A Muslim woman has pulled her 14-year-old daughter out of the school she was attending in Manchester, England, after she was subjected to Islamophobic bullying.
Farrah Aftab told the website MailOnline, that on one occasion when she collected her daughter from school, a hate mob surrounded her daughter and shouted “Daesh.”
On another occasion Aftab said the children at the 1,300-student school asked her daughter what she was doing the night of the fatal suicide bomb attack at Manchester Arena, before verbally abusing her.
In a video Aftab filmed large gangs of students can be seen outside the school, as teachers stood nearby.
Mental health worker, Aftab, 37, told the MailOnline: “My daughter has been targeted since year seven and has been made to feel that she has no friends and that no one likes her.
“It’s like they’re reminding her that no one likes her and it is just unfair… It has always been bad but with things that have been going on it has been getting worse.
“I am terrified as to what would have happened if we hadn’t gone to get her and if she hadn’t got in the car. I’ve reported this to the police, local MP and the council and the governors of the school.”
She said she and her husband went to collect their daughter on Thursday, and suddenly the car was surrounded by gangs of children taunting them. She said they threatened to “break her nose,” and called her ugly.
She added: “My daughter got out car go to speak to a teacher and she was saying ‘this is what I have got to put up with - I don’t come to school for this,’ but the teachers seemed more concerned with me putting my phone away.”
She said she no longer trusted the teachers with her children, adding: “They have breached (their) duty of care.”
The school have contacted the parents of the bullied girl and offered to send her homework so she could study at home.
They also suggested the unnamed girl could use the school’s study center. But Aftab said the center was used for misbehaving students and would lead to her daughter being even further isolated.
Greater Manchester Police said the incident was being investigated and appealed for witnesses to contact the force.
A school spokesman confirmed the incident was under investigation, but did not comment further.
