Dunkin' Donuts Gives in to Terrorism!

I am not sure how many people have seen this story but it makes me sick!

Dunkin' Donuts has pulled an online advertisement featuring Rachael Ray after complaints that a fringed black-and-white scarf that the celebrity chef wore in the ad offers symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism.

The coffee and baked goods chain said the ad that began appearing online May 7 was pulled over the past weekend because "the possibility of misperception detracted from its original intention to promote our iced coffee."

In the spot, Ray holds an iced coffee while standing in front of trees with pink blossoms.

Critics, including conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, complained that the scarf wrapped around her looked like a kaffiyeh, the traditional Arab headdress. Critics who fueled online complaints about the ad in blogs say such scarves have come to symbolize Muslim extremism and terrorism.

The kaffiyeh, Malkin wrote in a column posted online last Friday, "has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad. Popularized by Yasser Arafat and a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos, the apparel has been mainstreamed by both ignorant (and not-so-ignorant) fashion designers, celebrities, and left-wing icons."

A statement issued by Canton, Mass.-based Dunkin' Brands Inc., however, said the scarf had a paisley design, and was selected by a stylist for the advertising shoot.
"Absolutely no symbolism was intended," the company said.

Dunkin' spokeswoman Michelle King said the ad appeared on the chain's Web site, as well as other commercial sites.

Malkin, in a posting following up on last week's column, said of Dunkin's decision to pull the ad, "It's refreshing to see an American company show sensitivity to the concerns of Americans opposed to Islamic jihad and its apologists."

I try to keep a fairly level headed approach on this blog, but this story has me steaming mad. There is no explanation for the "outrage" over this scarf that is explainable outside of the anti-Arab, fascist tendencies of those who protested and complained, and the utterly weak-kneed, slimey, anti-principled response of Dunkin' Donuts! I am sick to my stomach over the fact that they caved into the "pressure" of these complaints, highlighted by perhaps the most illogical, idiotic, dimwitted, imbecilic, fatuous dolt of a "pundit"(no disrespect intended to actual pundits)--Michelle Malkin. She makes Ann Coulter seem reasonable, calm and collected.

First off, there is the question of whether this is even a kaffiyeh in the first place. Second, there is the more important question of why it matters? How is a traditional piece of clothing worn by many Arab men a sign of support for terrorism? The dimwitted one argues that it is a sign of Palestinian nationalism and therefore terrorism and therefore Dunkin' Donuts' ad with Rachel Ray (a terrorist if I've ever seen one) wearing, what is speciously thought by the imbecile to be a kaffiyeh, is a sign of solidarity with the terrorists. Oh the logic of wholly simple-minded.

Shame on Dunkin' Donuts for paying ANY heed to this disgraceful, fascistic nonsense!