A seventh-grade Ohio student is facing expulsion after threatening to shoot a sixth-grade student because he is Muslim.
According to reports, the older boy threatened a fifth grader on December 7. He told the child that he was going to bring a .40-caliber gun into school the next day and shoot him because he was a terrorist and a “towel head.” The seventh grader called the student the “son of ISIS” and accused him of causing the 9/11 World Trade Center attack.
The incident was captured on video and audio surveillance on the school bus. Another student overheard the incident and told the bus driver who contacted authorities. The victim said that he was afraid of the older student because he believed the boy would hurt him or other students. The seventh grader admitted that he threatened the Muslim boy and said that it was because he never sat down on the bus and played his music too loud. According to Raw Story:
He told police he didn’t remember saying anything about a gun, but he agreed the recording showed he had threatened to shoot his classmate. The boy told police that he was familiar with firearms because he hunts with his father. He was arrested and charged with ethnic intimidation and aggravated menacing.
The Administrators at Vandalia-Butler City Schools suspended the student for ten days and recommended him for expulsion.
This is a very disturbing case and it shows just how dangerous right-wing rhetoric is. We don’t know anything about these children other than what has been reported, but it’s not hard to assume that the older kid’s parents believe that all Muslims are terrorists. Sure, kids say stuff all the time and we can’t always blame parents, but this kind of deep-seated hate in a child this young doesn’t just appear out of thin air. If his parents do not peddle this kind of disgusting hate in their home, then they damn sure better explain to their child how damaging that kind of speech is.
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release the child and arrest his parents but do expel him so he wont make that mistake again and get him counseling
What has been done to this bully child, is pretty much exactly what is taught at Madrasas. The violent mental outburst was created by carefully interpreting recent international events through the lens of the right wing extremist and simplified and dumbed down to this level. They have created the equivalent of a jihadi, here in America, of their own child, but in the name of ‘Murica.
he was reacting to what he hears about mosloms and their atrocities
He is reacting to the hate speak he hears at home.
what atrocity has a 10 year old boy done ?
the difference is he only threatened something, the moslom would have just done it
Dave- you are a moron.
and you sound like a liberal koolaid drinker. can’t think for yourself
Evidently you can’t either. All you can do is parrot the bullshit you hear on Fox News. “Moslom”? No wonder they call you repubs stupid. You can’t even spell.
He’s a moran.
really wish you had spelled that right. He is a moron!!!!
When keeping the rhetoric real goes bad. Sounds like CPS needs to make a home visit,
I see everyone here blaming the parents for what was said when no one even knows where he learned this. To speculate he learned it at home is just as wrong as him saying what he said. What the media should do is get the facts from the kid first & ask “where did you learn this?” then report, not accuse his parents blindly. What if your kid said or did something in poor judgement & you were labeled a bigot or right wing activist? You’ll be the first to claim “I don’t know where he got his from, we’re a very respectable God fearing family & we don’t teach that in our home”. Save your bullshit rebuttals, I don’t vote, don’t care about politics & i’m a 911 first responder & survivor who hates terrorism whether it’s committed by white trash, black trash or brown trash.
And i wonder where he learned such behavior ?