A chain store specialising in high-fat, high-sugar fast food might expect to come under fire for a lot of things but "mainstreaming terrorism" is probably not one of them.
But that is precisely what Dunkin Donuts have been accused of by a number of rightwing bloggers in the US after running an online advert featuring US Food Network host Rachael Ray.
The company's "crime" in the eyes of its critics was that Ray was wearing a kaffiyeh, the headscarf worn widely in the Arab world but probably most closely associated with the former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
Charles Johnson, blogging on the rightwing Little Green Footballs website, said Dunkin Donuts was "the latest American firm to casually promote the symbol of Palestinian terrorism".
Criticism from Johnson and other rightwing bloggers, including Michelle Malkin, prompted the company to pull the advertisement, although you can still see a slightly doctored version here.
That decision prompted widespread disbelief from those a little further left on the political spectrum.
A US professor of anthropology suggested on Salon that "to say it [the kaffiyeh] is a symbol of terrorism is to say that all Palestinians are terrorists".
But surely the decision to pull the advert was just plain nuts?
