The Dunkin’ Donuts chain recently screened an advertisement with a celebrity chef called Rachel Ray wearing what appears to be a Palestinian keffeyeh around her neck whilst sipping on a latte.
Michelle Malkin (above), an American blogger and columnist, was appalled at seeing a celebrity chef giving aid and comfort to the enemy by wearing a scarf in a donut commercial that sort of looks like a scarf worn by Palestinians.
I’ve been a fan of Dunkin’ Donuts for years. Their Munchkins are heaven. Their coffee is better and cheaper than Starbucks. And the company’s management has taken a brave and lonely stand in support of immigration enforcement — refusing to hire illegal aliens and blowing the whistle on applicants with bogus Social Security numbers.
So it was with some dismay that I learned last week that Dunkin’ Donuts spokeswoman Rachael Ray, the ubiquitous TV hostess, posed for one of the company’s ads in what appeared to be a black-and-white keffiyeh.
So, in response to this Malkin-led “backlash”, Dunkin Donuts have decided to pull the advertisement, issuing a statement that reads, in part:
Thank you for expressing your concern about the Dunkin’ Donuts advertisement with Rachael Ray. In the ad that you reference, Rachael is wearing a black-and-white silk scarf with a paisley design that was purchased at a U.S. retail store. It was selected by the stylist for the advertising shoot. Absolutely no symbolism was intended. However, given the possibility of misperception, we will no longer use the commercial.
It’s not just celebrity chefs who are also succumbing to dunkin’ dhimmitude: even Prince Harry has admitted to wearing the keffiyeh (or, as it is also known in other parts of the Arab world, the shemagh):
“I think dressed in the same uniform as numerous other people, thousands of other people in Afghanistan will give me one of the best chances to be just a normal person: with a helmet on, with a shemagh (scarf) with goggles on, whatever,” he said.
One might scoff that it’s just a scarf but, as Malkin writes:
It’s just a scarf, the clueless keffiyeh-wearers scoff. Would they say the same of fashion designers who marketed modified Klan-style hoods in Burberry plaid as the next big thing? Fashion statements may seem insignificant, but when they lead to the mainstreaming of violence—unintentionally or not–they matter. Ignorance is no longer an excuse. In post-9/11 America, vigilance must never go out of style.
Now that Team Malkin has successfully defeated Rachael Ray, let’s hope they turn their attention to an even more insidious and dangerous threat to our freedom: Action Man.
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you can buy these at cotton-on for like $10….. so many people (mainly women) wearing these now-a-days…
i think its worth wearing just to anger these right wing nuts!
I dunno, there are precedents here. Slippery slopes and all that jazz:
http://armsandinfluence.typepa.....nst-n.html
I think the foil hat has affected Ms Malkins brain. Though she is on Fox, so who knows.
Musoim-Perth - over on Muslim Village there’s a post about a Palestinian objecting to someone wearing a near-keffiyeh. ‘Hands off our symbols’ etc.
I totally agree that Malkin is a nutjob, and I suspect the debate required is about the lack of social responsibilty of bloggers.
Antish - i am banned from the ‘village’ am not even allowed to read the site………
its not really a palestinian symbol as it is worn all accross the arab world and u can see many men who wear it in the indian subcontinent as well as indonesia and all over africa……
How can you be banned from that forum? I always saw that forum as a cesspool of fanatics hailing from their parents basement in Oz.
Much like Ummah.com is for confused British Muslims who have romantic views of an Islamic state lol
http://www.smh.com.au/news/nat.....79497.html
@ Shadower: Actually, this particular screencapture of Malkin on Fox is an old one. She was kicked off of Fox a number of months ago. Too wacko apparently even for them. I wouldn’t worry too much for her, though. It gives her more time to practice her cheerleading.
“… a freelance journalist who has reported on the keffiyeh’s popularity in Australia, said many Palestinians were annoyed the widespread use of the keffiyeh for fashion had watered down its meaning.”
What is its “meaning” exactly? I HEART Hamas? Fashion victim walking in the footsteps of Yasser Arafat?
Michelle Malkin uncut:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v54fMGZBPo
The Young Turks propose a boycott of Dunkin’ Donuts for pulling the ad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE7jFV2vSEA
The funny thing about this hoohaa is that it was a paisley scarf, not a keffiyeh. All that fuss over nothing.
Like wow. Is this beech laughing all the way to the bank or what. First, Mighty Michelle, a.k.a. Philadelphia Bara, calls for all red blooded good doobie christian all american heroes to boycott Dunkin Donuts because one of their commercials features a celebrity wearing a paisley scarf that might sorta look something similar to a keffiyeh. Duh! So Dunkin Donuts, not wanting to offend the pro-war anti-peace crowd, pull the CM out of the cyberspace. In counter-retaliation, the anti-war pro-peace crowd launches their own boycott against the donut company for caving in to the sun-o-phobic activists by pulling the CM.
How could dunkin donuts have possibly avoided a boycott? One way or the other, either the anti-peace pro-war people or the pro-peace anti-war people are going to boycott Dunkin Donuts. DD chose to appease the former and face the wrath of the latter. But one thing for sure in this lose-lose situation for Dunk but, SOMEBODY wins. And it ain’t Dunkin D! Well done Michelle!
Our neighbors have a Persian cat. Do you think they might be terrorists?
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