$240,000 for t-shirt bias suit

[BridgeTheGap]

240,000 dollars awarded to man forced to cover Arab T-shirt

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.

"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."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090106/ts_alt_afp/ustransportairsecuritymuslimsrights_090106002219

[pleah]

1. K&R

[MineralMan]

2. Interesting....

I could use a quarter of a million bucks, actually. Let me see if I can figure out something for a t-shirt that would get a 63-year-old white guy kicked off a Jet Blue flight.

Jet Blue seems to be the main offender in these situations. Maybe they've learned something, though, so it might not work...

[Pab Sungenis]

3. I want a shirt with the Arabic script saying

"Peace On Earth." Anyone know how that would look in Arabic?

[MineralMan]

4. Here ya go:

سلام على الأرض

[Pab Sungenis]

5. Thanks.

I want the shirt, for reasons other than baiting the TSA. :)

[MineralMan]

6. I enlarged the font for you, so you can see it better...

Interesting. I didn't know that you could do Arabic script as a font...