WBBM Newsradio: Muslim girl has been bullied at suburban school, civil rights group says

“(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — A Muslim middle school student in the western suburbs has been the target of repeated harassment and bullying because of her religious faith, an Islamic-American civil rights group says.

The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) said the 13-year-old is an 8th-grader at Marquardt Middle School in Marquardt District 15 in Glendale Heights. CAIR officials said she has been the subject of anti-Muslim hazing and bullying — including physical beatings caught on video — since August.

“They’ve called her ‘terrorist.’ They’ve alluded to her father being a terrorist and her being a terrorist, so there’s some Islamophobic underpinnings to this bullying,” CAIR executive director Ahmed Rehab said.

The girl and her parents want her transferred to another school but the district has refused, Rehab said.”

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