Most Common Bullying Against Muslim Students Is Yanking The Hijab Off
A recent report by the Massachussets chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations found that bullying and harassment of Muslim schoolchildren that was rife before the pandemic has returned.
During the pandemic’s remote learning phase, reports of school bullying essentially went down to zero.
With classes now back in person, cases of bullying are going back up.
However, adult Muslims working from home experienced an increase in harassment by their neighbors during that same period, the report shows.
Barbara Dougan, CAIR-MA legal director, told The New Arab news website that school bullying numbers jumped back up to a typical level in September 2021.
One most common example of bullying against Muslim schoolchildren is yanking the hijab off a girl’s head, she said.
Another is calling a Muslim child a terrorist.
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