CAIR is the only group doing hijab crisis stories.

These are TV broadcasts that feature an extreme, vicious overreaction to the mishandling of a hijab.

The latest iteration of this heartless gimmick involves an elementary school teacher, Tamar Herman.

According to Herman, she adjusted a child’s hoodie before she realized it was makeshift hijab. The incident ended and “the learning continued.”

But no. Not so fast.  Hijabs of any kind can potentially ignite a Muslim conniption fit. In this case, it was former Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad who pulled the trigger with her social media accounts.

Hundreds and thousands of likes and shares later, followers of Ibtihaj began showering Seth Boyden Elementary School with threats.

“ . . some of the correspondences have been threatening, disrespectful, and vulgar in nature” – Superintendent Ronald Taylor

And the Council on American Islamic Relations is predictably calling for Herman’s termination, while using their media access to turn this into an international news story.

The teacher herself is under police protection. Maybe that is why the police have taken over the investigation from the school. Well, it is good that someone is intervening, because the CAIR side is playing dirty. The attorney for the family, Robert L. Tarver, has gone public with an irrelevant letter from 2017 insinuating Mrs. Herman is a racist.

“If this a situation where there was prior knowledge, or there is prior information that this teacher has some problems then that is something that the school should have dealt with.” – Attorney Robert L. Tarver

But maybe police acted after a statement from Tarver that raises the possibility he is coaching children’s testimony.

“In light of the denial by the teacher, I want to make it clear that we have obtained independent verification that completely supports the assertion of the student,” attorney Robert L. Tarver said.

Eliciting testimony from a child requires some expertise. You would have thought CAIR had learned this from the last time they tried to weaponize a child’s accusations.

And speaking of other cases, this is a carbon copy of what CAIR did two years ago in Toms River, New Jersey. That time it was Facebook posts mocking Rachida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Sharia Barbie.

CAIR went on TV to demand that Dan Leonard resign. When Leonard did not move fast enough, CAIR unleashed a torrent of hate speech. School Board members were getting terroristic threats. Secretaries were inundated with vile language on the phone. Leonard’s family was the target of rape threats.

And CAIR never said anything.

And they are not saying anything to calm the situation down now, either.

They want this lady fired, defiled, or dead. That’s your largest Muslim civil rights group for you.

Maplewood police open inquiry of hijab incident, as teacher says it was a misunderstanding

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/essex/2021/10/13/tamar-herman-hijab-maplewood-teacher-incident-misunderstanding/6103647001/

The Maplewood Police Department has opened an inquiry into allegations that a teacher “forcibly” removed the hijab of a second grade student, the South Orange-Maplewood School District announced. The teacher, meanwhile, spoke out, calling the incident a misunderstanding.

In a statement sent to The Record and NorthJersey.com through her attorney, Tamar Herman, a teacher at Seth Boyden Elementary School in Maplewood, said the student was wearing a hooded sweatshirt in place of a hijab.

“Last week, I asked one of my students to raise the hood of her sweatshirt because it was covering her eyes,” Herman said. “With her mask on, too, her whole face was covered. I gently got her attention by brushing up the front of her hood. The moment I realized she was not wearing her usual hijab underneath, she kept the hood on. And the learning went on.”

The incident gained attention last week when Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad, a Maplewood native who was the first Muslim American Olympian to compete for the U.S. in a hijab, posted about the incident on Instagram. Muhammad said the student had her hijab “forcibly removed” by Herman.

The attorney representing the family of the second grader contradicted Herman’s denial.

“In light of the denial by the teacher, I want to make it clear that we have obtained independent verification that completely supports the assertion of the student,” attorney Robert L. Tarver said in a statement included in a news release from the South Orange-Maplewood Black Parents Workshop. “We hope the South Orange and Maplewood community will support this student and demand justice for her.”

When the incident first made the rounds on social media last week, the school district announced that it was investigating and stressed that social media was not a “reliable forum for due process.”

But on Tuesday, Superintendent Ronald Taylor announced in a letter to the district community that Maplewood police had instructed that the internal investigation be paused in order for the department to open its own inquiry.

Thousands of calls and emails

Taylor said the incident has led to thousands of emails and hundreds of calls sent to the district in response, the majority of which, he added, have come from outside the community and even New Jersey.

“The overarching tone of these correspondences condemn the alleged actions of the staff member and strongly advocate for adverse personnel action,” Taylor said. “However, some of the correspondences have been threatening, disrespectful, and vulgar in nature.”

Herman’s statement followed one from her lawyer, Samantha Harris. In it, Harris said her client had been harmed by what she called “misinformation” about the incident. She said Herman hadn’t realized the student was wearing a hood in place of her hijab.

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The teacher “has now had to ask for police protection due to the threats she is receiving following the dissemination of false information on social media,” Harris said in her statement.

The New Jersey chapter of the Council of American-Islamic Relations called for Herman to be fired in an Oct. 8 press release.

In her statement, Herman cited her 30 years of experience as a teacher, and said she misses her students and Seth Boyden Elementary.

She said she hopes the community will be able to move forward from the incident.

“Let us cultivate a climate of acceptance, tolerance, compassion, and respect for all,” Herman said. “Diversity is our strength.”

In his letter, Taylor said the district is committed to being inclusive, regardless of the alleged incident. He said he was pleased to see how Seth Boyden has moved forward from it.

But he also noted that the threats levied by some people have increased concern across the district.

“Our staff should not be afraid to come to school or feel a heightened sense of concern for their personal safety due to threats from others,” he said. “We are hopeful and all agree that the alleged actions of one employee should not condemn an entire community.”

Tarver, the family’s attorney, said another student in the classroom witnessed and verified the second grader’s account. The individual, he said, “confirmed that the teacher did actually touch and forcibly attempt to remove the hijab.”

He said the girl has worn the hijab every day she has been in class, so the teacher “would have to have knowledge that she wore a head covering for religious purposes.”

The girl has not returned to school since the incident, Tarver said. District officials are working with the family on a plan for her return to the classroom, he added.

The school district said Herman is “not on site indefinitely.”