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Cindy Sheehan’s Arabic T-Shirt Is A “Profiling” Protest
Sweetness & Light ^ | September 1, 2006 | N/A

Posted on 09/01/2006 3:21:54 PM PDT by Sam Hill

But at long last we have the answer to a question that had long puzzled many here.:

What did the Arabic on Cindy's t-shirt say?

The answer come from taxpayer funded Communist propagandists Democracy Now!:

We Will Not Be Silent: Movement Grows to Challenge Racial Profiling at Airports

A growing movement across the country is challenging what appears to be an increase in racial profiling at airports. More and more travelers are donning T-shirts that say "We Will Not Be Silent" in English and Arabic in solidarity with Iraqi blogger and activist Raed Jarrar who was forced to change the T-Shirt before boarding a JetBlue Airways flight at Kennedy airport.

There is a growing movement in this country to challenge what appears to be an increase in racial profiling at airports. More and more travelers are wearing T-Shirts that say "We Will Not Be in Silent" in English and in Arabic. Why? Well about two weeks ago, Iraqi activist and blogger Raed Jarrar did the same thing as he was boarding a JetBlue airways flight at Kennedy airport in New York. Airport officials forced him to change his T-Shirt before getting on the plane. Democracy Now spoke with Raed Jarrar ten days ago about the incident.

RUSH TRANSCRIPT

AMY GOODMAN: About two weeks ago, Iraqi activist and blogger, Raed Jarrar, did the same thing as he was boarding a JetBlue Airways flight at Kennedy airport here in New York. Airport officials forced him to change his t-shirt before getting on the plane. Democracy Now! spoke with Raed Jarrar ten days ago about the incident.

RAED JARRAR: Then I was supposed to take my airplane, my JetBlue airplane from JFK to Oakland in California last Saturday. So I went to the airport in the morning, and I was prevented to go to my airplane by four officers, because I was wearing this t-shirt that says “We Will Not Be Silent” in both Arabic and English. And I was told by one of the officials that wearing a t-shirt with Arabic script in an airport now is like going to a bank with a t-shirt that reads, “I am a robber.”

AMY GOODMAN: That's what the security said to you?

RAED JARRAR: Yeah. I was questioned by four officials from -- I think some of them were from JetBlue and others were maybe policemen or FBI. I have no idea. I took their names and badge numbers, and I filed a complaint through ACLU against them, because I asked them very directly to let me go to the airplane, because it's my constitutional right as a U.S. taxpayer and resident to wear a t-shirt with Arabic script. And they prevented to let me exercise this right, and they made me cover the script with another t-shirt.

AMY GOODMAN: So they said you could not fly if you wore your t-shirt that said, “We Will Not Be Silent”?

RAED JARRAR: Yes. They said that very clearly.

AMY GOODMAN: Iraqi blogger, Raed Jarrar. We called JetBlue. The company responded with a statement saying that according to the airline’s preliminary findings the request to remove Raed’s t-shirt was not made by a JetBlue crewmember. We also called the Transportation Security Administration. They confirmed a TSA employee was involved, along with two JetBlue employees, in talking with Raed. But they said it wasn’t the TSA employee who bought Raed the t-shirt to change into.

Well, since our interview with Raed, major newspapers and corporate TV networks in the United States and around the world have picked up this story. Now, more and more people are putting on the “We Will Not Be Silent” t-shirts in solidarity when they travel.

Mr. Jarrar fails to mention that this happened after he, Cindy Sheehan, Medea Benjamin and probably Tom Hayden all wore these same t-shirts when they flew to Amman, Jordan to treat (illegally) with purported representatives of the Iraqi government.

Apparently without incident:

And it's odd, apart from this Amy "Crone" Goodman interview, CodePink has been surprisingly quiet about their latest campaign to aid and abet terrorism.

Perhaps they are going to lie low until the Muslim plot to blow up a dozen US airplanes flying from the UK is forgotten.

Though Mother Sheehan was still wearing this t-shit when she tried to disrupt a reception where she thought Karl Rove was speaking. (He wasn't.)

Of course Cindy will do anything to help the cause -- of our enemies.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 15minuteshaveexpired; 15minutesoflame; airportsecurity; cindysheehan; goaway; profiling; sheehan; youtimeisup
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This question came up in several threads here.
1 posted on 09/01/2006 3:21:56 PM PDT by Sam Hill
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To: Deb; kcvl; Mo1; Enchante; veronica; stocksthatgoup; mewzilla; backhoe; BushisTheMan; Grampa Dave; ..

More Sheehanigans.


2 posted on 09/01/2006 3:22:43 PM PDT by Sam Hill
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To: Sam Hill

Way to go Cindy. Did you invite Casey's killer over for dinner yet? Inquiring minds want to know.


3 posted on 09/01/2006 3:23:37 PM PDT by rocksblues (Liberals will stop at nothing.)
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To: Sam Hill
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4 posted on 09/01/2006 3:23:47 PM PDT by stm (Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence)
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To: Sam Hill

Hey Cindy. STFU and make me a samich then go away.


5 posted on 09/01/2006 3:24:06 PM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: Sam Hill

Well, I'll give her this: she's lost weight. Maybe a few weeks on the Jamba Juice diet was just what she needed.


6 posted on 09/01/2006 3:24:31 PM PDT by prion (Yes, as a matter of fact, I AM the spelling police)
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To: Sam Hill
Several threads here:

Iraqi says had to change t-shirt before US flight

JFK Passenger Not Allowed To Fly Wearing Arabic Script T-Shirt

Man's T-Shirt Prevents Him From Boarding Plane

7 posted on 09/01/2006 3:25:00 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning)
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To: Sam Hill
What did the Arabic on Cindy's t-shirt say?

"Breasts by Owens-Corning."

8 posted on 09/01/2006 3:25:14 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (go easy on 'em. there is a modicum of substance even in style.)
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To: Sam Hill
Though Mother Sheehan was still wearing this t-shit when she tried to disrupt a reception where she thought Karl Rove was speaking. (He wasn't.)

Come on, now... I'm sure that after she wore it all that time, it smelled like it, but there's no need to talk that way!

9 posted on 09/01/2006 3:25:32 PM PDT by Gondring (If "Conservatives" now want to "conserve" our Constitution away, then I must be a Preservative!)
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To: Sam Hill
Though Mother Sheehan was still wearing this t-shit when she tried to disrupt a reception where she thought Karl Rove was speaking. (He wasn't.)///// Freudian slip?
10 posted on 09/01/2006 3:26:02 PM PDT by aft_lizard (born conservative...I chose to be a republican)
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To: Sam Hill
The shirt actually says,

"I'm With Stupid."
11 posted on 09/01/2006 3:26:12 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: Sam Hill
I keep hoping this image will make it on to some counter-protest
signs for one of Cindy Sheswine's appearances:
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12 posted on 09/01/2006 3:26:16 PM PDT by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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To: Sam Hill
What did the Arabic on Cindy's t-shirt say?

I am Osama Bin Laden's useful idiot.

13 posted on 09/01/2006 3:27:17 PM PDT by Tamar1973 (Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: All

For some reason the caption for the first picture of Jarrar didn't show up.

It should read:

Raed Jarrar is Iraq Project Director for Global Exchange/CodePink.


14 posted on 09/01/2006 3:28:05 PM PDT by Sam Hill
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To: Responsibility2nd
Try again. These links should work:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1692459/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1692794/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1693339/posts

15 posted on 09/01/2006 3:28:25 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning)
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To: Tamar1973

She's not very feminine looking. She looks very mannish.


16 posted on 09/01/2006 3:29:23 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Sam Hill

Silent? If Sheehan would just go away, I promise not to vote for George Bush in '08. ;-)


17 posted on 09/01/2006 3:29:25 PM PDT by peyton randolph (No man knows the day nor the hour of The Coming of The Great White Handkerchief.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Yeah, since her hysterectomy......


18 posted on 09/01/2006 3:31:02 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning)
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To: Sam Hill

19 posted on 09/01/2006 3:31:44 PM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
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To: prion
"Well, I'll give her this: she's lost weight."

Tell her to turn around, I found it.

20 posted on 09/01/2006 3:34:03 PM PDT by traditional1
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To: Sam Hill
The face of megalomania


21 posted on 09/01/2006 3:34:06 PM PDT by stm (Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence)
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To: Sam Hill

22 posted on 09/01/2006 3:34:21 PM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: Sam Hill

If you look at Sheethan's profile in the pictures in the original post, you'll notice that it is very similar to that of a Turkey Vulture.


23 posted on 09/01/2006 3:35:24 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (DemocRATS are living proof that "reverse evolution" has begun.)
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To: Sam Hill

I thought it ment "kick me"


24 posted on 09/01/2006 3:35:26 PM PDT by JamminJAY (This space for rent)
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To: Sam Hill

Target rich environment


25 posted on 09/01/2006 3:37:19 PM PDT by NordP (America: There are more Patriots than Punks!)
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To: Sam Hill
My Arabic is a little weak, but:

"May a crazed holy man set fire to your nose hairs", is what I think it says.

26 posted on 09/01/2006 3:37:22 PM PDT by traditional1
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To: doug from upland
Lew Rockwall???LOL

Won't Hugo be jealous? Or has she ever gotten over Jesse?


27 posted on 09/01/2006 3:39:18 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning)
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To: Sam Hill
" There is a growing movement in this country to challenge what appears to be an increase in racial profiling at airports "

I don't have a problem with this.

In fact I'm ecstatic when the enemy and its collaborators among us decide to expose themselves. Go ahead and advertise guys, it should be interesting to see how the general public responds next time theres a terror threat or god forbid an attack and your walking around broadcasting your support for them.

28 posted on 09/01/2006 3:39:38 PM PDT by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and Apologize for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: prion
Doubt it was the Jamba Juice...

..more likely the hysterectomy.

29 posted on 09/01/2006 3:40:10 PM PDT by Guenevere
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To: Sam Hill

Maybe the shirt should read "I've been a useful idiot for years ... and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt"


30 posted on 09/01/2006 3:41:37 PM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires.)
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To: Sam Hill

I thought her shirt said "I'm a Filthy Sheehadist".


31 posted on 09/01/2006 3:43:59 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Guenevere

I think it could say 'le libéralisme est un trouble mental'

Madame Shehan seems to have health issues...


32 posted on 09/01/2006 3:46:51 PM PDT by aimee5291
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To: Sam Hill
Memo To Cindy Sheehan:
Typical Idiot!
Click the Pic

33 posted on 09/01/2006 3:47:37 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: softwarecreator

My T shirt says: I WILL NOT GET ON AN AIRPLANE WITH ARABS...SUE ME


34 posted on 09/01/2006 3:47:55 PM PDT by Fred911 (YOU GET WHAT YOU ACCEPT)
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To: Sam Hill

What's a good response shirt?

"We won't be intimidated."

"We're not shy, either."

Any ideas?


35 posted on 09/01/2006 3:49:24 PM PDT by HitmanLV ("If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking until you do succeed." - Jerry 'Curly' Howard)
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To: Sam Hill

Ma Sheehan is mentally ill.


36 posted on 09/01/2006 3:49:57 PM PDT by HitmanLV ("If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking until you do succeed." - Jerry 'Curly' Howard)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Paul Shanklin, Rush's parody man has a new one out about Cindy at Rosa Parks funeral. Jesse is trying to get her out of there. I know that it is going to be really funny.
37 posted on 09/01/2006 3:51:59 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, over there, We won't be back 'til it's over Over there.")
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To: Responsibility2nd

You do know that her affair with Rockwell was exposed, don't you?


38 posted on 09/01/2006 3:52:48 PM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: doug from upland

It says "I'm Mohammed's B*#ch"


39 posted on 09/01/2006 3:52:51 PM PDT by jakerobins
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To: Sam Hill

She represents everything that is wrong with America...


40 posted on 09/01/2006 3:53:38 PM PDT by Iscool
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To: Sam Hill
I wonder if she's going to jump on this opportunity next?

Islam=Peace bracelet

41 posted on 09/01/2006 3:57:03 PM PDT by Tamar1973 (Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: HitmanLV

42 posted on 09/01/2006 3:58:18 PM PDT by traditional1
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To: Sam Hill

She is fighting to hurt America's morale.


43 posted on 09/01/2006 3:58:26 PM PDT by FreeRep
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Well, don't remain silent. Make a ruckus at the airport. See if that gets you anywhere.

44 posted on 09/01/2006 3:59:44 PM PDT by HawaiianGecko (Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.)
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To: the invisib1e hand
"Breasts by Owens-Corning."

LOL!

45 posted on 09/01/2006 4:05:10 PM PDT by 6SJ7
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To: HitmanLV
Ma Sheehan is mentally ill.

I'm not being uncharitable when I say that to be a committed leftist, this is a prerequisite.

46 posted on 09/01/2006 4:07:30 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (go easy on 'em. there is a modicum of substance even in style.)
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To: Sam Hill

47 posted on 09/01/2006 4:11:04 PM PDT by Sender (“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.”)
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To: Sam Hill

I believe it reads- Al Douchebag

48 posted on 09/01/2006 4:11:30 PM PDT by mikrofon (Runs with the same crowd)
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To: Sam Hill

Racial profiling? When did Islam become a race?


49 posted on 09/01/2006 4:13:57 PM PDT by Lurking in Kansas (Nothing witty here… move on.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

"South End of a Northbound Horse"


50 posted on 09/01/2006 4:21:13 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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