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August 30, 2006

Arabic T-shirt sparks airport row

jp @ 1:13 pm

An architect of Iraqi descent has said he was forced to remove a T-shirt that bore the words “We will not be silent” before boarding a flight at New York.

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There was a bomb in his shirt, a mental thinking ticking time bomb.

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3 Comments

  1. Whoever is responsible could be a candidate for the Stupid Security Awards!

    Comment by tim — August 30, 2006 @ 2:04 pm

  2. I’d love one of those, or the “I am not a terrorist” t-shirt that was on Boing Boing a few days back.

    Comment by Stranger — August 30, 2006 @ 2:54 pm

  3. Quite a few Seikhs in america were getting hassled by people after september 11th and were going around with “Don’t freak, I’m a Seikh” t-shirts.

    Comment by James — September 1, 2006 @ 7:29 pm

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