Re: Jewish Journalist Arrested for Objecting to Islamic Terror Symbol in Grocery Store

Ed Stasiak <user1263@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

BTR1701

According to Rachmuth, she objected to a supermarket employee at Harris
Teeter wearing the controversial keffiyeh, a political symbol widely
associated with Hamas and its ambitions to destroy Israel and the Jewish
people worldwide.

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That's a kippah in Hebrew or yamulke in Yiddish. The garment is not
religiously required but it fulfills the religious requirement for men
to cover their heads. Any hat, covering the dome of the head (the word
kippah literally means "dome") or the entire head, with or without a
brim, fulfills the religious requirement.

The comparable garment worn by a Muslim is called a kufi.

The garment itself makes no political statement.

Oh, Ed, if you had tried really hard, you could have found pictures of
Jewish men who had gone to create a homestead in rural Palestine, either
while it was still the Ottoman Empire or under the British Mandate,
wearing a keffiyeh.

It's a cloth worn by men worn to help survive in desert conditions and
to protect from the sun. It doesn't literally have either religious nor
terroristic nor nationalistic implications, even though Arafat wore it
as such a symbol.

It's possible Hamas wears it as part of a uniform but I have no idea.