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

yahoo news ^ | 1-5-09 | yahoo

[Nachum]

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 invisib1e hand]

how much to kids who are tossed out of school for wearing pro-life T-Shirts, hunh? How freaking much?

[buffyt]

Well Shitake Mushrooms! I am going to go out and buy a shirt like that and wear it and hopefully become $240K richer! LOL

[SolidWood]

shirt, which had written on it in Arabic: "We will not be silent."

What cryptic message was he trying to send?

[FatherofFive]

I will now start wearing arabic language t-shirts.

الاسلام هو شر لا مثيل لها ، ويجب القضاء عليه

[N3WBI3]

the guy was entitled to something... maybe ten free flights or some garbage but 240K????

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

It doesn’t work unless you change your name and get swarthy. The man was of the protected class.

[Edizzl79]

Go to tshirthell.com and wear some of their shirts to a local church food fair, and see what happens? Not discrediting tshirthell, great site for rock concert attire.

[SwinneySwitch]

Baktag! Klingon word used as an insult, as in a “piece of baktag.”

[sausageseller]

If the “local church food fair” was on their own property why couldn't they toss ya or even have you arrested for disturbing the peace?

[devnull]

Now thats funny :) كل ما تبذلونه من العذارى تنتمي إلينا

[T-Bird45]

You guys slay me...LOL!!! Good luck in your T-shirt ventures!!

[TXnMA]

Nearly a quarter million $$$?

If I had been on the jury, his only award would have been a new T-shirt --

with this on it:

(There is no Constitutional protection against being offended...)

[Emperor Palpatine]

Great...I'm gonna have a T-Shirt of this made and wear it the next time I fly......

[Doctor Raoul]

This clown is a Code Pink associate. He wanted to provoke an incident.

[weegee]

How much is the guy in the Transformers shirt (that displayed a gun on the shirt) going to get?

[joe fonebone]

ok, i give.........what does it mean?

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

How much will be given to people who are fired, expelled, arrested or harassed for having pro-life or anti-unnatural slogans on their t-shirts?
Answer - nothing.

[devnull]

Translation from post #5: ‘Islam is evil and must be eliminated’

[antiRepublicrat]

I wonder whether the ACLU would have represented him had the T-shirt said “Mohammed sucks camel nuts.”