parkerstudio.com — While traveling through JFK airport, Arabic blogger Raed was told he must change his t-shirt. Raed asked "Isn't this my constitutional right to wear it?" with which Inspector Harris responded "you can't wear a t-shirt with Arabic script and come to an airport. It is like wearing a t-shirt that reads "I am a robber" and going to a bank".
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napoleongoldAug 24, 2006
Welcome to America now get in the cell
Closed AccountAug 24, 2006
well thank you liberal (and non liberal) asses for the hours of enjoyment you provided me this afternoon. I thouroughly enjoyed getting all of your panties in a quiver. And I sincerely hope I provided some comic relief to other bored people online today as well.
romeyromeAug 25, 2006
"No shoes, no shirt, no service." Same idea. Their plane.
romeyromeAug 25, 2006
Oh, and who the f**k are you to ask for their policy? They can make one up on the spot and throw you out on your ass.
enki25Aug 25, 2006
"Because of all this bulls**t, I have no tolerance, like most passengers, for anyone wearing 4th-century-style garments or anyone who prays to Allah, or considers a pedophile their profit.Digg me down, but we're in the majority."-liquidrumsCheck out the Nazi-esque bigotry being fostered in this country by all the Republican fear-mongering. This douche has no problem admitting that he has no tolerance for 1 billion people on the planet. What should we do liquidrums, kill them all?
telhaiAug 25, 2006
You just don't get it - the guy was singled out not because of what the T-Shirt said but because it was written in Arabic; even though it had an English translation. This is not about free speech; it is about assuming that an individual is a terrorist (or out to cause offense/mischief/harm) simply because he/she has Arabic script on an item of apparel. If people cannot see the dark tide rising to submerge hard fought rights then they're doing nothing more or less than other society's have done in the past. Last century his name was Hitler and it was the Nazi party; this century who knows but chances are he is already in politics and lives in the USA.
wildbilAug 26, 2006
I am sorry, but I have to agree that the police here were doing the job they have to do, as to many Muslim men in your age range are a risk and this was provoking speech, and it was a private business and they can enforce standards that seem reasonable (and the Jet Blue people in your account seems very reasonable) or refuse you service. I don't think he has a case here (however the comment on people not knowing their rights pisses me off as well)You could put on the shirt and go to 1)A Public Courthouse or 2)Social Security Administration or 3)DMV where it would be a violation of your rights to be refused and then make a Federal case by refusing to take it off. You would still lose IMHO under the rule Freedom of Speech does not include yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater and causing a riot clause, or if it gets ruled as Political Speech (less protection) and provoking of a disruption in a public spaceJust don't expect not to be greeted with suspicion and fear, thats what terrorists generate and we all pay the price.
plnegative1Aug 28, 2006
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yoshitxAug 28, 2006
Yes. My point exactly.Those f you who were offended please excuse a sophomoric attempt at driving the point home.
oskpelfAug 29, 2006
After reading this I was out of words for a while.First of all, a thing like that really happening is sad. For whole America, this just looks you look bad.After reading some of the things written here, where people are justifying this, saying that the problem lies with the Arabics, not the usa, is even worse.Don't you get it, things like this is the reason that I want to travel all around the world, I want to see everything, but I have no interest in going to America. Things like that makes you look so bad in the eyes of the rest of the world, things like that makes angry people hate you.Americans or not stupid or bad bad people, but as a country I find it pretty hard to have any good faith in you.Most of the comments here show that people in America agree with me, that this was a really wrong thing to do by the Security ofiicials. That shows me that Americans aren't the ones I'm complaining about. It's the country. For how long are you going to put up with this. Beeing in war for no reason, acting as you control the world, beeing superior. That's what you government looks like it's all about, and you vote for them, I simply don't get it.Don't get me wrong, I don't hate America, I just don't want nothing to do with it while things are runned the way they are. I'll visit you guys when you get civalized and respect human rights.(Just to make sure, I'm not trying to offend any individual, except perhaps President Bush)
majorityrulesAug 29, 2006
@raisputin2 has been reported as allegedly giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
crzdmnsldySep 27, 2006
I realize this was posted over a month ago... But that's f**king outrageous. I can not believe the s**t going on now in days.
karenatworkDec 6, 2006
I see many angles to this story. "IF" this man is an American - he has the right to wear the shirt, in America. As American - or whatever Nationality, we do have the right to scare people. To say that particular company had no one to interpret the writing - well, you were in a big airport - do they not have someone to interpret? But then, you are in a big airport - kinda like the ones the planes left from on 9/11 - going back to 'we don't have the right to scare others'. If anyone is to blame - blame the ones who have made Americans leery of anyone wearing a tshirt, in an airport, with Arabic writing.This reminds me of an incident with my daughter (6 years old), who was learning to read, and my son who was 20. We were in a store and some idiot walked by with a tshirt on that read "I F_ck Sheep." This shirt offended me, and my son. Of course my 6 year old read it and had questions. My son went to the guy wearing it and loudly told him how little he thought of the shirt. To make my son shut up & go away the guy turned his shirt inside out. In my opinion the guy deserved the humiliation he received. We all have rights - but there is a time that public decency prevails.
murrydanMar 29, 2008
Man, I work for a t-shirt printing web site and we get some crap from the community on the stuff we print and some people say we should turn down some jobs, but a job is a job. How are we supposed to know what the shirt says anyway.<a class="user" href="https://www.designandprinttshirts.com/">https://www.designandprinttshirts.com/</a>
lbbdbdMay 1, 2012
T-shirt exporter from Bangladesh.... http://fashionteam-bangladesh.blogspot.com/