French Mother On Trial For Sending Her Son, Jihad, To School With 'Bomb' Shirt

[Victor Steinbok]

http://goo.gl/TtDgf
> The BBC reports that Bouchra Bagour, 35, has been charged with
> "glorifying crime" after she sent her three-year-old son — named Jihad
> — to school wearing a T-shirt that read "I am a bomb" and "Born on 11
> September."
> ...
> France 24 reports that prosecutors insisted the intention of the shirt
> was clear.
> "Who can claim that this is not a direct and scandalous reference to
> terrorism?" Olivier Couvignon told the court, according to France 24.
> The Daily Mail reports that the "bomb" expression comes from the
> "popular French saying 'Je suis une bombe', which translates roughly
> as 'I am the best.'"
> A picture posted on the website of Le Parisien shows the little boy
> wearing a gray, long-sleeved T-shirt. On the back it has his name
> plus, "Born on Sept. 11." And on the front, it reads, in French, "I am
> a bomb." (That's the literal translation; we're guessing a case can be
> made that the English equivalent is "I am the bomb.")

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