Residents and tourists have been outraged that a shop in Dubai is selling a T-shirt which features a picture of the collapsing World Trade Center in New York alongside the words "America Under Attack," reported Gulf News on Friday.
The T-shirt was prominently placed in the window of a shop in Karama Thursday and shows flames and smoke billowing from the twin towers moments after they were struck by two hijacked passenger aircraft.
An Irish teacher at an international school in Dubai, whose cousin was one of those killed, told the paper that she was appalled by the T-shirt.
"It's completely disgusting and tasteless to sell something like that in the present international climate," she said. "Thousands of innocent people died during the attack and to trivialize that on a T-shirt in this way is in extreme bad taste."
The UAE has condemned the terrorist attacks in America and severed ties with the Taliban regime after they refused to hand over the prime suspect in the attacks, Osama bin laden and his top lieutenants.
And Arab nationals joined the protest, according to the report.
Mohammed Sulaiman, a 27-year-old Omani who studied in the United States, said, "It's shocking that some people have so little sensitivity about what was clearly an attack on innocent civilians of many different nationalities," he said. "I'm disappointed that a shop would try to make money in this way from someone else's suffering."
Muslims and Arabs, including four Egyptians and a Jordanian, were victims of the attacks, which were denounced as contradicting Islamic teachings by top Muslim clerics in the Arab World - Albawaba.com
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