The University of Missouri is once again finding itself in the middle of a controversy and this time it involves one of their professors possibly committing a serious crime.
According to reports, an assistant professor at the university was arrested for assaulting a 14-year-old girl because she didn’t wear her hijab in public.
University of Missouri assistant professor Youssif Zaghwani Omar was arrested after an altercation at a high school in Columbia, Missouri, where he physically attacked a 14-year-old girl for going to school without wearing a hijab, according to police.
The girl, who was reported as being Omar’s relative, was attending Hickman High School in Columbia on November 24 when the Libyan-born Omar arrived at about 3 PM and allegedly confronted the girl for not wearing the traditional Muslim head covering in public.
According to the Columbia Daily Tribune, Omar grabbed the girl “very violently by the hair,” then pulled her outside of the class and down a flight of stairs.
Omar was reportedly seen slapping the girl’s face as he pulled her by the hair into his car outside the school.
The following day, police arrested the Missouri professor at his home on felony charges of child abuse. He was later released from the Boone County Jail after posting a $4,500 bond.
Seems like a pretty nice guy.
Let’s see how long it takes for the university to fire this professor.
The entire country was calling for university officials to be fired or step down due to alleged racial discrimination that took place under their watch but for some reason I don’t think this story is going to gain the same traction.
