Teacher in Georgia asks 13-year-old Muslim student if she has a bomb

GOP presidential hopeful Marco Rubio said after Obama's December 6 speech, "And then the cynicism, the cynicism tonight to spend a significant amount of time talking about discrimination against Muslims. Where is there widespread evidence that we have a problem in America with discrimination against Muslims?"

It looks like the bubble is doing its job of keeping out unwanted information.

Imagine explaining to a 10-year old kid that we need to ban Muslims from entering America because the are just too dangerous. Later on the same kid sees a mosque and asks what it is. You tell him it's a place where Muslims congregate. How do you think that will work out in the end?

“The remark was not appropriate, but based on their conversation and investigation,” school officials don’t believe it was made with “ill intent,” Sloan Roach, a Gwinnett County Public Schools spokeswoman said.

She said the comment came as the teacher was urging students to put away their backpacks.

Abdirizak Aden said the teacher at Shiloh Middle School in Georgia, stopped his 13-year-old daughter, who wears a hijab, and asked if she had a bomb.

Something's wrong with this story, but, in Donald J. Trump's America of Greatness Again, it may be emblematic of what happens when a public figure promotes prejudice.

The school's story confirms that a teacher singled out a thirteen year old in front of her classmates and made a remark wholly unnecessary to having backpacks put aside.

The authority figure in this case, the teacher, publicly, and in front of other children, raised the possibility a Muslim had a bomb.

This is what prejudice looks like, this is what promoting prejudice does and this is unacceptable.

Shaming a thirteen year old in front of her classmates didn't make America safer. And finding no problem with it is a clumsy way of ignoring the public shaming the teacher put on a little girl. Apparently, that's ok at Shiloh Middle School in Georgia.

This isn't about Muslims. One Arizona school suspended a 13 year old, not a Muslim, for 5 days for doodling a picture of a gun at a school in Arizona. No apologies there, from what I recall.

It's because many US schools now a zero-tolerance policy on weapons and students -- of all denominations. This, in the wake of all the school shootings.

A really bad attempt for a joke, apologize, move on. I'm sure the teacher regrets it. Why is this story here is the bigger question: the establishments attempt, using their main strongman, the corporate media, to keep their nemesis Trump from aging further ground. Oh I feel sorry for you poor schmucks.

Why is this story here is the bigger question: This is what prejudice looks like, this is what promoting prejudice does and that is why this story is here. It shows the effects of prejudice, prejudice encouraged and condoned in the political cat swinging of Donald J. Trump.

The authority figure in this case, the teacher, humiliated a Muslim child for no reason except the teacher felt shaming, and using the prejudice currently in vogue in the political arena, was the adult way to mock a thirteen year old girl for the crimes of fanatical lunatics half way across the globe who killed 130 at Paris.

What did that have to do with this innocent child? In the teacher's mind it was an easy way to humiliate a child for her only connection to a heinous crime, her faith. That is what prejudice looks like, and that is why this story is here.

Shaming a thirteen year old in front of her classmates didn't make America safer.

Shaming a thirteen year old in front of her classmates didn't make America safer.

If anything, that kind of alienation can drive someone towards radicalism.

In context of a school environment, where social values are part of the learning experience, the very idea a teacher would connect the crimes of unspeakable destruction to a child because of the child's faith, over putting away a backpack?

What did that show this child's classmates?

Imagine the rippling shame and taunts thirteen year olds suffer as their classmates hear a teacher, the assumed model of respectful behavior, connect bombs to the girl's backpack, and by association, her faith?

The potential to harm this innocent girl's self esteem, confidence and willingness to suffer the more than likely adolescent taunts, prompted by the teacher's remark, is most important to consider.

This is how prejudice does harm. In Japan we often hear of Korean children who may suffer similar taunts, children can be cruel anywhere, adults too.

Brushing off of this teacher's comment fails to recognize the harm and potential for harm these prejudicial comments have on children. Why should a child be the target of a teacher's really inexcusable comment. Her apology should be the all children present and with an explanation of how these comments can do harm.

Perhaps, this is also what Gwinnett County Public Schools and the Shiloh Middle School in Georgia would consider a teachable moment for teachers and children alike. And, even possibly, a teachable moment for readers here?

A really bad attempt for a joke, apologize, move on. I'm sure the teacher regrets it. Why is this story here is the bigger question: the establishments attempt, using their main strongman, the corporate media, to keep their nemesis Trump from aging further ground. Oh I feel sorry for you poor schmucks.

Yes. Clearly this story about a bigoted redneck teacher picking on a 13 year-old Muslim girl is actually an attempt by THE MEDIA ESTABLISHMENT to to impede the candidacy of their 'nemesis" Donald Trump. Fortunate that we have FizzBit here to reveal the dastardly conspiracy. FizzBit, what would we do without you?

@kcjapan

Imagine the rippling shame and taunts thirteen year olds suffer as their classmates hear a teacher, the assumed model of respectful behavior, connect bombs to the girl's backpack, and by association, her faith?

*You called other posters "blowhards" in another post. And this comment proves you don't know what the f#k you're talking about. Since you are too lazy or too busy typing insults here to read more about this situation I think you should know that it was another student in her class that pointed out to the teacher she had made a terrible joke, then the teacher took the girl out into the hallway to apologize immediately after the incident. Personally, I thought the teacher should have apologized to the girl and her fellow classmates.**

Regardless, your addiction to trump is going to bite you in the ass again, and sooner rather than later I'd guess.

How does what you wrote show anything kcjapan said to be wrong?

We read a fiction, not quoted for some reason, as obviously, it does not appear in the article presented above.

Is this a characteristic of Republicans, seeing things that aren't there (as in George W, Bush's WMDs in Iraq) or is it a characteristic of bigots who see danger in faiths they do not understand or people to whom they have never spoken or is it just an easy way to justify wild claims by their political heroes?

American blowhards have their feeling hurt terrible easily, perhaps they best understand how a child can be hurt by an unfair public comment by a teacher made in front of other students as presented in the JT article about an incident in Georgia.

South Park are going to have field day with this. I could almost write the script myself....

"“The remark was not appropriate, but based on their conversation and investigation,” school officials don’t believe it was made with “ill intent,”

Yeah... right... so, then, what was it made with in regards to how the teacher was addressing the little girl?

JeffLee: "This isn't about Muslims."

It never is, when it's a white person doing it, and ESPECIALLY when they're doing it to Muslims. Everything that's wrong with the world is about Muslims, to a person who thinks that way, of course, but nope -- a teacher stopping a Muslim girl and asking if she, and no one else, has a bomb... no way that has anything to do with Muslims. Nope.

Clearly, The Associated Press has used their establishment corporate media strongman tactic here to make readers consider how a child might be harmed by remarks that single them out for their faith. Readers should not have to consider how this child could have been harmed by comments connecting her faith and the presence of a bomb, but that is what the establishment does all the time.

This sort of factual reporting must stop to prevent the establishment strongman corporate media from preventing Donald J. Trump from getting his message of bigotry out while riding his rocket ship of truth all the way to the White House some four hundred days from now.

In reading The Associated Press's article, it's hard to see how some have missed this obvious connection.

Aren´t kids routinely singled out in the American school system for something as dramatic as drawing a picture of a gun? I have read so many stories like that. So what is the new demand here? If you wear a hijab (now, why is THAT allowed in a secular school, by the way?), you are excempt from any safety-related questions? Is that it?

WilliB: "If you wear a hijab (now, why is THAT allowed in a secular school, by the way?), you are excempt from any safety-related questions? Is that it?"

This isn't about a kid drawing a gun, plain and simple. You guys can stop deflecting because I think we all know if it were a Muslim drawing a gun or building a clock you guys would be the first ones demanding the kid be thrown out of school and start ranting about immigrants. And it's not about safety -- the teacher was 'making a joke' in extremely bad taste, based on the girl's beliefs, and to her classmates' credit many of them immediately began telling the teacher that such "jokes" were not at all befitting of a teacher, and the teacher apologized.

Fortunately this young girl is better than the teacher, and the board, and the apologists, and will not leave the school because she wants to keep going there and study. The teacher is weak, the girl is strong. Perhaps in part because of her faith.

WIlliB: Aren´t kids routinely singled out in the American school system for something as dramatic as drawing a picture of a gun?

Yep. Pretty silly stuff. And check out the "sexual harassment" cases when one child holds hands with another child.

But of course this situation deals with the teacher, an adult, singling out a child based on religion. Nothing like the above, but try you must I suppose.

Aren´t kids routinely singled out in the American school system for something as dramatic as drawing a picture of a gun?

This is going to make my head explode. So, it's cool for kids and their families to own and use firearms, but drawing a picture of one is some sort of security threat? Isn't this the sort of unthinking, hyper no-tolerance PC BS that you are supposed to be up in arms about? But apparently it's cool to interrogate 13 year old about explosives because she had a head-scarf on....

And, for the record, no, I don't think it's normal for kids to get "routinely singled out" for drawing stuff on their notebooks. Hell, I used to draw swords and dragons all over my notebooks; no one ever accused me of being a threat to the school. If that sort of BS happened to my kid I'd be suing the school district.

SuperLib:

" But of course this situation deals with the teacher, an adult, singling out a child based on religion. "

based on a "religion" that is profoundly political and whose radical exponents believe in violent jihad. Are you demanding that we all be stupid on purpose? Yes, it is absolulelty proper to pay special attention to declared believers in a particular ideology. Good grief.

Smithjapan:

" It never is, when it's a white person doing it "

What the heck has "white" to do with anything? Where does the article, by the way, state that the girl was non-white? Nothing at all to do with race, but try you must I suppose.

Given the number of mass-shootings in the United States (380 for 2015) its no wonder that Americans are super-paranoid; but their fixation on Muslims defies logic. More than 95% of the 380 mass-shootings this year were committed by non-Muslims. Most of them were committed by white trash, right-wing nutcases, Christian fundamentalists, etc, etc. Based on these statistics, I'd feel a lot safer standing in an elevator with a dozen Muslims wearing backpacks than I would in a shopping mall full of average, middle class Americans.

"It never is, when it's a white person doing it, and ESPECIALLY when they're doing it to Muslims."

Color is not the issue here, which involves a belief system. But I guess hammering on about complexion can help out your flawed narrative among people who don't know any better.

If you wear a hijab (now, why is THAT allowed in a secular school, by the way?), - comments

Good Lord!

By the wisdom of these promoters of ignorance and hate, (like television personality Donald J. Trump apparently), and in their logic must also insist the Yamaka of our Jewish brothers be removed (explain that to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu?), the Turban of Sikh forbade (the bigoted ignorance of a football security officer forbade in the States), why not add The Star of David, The Cross of the Christian, the statue of Lord Ganesha, these passive symbols of varied faiths, which harm no one, the bigot so proudly states, should all be removed everywhere?

What is the actual point the comment makes then?

Is there any chance Donald J. Trump will continue to promote, support and incite these Americans to their prejudices for the next four hundred days? To serve what end? Protecting the prejudice of the most ignorant.

How long will they denigrate the images of faith and wisdom that call to People of Faith to contemplate a higher self, a self of love and compassion? How long will these few ignorant be prompted to harm childen in their schools or burn their houses of worship?

For reference: A Sikh is a follower of Sikhism, a monotheistic dharma which originated during the 15th century in the Punjab region of South Asia. The term "Sikh" has its origin in the Sanskrit words शिष्य (śiṣya; disciple, student) or शिक्ष (śikṣa; instruction).

If the teen was "extremely upset ", too bad. The teacher was looking out for the safety of the students she's been put in charge with. Nothing more, nothing less. Better to be proactive than reactive. Only Islamic terrorist sympathizers would think otherwise. . . .

Only Islamic terrorist sympathizers would think otherwise. . . .

I hate Islamic terrorists, and I think otherwise.

So it would appear that the world isn't as narrow as you see it.

The teacher was looking out for the safety of the students - comments

Why is an education so important? A more obtuse interpretation requires the active and vigorous application of the most caustic prejudice. Thankfully, none of that is demonstrated by this observation.

The teacher was looking out for the safety of the students she's been put in charge with.

No. Not in the slightest. There was never any indication that there was a bomb; we aren't even talking about clock boy, here. The teacher was bullying a child that was supposed to be supposed to be under that teacher's care. There was 0 security angle to this, just racism, religious bigotry, and means spirited bullying.

The teacher was bullying a child that was supposed to be supposed to be under that teacher's care. There was 0 security angle to this, just racism, religious bigotry, and means spirited bullying.

My dear Triumvere, these are all qualities for the insane wing of the GOP. Trump merely gave them the courage to leave the closet and finally be themselves.

And I applaud him for it.

Sarcasm seems to have limits . . . enough, plainly said, "The teacher was looking out for the safety of the students"

Such an obtuse interpretation requires the active and vigorous application of the most caustic prejudice.

Thanks goodness these gun toting tough guys can face down a thirteen year old girl with the savage attack of their internet typewriters.

Keeping America safe really may require shaming thirteen year old girls. At leaste they found their strong suit.

The tools are really out tonight. Hey! look at this discrimination! Feel me See me Touch Me Heal Me