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Iraqi says had to change t-shirt before US flight
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Posted on 08/30/2006 5:10:08 AM PDT by sonsofliberty2000

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An Iraqi architect on Tuesday said he was forced to change his t-shirt before boarding a flight in New York because the shirt had "We will not be silent" written on it in Arabic and English. ADVERTISEMENT

Raed Jarrar wrote on his Internet blog (http://raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com) that he was required to change out of the shirt prior to boarding a JetBlue flight from New York's John F. Kennedy Airport to California this month because officials told him people were offended by the shirt.

In an interview with New York Public Radio on Tuesday, Jarrar said, "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."

Jarrar could not immediately be reached for comment.

JetBlue said it was investigating the August 12 incident.

"We're not clear exactly what happened," JetBlue spokeswoman Jenny Dervin said.

The American-Arab Anti-discrimination Committee said the U.S. Transportation Department and the Transportation Security Administration were also investigating the incident after the committee lodged complaints on behalf of Jarrar.


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To: sonsofliberty2000

Good for JetBlue!


41 posted on 08/30/2006 6:27:19 AM PDT by toldyou
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To: Clovis_Skeptic

AMERICA LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT


42 posted on 08/30/2006 6:27:59 AM PDT by GeorgefromGeorgia
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To: sonsofliberty2000
...I was wearing my shirt which states in both Arabic and English "we will not be silent"...

His fellow passengers won't be silent either.

43 posted on 08/30/2006 6:28:32 AM PDT by mpoulin
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To: Tennessee_Bob

since he likes the phrase, maybe it would bode well to carve it into his chest lest he forget the saying. Lets make sure he remembers it. Then let him travel shirtless.


44 posted on 08/30/2006 6:32:31 AM PDT by sportsterinred
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To: Lurking in Kansas; All

"Yup. I have a thought. Why don't you leave? Oh, and don't let the door hit you in the @ss."


I second that....! If he thinks it's his consitutional right to wear a t-shirt, then he didn't learn anything when he applied for citizenship.....

Media attention whore alert!!!!


45 posted on 08/30/2006 6:40:10 AM PDT by groovejedi ((Bolton for Prez!!!!!))
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To: sonsofliberty2000
So I answered him "I live in the US, and I understand it is my right to wear this t-shirt".

Indeed it is. And it is the constitutional right of Jet Blue to refuse you service if you do not meet their standards of appropriate attire.

You're not the only person in the US with rights, assclown.

46 posted on 08/30/2006 6:43:43 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: sonsofliberty2000
I wonder if I would be able to board an airplane if I wore a tee shirt with a bulls eye painted over muhammad?
47 posted on 08/30/2006 6:46:24 AM PDT by John D
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To: sonsofliberty2000

http://www.parkerstudio.com/AAW/notsilentstories.html

more of the shirts


48 posted on 08/30/2006 6:47:40 AM PDT by Ellesu
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To: Ellesu

This movement is simply a confrontation of the FREE WEST saying that Islam will be who they want to be. I think its time to move Islam aside. They have no right in my society if my society says they dont.


49 posted on 08/30/2006 6:50:24 AM PDT by sportsterinred
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To: Nabber

Here's an e-mail I sent:
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""It sucks to be an Arab/Muslim living in the US these days. When you go to the middle east, you are a US tax-payer destroying people's houses with your money, and when you come back to the US, you are a suspected terrorist and plane hijacker.""

You had to change your t-shirt, you say?

Thank heavens you were dealing with American Christians. Two Americans in Iraq had their shirts changed for them by a mob:

http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/archive/images/iraq.htm

... that is, changed into smouldering ashes, along with thier entire bodies.

So cry me a river.

If you spent more time denouncing the mass murderers and their apologists waving the banner of Islam, instead of the people who are trying to cut them down and root them out, maybe you'd elicit a little more sympathy. Maybe if you didn't go out of your way to put your fellow airline passengers into a state of mortal fear as some sort of sick, perverted game, then maybe more people would give a damn.
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50 posted on 08/30/2006 6:51:14 AM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: devonian

This outside agitator is as pink as they come-

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2006-09,GGLG:en&q=%22Raed+Jarrar%22


51 posted on 08/30/2006 6:53:09 AM PDT by dennisw (Confucius say man who go through turnstile sideways going to Bangkok)
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To: sonsofliberty2000

A suggestion, stay in Iraq and avoid embarassment.


52 posted on 08/30/2006 6:55:34 AM PDT by hgro
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To: Thebaddog
I notice he caught the attention of airport security when he was fiddling with his cell phone.

Aside from that there is this incident :
The other thing you can't miss in Jordan and Syria is people's anger against the US. On more than occasion, I got shouted at because I live in the US. The most interesting incident was during a visit to a Lebanese refugee camp. I was called by two young Lebanese people, and they asked me whether me and the rest of the delegation visiting their shelter where coming from the US. I said yes. They said: "you better get the hell out of here unless you want us to make a scene". I tried to explain that we are the "good" Americans who are against the war, so they said go back home and change your government. "you can't come here visit us in a shelter that we were sent to because of your tax money and your bombs, and expect us to be nice to you". So me and the other Americans got the hell out of there.

Or maybe some of these incidents he describes happened a little differently than he recalls:

The other thing you can't miss in Jordan and Syria is people's anger against Hezbollah. On more than occasion, I got shouted at because I support Hezbollah. The most interesting incident was during a visit to a Lebanese refugee camp. I was called by two young Lebanese people, and they asked me whether me and the rest of the delegation visiting their shelter where Hezbollah supporters from the US. I said yes. They said: "you douchebags better get the hell out of here unless you want us to make a scene". I tried to explain that we are the "good" Americans who are against the war, so they said go back home and leave us alone. "you can't come here visit us in a shelter that we were sent to because of your support for terrorism, and expect us to be nice to you". So me and the other international socialists got the hell out of there.

53 posted on 08/30/2006 6:58:42 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: Xenalyte

I caught that little phrase too. Not only is he an idiot, he's a lying idiot.


54 posted on 08/30/2006 7:00:30 AM PDT by pepperdog
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To: sonsofliberty2000
It sucks to be an Arab/Muslim living in the US these days.

Yeah, except that it doubly and triply sucks to be an Arab/(Any other country inserted here). Like Winston Churchill said: "Democracy is the absolute worst kind of government ever invented by man -- except for all the others."

This cat needs to grow up.

55 posted on 08/30/2006 7:00:31 AM PDT by Tennessean4Bush (I would never belong to any club that would have someone like me as a member.)
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To: devonian

56 posted on 08/30/2006 7:01:00 AM PDT by patriciaruth (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1562436/posts)
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To: hgro

I heard commentary on talk radio this morning about Muslims who are knifing, driving over and shooting citizens here in the USA. Its a trend developing. Its individuals doing this. Thier freinds and neighbors then say "what a quiet, thoughtful harmless fellow, he must have been stressed". Meanwhile they killed 1-10 people, especially Jews. The Arab Muslim population here should be afraid to even fart too loud.


57 posted on 08/30/2006 7:01:33 AM PDT by sportsterinred
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To: alicewonders
He was daring us to stop him - daring people on the flight to be scared of him. This is their new plan - keep us on edge & freaked out - so that WE look like paranoid idiots.

Ah! So the way to defeat these clever provocateurs is to ignore their terrifying shirts and behave like calm, sane adults!
58 posted on 08/30/2006 7:05:02 AM PDT by xenophiles
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To: sonsofliberty2000
Do you have another t-shirt?

59 posted on 08/30/2006 7:05:07 AM PDT by evets (beer)
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To: Syberyenta

Idiots in arabic t-shirts can bring down planes. This jerk is lucky he didn't get it shoved up his sorry @$$.


60 posted on 08/30/2006 7:06:48 AM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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