{"id":1178,"date":"2012-01-19T07:40:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T12:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2012-01-19T07:40:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T12:40:19","slug":"muslim-college-student-reports-sexual-harassment-gets-reported-to-fbi-for-terrorism-and-expelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/01\/muslim-college-student-reports-sexual-harassment-gets-reported-to-fbi-for-terrorism-and-expelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim College Student Reports Sexual Harassment, Gets Reported To FBI For Terrorism And Expelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008, African-American Muslim student Balayla Ahmad enrolled in Connecticut\u2019s University of Bridgeport with hopes of becoming a chiropractor. Instead, she became of a victim of sexual harassment. Distressed by the repeated sexual advances and \u201cgraphic offensive comments\u201d of a male student, Ahmad reported the harassment and \u201cfears for her safety\u201d to multiple teachers, who urged her to say nothing, and finally the university\u2019s president and dean. The dean told Ahmad, \u201cMy hands are tied. What do you suggest I do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rather than having her claims addressed, Ahmad received allegations of her own. Learning of her report, Ahmad\u2019s harasser decided to falsely accuse her of terrorism to the FBI. And rather than fully investigate what was happening, the University of Bridgeport just expelled Ahmad altogether:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/security\/2012\/01\/18\/406061\/connecticut-muslim-student-reports-sexual-harassment-gets-reported-to-fbi-for-terrorism-and-expelled-from-university\/\">Muslim College Student Reports Sexual Harassment, Gets Reported To FBI For Terrorism And Expelled | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008, African-American Muslim student Balayla Ahmad enrolled in Connecticut\u2019s University of Bridgeport with hopes of becoming a chiropractor. Instead, she became of a victim of sexual harassment. Distressed by the repeated sexual advances and \u201cgraphic offensive comments\u201d of a male student, Ahmad reported the harassment and \u201cfears for her safety\u201d to multiple teachers, who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,22],"tags":[777,779,11,131,776,778],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}