What better way to show

What better way to show that not all Arabs are terrorists, than to wear an Osama bin Laden T-shirt to school?

A Chicago eighth-grader has been suspended for 10 days for wearing a shirt with a picture of two towers, an airplane and a picture of Osama bin Laden.

Officials at Finley Junior High School told Ian Itani's mother in a letter that the decision to wear the shirt "could be taken as a promotion of terrorism."

Colleen Itani said her son wasn't promoting terrorism. Itani is Lebanese and she said her son was simply trying to send a message that all Arabs are not responsible for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

She said her son got the idea to wear the hand-drawn shirt after listening to jeers from his classmates after the terrorist attacks.

I don't agree with the suspension. I think the kid should have been whacked with the clue bat a couple of times.

(via Drudge)

Posted by damian at March 3, 2003 08:02 AM