Wearing t-shirt with Arabic script in America means you are a suspected terrorist

by Haitham Sabbah (Palestine)

August 29th, 2006
8 Comments

On a trip back from the Middle East, Iraqi blogger and activist Raed Jarrar was not allowed to board a flight at JFK airport because he was wearing a t-shirt that said “We will not be silent” in English and Arabic. Airport security forced him to change his t-shirt saying wearing it was like “going to a bank with a t-shirt reading ‘I am a robber.’”

Full story here.

I’ve heard even worse than this story when a half Arab/American young lady was under investigation for hours, half naked, without allowing her to put on any cloths, for no reason.

This is the heaven of democracy and justice on Earth!

(Cross posted.)

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Cécile

August 29, 2006

This is just incredible and unfortunately so true… It’s a form of what we call in French “le délit de sale gueule” (crime of bad face).. I hope this could simply stop but it will need time… For the moment it’s the same everywhere I fear. For example, here (in Belgium), when a 17 years boy was kill in a train station a few months ago to steal its Ipod, it was asked to the local mosques and the muslims communite to help to find the responsibles of this crime… Finally they were young people from some european country…

I hope ebsite as this one working for a beter understanding will help slowly…

Esra'a

August 29, 2006

Hi Cécile, do you have a link to the story you’re referring to?

Cécile

August 29, 2006

Not directly so but I may look for if you want to. I’m quite sure I could find some link. It was in all our news at this time…

Muneeb

August 29, 2006

I wonder if the same would happen if someone was wearing a shirt with Hebrew on it, or the Star of David and tried to board a flight in the GCC countries

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August 29, 2006

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