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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

So now shirt w/ Arabic writing is banned on flight

I don't know how it may become true, but it is really happening.

Mr Jarrar's black cotton T-shirt bore the slogan in both Arabic and English.

He said he had cleared security at John F Kennedy airport for a flight back to his home in California when he was approached by two men who wanted to check his ID and boarding pass.

Mr Jarrar said he was told a number of passengers had complained about his T-shirt - apparently concerned at what the Arabic phrase meant - and asked him to remove it.

After a difficult exchange with airline staff, Mr Jarrar was persuaded to wear another T-shirt bought for him at the airport shop.


Maybe someday Chinese will be banned too?

1 Comments:

At 8/30/2006 5:05 PM, Blogger iwiwag said...

Interesting.

 

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