A school teacher in India has subjected a seven-year-old Muslim student to degrading treatment inside a classroom, asking his classmates to slap him and asking for him to be evicted due to his religion, a video now viral on social media has revealed.
The video, which surfaced on Friday, showed Trapta Tyagi, the teacher at the school in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, making Islamophobic remarks in addition to encouraging other students to slap him harder.
The parents of the seven-year-old, Mohammad Altamash, told Al Jazeera News Agency that the incident took place on Thursday in Neha Public School in Kubbapur village, 30km (19 miles) from Muzaffarnagar town.
Police in India have asked social media users not to share the video, prompting various users to remove it from their accounts.
As the video went viral, it sparked outrage on social media, with many pointing out the growing Islamophobia in schools.
It should be mentioned that Muslims have fallen victim to an increasing frenzy of anti-Islamic hate crimes by extremist Hindutva members as well as organized terrorist attacks.
