[LCM Articles] Iraqi Peace Activist Forced to Change T-Shirt Bearing Arabic Script Before Boarding Plane at JFK

[Abdallah Jabbour]

The detailed story is actually in his August 10 blog, at
http://raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com/


On 8/21/06, Sarah Rogers <sarrog at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Note: forwarded message attached.
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: May Farah <mf1351 at nyu.edu>
> To: mf1351 at nyu.edu
> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:28:33 -0600
> Subject: Fwd: [arabny] Iraqi Peace Activist Forced to Change T-Shirt
> Bearing Arabic Script Before Boarding Plane at JFK
> Oh come on, how can this possibly be acceptable??
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: emily video <emilyvideo2002 at yahoo.com>
> To: arabny at yahoogroups.com
> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:50:56 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: [arabny] Iraqi Peace Activist Forced to Change T-Shirt Bearing
> Arabic Script Before Boarding Plane at JFK
> Iraqi Peace Activist Forced to Change T-Shirt Bearing
> Arabic Script Before Boarding Plane at JFK
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> 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.
> Representatives of Jet Blue Airways 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.'"
> [includes rush transcript - partial]
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> For full article, see:
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> http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/21/1348224#transcript
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