An 8-year-old’s hijab was allegedly forcibly removed by a substitute teacher. (Photo: Getty Images) An 8-year old girl allegedly had her hijab ripped off her head by a substitute teacher in her Bronx, N.Y., elementary school, the New York Post reports . According to the substitute teacher, 31-year old Oghenetga Edah, the girl was sitting in the teacher’s chair in the classroom and refused to get out, and she was generally misbehaving in class. Edah claims he tapped the girl on the arm, asking her to move, but she declined. That’s when he told her he was going to remove her hijab, which he did so forcefully that her right eye was injured in the process. “It was scary,” she told the Daily News . Her father, Mohamed Alzockary, a grocer from Yemen, added, “I didn’t expect a teacher to do that to a child. She’s OK right now … but kids, they’re nervous.” Edah was immediately removed from the school and fired as soon as the incident was reported. A Department of Educat...
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