Go_Fish, you still never addressed where I mentioned that Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups are recruiting other races. Your racial profiling being okay does not fix this issue. That’s true about human rights abuses which I’m also against. However, because others do something does not make it right for us to do it.

My discussion mentioning Japanese being taken to Relocation Centers in WWII is to extrapolate to show how wrong the profiling and discrimination is. If something is so great, let’s take it to an extreme to see how great it is. If a little is okay, then a lot must be even better. Many arguments for racial profiling and discrimination falter when you take them to extremes.

Yes, I too think that profiling is ok and I am married to a Arab. However profiling and not allowing someone on a plane for a T shirt is two totally different things. Profiling is used to filter suspious people. Not allowing someone on a plane for a Tshirt is stupid. Also the muslim family that was forced off a plane recently fully cooperated but still were not allowed on a different flight. This also is wrong. I realize that Muslims make people uncomfortable but we are not all up to something if we read arabic, pray the koran, or ask a question about safety on a plane (as did the previous Muslim family ) For the record not all Muslims wear Islamic garb or have dark skin– this too should be considered. One of the largest populations is actually in Asia.

Colleen is right on. I object to racial profiling on principle, but this is not even about that. This is about a totally unjustified and frankly idiotic, knee-jerk reaction to a for-crying-out-loud T-shirt that said nothing remotely threatening. Let’s see….maybe we’d better stop the next kid that comes through the airport wearing a pistol-packing Yosemite Sam shirt. Give me a break already…

I thought this was still the United States of America, where being Muslim and/or Middle Eastern is supposed to be neither illegal nor an invitation for institutionalized abuse. If the government and the airlines want to come out and say, “For the record, if it’s remotely Arabic-looking, we’re gonna discriminate,” fine — we’ll wait for the justified outcry and let the legal chips fall where they may. In the meantime, how about some common sense and sanity? I’m not sure I agree with the amount, but I think Jetblue and the USTSA definitely should have had to pay this man something.

For those of you who have no problem routinely denying “those people” civil liberties, you’d better hope it doesn’t become your turn under the microscope next.

No matter if this is right or wrong aside, was the offense really worth a $240,000 “award?” He was not kicked off the plane, he was not restrained in any way. He was moved to the back of the plane and asked/required to put on another T-shirt. I don’t understand how this is worth $240,000. It’s just the left wing ACLU getting into things that they should just stay out of.

The guy wearing the shirt was looking for attention and he got it. As far as Al-Qaeda is concerned, I would hope the government in this country knows what they are doing. It’s the guy that wants to act out on his or her own that concerns me. I don’t care what they look like or ware, if there is question about them, they need to be screened. I’m not ready to be blown up by some kook. The family last week was not treated fairly by not being allowed back on the plane after they were cleared. Life is not always fair. One way or the other, this government owes it to the U.S. citizens to protect them from harm. That is where some of our tax dollars go.

IS $240K a bit much? Maybe. But I do know this, most people/institutions don’t learn anything unless they feel some pain. $240K is all about making someone feel pain. Thanks ACLU.

First of all, I think it’s smart to profile for terrorists. Making some 85 year old great grandmother take off her shoes is ludicrous, and a waste of time. Time that could be used to properly screen passengers that actually may pose as a threat.

With that said, some of these comments are ridiculous, though, for an obvious reason. It’s OK to make a muslim cover up a shirt? For what? What good would that do, if the individual was, in fact, a terrorist? Would covering up the words on his shirt all of a sudden render him powerless? Unless that muslim happened to be from Krypton, and the new T-Shirt the airline made him cover up with happened to be made out of Kryptonite, I fail to see how anything they did was anything more than embarrassing. I don’t think it should be an airline’s duty to appease ignorant passengers.

Also, if making someone cover up their T-Shirt all of a sudden makes you feel safe, than you should be wearing a T-Shirt that says “I’m with stupid” and has an arrow pointing straight up.

Isn’t this the same place I read about some guy who was pulled off a plane and got 3 days in jail for making a dumb joke about shoe bombs? Let’s have a little proportion. Unless they’re stupid, Muslims know about 9/11 and realize that their religion and language are associated with terrorism. This guy was just being a jerk, and now he wants to collect a bunch of money.

Many foreigners go out of their way to learn the English language in order to be understood in our country. Maybe if more Americans learned more about their language and writing styles, then they would actually be able to read the shirt and not be intimidated by it.

to avoid discrimination, our liberal society has chosen instead become totally indiscriminate, and stupid. it costs lives….