Teacher rips hijab off 8-year-old girl's head for 'misbehaving', fired

Joel Lucas, 7, says the teacher, Oghenetega Edah, turned on him after tearing off the girl's headwear, allegedly striking him twice.

"I'm taking it off", Edah said as he yanked the hijab off her head. The police is also investigating the incident. Discipline tends to be doled out in New York City public schools at different rates depending on a student's race: data shows that 99 percent of students handcuffed in schools in 2016 were black or Hispanic, and about 50 percent of suspensions in the 2015-2016 school year were issued to black students, who make up a little over 27 percent of the student population.

School officials say that's no excuse for the teacher's reaction. "She's OK right now". "This individual was removed from the school immediately and his employment has been terminated".

Safa said she's proud of herself for standing up for her beliefs.

However, his final day at the school was on May 3, when he was immediately dismissed from his role as a substitute teacher following the accusation. A number of incidents have involved teachers expressing prejudice toward Muslims.

While incidents in schools might be rare, there have been other attacks in NY. The man who allegedly targeted them because the officer is Muslim.

However, according to her father, she is now "nervous" to go back to school - which is understandable, considering she is an 8-year-old who was attacked by an authority figure that most children her age usually look up to. When she returned, she found a man, Christopher Nelson, shoving and yelling at her son.

"He said, 'I want to see your hair.' I thought he was joking", Safa said. An insult to my faith.

In May 2016, a Sikh man was fixing the vehicle in his driveway in Kent, Washington state, when a gunman wearing a mask approached him and pulled the trigger, telling the victim to "go back to your own country", he told police.