A Muslim teacher was told to hang herself with her headscarf in a frightening note which said it was no longer ‘allowed’ after Donald Trump’s election win.
Mairah Teli received the frightening order in an anonymous note left in her classroom at Dacula High School in Dacula, Georgia, on Friday.
‘Mrs Teli, your head scarf isn’t allowed anymore. Why don’t you tie it around your neck and hang yourself with it,’ said the message.
The 24-year-old teacher said the note was a result of Trump’s election victory and an indicator of the escalating racism it has triggered.
‘I’m a high school teacher and sadly this anonymous note was put in my classroom today.
‘As a Muslim, I wear a headscarf as a practice of my faith. I want to share this to raise awareness about the reality and climate of our community.
‘Spreading hate isn’t going to “make America great again,”‘ she said in a Facebook post about the incident.
She accompanied the post with the hashtags ‘Donald’s America’ and ‘Here to stay’.
Mrs Teli is a California native and works at the school as a language arts teacher.
The note was illustrated by hand-drawn American flags and written in block capitals.
The local school district told The Atlanta Journal Constitution it was determined to establish who had written it.
Scores of other racist incidents have been reported across the country since Trump triumphed over Hillary Clinton in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
In Redding, California, high school students distributed ‘deportation’ fliers to Latino students and others built a human wall preventing their Hispanic classmates from walking the halls of a different school in Dewitt, Michigan.
Neo-Nazi websites are relishing his win, telling frightened blacks and females they ought to be ‘afraid’.
One encouraged his followers to troll them into suicide.
Swastikas appeared in graffiti in Philadelphia and reports of individual muggings, attacks and threats against Muslims and other minority groups are rife.
Trump, who vowed to block Muslim immigration to the US as part of his campaign, has not addressed the uproar since his win.
He bemoaned protesters who have taken to the streets in their thousands, describing their demonstrations as ‘very unfair’ on Thursday.
On Friday he had changed his tune after the third night of unrest and commended them for their ‘passion’ for the country.
More than 300 people have been arrested at various protests across the country since Wednesday.
Courtesy: Mail Online
