Am I alone in thinking the anti-Arab/anti-Islam hysteria has gone a little too far in the US when a company selling coffee and doughnuts (donuts) has to pull an advert because it shows an actress wearing a scarf that looks a bit too Arab?
Apparently the Dunkin Donuts ad was pilloried by right wing bloggers for Rachel Ray’s scarf because it is too like “the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad.”
Oh dear.
Cholesterol jihadist with weapon…
We all abhor Islam’s extremists for criticising our free speech when it comes to cartoons of Muhammed, and feel superior to their ‘ignorance’ and ‘intolerance’ when they ‘overreact’. Okay, no one in the west is threatening a fatwah or jihad equivalent over this, or burning flags, but isn’t this reaction a very sad symptom of the hatred being inflamed by extremists on both sides?
Perhaps it’s about time we all stopped wearing pajamas too…
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