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

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @02:06AM from the if-you-see-something,-think-with-your-head dept.

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.

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Re:I'm not seeing the problem here by Anonymous Coward · 2016-01-20 02:25 · Score: 0, Troll

Worse, the counter paranoid argument is that the boy did this on purpose, or was told to do it by his elders, in order to "fix" the school system. I call bullshit that he misspelled terraced as terrorist.
Re:I'm not seeing the problem here by RabidReindeer · 2016-01-20 02:37 · Score: 1, Troll

I'm pretty sure he would be.
Tim McVeigh, The Unabomber, and most recently the yahoos up in the American Northwest who want property "returned to its original owners" - not, incidentally, the tribes who lived there before the white people arrived.
Re: Polaroid Obama by Anonymous Coward · 2016-01-20 05:25 · Score: 0, Troll

Read the news asswipe. Facts != bigotry. It's getting old.