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The Brooklyn boy, 10 years old at the time, was preparing to board a B36 bus and singing when he was called a terrorist by the bus driver and left in the cold, lawsuit says.
A 12-year-old Brooklyn boy says in a lawsuit that he was barred from boarding a city bus after the driver heard the youngster reciting a Muslim prayer and branded him a “terrorist.”
The unidentified plaintiff was searching for his MetroCard as the B36 Bus pulled up on Sheepshead Bay Road last October, according to the suit, filed Friday in Brooklyn Federal Court. He began reciting a Muslim prayer: “I stand in the name of God the most merciful, the most beneficent,” the suit states.
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The driver became alarmed, called the boy — still 10 at the time — a “terrorist” and slammed the door shut, lawyer Hyder Naqvi told The Daily News.
“He was two days shy of turning 11 when this happened, but he’s old enough to know what it feels like to be discriminated against,” Naqvi said.
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A spokesman for NYC Transit had no immediate comment.
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