Dunkin’ Donuts removes ‘ter­ror scarf’ ad — The US chain Dunkin’ Donuts has pulled an advert fol­low­ing com­plaints that the scarf worn by a celebrity chef offered sym­bolic sup­port for Islamic extremism.

She was wear­ing a black-and-white checked scarf around her neck that resem­bled a tra­di­tional Arab keffiyeh.

This fash­ion choice incensed at least one promi­nent con­ser­v­a­tive blog­ger, who said it evoked extrem­ist videos.

The blog­ger called the gar­ment “a reg­u­lar adorn­ment of Mus­lim ter­ror­ists appear­ing in behead­ing and hostage-taking videos”.

Peo­ple really do need to get more edu­cated on these issues. Do the major­ity of peo­ple not realise that there is a dif­fer­ence between Arabs and Mus­lims — let alone Mus­lims and extremists?

As a white mid­dle classer who has recently decided to learn Ara­bic, I get a lot of odd, angry stares when I (attempt to) talk to the local Arab immi­grants. How­ever, I just ignore these igno­rant peo­ple… just like Dunkin’ Donuts should have.

Edit: Here is the blog post from said “promi­nent con­ser­v­a­tive blog­ger”. Watch out, it’s scary over there!