While the recent Paris attacks have unnerved the entire world, there has been an unprecedented backlash against American and European Muslim students. An article by Edinburg News that my colleague Melanie also discusses here captures the plight of a student who has been constantly subjected to bullying because she is a Muslim. Due to severity of the humiliation, her mother was left with no option but to pull her out from school. While Melanie chose to look at the article from the perspective of a lack of teacher intervention, I want to focus on the specific ways how Muslim students are being attacked and humiliated.
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