Wings of a Bird

It's bigotry that should be silenced - by Amy Goodman, syndicated columnist
A couple of months ago, Raed Jarrar, an Iraqi architect and blogger, was heading from JFK Airport in New York to Oakland, Calif. He was approached by two Transportation Security Administration workers and two JetBlue employees. They said he could not get on the flight wearing the T-shirt he had on. His shirt read, "We will not be silent."
He asked what the problem was. It was not the English words that bothered them, but the Arabic script above it.
Jarrar said it was simply the Arabic translation of the English. He said the officials countered that they didn't have a translator, so they couldn't be sure.
They handed him another T-shirt, and said if he wanted to fly he had to wear it over his own.
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The phrase "We will not be silent" goes back to the White Rose collective of World War II. A brother and sister named Hans and Sophie Scholl, with other students and professors, decided the best way to resist the Nazis was to disseminate information, so that the Germans would never be able to say, "We did not know."
The collective distributed a series of pamphlets. On the bottom of one was printed the phrase "We will not be silent." The Nazis arrested Hans and Sophie as well as other collective members, tried them, found them guilty and beheaded them. ...