The Muslim Post

Bullying Against Muslim Students Rises

U.S. Puts $5 Million Bounty On Pakistani Taliban Leader

Incidents of bullying against Muslim students from hijab pulling to cyberbullying have climbed, according to a 2017 school bullying report by the Council on American Islamic Relations—and experts say Islamophobic rhetoric from the U.S. election in 2016 played a role. The study found that out of the 1,041 Muslim students ages 11 to 18 more […]

Pakistani family sues New York school, alleging forced ‘terrorist’ confession

A 12-year-old Muslim student with learning disabilities was forced by New York school officials to sign a false confession stating he was a ‘terrorist,’ his family claimed in a $50 million federal lawsuit. Nashwan Uppal, a seventh grader at a middle school in East Islip, New York, was harassed by bullies who called him a […]

US school expels 2 for bomb threat from Muslim pupil’s email

Two students have been expelled from a US school after they sent a “bomb threat” to more than 600 current and former students from the email account of a Muslim pupil. The subject line of the mail sent out by the two students of the high-performing Washington Latin Public Charter School said ‘Bomb’ and the […]