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Iraq: Wearing t-shirt with Arabic script, in America, means you are a suspected terrorist

Categories: Middle East & North Africa, North America, Iraq, U.S.A., Human Rights

On a trip back from the Middle East, Iraqi blogger and activist Raed Jarrar was not allowed to board a flight at JFK airport because he was wearing a t-shirt that said “We will not be silent” in English and Arabic. Airport security forced him to change his t-shirt saying wearing it was like “going to a bank with a t-shirt reading ‘I am a robber.'” [1]