Anti-Muslim slurs pepper students at Blaine middle school, rights group alleges
A girl who wears an Islamic head scarf says a fellow student at Blaine's Westwood Middle School called her a terrorist.
Two other Muslim students say food and milk were thrown at them in the cafeteria. And an assistant principal who talked with a Muslim student about the lunchroom spat allegedly made inappropriate references to Islam
According to CAIR chairwoman Lori Saroya, on Sept. 11, 2006, a student who wears the hijab was told by a boy she didn't know that "Muslims are terrorists." She reported the incident to a counselor but no action was taken, Saroya said. Westwood Principal Paula Hoff and a counselor met with the girl's parents and told them that it was an isolated incident and that sensitivity training would be considered.
An isolated incident (on the anniversary of the worst Islamic attack this country had ever seen) but CAIR needs those numbers, and going after the children involved is not enough:
Two other Muslim students say they have been taunted about their religion through the school year, and last month had food and milk thrown at them in the cafeteria, Saroya said. When a confrontation followed, only one student -- a Muslim who had "tried to defend her friend" -- was sent to the office, Saroya said.
There, "the assistant principal said, 'Do Islam and the Qur'an say it's OK to call people bad names?' " Saroya said. "It's hard to imagine a Christian kid hearing that about the Bible."
I fail to see the problem with this question. Why wouldn't a Christian child be asked a similar question about the Bible to illustrate the morality involved in how the child treats others? This is nothing more than CAIR trying to force their agenda on the school district by taking months old isolated incidents and blowing them out of proportion to create the appearance of Islamophobia.
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