Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Teacher tells 9th grade Muslim girl: ‘I bet you’re grieving’ for ‘uncle’ Osama | The Raw Story

Teacher tells 9th grade Muslim girl: ‘I bet you’re grieving’ for ‘uncle’ Osama | The Raw Story: A ninth grade algebra teacher was suspended from a Texas school district after making offensive comments to a Muslim student in front of the entire class.

'The teacher told the student that 'I bet you're grieving,'' the mother of a student in the same class told ABC13. 'And she basically looked at him and said what are you talking about? And he said I heard about your uncle's death and she said wow, because she understood that he was referring about Osama bin Laden being killed and was racially profiling her.'

She added that the teacher 'just kind of smirked and giggled and walked away' after the Muslim student ended up crying over the comments.

The student's mother did not want to reveal her identity because she feared retaliation against her daughter and the Muslim girl who was harassed.