Controversial 9/11 T-Shirts Confiscated at a Michigan High School

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Arab-American students in trouble for wearing sweatshirts depicting 9/11 World Trade Center attacks


A group of Arab-American high schoolers have caused a brouhaha by wearing class sweatshirts that conjure the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

The hoodies that got at least 9 Detroit-area juniors in hot water depict the students' graduation year -- '11 -- in a style similar to the Twin Towers with the school's "Thunderbird" mascot flying toward them. Below the image are the words "You can't bring us down."

David Mustonen, a Dearborn Public Schools spokesman speaking to The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press, called the Edsel Ford High School students' shirts "offensive" and in "poor taste.” School officials confiscated the sweatshirts from the students.

"The whole design gave prominence to the 9/11 tragedy, and of course was very upsetting to staff and students," the school district said in an e-mail to community groups, the Detroit Free Press reports.

About half of Edsel Ford High School's 1,700 students are Arab-American.
About 300 people attended a public meeting to address the controversy Tuesday night.

The students, who have met with school officials but are not expected to face suspension, maintained the shirts were simply meant to convey school pride.

Some schools officials agreed, Mustonen said.

"Kids not thinking, not realizing the consequences of something they thought was pretty innocent," he told the Free Press. "Their thought was, 'You can't bring us down. We're the class of 2011.' "

"It's unfortunate that it came across badly," Jennifer Browne, of the Edsel Ford Parent Teacher Student Association, said of the shirts.

 

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And also a large amount of the cell phones and electronic devices found in in use by Al Quada are purchased in the Detroit area. Hum!!!!!!!!!!!