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Mizzou Teaching Assistant Arrested for Assaulting, Dragging 14-yo Muslim Girl from HS by Hair |
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Posted by SLRT on Mon Nov 30 10:35:03 2015 University of Missouri teaching assistant beat teenage relative for not wearing hijab: cops BY Jason Silverstein NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Sunday, November 29, 2015, 2:30 PM Youssif Omar, 53, allegedly abused a teenage family member for not wearing a hijab in school. Police Handout A University of Missouri teaching assistant allegedly pulled a teenage relative out of her high school by her hair and assaulted her for not wearing a hijab, police said. Youssif Z. Omar, 53, was arrested Wednesday for the alleged child abuse at Hickman High School, the Columbia Tribune reported. Police said Omar was at the school around 3 p.m. Tuesday and noticed a 14-year-old family member who was not wearing a hijab, a traditional headscarf worn by many Muslim women. Omar flew into a frenzy, “violently” grabbing her hair and yanking her down a flight of stairs and out of the school, police said. He then allegedly pulled her into his car and slapped her. Omar was arrested at his Columbia home the next day on suspicion of felony child abuse, police said. He was released from jail on $4,500 bond. The condition of the teenage relative is unknown. Omar did not return requests for comment. Omar is a graduate teaching assistant of Arabic at the University of Missouri, according to the school’s website. A Benghazi native, he is also an editor of the school’s student culture journal, Artifacts. In an editor’s note for a recent issue, he wrote about the need to accept other peoples’ cultures and remain open-minded about one’s own. “It is very hard for some people to be away from their own culture because they find themselves confined to the deep-rooted beliefs and customs they acquired and learned from the communities in which they were born and raised,” he wrote. “Such people see themselves as fish taken away from the water.” |
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