MTA Driver Bans 10-Year-Old Boy From Bus for Speaking Arabic

Young_Chitlin

By: LACEY DONOHUE

A new lawsuit filed Friday in Brooklyn Federal Court charges that a 10-year-old Brooklyn boy was called a “terrorist” and banned from boarding a bus when he recited a Muslim prayer in Arabic after losing his MetroCard.

According to the family’s lawyer, Hyder Naqvi, the boy was trying to board a bus home from school in Sheepshead Bay in October 2012 when he realized he’d lost his MetroCard. He recited the following prayer in Arabic as he searched for, and found, his card: “I stand in the name of ? the most merciful, the most beneficent.” After hearing him do so, the driver became angry, called the boy a “terrorist,” and slammed the door shut.

MTA representatives met with the family after the incident but the family was never given much information nor were they given identity of the driver. According to Naqvi, they decided at that point “to seek counsel.” The family is suing the agency and the driver for unspecified damages.

According to both the New York Daily News and the New York Post, a spokesperson for the MTA has declined to comment on the lawsuit.

7figz

Maybe he wasn't a terrorist but that does sound like somebody who might be about to commit that.

And WTF type of 10 year old says "I stand in the name of ? the most merciful, the most beneficent" ?

Antlerz

دى شركة بنت كلب

Melanin_Enriched

? just found a good way to skip school.

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Idiopathic Joker

Black_Samson wrote: »

I woulda slammed the door too...

You know how many GOTDAMN times I heard that ? right before an explosion?

amazingly you survived them all

Tymoney19

Fam is about to get paid

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1CK1S

Bus driver has to be black.

Focal Point

Smh... this ? is gonna be like this until another ethnicity/religion does something vile

MECCA1000

Driver should've said As-Salaam-Alaikum before he shut the door ..... all good

StillFaggyAF

Lol he better get used to it, so many arabs and asians movinn

SnuffDaddy

Good.

? arabs.

dalyricalbandit

CANT TAKE CHANCES

king bloo

Black_Samson wrote: »

I woulda slammed the door too...

You know how many GOTDAMN times I heard that ? right before an explosion?

Never forget the first time I heard it before a ? blew himself up. 2007 in march. a ? blew himself up at this market I was at in northern Iraq. I heard the ? yell that ? an people started bailing. next thing I know the ? blew up.

After that, any time I heard a ? yell that ? I'm gettin the ? outta dodge.

playmaker88

Yeah because shutting that bus door stops bombs.. lol ? idk its funny he thought he had a shield of invincibility by closing that door

konceptjones

was the bus driver deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan? If so, I'll gladly give him a pass for that ? .