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240,000 dollars awarded to blogger forced to cover Arab T-shirt
AFP
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
NEW YORK (AFP) — An airline passenger forced to cover his T-shirt because it displayed Arabic script has been awarded 240,000 dollars in compensation, campaigners said Monday.
Raed Jarrar received the pay out on Friday from two US Transportation Security Authority officials and from JetBlue Airways following the August 2006 incident at New York’s JFK Airport, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced.
At his popular blog, In The Middle, Raed crows, “I won 
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“The outcome of this case is a victory for free speech and a blow to the discriminatory practice of racial profiling,” said Aden Fine, a lawyer with ACLU.
Jarrar, a US resident, was apprehended as he waited to board a JetBlue flight from New York to Oakland, California, and told to remove his shirt, which had written on it in Arabic: “We will not be silent.”
He was told other passengers felt uncomfortable because an Arabic-inscribed T-shirt in an airport was like “wearing a T-shirt at a bank stating, I am a robber,’” the ACLU said.
Jarrar eventually agreed to cover his shirt with another provided by JetBlue. He was allowed aboard but his seat was changed from the front to the back of the aircraft.
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January 6th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
This shows how bankrupt large corporations have become when writing is made to be covered up! Just plain sickening. Do some good with that pay-off please.
January 6th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Don’t forget charities with some of that can do a lot of good anywhere in the world.
January 6th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
Man, where can I get one of those T-shirts I really need $240,000 dollars.
January 7th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Wow free speech is supposed to be free, not supposed to fight the goons all the time. Am happy for this man. He deserves the money and the attention.
My Aunt got kicked out of the medical clinic after 15 years seeing the same doctor because in the waiting room they were talking about the elections, so the receptionist reported it and the doctor sent her a letter told her not to come back. Can’t say anything anymore. I really hope these nazi companies can be shut down. The day is coming.
January 9th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
The USA has lost it totally. I will never set foot on US soil again. For me it is off the map.
I speak for millions of people.
As for US police in Seattle Miami etc, they are sick barbarians.
February 19th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
The ACLU has never met a terrorist supporter it didn’t love.
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