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Guess the country: Man accused of assaulting relative for not wearing hijab
By LU Staff November 30, 2015November 30, 2015
Award yourself 10 points if you identified the country in which this atrocity happened as the U.S. of A.
A former graduate teaching assistant at the much-in-the-headlines University of Missouri, no less, has been arrested and could be charged with child abuse after he allegedly assaulted a 14-year-old relative after seeing her in school without a headscarf.
Youssif Omar was reportedly at Hickman High School in Columbia, Mo., last Tuesday when he spotted the girl and noticed that she wasn’t wearing a hijab, a traditional headscarf worn by many Muslim women and that many believers regard as a religious obligation.
According to a Columbia police representative who spoke with the Columbia Daily Tribune, Omar reacted violently, slapping the girl, grabbing her by the hair, and dragging her down a flight of stairs and out to his car.
After the incident was reported, Columbia police arrested Omar at his home Wednesday night on suspicion of felony child abuse. Omar was released after posting a bond of $4,500.
It’s not clear whether the girl, whom police have not named, is Omar’s daughter or some other relation.
Notably, according to Omar’s LinkedIn page, he currently works as an assistant professor at the University of Missouri. He also is managing editor of MU’s undergraduate writing journal Artifacts and works in the university bookstore. Prior to coming to America, Omar says he was the head of the University of Benghazi’s English department in Libya.
But according to a tweet by the university, he is no longer employed there.
. @NYDailyNews Mr. Omar is not employed at Mizzou. He was formerly a graduate student with an assistantship. Job ended in July.
— Mizzou (@Mizzou) November 30, 2015
Omar isn’t the first Mizzou faculty member, past or present, to grab unwelcome headlines in November. Three weeks ago, Professor Melissa Click caused a national outrage when she attempted to rouse a mob to attack a student journalist trying to cover the school’s Concerned Student 1950 protests. Click has apologized and resigned a courtesy post she held with MU’s journalism school, but she remains on the faculty at the school.
This report, by Blake Neff, was cross-posted by arrangement with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Posted in: Education, Politics, ReligionTagged: Muslim
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