Originally Posted by jetBlueNYFL

This story surfaced right after the incident occured, but here's a new development announcing a law suit.

http://www.aclu.org/freespeech/gen/3...s20070809.html

My personal opinion is that I fully support and back freedom of speech, however, we live in a time (post-9/11) of uncertainty and high alert. Although this particular man is an honest, non-harmful human being who even works for a peace organization, the fact that his shirt shows Arabic writing saying "We Will Not Be Silent" is uncomforting to see at an airport. What does that mean? That's like trying to send a message. It's not like it showed Arabic writing with the words "Go Yankees" because many other languages have such shirts translated like that.

If anything, JetBlue was very fair in that they purchased him a new shirt. His claim that the TSA should have told everyone that it's fine is just not enough. Why shoul X amount of people be inconvenienced and scared because of one person's shirt? It's not the Arabic writing that I have a problem with, it is the phrase that it translates to AND it being at an airport in today's world.