Lawsuit: MTA bus driver calls Muslim boy, 10, 'terrorist' and denies him ride

[marmar]

A 12-year-old Brooklyn boy says in a lawsuit that he was barred from boarding a city bus after the driver heard the youngster reciting a Muslim prayer and branded him a “terrorist.”

The unidentified plaintiff was searching for his MetroCard as the B36 Bus pulled up on Sheepshead Bay Road last October, according to the suit, filed Friday in Brooklyn Federal Court.

He began reciting a Muslim prayer: “I stand in the name of God the most merciful, the most beneficent,” the suit states. The driver became alarmed, called the boy a “terrorist” and slammed the door shut, the boy’s lawyer, Hyder Naqvi, told the Daily News.

“The driver said ‘Get off!’” and used the T-word,” Naqvi said, referring to the word “terrorist.” ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/bus-driver-calls-muslim-boy-10-terrorist-suit-article-1.1499629#ixzz2j7hYlXHp

[Aristus]

1. If I had my way,

I'd drop that bus driver off a building so tall, he'd be able to live the rest of his natural life on the way down...

[Thinkingabout]

2. Let me guess, the driver is Republican and listens too much to FOX and talk radio.

[lunasun]

3. should be fired pronto

Terrible when a 10 yr old has to experience discrimination in a country founded on freedom of religion
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Is a constitutionally guaranteed right provided in the religion clauses of the First Amendment