The school's principal has apologized for the incident.
The school's principal has apologized for the incident.
Atlanta
: The father of a Muslim middle school student said that a teacher asked his daughter if she was carrying a bomb in her backpack.
The school's principal has apologized for the incident, according to a spokeswoman.
Abdirizak Aden said the teacher at Shiloh Middle School in Georgia, stopped his 13-year-old daughter, who wears a hijab, and asked if she had a bomb.
Aden told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that his daughter was extremely upset by the comment and he went to the school to see what had happened.
-"I was upset,-" said Aden, who works as a truck driver and grocery store owner. -"I was going to take my daughter out (of that school).-"
-"We are from Africa, we are Muslims, we live in America,-" he said. -"I didn't teach my children to hate people or to think they are better than other people.-"
Sloan Roach, a Gwinnett County Public Schools spokeswoman, told the newspaper that the school's principal has apologized to the family.
-"The remark was not appropriate, but based on their conversation and investigation,-" school officials don't believe it was made with -"ill intent,-" Roach said.
She said the comment came as the teacher was urging students to put away their backpacks.
The incident -"shows the level of Islamophobia impacting people's relationships with one another,-" Yusof Burke, board president of the Georgia Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told the newspaper.
