10-Year-Old Muslim Boy Probed For 'Terrorist House' Spelling Error (bbc.com)

AmiMoJo writes: A 10-year-old Muslim boy who mistakenly wrote that he lived in a "terrorist house" during an English lesson at school has been investigated by police. The pupil, who attends a primary school in Lancashire, meant to say he lived in a "terraced house." The boy was interviewed by Lancashire Police at his home the next day, and the family laptop was examined. The 2015 Counter Terrorism and Security Act means that teachers have been legally obliged to report any suspected extremist behavior to police since July. Miqdaad Versi, assistant secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, the UK's largest umbrella group for Islamic associations, said he was aware of dozens of cases similar to that of the schoolboy.

Comments

Re:I'm not seeing the problem here

[BarbaraHudson]

They would investigate anyone. The UK has a LONG history of dealing with non-muslim, non-arab terrorists.

2000 1 June: Real IRA bomb on Hammersmith Bridge, London.
2000 20 September: Real IRA fired an RPG-22 at the MI6 HQ in London.
2001 4 March: Real IRA detonated a car bomb outside the BBC's main news centre in London. One London Underground worker suffered deep cuts to his eye from flying glass and some damage was caused to the front of the building.[21] (See 2001 BBC bombing)
2001 16 April: Hendon post office bombed by the Real IRA.
2001 6 May: Real IRA detonated a bomb in a London postal sorting office. One person was injured.
2001 3 August: Real IRA bomb explodes in Ealing, West London, injuring seven people. (See 2001 Ealing bombing)
2001 4 November: Real IRA car bomb in Birmingham.

If you want, you can go back to the beginning of the '70s - just a bunch of white terrorists until July 2005.

Re:News for Nerds?

[JazzLad]

Can you not even read TFS?

The pupil, who attends a primary school in Lancashire, meant to say he lived in a "terraced house."