01.07.2009 9:55 am
Muslims and air travel: When does airport security go too far?
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A reader brought this story to my attention yesterday in an e-mail. And while the story broke on Monday, it still seems like a worthwhile discussion topic.
An airline passenger forced to cover his T-shirt because it displayed Arabic script has been awarded 240,000 dollars in compensation, campaigners said Monday.
Raed Jarrar received the pay out on Friday from two US Transportation Security Authority officials and from JetBlue Airways following the August 2006 incident at New York’s JFK Airport, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced.
The story goes on to say that other passengers on the flight expressed discomfort, some saying that…
