Monday 12 August 2019

Take, Take, Take...

I told you we hadn't seen the last of this story:
Shukri’s uncle Mustaf Omar, 29, said: “We are not happy with the lack of information in the report. It’s a whitewash. We hoped the school would interview Shukri’s mother for this report and other parents whose children might have experienced bullying but they weren’t approached.
“It was very insulting that we were asked to go to the police station to receive this school report. We asked for an interpreter for Shukri’s mum, Zamzam, but there was no interpreter there. Zamzam just sat there crying. In the end we walked out of the police station in protest about the way we were treated.”
*rolls eyes*
Shukri’s mother, Zamzam Arab Ture, is calling on the school to be investigated for a potential breach of its duty of care towards pupils.
She said: “If the rights we came to this country for exist I want something done.
You've got a bloody nerve demanding your 'rights' when you haven't even bothered to learn the language of the country you came to!
An investigation has been launched into whether police treated Shukri’s family “less favourably” because of their ethnic background.
Of course it has.

6 comments:

Nemisis said...

It's sad that the child committed suicide.

But how many people see the contradiction between the mother wanting an interpreter and managing a sentence such as:
"....is calling on the school to be investigated for a potential breach of its duty of care towards pupils"
Why should cash-strapped bodies such as local councils, police, the NHS provide interpreters when there are relatives and "community leaders" who can do a perfectly good job at no cost to the tax-payer?

mikebravo said...

“It was very insulting that we were asked to go to the police station to receive this school report. We asked for an interpreter for Shukri’s mum, Zamzam, but there was no interpreter there. Zamzam just sat there crying. In the end we walked out of the police station in protest about the way we were treated.”

Sounds like Uncle Mustaf has a fair grasp on our language and associated benefits.

Anonymous said...

If the bullying was by white boys, it would have been all over the papers. White girls have a partial 'pussy pass'. Myself, I suspect bullying from a protected group that gets away with it every time. I suspect that there are more factions in a certain religious group than we are led to believe. Perhaps they believe that girls shouldn't be at school at all.

Greencoat said...

There’s Zamzam very wrong with all this.

Ed P said...

Isn't using the term "Whitewash" now considered waycist? Especially by those who are not white?

JuliaM said...

"Why should cash-strapped bodies such as local councils, police, the NHS provide interpreters when there are relatives and "community leaders" who can do a perfectly good job at no cost to the tax-payer?"

Well, in the case of the police, it's because they need translation to evidential standard. And in the other services, because there's no objective standard.

"Sounds like Uncle Mustaf has a fair grasp on our language and associated benefits."

Don't they always?

"If the bullying was by white boys, it would have been all over the papers. "

I have my suspicions too....