“I am not a terrorist”
In response to Iraqi blogger Raed Jarrar’s experience at JFK where he was stopped from boarding his plane because he was wearing a shirt with Arabic writing, Tim Murtaugh has created a shirt that says “I am not a terrorist” in Arabic.
"I am not a terrorist"
There are versions for men and women available (i.e. not stylistically, but translation-wise). Profits ($1.00 per shirt) go to the ACLU.
If you wear this shirt to the airport (and I’d encourage you to do so), be practical and keep a cover-up shirt in your carry on luggage — that is, assuming that missing your flight would be unacceptable.
Awesome T! I’m getting one! Mind if I blog about it?
If you have a second, feel free to check out my new video Paper Butterfly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rA5QNogGJw
Thanks!
Tempting fate, or at least airport security…
I have to wonder what exactly the message these people are trying to send. Mark at Tempus Fugit reports about Tim Murtaugh’s T-shirt, created in response to Raed Jarrar’s treatment at an airport. Let’s start with Raed Jarrar… On a……
That’s friggin’ hillarious
Fanning the flames of terrorism. Classless.
Try screaming that you
do not
have a bomb in a crowded movie theater. That would be right in line with the action proposed here.
Fanning the flames of terrorism? No, irrational TSA agents are an invention of our own government, not terrorism.
A t-shirt is hardly screaming. It is hardly disruptive or irrational behavior. It’s a t-shirt. The average TSA employee is unlikely to be college-educated, nevermind fluent in Arabic, so all they will be reacting to is the “look” of the shirt.
The point here is that the fear of terrorism has turned into a fear of middle-easterners, their culture and even their language. The shirt could display Arabic gibberish, and the reaction would still be the same. 175 million people speak Arabic. Are they all terrorists?
loool , i gotta get one of those