Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Raed Jarrar, an anti-American, pro-Saddam mouthpiece who never should have been allowed into this country in the first place, has won a big settlement: TSA, JetBlue Pay $240,000 to Settle Discrimination Suit
Transportation Security Administration officials and JetBlue Airways are paying $240,000 to settle (.pdf) a discrimination lawsuit against a District of Columbia man who, as a condition of boarding a domestic flight, was forced to cover his shirt that displayed Arabic writing.
According to a civil rights lawsuit, TSA and JetBlue demanded Raed Jarrar to sit at the back of a 2006 flight from New York to Oakland because his shirt read "We Will Not Be Silent" in English and Arabic...
This via Jammie, where Jarrar assures in the comments he'll be sending money to Gaza.
That's a big payoff for a guy who set out to provoke. I wrote about the incident briefly here: New John Does: Jet Blue and TSA Employees, and a lot more in-depth, here: A Tale of Two Iraqis (if you choose to read only one, that's the one), and finally, he's mentioned in this post: AFSC's Slanders (Jarrar works for the American Friends Service Committee).
