Iraqi Man Forced to Change T-shirt Before Boarding

Aug 30th, 2006 | By Jared Blank

An Iraqi architect says that JetBlue staff forced him to change his t-shirt that read, "We will not be silent" prior to boarding his flight from JFK to California. According to the passenger, airline crew said that people were offended (?) by the t-shirt, and that he’d have to remove it before flying. Good thing that he didn’t have toothpaste with him or they’d have thrown him in jail.

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made up August 30th, 2006 9:04 am :
seeing as how there is no link, im gonna go ahead and assume you just made that story up.
Jared August 30th, 2006 4:58 pm :
I added the link.

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