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Dunkin' Donuts pulled an online ad [13] for frozen lattes featuring domestic maven Rachael Ray after receiving complaints from right-wing bloggers, including conservative FOX News commentator Michelle Malkin [14], that a black-and-white paisley scarf Ray wore in the ad too closely resembled a traditional Arab headdress called a kaffiyeh [15]. Malkin wrote that the scarf resembled "a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos," and that "the apparel has been mainstreamed by both ignorant (and not-so-ignorant) fashion designers, celebrities and left-wing icons." Amahl Bishara, a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Chicago who specializes in media matters about the Middle East said [13], "Kaffiyehs are worn every day on the street by Palestinians and other people in the Middle East -- by people going to work, going to school, taking care of their families, and just trying to keep warm ... To reduce their meaning to support for terrorism has a tacit racist tone to it."
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[1] http://dev.prwatch.org/users/5684/anne-landman
[2] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/marketing/advertising
[3] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/corporations/corporate-campaigns
[4] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/media/internet
[5] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/politics/right-wing
[6] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/war-peace/terrorism
[7] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/international
[8] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/propaganda
[9] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/race-ethnic-issues
[10] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/religion
[11] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/social-justice
[12] http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.prwatch.org%2Fspin%2F2008%2F05%2F7395%2Fconservative-bloggers-link-rachael-ray-ad-terror-symbolism&linkname=Conservative%20Bloggers%20Link%20Rachael%20Ray%20Ad%20to%20Terror%20Symbolism
[13] http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,359501,00.html
[14] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Michelle_Malkin
[15] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keffiyeh
[16] http://adage.com/article?article_id=127349