Next stop: Guantanamo

Nation's Restaurant News,  June 16, 2008  by Gregg Cebrzynski

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It's hot this time of year in Cuba. I hope Rachael Ray, the Dunkin' Donuts spokeswoman, has a lot of iced coffee to take with her when Homeland Security comes to lock her up for being an enemy combatant or terrorist sympathizer or whatever name they come up with.

Ray appeared, briefly, in an online ad wearing what right-wing bloggers, and especially Fox News commentator Michelle Malkin, said was a keffiyeh, a traditional headdress that Arab men wear. Writing on www.gopusa.com, Malkin said the keffiyeh "has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad" and is a "regular adornment of Muslim terrorists" that has been "mainstreamed by both ignorant (and not so ignorant) fashion designers, celebrities and left-wing icons."

The reaction to the ad from the conservative bloggers was so strong that Dunkin' felt compelled to remove it. The chain stated that what Ray actually was wearing is a black-and-white silk scarf with a paisley design that a stylist picked out, and that "absolutely no symbolism was intended."

Ray wasn't even wearing the scarf on her head--it was draped around her neck--but Dunkin' Donuts said the misperception detracted from what the ad was supposed to do: sell iced coffee.

Malkin was pleased that the ad was pulled, but when she writes that she's an American "opposed to Islamic jihad and its apologists," does she mean Dunkin' Donuts and Ray are apologists for jihad? Maybe she can clear that up.

I'm glad Malkin and her ilk are keeping a constant vigil to identify jihad apologists before they can start trouble for the rest of us. rd do it myself but I've been pretty busy.

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