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Title: T-Shirt Inscription Keeps Iraqi Man From Boarding Flight
Source:
WNYC
URL Source: http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/63716
Published: Aug 29, 2006
Author: WNYC Newsroom
Post Date: 2006-08-29 15:56:49 by aristeides
Keywords: None
Views: 242
Comments: 19
T-Shirt Inscription Keeps Iraqi Man From Boarding Flight WNYC Newsroom NEW YORK, NY August 29, 2006 —An Iraqi architect says he was not allowed to board a Jet Blue flight at JFK because of the Arabic inscription on his t-shirt. REPORTER: Raed Jarrar was wearing a T-shirt that read We Will Not Be Silent in Arabic and English, when he was approached by security officers. The officers said the Arabic script was upsetting other passengers, and told Jarrar to either turn the shirt inside out or wear something else. Jarrar protested but finally wore a T-shirt provided by a Jet Blue employee. JARRAR: I grew up and spent all my life living under authoritarian regimes. and i know that these things happen. But I'm shocked that they happened to me here, in the U.S. Especially that I moved from Iraq because of the war that was waged in Iraq under titles like democracy and freedom. REPORTER: A spokesman for Jet Blue says the airline is investigating to see if the security officers were with the airline, the Transportation Security Administration or the Port Authority. He also said the airline does not forbid Arabic T-shirts, but that it does take into account the concerns of its passengers.
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#1. To: All (#0)
Shortly before I was banned from LP, Goldi-Lox announced that she had deleted two articles, because they contained some text in Arabic that she could not understand, and she could not take the risk that they were some sort of signal to terrorists.
LOL!
I wonder about her. I bet she has her house keeper look under her bed for the bogeyman before leaving at night so she can go to bed with teddy clutched safely in her hairy arms as she sucks her thumb slowly and gently into the drift to unconsciousness.
Hmmmmm, and we're kooks? hehehe
Do I hear a fat lady singing?
That's right up front stupid. No terrorist is reading LP waiting for a signal. Richard W.
So if it was written in Hebrew it wouldn't have upset them? Like they would know the difference?
"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers No kidding, everybody knows that Freedom4um is the premier hotbed of terrorist activity where 4 out of 5 terrorists go to get their secret signals. :P
Elvish looks like Arabic. "Frodo Lives" in Elvish.
Off-topic, (just this once), you might be interested to learn that bluedogtxn and Burkeman1 decided that your ban (and honway's and Brian S' and boru's and Finnegan's) was a bad sign, and now post at F4. Several have asked for your reinstatement. I'm giving GL a week to do so.
Thank you, all, for the support (although I seriously doubt if I would go back there at this point if Goldi-Lox were to announce that she is reinstating me.) But it is certainly noticeable that she has said nothing (at least as far as I have seen) to all the requests even from posters unfriendly to me that she explain why she did it. She has in fact made very few posts since she banned me last Thursday. Something strange is going on.
Dude, I'm not going back there, period. And yes, I left in large part due to your banning, but I've got West Texas pride involved now. No way in Hell I'm going back there. Besides, I'm kinda likin' it here.
Check out these articles at LP: New Forum Rules, and FAQ. It is somewhat of a surprise that they are still up. Goldi has recently scolded the bots for speaking too disrespectfully of all Muslims and Arabs, but criticism of Israel seems still to be too sensitive an area.
Those passengers were a bunch of goddamn pussies. Busybody tattletales looking to lift their damn noses and smirk at the humiliation they caused a stranger. It makes me sick to think vermin like that live in the same country I live in. "oooh. That strange writing bothers me...." Piss off, idiot.
Maybe JimRob is buying her out with the extra cash from the last Freepathon.
Hurrah ! Keep it up. Most people have the same experience ...then it hets a little better ...sometimes... The pack attacks here are not nearly as bad as at 4um or FR pardon the staccato...I am deep into writing a manuscript and have to duck back in in about three seconds...1-2-3 BrerRabbit posted on 2006-08-29 18:28:05 ET Reply Trace I see a rather weak spin from Brother Bunny on your new rules thread. Probably this is the closest the sparker of pack attacks will ever come to admitting one of LP's - and FR's - biggest problem is the empowerment of a borglike mindset that does not use fact or rational argument to control the spin 'at the top.'
I really wish you'd stop giving me ideas. I'm a boat rocker and NOW I'm going to have to go over there and post some Arabic. I'll throw in some Hebrew for good measure. LOL.
lol. you're so cute.
"Freedom4um" -- The Forum for Real Americans and where America and Americans are always First!
That's a perfect description of Mr. Rabbit since he himself admitted to me and others here that is his modus operandi. Then suddenly he's the victim. So transparent. Incidentally, my friend Morgana, nailed him on this in several posts.
? What kind of manuscript, I wonder?
#2. To: aristeides (#1)
she could not take the risk that they were some sort of signal to terrorists.
I've already said too much.
#3. To: aristeides (#1)
"Shortly before I was banned from LP, Goldi-Lox announced that she had deleted two articles, because they contained some text in Arabic that she could not understand, and she could not take the risk that they were some sort of signal to terrorists."
#4. To: aristeides (#1)
she could not take the risk that they were some sort of signal to terrorists.
#5. To: aristeides (#1)
she could not take the risk that they were some sort of signal to terrorists.
#6. To: aristeides (#0)
REPORTER: Raed Jarrar was wearing a T-shirt that read We Will Not Be Silent in Arabic and English, when he was approached by security officers. The officers said the Arabic script was upsetting other passengers, and told Jarrar to either turn the shirt inside out or wear something else. Jarrar protested but finally wore a T-shirt provided by a Jet Blue employee.
#7. To: Arete, christine, All (#5)
That's right up front stupid. No terrorist is reading LP waiting for a signal.
cage goes into salsa, shark's in the salsa. Our shark! - Dakmar Quint
#8. To: robin (#6)
Like they would know the difference?
I've already said too much.
#9. To: aristeides (#1)
banned from LP,
#10. To: leveller (#9)
#11. To: aristeides (#10)
although I seriously doubt if I would go back there at this point if Goldi-Lox were to announce that she is reinstating me.
#12. To: aristeides (#10)
she has said nothing . . . . Something strange is going on.
#13. To: aristeides (#0)
The officers said the Arabic script was upsetting other passengers, and told Jarrar to either turn the shirt inside out or wear something else.
#14. To: aristeides (#10)
Something strange is going on.
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#15. To: leveller (#12)
159. To: CharlotteCorday (#158) Good post CC.....good post !
#16. To: aristeides, christine (#1)
Shortly before I was banned from LP, Goldi-Lox announced that she had deleted two articles, because they contained some text in Arabic that she could not understand, and she could not take the risk that they were some sort of signal to terrorists.
"Prohibition...goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes at the very principles upon which our govt was founded."
- Lincoln
All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.
--William K Clifford
#17. To: IndieTX (#16)
#18. To: Ferret Mike, Morgana Le Fay (#15)
(Edited)
Probably this is the closest the sparker of pack attacks
#19. To: Ferret Mike (#15)
writing a manuscript
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