A screenshot from the spot pulled by Dunkin' Donuts this weekend.
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.”
Malkin noted that it could appear at times that actor Colin Farrell, rapper Kanye West and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean have been photographed in similar scarves that were "distinctive hate couture."
A statement issued Wednesday 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.
Rachel Ray's terrorist scarf looks familiar.
Dunkin’ spokeswoman Michelle King said the ad appeared on the chain’s Web site, as well as other commercial.
Actually the two scarves aren't similar at all. At one time the PLA used a red checkered scarf. The Major remembers the scarf because he bought one while he was in Egypt.
See http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24860437/
See the rest of the story at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/06/political-scientists-fore_n_706643.html
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