D’oh Nuts

Terror strikes the clogged arteries of America’s Heartland. (From Little Green Footfetishes, no link because Charles hates to be mocked…. like most men over fifty who still sport ponytails):

I didn’t believe this story when people first started emailing about it; but sure enough, its true. Dunkin Donuts, the venerable old fried dough seller, is the latest American firm to casually promote the symbol of Palestinian terrorism and the intifada, the kaffiyeh, via Rachael Ray: Dunkin’ Breakfast Choices.

Here’s an LGF search with many previous examples of the mainstreaming of the kaffiyeh. I’m actually getting hate mail from Rachael Ray supporters (!) but this isn’t happening in a vacuum, and Ray is not the first celebrity to show up wearing one of these.

UPDATE at 5/23/08 12:35:54 pm:

This isn’t just my lonely opinion; for more on the kaffiyeh as the symbol of Palestinian terrorism (they don’t call it that, of course), see the “Magazine of the Party for Socialism and Liberation:” The Palestinian kaffiyeh: a symbol of solidarity [S&L Magazine].

The comments are, shall we say, delish:

• I’m going to Krispy Kreme!

• Not that I’ve been to a DD in years, but I think that maybe I should never go back.

• Crap. I literally just took a sip of a Dunks coffee.

• Who owns Dunkin Donuts? It’s going to be hard to get my wife and daughter to stop going there.

• Is that hack Rachel Ray gonna whip us up some dunkin donut falafels to go along with PLO cafe latte?

• It’s not just DD in this case. Rachel Ray has an empire. Her Food Network shows, her talk show, her magazine, her line of cookware…. All should be boycotted.

• That is Rachel Ray. I’m not sure that she actually understands the significance of what she is wearing; at least I have never heard anything of her politics. She doesn’t strike me as a moonbat, but she may be.

• What is the building in the background? Can anyone tell? Rachel Ray . . . I wonder if she might be of Muslim heritage . . .

• She should be ashamed, but I’d bet dollars to donuts (sorry!) she has no idea the significance of what she’s wearing… That does not excuse DD for running an ad w/ her wearing it, tho… What’s next, swastikas? Ron Paul T-shirts?

• Their shareholders must be made aware this is offensive and undermines our war effort.

It actually goes downhill from there…

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a cruller.