Dunkin’ Donuts does. The pastry giants are afraid that customers mike mistake Rachel Ray for a terrorist sympathizer because of her paisley scarf. Sound silly? We agree.

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The Canton-based company has abruptly canceled an ad in which the domestic 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 symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad,” Malkin yowls in her syndicated column.” “.. the apparel has been mainstreamed by both ignorant and not-so-ignorant fashion designers, celebrities, and left-wing icons.”

 

Dunkin laughed off this craziness at first but you know those right-wing extremists don’t give up that easily. The blogosphere was burning up with ‘ban Dunkin Donuts’ talk so the company decided it was just easier to pull the ad and keep folks eating their fatty round pastries.

 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 advertising shoot. Absolutely no symbolism was intended. However, given the possibility of misperception, we are no longer using the commercial.”

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