Rachael Ray is a coffee-selling terrorist

Many of you have presumptively heard that Dunkin' Donuts pulled an ad showing Rachael Ray because she looks "too Arab-y." Apparently, her scarf set the right blogs a-buzzing who decided to wage war on my beloved Dunkin' until they pulled the ad. Bloodied and beaten, the purveyors of sweet fried bread that fuel my morning gave in, proper to the Boston Globe:

The Canton-based company has abruptly canceled an ad in which the family diva wears a scarf that looks like a keffiyeh, a traditional headdress worn by Arab men. Some observers, including ultra-conservative Fox News commentator Michelle Malkin, were so incensed by the ad that there was even talk of a Dunkin’ Donuts boycott.

‘‘The keffiyeh, for the clueless, is the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to express murderous Palestinian jihad,’’ Malkin yowls in her federal column.

‘‘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.’’

Said the suits in a statement: ‘‘In a recent online ad, Rachael Ray is wearing a black-and-white silk scarf with a paisley design. It was selected by her stylist for the blasting* shoot. Absolutely no symbolism was intended. However, given the whack of misperception, we are no longer using the commercial.’’

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