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US teacher calls Muslim child terror example
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ASIANAGE on 13 September, 2008 03:31:12
 
Chicago, Sept. 13: A public school teacher in Chicago could lose her job after
she called the only Muslim student in her class an example of what a terrorist
looks like. The family of 13-year-old Saleh Choudhary wants the unidentified
sixth-grade teacher, who has been reassigned since the incident last spring, to
be barred from ever setting foot in a classroom again.
"The family does want her fired, they don’t believe that she should be
teaching students anymore," said Christina Abraham with the Council on
American-Islamic Relations. The teacher allegedly used Saleh as an example when
she described a homicide bombing, saying that he would carry explosives on board
a plane and blow it up.
Though the 13-year-old declined to speak to the media about the ordeal, his
brother Mohammad Fahad Choudhary said that "before he even took his backpack
off, he had tears in his eyes already" when he came home from school that day.
"Everybody started teasing him and calling him a terrorist after the comments
were made by the teacher," Mohammad said.
The Pakistani-American family met for more than two hours Thursday with Chicago
Public Schools officials in a closed-door session, according to local media. A
federal mediator presided over the meeting. Another session was scheduled for
next month.
—ANI