list.

11 Endangered in MASS  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:03:56am

One must have to spend hours postitioning the kaffiyeh just right ...one wouldn't want to cover one's Che shirt!

12 WriterMom  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:03:57am
13 mustrum  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:04:03am

Well. No surprise there, right?

Socialists will always be socialists, even when they're national socialists. Or perhaps even more so.

14 Daisy  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:04:22am

The look is incomplete .. she forgot to wear her Che shirt.

15 Elric66  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:04:24am

They carry Stalin tee's?

16 freakagriep  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:04:51am

I don't know if you guys have ever shopped at an Urban Outfitters, but they sell worse stuff than the scarf.
[Link: www.urbanoutfitters.com...]

17 Dr. Manhattan  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:05:12am

I see people in New York with these all the time. Hipsters in my neighborhood wear them.

/the kind of kids with big political attitudes who don't vote

18 Cato the Elder  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:05:18am

Can't tell from the picture what the skull looks like.

19 Dustoff-507  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:05:19am

So the new summer wear.... O-brother.

Plus Rudy G. said the Second Amendment is for hunters .

Great, you lost my vote!

20 Clemente  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:05:27am

OK, eleventh.

/sleepdirt

21 Chicken Kiev  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:05:37am

Soon to be a top seller in Berkeley, where they WILL know what it means and they WILL buy it with the money they save by divesting from Israel.

22 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:06:01am

Waiting for lunch time to review all models, compare to current water vapor imagery and current synoptic conditions, and then I'll try to further refine what could happen. I know the Washington DC 50/50 chance of a disaster greater than the British burning it during the Second Revolutionary War thing, as compared to eithe rjust the greatest snow storm in three or four decades, or worse, enough rain to wash away the snow uncertainty is triggering great wailing and gnashing of teeth.


But now, I'm doing the W-2 completion report of our latest Pennsylvanian Strawn 20 BOPD well in Wichita County.

23 OtisMyMan  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:06:46am

How about calling it the "wear one and get a beat down scarf", for all those urban encounters at Nordstroms.

24 lawhawk  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:06:53am

Another day, another crypto-anarcho-capitalist syndicate exploiting the ignorant masses. /monty python

25 Dar ul Harb  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:06:59am

Well, it's not the Jolly Roger...

The pirate flag typically shows the skull face-on.

26 Prester John  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:07:02am

Sure looks like the "Totenkopf" to me.

Now the question is of course do those morons even have a clue about where it came from?

The "Death’s Head" was the symbol of the SS-Totenkopfverbande (one of the original three branches of the SS, along with the Algemeine SS and the Waffen SS), whose purpose was to guard the concentration camps. Most of the original members of this organization were later transferred into and became the core of a Waffen SS division, the Death’s Head Division.

[Link: www.adl.org...]

27 Daisy  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:07:17am

That rags' expensive

"Skull Desert Scarf
 
£24.00" 

In London kaffiyah's cannot be that difficult to find. Aren't they kind of mainstream? And skull things are a dime a dozen.

28 Alouette  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:07:28am

I can't see the skull, can we have a close-up, please? There is a detail on top near the model's chin, for all I can see it could be Momo bomb-turban.

Hey, why doesn't LGF sell Momo bomb-turban "desert scarves"?

29 shug  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:07:42am

Goes perfectly with your Che' T-shirt, and your Merrill Hikers.

an essential for white upper middle-class kids at any protest

30 Poitiers-Lepanto  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:07:42am

OT OT OT


ITALIAN NEWSPAPERS SAY JAPANESE NEWS AGENCY SPEAKS ABOUT AN EXPLOSION IN AN AMERICAN BASE IN JAPAN


I will be back with further news asap

31 Beagle  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:08:24am

Nothing says 'sassy' like the Third SS "Totenkopf" Division and their Islamofascist heirs?

32 moonsbreath  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:08:38am

I recently received a jewelry catalog (Ross Simons) showing a necklace, earrings and a ring with the skull and crossbones, in diamonds. The catalog says it's a "hot trend" this year. So, not too sure about the Nazis connection.

33 Jape  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:08:46am

This calls for a gratuitous image of St. Pancake(CBUH*), flattened be her name.

*Caterpillar be upon her.

34 Ben Hur  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:09:03am

Funny, normally that chick would be honorably killed for that.

35 sammysdad  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:09:07am

Ha... you have it all wrong.

The spankable model person is wearing the Pirates of the Caribbean verison..

Silly geese

36 NoSubmission  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:09:17am

Well, for one thing, its definitely on-message now. The last one was disguised as an 'anti-war' scarf.

Guess they didn't get the 'kill memo' from the US office.

37 world b. free  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:09:23am

What kind of self-respecting socialist/anarchist goes to a trendy-ass mall store like Urban Outfitters to buy clothes?

38 mj  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:09:45am

If they just added the Swastika to the scarf and the symbol of the SS, it would be very appropriate to the aim of the Palestinians.

39 Ben Hur  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:09:54am

Hey, it's not they're selling a confederate flag or someting!

40 American Soldier  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:10:01am
Urban Outfitters continues to sell the Palestinian kaffiyeh, symbol of the intifada and decades of violence and terrorism, now calling it a Skull Desert Scarf.

A quick check of Urban Outfitters store sites in the U.S., at least in locales I'm familiar with, show most of them seeming to be in university/liberal areas. Too bad. If they had one in my redneck Hoosier corner of the world, I could tell a manager in person what I think of their idea of fashion.

41 Isadore  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:10:40am

I'm sure some will argue that their skull is more "pirate" than "Gestapo" but it's so clearly not.

In related news one of the murderers from the Red F[r]action or Baader-Mierhoff gang, a notoriously antisemitic, pro-palestinian far-left terror group from the 70s, has been released from prison in Germany.

42 Ben Hur  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:10:44am

History is Dead.

Even if it's happening now.

43 eff  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:10:48am

It looks like this is being sold in the UK, not the US. Which, sadly, isn't surprising these days...

44 Muadib  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:10:53am

Coming Soon!

Designer Suicide Vests will make headlines at your next big party!

45 pat  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:11:01am

Kerry voters

46 kingronjo  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:11:22am

looks good on her tho. But I bet she would look good in a burqa also which, of course, is the next logical step.

47 Dar ul Harb  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:11:44am
Can't tell from the picture what the skull looks like.

The skull is facing left, sitting on crossbones, just as in the Totenkopf insignia.

48 FlyingTigress  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:11:58am

And how many people were killed by the SS?

And how many people died, or were injured, in the fight to destroy that twisted ideology?

Apparently not enough.

(***sigh***)

What's next? Zyklon-B canister charms for m'lady's bracelets? Jackboots and trenchcoats as haute couture?

/Springtime for Hitler, and Germany, indeed.

49 Poitiers-Lepanto  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:12:17am

#30 Myself

IT'S JUST A FLASH:

"TOKYO: explosion nearby USA base.
Japan, the news agency Kyodo News reports an explosion near the American base south of Tokyo. Police suspect a terrorist attack."

Tokyo, esplosione presso base Usa
Giappone, l'agenzia di notizie Kyodo News riporta di un'esplosione nei pressi della base americana a sud di Tokyo. La polizia sospetta di un attacco terroristico.

50 DavidJSchwartz  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:12:48am

15 Elric

They carry Stalin tee's?

Probably two types--the Gulag and the Mass Grave line, in all sizes.

Fun fashion for the entire family.

Next will be the Pol Pot Khmer Rouge lipstick.

51 Beagle  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:13:04am

They're selling the symbol not just of the Nazis or the SS, but the absolute most hardcore Nazi SS troops noted for directly engaging in genocide. That's so F-ed up.

52 Charles  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:14:08am

Couldn't find a larger image, but all the proportions are the same, as are the shape of the eye and nose holes, and the direction it's facing. That's an SS skull.

53 mj  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:14:24am

Howard Dean should consider handing these out at the next Democratic convention. All he needs to do is have the words, "Vote Democratic- 08" printed on them.

54 Geepers  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:14:28am

Clueless fucking morons.


The SS-Totenkopfverbände (Death's Head units) were the worst of the worst of the Nazis.

"Eicke viewed the SS-Totenkopfverbände (Death's Head unit) as an elite within the elite structure of the SS. This concept grew from the fact that the most dangerous political enemies of the state were incarcerated in the concentration camps and Hitler had given sole responsibility for guarding and running the camps to the SS- Totenkopfverbände. Eicke repeatedly pressed home his principles in orders, circulars and memoranda. The whole of the SS-Totenkopfverbände training was based on elitism, toughness and comradeship, together with a regime of ruthless discipline."

History of the Schutzstaffel - SS

55 Daisy  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:15:10am

The kids that buy this stuff may not have a clue. But Urban Outfitters sure as heck does:

[Link: www.jpost.com...] (also on lgf)

Yesterday's Style section of the NYTimes had an article about this .. of coursein favor of the damned thing. "Where Some See Style, Others See Politics"
This from memory: "... In England, where there is much more anti-war unity, there is not as much of a problem as here in the US .. " blah blah blah the usual garbage ..

56 Prester John  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:15:20am

#39 Last week two girls at a Texas HS were suspended for not surrendering their Confederate flag purses to school administrators. They were considered to be offensive and disruptive.

Can't find the link but it was on Foxnews.com.

57 Elric66  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:16:26am

#50 DavidJSchwartz 2/12/2007 08:12AM PST

15 Elric

They carry Stalin tee's?

Probably two types--the Gulag and the Mass Grave line, in all sizes.

Fun fashion for the entire family.

Next will be the Pol Pot Khmer Rouge lipstick.


These guys have no shame

58 NoSubmission  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:16:43am

32 moonsbreath

I recently received a jewelry catalog (Ross Simons) showing a necklace, earrings and a ring with the skull and crossbones, in diamonds. The catalog says it's a "hot trend" this year. So, not too sure about the Nazis connection.

Skulls have been in and out of fashion since the '70s. I have a cute skull and crossbones necklace and even an old ring somewhere. It is the context on the Islamic kaffiyeh we are talking about.

59 Poitiers-Lepanto  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:17:31am

#49 Myself

SAME AT THE JERUSALEM POST:

Feb. 12, 2007 17:57 | Updated Feb. 12, 2007 18:00
Explosion near US army base in Japan
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOKYO

An explosion was heard in the vicinity of a US Army base south of Tokyo on Monday afternoon, Kyodo News agency reported.

Police suspected that the blast was the result of an attack.

60 Isadore  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:17:32am

Skulls are a "hot trend." They are (or were) everywhere in NYC (like 5 or 6 years ago). Do the math. Why would "death" get "hip" in NYC 6 years ago? This skull placed on the symbol of Palestinian nationalism (to use an "objective" term) takes on a particular meaning when put in context. And that meaning connotes jihadism, fascism and a general "love of death". Sick.

61 mj  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:17:51am

# 54 Geepers "Clueless fucking morons".

It's debatable whether they are clueless or are in sympathy with the message. Maybe some of the idiots who buy this pornography are clueless, but the company? I doubt it.

62 JammieWearingFool  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:18:06am

Nothing gets past zombie, who busts AP once again.

63 DavidJSchwartz  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:18:17am

#17 Dr. Manhattan

I see people in New York with these all the time. Hipsters in my neighborhood wear them.

And all this time I heard that Los Angeles sets the trends. I have never seen anybody here wear any of these "hip" Palestinian kaffiyehs.

For me, it is probably a good thing-- I'm afraid that I would prbably physically assault them

It takes all my strength not to yank all of the copies of "Paradise Now" off the Blockbuster shelves and smash them.

64 Pawn of the Oppressor  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:18:44am

She must be one of those hot Nazis from movies of *ahem* questionable production values...

Too bad that girl would be clitorectomied, beaten, bagged, and raped in the wilds of the Caliphate, or perhaps used for fun and then carved up (the proper fate for an Infidel Whore).

That said: I'd be happy to have her re-educate me.

65 xtraBilly  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:18:46am

Fashionistas!

66 Just_A_Grunt  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:19:26am

I thought maybe the skulls were some sort of tie in to the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise.
/

67 Ben Hur  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:20:01am

It's all about perspective.

Clint Eastwood is planning a film.

68 WriterMom  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:20:03am

#52 Charles

Here is the SS skull on a ring, for sale on a war memorabilia site.

69 jwehman  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:20:29am

I can't figure the skull picture thing-y:

There are two pictures Charles posted...one showing the Model with the scarf and the picture below it showing the closeup of a Totenkopf skull. But, from the pictures, it looks like the two are not-related to each other, ie: the skull looks like it's on some felt-type apparel (hat, maybe) while I can't see any skull on the scarf.

Am I missing something? Is there a connection between the scarf and the skull?

70 MikeySDCA  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:21:04am

One little problem: the hat in the lower picture can't be SS, who used silver, not red braid. The Wehrmacht Panzer units used the skull-and -bones motif; it's most likely their hat.

71 FrogMarch  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:21:43am

Clearly, it's hip to be a punk brownshirt. They think they are sticking it to the man, when they are only worshipping Hitler and everything the Hilter youth stood for.

Urban outfitter merchandize is gross. They provide goods for mindless dorks and grove-wear for the modern Democrat party youth.

72 NoSubmission  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:21:56am

55 Daisy

Yesterday's Style section of the NYTimes had an article about this .. of coursein favor of the damned thing. "Where Some See Style, Others See Politics"
This from memory: "... In England, where there is much more anti-war unity, there is not as much of a problem as here in the US .. " blah blah blah the usual garbage

Figures.. which is why I read the book review section and throw the rest in the recycling bin.

73 sunburned  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:22:19am

OT:

Did anyone else catch Fox News this morning, they said that they had received word that an "explosion" had been heard "near a U.S. Military base in Japan." And that's all they said about it.
Just curious if there was an update...

Also,
I like the President of the Czech Republic

74 DavidJSchwartz  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:22:29am

57 Elric66

These guys have no shame

Yes, they have no shame. Also, a lot more adjectives come to my mind when I think of Urban Outfitters.

75 dll2000  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:23:47am

This is how politicians should speak to agenda journalists:

[Link: www.drudgereport.com...]

One of the best interviews I have read in awhile.

76 godfrey  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:23:56am

Urban Outfitters sells them... but who makes them? Who's the supplier?

77 WriterMom  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:24:10am

Shemagh is just another word for kaffiyeh.

78 Chicken Kiev  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:24:29am

Anyone posted this yet?

[Link: www.actiongear.com...]

Instructions for wrapping a traditional Shemagh around the face terrorist style.

79 Peacekeeper  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:25:01am

The Cindy Shemagh.

80 Charles  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:25:04am

MikeySDCA: it's from a Waffen SS Panzer unit cap:

[Link: axis101.bizland.com...]

81 Kragar (proud to be kafir)  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:25:30am

OT

Now that the Pesky civil war has been dealt with, back to the real business.

Hamas calls for ending Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire in Gaza

"The Israeli occupation understands nothing but rockets," said Nezzar Rayan, who also urged militant groups to "respond to enemy's violations."

Rayan added that the diggings around al-Aqsa mosque in east Jerusalem, the Islam's third holy shrine, "was the biggest breach of the truce which the Palestinian factions agreed to."

82 Elric66  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:25:39am
#74 DavidJSchwartz 2/12/2007 08:22AM PST

57 Elric66

These guys have no shame

Yes, they have no shame. Also, a lot more adjectives come to my mind when I think of Urban Outfitters.

I sent them a message.

83 lawhawk  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:25:56am

poitiers lepanto:
FYI - small explosion outside US base in Japan.

84 WriterMom  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:26:09am

#76 godfrey

Jihadi Jew Hating Scarves, Inc.?

85 Beagle  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:26:16am

Obviously they will claim it's nothing more than the skull and crossbones. But the traditional skull and crossbones per the Knights Templar places the bones below the skull. But now the totenkopf style is used as well, the toxic symbol in the UK for example. When you combine a kaffiyah with the Death's Head style skull and crossbones, it's a hell of a lot more suggestive than the number 88. Which will always be a wide receiver to me anyway.

Anyone familiar with Nazi insignia and modern Islamic groups who want to kill the Jews will get the message 100% of the time.

86 Mr Kufr  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:26:50am

#73 sunburned
We need to end the occupation of japan and bring our troops home. Its been a quaqmire for 60 years.
/channeling obama/

87 Chicken Kiev  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:26:55am

More on the versatile Shemagh, from a war web site:

Next to his rifle, knife and boots, the Shemagh is probably one of the most usefull piece of equipment a soldier can have. .... When used corectly, as originally intended - a head wrap, the Shemagh is suprisingly comfortable. But it also have several other uses - here is a short list of it's potential uses:

as a head wrap - keeping sun or snow, wind, sand and dust - out of eyes, face and neck.
as a face viel - concealing the face.
as a scarf worn around the neck - retains heat in the cold and absorbs sweat/protects the neck in hot & sunny conditions.
as a small sunshade cover whilst resting...
as a carrying pouch for equipment.
as a towel.
as a short rope

[Link: www.bellum.nu...]

88 Poitiers-Lepanto  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:26:59am

SAME FLASH AT FOXNEWS.COM

Report: Police Suspect Explosion Near U.S. Army Base in Japan an Attack

Monday, February 12, 2007


TOKYO — An explosion was heard near a U.S. Army base south of Tokyo late Monday and police suspected an attempted attack on the base, Kyodo News agency reported.

The blast was in the area of the U.S. Army's Camp Zama, Kyodo said. The report did not say whether there were injuries or damage.

Police found parts of "launch pad" near the base, Kyodo said, and investigators suspected a "guerrilla attack."

No further details were immediately available.

89 Dar ul Harb  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:27:13am

The only real difference is that the crossbones are not completely in line with the skull in the Urban Outfitters version. In the Nazi SS insignia, the jaw of the skull is below the crossbones.

If they try to argue that it's somehow the "pirate" skull and crossbones, they're out of luck, because in the most common form of that insignia, the skull is face on and the crossbones are separate and entirely below the skull.

Maybe they'll add some Hindu swastikas next and tell us we're imagining things.

"It's a Palestinian pirate scarf!"

90 Peacekeeper  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:27:33am

Achtung baby!

91 jehu  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:27:50am

O.T.

How to talk to an asshat "environmentalist," reporter.

Excerpt from President of the Czech Republic Valclav Klaus, when questioned by a SS agent of the Global Warming Religion and Gestapo:

planet?•

A: I will pretend that I haven't heard you. Perhaps only Mr Al Gore may be saying something along these lines: a sane person can't. I don't see any ruining of the planet, I have never seen it, and I don't think that a reasonable and serious person could say such a thing. Look: you represent the economic media so I expect a certain economical erudition from you. My book will answer these questions. For example, we know that there exists a huge correlation between the care we give to the environment on one side and the wealth and technological prowess on the other side. It's clear that the poorer the society is, the more brutally it behaves with respect to Nature, and vice versa.• It's also true that there exist social systems that are damaging Nature - by eliminating private ownership and similar things - much more than the freer societies. These tendencies become important in the long run. They unambiguously imply that today, on February 8th, 2007, Nature is protected uncomparably more than on February 8th ten years ago or fifty years ago or one hundred years ago.• That's why I ask: how can you pronounce the sentence you said? Perhaps if you're unconscious? Or did you mean it as a provocation only? And maybe I am just too naive and I allowed you to provoke me to give you all these answers, am I not? It is more likely that you actually believe what you say.

This guy is funny, sharp and a complete anti-idiotarian.

92 Geepers  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:27:53am

jwehman (#69),

Am I missing something? Is there a connection between the scarf and the skull?

Yes, the Gand Mufti Haj Muhammed Amin al-Husseini

His nephew, Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat As Qudwa al-Hussaeini, was better known as Yasser Arafat.

93 bushleague  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:28:09am

From the urban dictionary:


shem

equivilent to any term used to define anyone who dresses, walks, or talks like an asshole. examples include "tool", "herb", "douche", or "fag"

"brah I totally nailed this slut last night, and I drank like a beer and a half during."

"dude, you're a fucking shem."

If the shoe (scarf ) fits...

94 Kreuzueber Halbmond  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:30:44am

Can't say anything good about the scarf, but the 'girlrilla' model is hot. The skull is a fitting symbol for death cult wear, though.

95 sunburned  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:32:27am

Thanks Poitiers for keeping the updates coming.

#86 kufr

Ooo, quagmire. You're right, we should just get out of there.

96 NoSubmission  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:32:44am

Who cares about the model's looks.

She might as well be wearing a suicide belt.

97 bomb truck  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:32:56am

Here's the philosophy behind the designer/corporate boardroom synergy at Urban Nitwitters and all the other trendy clothing suppliers:

SellSellSellSellSellSellSell.

If attracting the young'ns means being offensive to some, they will do so to the extent that they can get away with it. Remember, at nineteen, one's chief aim in life is to piss off parents, authority figures and the percieved "establishment" in general.

98 Peacekeeper  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:33:29am

Remember; If your going to terrorize, accessorize!

99 mattm  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:33:34am

I wonder how many progressives will know what this actually is. I bet less than 1 percent.

100 godfrey  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:33:59am

jehu

hat's why I ask: how can you pronounce the sentence you said? Perhaps if you're unconscious?

lol

A victim of journalobotomy, perhaps.

101 crashnburn  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:35:33am

Sieg Heil, herr Allah?

Right up there with the Target "Che Wear".

What is next? Macy's "Khmer Rouge makeup"? (with all apologies to Macy's)

What I learned today from the TODAY show: Hillary is running for President. Obama is running for president. Some republican may be running for president, but we're not on a first name basis like the Dems - and can only show some stock footage of "Rudolph" Guiliani. All I thought was "Rudolph? Next will be the slip to Adolph"

AARRGGG!

102 doppelganglander  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:35:35am

OT, but not by much: Over at NRO, Bridget Johnson takes a page from zombie's handbook: Minutemen vs. ANSWER

103 DavidJSchwartz  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:35:41am

Here is some good news, now all the EurArabians can all wear Urban Outfitters Terror Scarves:

Muslims 'about to take over Europe'

David Machlis and Tovah Lazaroff,
THE JERUSALEM POST
Jan. 29, 2007

Islam could soon be the dominant force in a Europe which, in the name of
political correctness, has abdicated the battle for cultural and
religious control, Prof. Bernard Lewis, the world-renowned Middle
Eastern and Islamic scholar, said on Sunday.

The Muslims "seem to be about to take over Europe," Lewis said at a
special briefing with the editorial staff of The Jerusalem Post. Asked
what this meant for the continent's Jews, he responded,
"The outlook for the Jewish communities of Europe is dim." Soon, he
warned, the only pertinent question regarding Europe's future would be,
"Will it be an Islamized Europe or Europeanized Islam?" The growing sway
of Islam in Europe was of particular concern given the rising support
within the Islamic world for extremist and terrorist movements, said
Lewis.

Lewis, whose numerous books include the recent What Went Wrong?: The
Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East, and The Crisis of
Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror, would set no timetable for this
drastic shift in Europe, instead focusing on the process, which he said
would be assisted by "immigration and democracy." Instead of fighting
the threat, he elaborated, Europeans had given up.

"Europeans are losing their own loyalties and their own
self-confidence, " he said. "They have no respect for their own culture."
Europeans had "surrendered" on every issue with regard to Islam in a
mood of "self-abasement, " "political correctness" and
"multi-culturalism, " said Lewis, who was born in London to middle-class
Jewish parents but has long lived in the United States.

The threat of extremist Islam goes far beyond Europe, Lewis stressed,
turning to the potential impact of Iran going nuclear under its current
regime.

The Cold War philosophy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), which
prevented the former Soviet Union and the United States from using the
nuclear weapons they had targeted at each other, would not apply to
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad' s Iran, said Lewis.

"For him, Mutual Assured Destruction is not a deterrent, it is an
inducement," said Lewis of Ahmadinejad. "We know already that they
[Iran's ruling ayatollahs] do not give a damn about killing their own
people in great numbers. We have seen it again and again. If they kill
large numbers of their own people, they are doing them a favor. They are
giving them a quick, free pass to heaven. I find all that very
alarming," said Lewis.

Lewis acknowledged that Ahmadinejad had made the notion of Iran having
the right to acquire a nuclear capability an issue of national pride,
and that this should be borne in mind in trying to thwart Teheran's
nuclear drive. "One should try to make it clear at all stages that the
objection is not Iran having [a nuclear weapon] but to the regime that
governs Iran having it," said Lewis.

This idea already had support among those Iranians who, on the one hand,
believed that their country has a right to possess such a capability
but, on the other, feared it being acquired by a government that they do
not support.
Israel and the West should work to strengthen moderate forces within the
Iranian population, he urged, via an aggressive propaganda campaign
including the use of television and radio programs.

[Link: www.jpost.com...]

104 tfc3rid  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:36:00am

If there was an attack in Japan, it's clearly because they are revoling against years of American occupation... And of course in retaliation for the dropping of two nucelan weapons on 'major population centers.'

Of course, that's how the AP would spin it...

105 jemima  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:36:51am

To Whom It May Concern
My relatives were marched by Nazis into the ovens during WWII. I don't understand why you have to glorify these mass murderers by putting their symbolism on the clothing you sell.

Do you love death? Would you love to die to accommodate the beliefs of Nazi Germany? Would you love your family members to die for such beliefs?

If so, I do not understand you or your company.

106 DavidJSchwartz  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:37:19am

82 Elric

I sent them a message.

Did it start with an F and end with a U? :-)

107 godfrey  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:38:05am

Using sex appeal to sell fascist gear? How Islamist scimitar edgy. Next they'll be marketing "the Turk" paraphernalia. Next season, everyone will need an onion dome helmet and some chainmail.

108 Who Watches the Watchmen?  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:38:44am

Is that model supposed to be St. Pancake's hot younger sister?

109 bunker buster  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:38:52am
#32 moonsbreath 2/12/2007 08:08AM PST

I recently received a jewelry catalog (Ross Simons) showing a necklace, earrings and a ring with the skull and crossbones, in diamonds. The catalog says it's a "hot trend" this year. So, not too sure about the Nazis connection.

Take a look at Beagle's link at #31. It's far too distinctive to be a concidence. Looks like Nazism is the "hot trend" this year...

110 sam  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:40:44am

Off-topic, but a very funny parody of the Boston Terror Scare, starring Osama and his dream team of terror masterminds.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1741589

111 American Soldier  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:41:12am

#87 Chicken Kiev 2/12/2007 08:26AM PST


More on the versatile Shemagh, from a war web site:

Next to his rifle, knife and boots, the Shemagh is probably one of the most usefull piece of equipment a soldier can have. .... When used corectly, as originally intended - a head wrap, the Shemagh is suprisingly comfortable. But it also have several other uses

I agree that it's a useful piece of gear. But on general principles, I'll carry and use other gear instead. In wintertime I go nowhere without my polypro neck gaiter/balaclava [Link: www.actiongear.com...]
(sold in finer PXs worldwide. See your local AAFES distributor.). I have a lighter one for the rest of the year.

112 Catttt  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:41:43am

What is the matter with these people?

My circle of influence in no way will impact Urban Outfitters. I do buy some duds online, but they're in no way "cool," and my idea of urban clothes does not include Nazi/terrorist chic. I'm glad Charles is bringing this to the light.

Note to "Urban chic" moonbats - don't wear this scarf to my hood.

113 rsquare  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:43:42am

#70 MikeySDCA 2/12/2007 08:21AM PST

One little problem: the hat in the lower picture can't be SS, who used silver, not red braid. The Wehrmacht Panzer units used the skull-and -bones motif; it's most likely their hat.


The wehrmacht panzer units did use pink piping, but their deathheads had been in use as elite German military symbols from the mid 19th c.
The way to differentiate Waffen SS from wehrmacht skulls is that the SS skulls have a jawbone, whereas the wehrmacht lack the jawbone.

picking nits to be sure, but the use of any skull in this connotation shows either a complete ignorance of history, or a willful, anti-semetic marketing ploy.

and their clothes are lame, too, purely for the cutting edge/edgy trustafarian.

Id like to poop in their boots


rsquare

114 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:44:48am
115 Geepers  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:45:08am

WriterMom (#68),

That may have been made in 1941, but it's not a military articact.

From Kidofspeed

Speaking of SS awards. I don't know, which one was the highest award, but I know which is the most valuable on a black market this days.

It is “Death’s Head” silver SS ring, we call them a dead head rings.

Chances to find “Death’s Head” not big. Himmler himself awarded SS soldiers with them and each ring was engraved on the inside of the band with Himmlers signature and after one died the search group have been deployed to find the soldier with rings, all death's heads should be returned to Himmler. He eventually got back only 70% of rings that were given, the rest 30% lost, many in WW2 trenches.

Himmler kept SS rings in a Wewelsburg castle which was the temple of SS order. He kept them in a special um that symbolized connection between alive and dead. I also, read somewhere that Himmler was doing some other mystical manipulations with those rings, but I don't know what exactly and I doubt Himmler himself knew what he was doing.

116 Ward Cleaver  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:46:33am

The perfect gift for all the Stormfronters in your life!

117 Bob's Kid  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:49:10am

The skull motif is all the thing for kids to be wearing at the suburban HS where I teach. They all came back from Christmas break sporting skulls on their pants, belts, shoes, shirts, binders, iPods, you name it.

118 freedom rings  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:49:20am

Damn, only available in purple. That's a deal-killer for me.

Purple makes my butt look big.

119 Catttt  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:49:55am

I found a silver grinning skull earring once - looked just like this one. I brought it into the house and set it on a table. The next day, I found it by the front door. Picked it up, put it up somewhere in the bedroom. Later - by the door. This happened several times - it was my cat, and I firmly believe she was telling me she didn't want it in the house. She never did this with any other object.

She'd probably do the same with this scarf.

120 Jack Reacher  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:50:15am

Whether you're looking to tear down the wall between you and the cute number across the floor, or hoping to have your territories occupied, the Urban Outfitters Kaffiyeh will have you seething in style. While trolling the Old City for excavations to protest, or just lounging around the coffee shop, the elegant drape and edge tassels state, in an elegant whisper, "Metrosexual." Get one for yourself and a friend, and enjoy the attention you gather when those around you notice the skull emblem, which tells the world "Out of our way; we're on our way to burn George Bush in effigy!"
Urban Outfitters Kaffiyeh, one size, imported.

/Imagining that in the J. Peterman character's voice from Seinfeld.

121 dmjung  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:52:19am

So will this be available for sale in Germany and on eBay?

122 Who Watches the Watchmen?  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:54:54am

#117 Bob's Kid

The skull motif is all the thing for kids to be wearing at the suburban HS where I teach.

Are you allowed to bar them from class?

123 xtraBilly  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:57:16am

#120 Jack Reacher
Been reading too many J Peterman catalogs, have we?

124 Pope Insouciance IV  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:58:27am

Ooooooh, I'm so bad. I wear deathshead clothing and I pout a lot. I also call the President a fascist and I dare anyone to stop me from using my right to free speech!

Now go away while I have my decaf cappucino latte (extra vanilla) with cinnamon stick stirrer and two French biscuits on the side.
Oh yeah, I'm from the mean streets of Central Park East!

125 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 6:58:33am
126 gymnast  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:00:38am

Urban Outfitters might be selling this as a "scarf" but it should be treated as a grab handle for the convenient removal of the trash that would wear such a symbol of nihilism.

127 Wookieelips  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:00:41am

What....what even is this crap?

Frankly, if it wasn't so scary, the Islamic world's admiration for the Nazis would be laughable. As if Hitler would allow Muslims or Arabs in his great Aryan nation. Hello? YOU'RE TOO BROWN TO BE A NAZI! They didn't like your kind any more than they liked the Jews!
Idiots.

128 THX-42  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:00:47am

It's an interesting phenomenon. Leftists seem to be pathetically powerless people who compensate for their own weakness by respecting and even mimicking those they fear. They also show contempt and loathing for those they perceive to be weak, ummmm, like Republican congress critters, for example.

129 Bob's Kid  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:01:35am
Are you allowed to bar them from class?

Nope. Guns, alcohol, drugs, knives, nekkid wimmen, yes. But not that.

Yet, anyway.

130 La Mauvaise New Yorkaise  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:01:56am

Color me unsurprised. The ever-popular and "hip" Brooklyn Industries used to manufacture a sweater that had numerous large hammer and sickle motifs woven into it.

131 Mr Spiffy  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:02:20am

I love the conveiences of modern life...
time was one had to travel overseas to be the "Ugly American" and insist everyone speak English;
now you no longer have to leave the country.

MrS

132 WriterMom  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:05:46am

#119 Catttt

Not suprising that your cat is smarter than the people who buy this crap.

133 maddogg  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:06:02am

That is absolutely, positively an SS insignia, I've read many illustrated books on the National Socialists and the SS.

134 nagasaki_hata  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:09:48am

May anyone who wears this and other such vilewear be deposited in Saudi Arabia on the Kabaa!

135 Dreadnaught  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:11:03am

Letter sent:


Dear Urban Outfitters:

As a longtime shopper at Urban, I'm (again) appalled to see you selling your "Anti-war Scarf", this time re-packaged as the "Skull Desert Scarf" and the "Shemagh Scarf."

Your customers are not stupid. You pulled the "Anti-war scarf" for good reasons: it was lame and rather offensive. Part of the reason it's offensive is because it's often used at demonstrations in support of terror groups (not just anti-war protests). But it's also offensive because — in many parts of the Arab-Muslim world — scarfs like that are generally only worn by people who have made a holy pilgrimage to Mecca. Granted, those versions are in red. Yet your scarf is still clearly imitating something only supposed to be worn by Hajis (pilgrims).

Either way, this scarf was a bad idea from the start. I was happy to see that you quickly stopped selling it just a few months ago. But trying to dump the inventory under a new name isn't going to work.

I had been meaning to go to your location on [Redacted] campus to get some posters for my new room this semester. But I have no intention of shopping at your stores while you're stocking that lame and offensive scarf.

[Redacted]
[Redacted], [Redacted]

136 HackD  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:11:11am

First post here. Thanks to Charles for opening the site up briefly this weekend to register.

I left feedback on the outfitters site expressing my displeasure.


I have to wonder, where the taste, or decency is in this day and age, when you sell a kaffiyeh, that for many people represents Terrorism, and rule by Thugism, and for one country/race in particular represents an immediate and ever present danger to their very existance.

To top it off, you market it in combination with an SS regalia Deathshead - which to much of the world, represents evil in man, at it's darkest, to this day.

Those who use these to capitalise on a market, have no taste, no morals, no scruples. Whats is next, "Support your Local Auschwitz Death-Camp" T-Shirts sold alongside "Che Forever" T-shirts?

Your business should be ashamed of itself, and i will be boycotting it, and recommending that everyone i know, do so also.

137 SagamoreGal  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:15:32am

Stylish Urban Guerillas = Ivy-educated trust fund snots with too much time on their hands.

138 maddogg  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:16:40am

Oh well, folks, I seriously doubt that Anyone at Urban Outfitters has opened a history book since grade school. Reading books is out of style with the moonbat crowd, unless it was written by Noam Chump-ski, and even then they would look for crib notes. Hard for Moonbats to maintain that level of concentration for more than 10 minutes, When ignorance is stylish, tis un-hip to be wise, just ask Paris and Nicole.....

139 Rune  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:18:34am

It's a bit ironic that they apparently market it towards women, since the kaffiyeh is a male clothing and a Palestinian wouldn't be caught dead wearing it - actually she might very well become dead fairly quickly if some of the men caught her wearing it.

140 Ed Driscoll  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:27:34am
Urban Outfitters continues to sell the Palestinian kaffiyeh, symbol of the intifada and decades of violence and terrorism, now calling it a Skull Desert Scarf.

And their cute little skull image (just the thing for stylish urban guerillas!), is a direct knock-off of the Nazi SS skull insignia:

Is Urban Outfitters comparing the Palestinians to Nazis? As soon as CAIR gets wind of that, those particular kaffiyehs will be deleted from the inventory faster than you can say Adnan Hajj.

141 Areopagitica  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:28:43am

Oh for shit's sake! Did UO hire some decendent of Adolf Eichmann to design a new line of women's fashion? Intoducing the SS line of wear just for women this summer fashion season

Can't find the skull pin on the UO website, maybe they pulled the image. Still, this is revolting.

142 zellmad  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:33:16am

on the up side, at least they're being honest about the product this time around. ;-)

143 Areopagitica  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:33:38am

Just an FYI, the death's head symbol actually predates the Nazis and was a symbol of the Hussars (Prussin calvary).

Not that his diminishes the nauseating and flagrantly vile and commercial reference UO has decided to adopt with the death's head in the style that the SS used.

144 varmint  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:38:44am

there's an old qoute from Jim Goad. Went something like...

"Whatever else you can say about the nazis, they should have won an oscar for costume design."


A few years ago i remember a billboard promoting the latest tomb raider movie. angelin jolie, 50 foot tall, wearing an SS deaths head. no one seemed to notice.

145 unstable  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:41:22am

OT, but does anyone else notice that all the liquor stores, tobacconists and newsstands are being bought up by Muslims? In my area, you can find a beer, cigarette or 'girlie' magazine without staring down a member of the Islamic faith.

Are they buying all our vices? To what end?

146 unstable  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:42:49am

PIMF: you can't find a beer

147 cagney  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:58:12am

looks like something out of a cartoon where they're wearing a dish cloth so they don't get dirty when eating.

When I see these halfwits I always shake my head in disbelief.

148 PDM  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 7:59:40am

They're scum. Merely out to make a buck.
New model, old product line.

149 dr. akim ullsheetbay  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 8:11:27am

just off the phone with urban outshitters...

the 1.800.959.8794 on their contact page at the website will not take a complaint.

when i pressed the receptionist for the complaint dept she gave me 215.564.2318 - 35 rings no answer....

3 more tries and back to 1.800 girl.

150 PalsyClown  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 8:19:10am

Aside from taking this POS clothing out of their lineup, UrbanOutfitters should start letting the heterosexuals pick their models. Gawdalmighty those chicks are the most emaciated, drugged up looking skanks.

151 So?  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 8:23:35am

Life as we know it is officially over.

[Link: news.yahoo.com...]

152 dr. akim ullsheetbay  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 8:25:59am

i have gotten back to the 1.800.959.8794 -
different gal and i had too really press [very nicely] and i got through to a mr.bailey - catalogue operations manager.

he sounded surprised, concerned and if he was playing me he did it very mr. smith goes to washington...but my spidey sense says he was not playing me. he said he would start looking into it. he apologized for the offense.

he did not sound accustomed to getting complaint calls.

153 FredWM  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 8:35:20am

To tell the truth, I can't see a thing on the scarf. Could we have an enlargement?

154 jimash  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 9:05:29am

hmmmm..
Just the thing for Lida QuimQuiffvix.

155 Jack of Shadows  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 9:05:55am

144 varmint

Was it Jim or Debbie Goad? She said something like that in "I Hate Being a Jew". Guess she's over that now. BTW I can't sem to register at Attack Cartoons or I'd have emailed you that sixpack by now.

For those still having trouble seeing the skull: it's a negative image. Black skull, white eye sockets. Took me a while to figure out too.

156 wun wabbit wun  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 9:16:22am

In the summer catalog I bet we will see burquas - which is a good thing since we will all soon be encouraged to wear them in order to placate and appease.

157 Shiplord Kirel  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 11:13:09am

I keep telling myself this can't be happening. An entire generaton of multi-cult indoctrinaton has led not to peace and inclusion but to division, ignorance, and historically illiterate support for mass murder.
We are living in a nightmare. It is 1939. What will we do?

Boycotts and argumentation are not enough. The opposing side, the rhetoric of terror and authoritarianism, inevitably translates to action. It feeds on ignorance and misinformation, the mass delusions of popular culture and mass marketing.

Unlike the Jews of 1939, we are not unarmed and we are not without historical examples. We should take the course they would have taken had they foreseen what would happen. To us it is hindsight, we are twice damned if we fail to act on it.

158 Shiplord Kirel  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 11:14:07am

Streicher and Goebbels: Follow their path, share their fate.

159 LiberalLogic  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 11:27:51am

Yes... she should definitely take off that scarf! And the rest of her clothes, too! ;)

Damn she's hot.

160 ajwharton  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 11:28:47am

The Shemagh is actually a decent piece of gear for the sandbox. I got one when I was training up for OPFOR.

[Link: www.uscav.com...]

161 Daisy  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 11:33:09am

Apart from all reasonable objections .. it is interesting how the designer got it right ( despite himself ).. the kaffiyah and Nazi skull, in an ideological sense, belong together.

162 Daisy  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 11:35:28am

Any bets how long will it be before the mystically Jewish Madonna shows up in the scarf?

163 Daisy  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 11:37:58am

#72 No Submission,

Ah. I see you don't read the woman's porn section of the Sunday Times. :) (many hours later)

164 FredWM  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 12:19:43pm

Dollars to donuts, 99% of the people seeing that think of the "Pirates of the Caribbean." The amount of historical illiteracy in the world never fails to amaze me.

165 Noam Chumpski  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 12:38:37pm

Actually, it just occured to me that this is like selling anti-black t-shirts on the KKK home page; you're just giving your hate mongers what they want. And Socialists really want their Shar'ia chic.

This won't change until Radical Islam hollows out their elbows with a Dewalt power drill for not covering their dirty, dirty hands in public.

Someone's gettin' a letter...

166 amphibian  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 1:16:48pm

#103 DavidJSchwartz:

Muslims 'about to take over Europe'

David Machlis and Tovah Lazaroff,
THE JERUSALEM POST
Jan. 29, 2007

Read it in jpost the first time. Wasn't Prof. Lewis on the touchy-feelie bash-Israel side before? And now all he sees is gloom and doom. I'd say that this simply indicates a talent for stating the obvious, and a lack of ability to come up with new ideas -- "Oh look, the dam has broken. Now we shall all die." rather than "The dam is indanger, let's move to higher ground".

167 Paul  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 1:18:16pm

#72 Nosubmission

The skull motif is a popular fashion statement among pop culture trendoids, I keep seeing them at local malls. Part of the problem is that today's "youths" are so ahistorical that they know nothing about nazism, much less SS symbols and regalia. It's the adults who should know better; but expecting adult responsibility from the fashion industry and the New York Times is asking to much.

168 Clutch  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 4:48:26pm

I used to have a real Totenkopf insignia; made out of aluminum, about the size of a quarter. Used to have it glued on the dashboard of me ol' '74 Mustang; it was sorta kewl then ('70's) 'cuz I was into German armor at the time (still am, but not to the point of displaying their logos), but stupid now (sorta wish I still had it, though, no clue as to what happened to it. Probably best that it is rotting/decaying somewhere...)

169 easy  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 4:51:11pm

Their models look a bit young as well, especially for that "pouty" look.

170 mjk  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 8:46:39pm

Interesting. Between this and the attempted attack on Elie Wiesel, the world has gotten very odd lately. Or sad and scary.

171 nakhish  Mon, Feb 12, 2007 9:26:22pm

I'm from Israel so I don't know UrbanOutwhatever, and if it wasn't for the SS skull and what you write in the comments here I would have suspected that they are actually trying to shove it down Muslim throats (if this picture was published on Jyllands-Posten with no comments, riots would have errupted all over again, and calmed only by the note about the SS skull I'm afraid...).

#87 Chicken Kiev
Douglas Adams has shown us the truth, use a towel, don't settle for cheap imitations!

172 wingnutx  Tue, Feb 13, 2007 10:42:44am

A shemagh is a pretty popular piece of gear with GIs in the sandbox.

So is the headover that American Soldier posted a link to further up.

173 Sharmuta  Wed, Feb 14, 2007 9:40:49am

She's still uncovered meat.


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