It began on social media, our latter-day Salem: Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad took to Facebook to inform her followers that evil was afoot in the town of Maplewood.
“Yesterday,” wrote Muhammad,... “Tamar Herman, a teacher at Seth Boyden Elementary in Maplewood, NJ, forcibly removed the hijab of a second-grade student. The young student resisted, by trying to hold onto her hijab, but the teacher pulled the hijab off..."
Only, that likely isn’t at all what had happened: In a statement, Herman gave a perfectly plausible explanation. She had observed the student wearing a hooded sweatshirt, she said, and, in accordance with school policy, asked her to pull down the hood, as it was blocking her eyes. After seeing that the student was wearing the hood “in place of, rather than on top of, her usual hijab,” Herman “immediately rescinded that request.”
In a functioning society run by adults, such a dispute would have been resolved swiftly and calmly. But because this is Woke America, a nation that runs on empty outrage broadcast online, and so it didn’t take long for Herman to be found guilty by a jury of her virtual peers...
https://nypost.com/2021/10/11/muslim-olympian-instigated-cancel-culture-witch-trial-against-jersey-teacher/
