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> It is far more likely that he raised suspicion by wearing a keffiyeh > a picture of Guido Menzio wearing a scraggly beard and keffiyeh combo. He is not weari

> It is far more likely that he raised suspicion by wearing a keffiyeh > a picture of Guido Menzio wearing a scraggly beard and keffiyeh combo. He is not wearing a keffiyeh in that picture. A keffiyeh is a square scarf that is worn on the head. In that picture he is wearing a non-square (fringed) scarf, and around his neck. Only a nut would look at that scarf and make the leap "Yasser Arafat" -> "Palestinian Liberation Organization" -> "terrorist" as you do. TV cook Rachel Ray made an ad for Dunkin Donuts a few years ago, in which she wore a scarf around her neck. The Trump-supporting type nutcases came out of the woodwork and said she was wearing the scarf to support the terrorists. You can see a sample of it if you Google "Dunkin Donuts" "Rachel Ray" and "keffiyeh". Most of the articles are by people who appear on Fox News regularly. Only a wack job makes the leap from a math professor who is presumably an American of Italian descent that wears a scarf to the scarf being a keffiyeh! That Yasser Arafat wore! Who was in the PLO! Which is proscribed as terrorist! By make the leap I mean make the leap like you did.

Zuider 10y ago
>He is not wearing a keffiyeh in that picture. A keffiyeh is a square scarf that is worn on the head. A keffiyeh can also be worn around the neck (the favored way for Westerners, though also found in the M.E.) covering the face, or even wound into a turban. Wikipedia: "The Palestinian keffiyeh is a gender-neutral chequered black and white scarf that is usually worn around the neck or head." https://archive.is/0ZS0E https://archive.is/0ZS0E >Only a nut would look at that scarf and make the leap "Yasser Arafat" -> "Palestinian Liberation Organization" -> "terrorist" as you do. Here, we are in total agreement. Menzio himself made a point of calling it his "Arafat scarf" and posted an image of himself wearing it to the Facebook discussion in order support his delusion that he was 'racially profiled' by a racist Trump supporter who was unable to distinguish mathematical notation from 'terrorist writing'. If you are looking for a nutter, you need look no further than Menzio himself.

Zuider 10y ago

>He is not wearing a keffiyeh in that picture. A keffiyeh is a square scarf that is worn on the head. A keffiyeh can also be worn around the neck (the favored way for Westerners, though also found in the M.E.) covering the face, or even wound into a turban. Wikipedia: "The Palestinian keffiyeh is a gender-neutral chequered black and white scarf that is usually worn around the neck or head." https://archive.is/0ZS0E https://archive.is/0ZS0E >Only a nut would look at that scarf and make the leap "Yasser Arafat" -> "Palestinian Liberation Organization" -> "terrorist" as you do. Here, we are in total agreement. Menzio himself made a point of calling it his "Arafat scarf" and posted an image of himself wearing it to the Facebook discussion in order support his delusion that he was 'racially profiled' by a racist Trump supporter who was unable to distinguish mathematical notation from 'terrorist writing'. If you are looking for a nutter, you need look no further than Menzio himself.