Teacher Asks 12-Year-Old Muslim If She Has Bomb In Bookbag
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Because she’s Muslim, of course.
The girl’s father, Abdirazik Aden, said that his daughter was going to class when a teacher asked her hat was inside her book bag. The girl told the teacher that she had books in the bag, but the teacher continued to question her — asking if there was a bomb inside.
“My daughter wanted to know why she was asking her that,” Aden said. The father said he had a simple, powerful message for his daughter after the shocking incident.
“You know who you are, you’re not a terrorist,” he told his daughter. “Other people’s judgments don’t matter.”
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D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.