Children are acting out terror attacks

A teacher has described pupils “acting out” the latest London terror attacks during a debate on how to tackle Islamophobia in Scotland’s schools. Delegates at the Educational Institute of Scotland’s 171st annual general meeting in Perth yesterday heard how pupils pinned another pupil to a wall and then pretended to slash his throat with a knife.

Teachers voted unanimously to update the union’s Islamophobia advice and called on the Scottish Government to finance anti-islamophobia materials and the time to teach such classes, following the rise in such abuse following the terrorist incidents in London and Manchester.

Another teacher Samreen Shah, a teacher in a Glasgow secondary school, speaking on a motion on racism and Islamophobia, described the “backlash” against people in ethnic communities after terrorist incidents.

“Every time there’s a terror attack “brown” people get the blame.

“I’m a Scottish Muslim. You’re terrified after attacks?

“So am I. But I have the added fear of the backlash and retaliation.”