An eight-year-old boy in France was interrogated by police after his school reported that he was praising terrorism.
According to Daily Mail, the boy named Ahmed,
refused to partake in the minute of silence held at his school to honor the victims of the Charlie Hebdo terror attacks.
Ahmed reportedly stated “I am with the terrorists.”
School authorities subsequently reported
the issue to the police. The boy and his father were interrogated by
the officers. When they asked Ahmed if he knew what terrorism is, he
replied “I don’t know.”
Activist group, Collective Against Islamophobia,
reportedly defended Ahmed’s actions, stating that as a Muslim, the boy
meant no harm, but was only expressing that he was not in support of
satirical cartoons of Prophet Muhammad in the magazine. They further
stated that his “I am with the terrorists” remark was just the little
boy’s naive way of trying to express his feelings.
“Father and son are deeply shocked by
their treatment which illustrates the collective hysteria that has
engulfed France since early January,” the group said in a statement.
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