Another Kaffiyeh Wearer Gets in Trouble
Charles Johnson
Fri May 30, 2008 at 8:48 am PDT • Views: 490
A store employee in Australia has gotten in trouble for wearing a kaffiyeh: Keffiyeh kerfuffle hits Bondi bottleshop.
More overreacting right-wingers, seeing terrorist symbols where they don’t exist?
No; this time a Palestinian customer complained because she was wearing it for fashion reasons, rather than as a political statement.
Ms Tieger said she had “no idea about the politics” when she bought the scarf at the Tree Of Life store.
“I thought it was a nice scarf, a cowboy scarf. I thought: ‘It’s black and white, no-one will say anything to me because that’s all we can wear [with our work uniform]’.
“A Palestinian customer came up and asked me if I’m wearing this scarf as a fashion statement or for political reasons.
“I had no idea what he was talking about because I don’t follow politics at all. I just laughed it off.
“Two days later he called and complained about it.”
(Hat tip: Carl.)
Frank says: