The Internet Is Outraged By This Shocking Racist Yearbook 'Typo'

Publish date
Tuesday, 10 May 2016, 2:57PM

A California high school has launched an investigation after the school yearbook mistakenly published a photo of a Muslim student that identified her as "Isis Phillips."

The student's actual name is Bayan Zehlif. How did this happen?!

Many believe that what Los Osos High School is calling a "misprint" is actually a racist attempt to link the student to the Middle East terrorist group ISIS because of her religion.

 

 


School principal Susan Petrocelli and the yearbook staff have already taken to Twitter to apologize. Both said that applying the name "Isis" to the 11th grader, who is pictured wearing a hijab, was a simple mistake.

 


Petrocelli also told Islamic Monthly that the school previously had a student named Isis Phillips who now attends classes elsewhere in the district. But people aren't convinced this is a legit excuse, taking to social media to express their outrage.

Zehlif shared about the issue on Facebook:

Only 287 yearbooks have been distributed so far, according to the school, and undistributed copies are currently being held back as the school attempts to work with the publisher to correct the error.

Petrocelli stressed that the school was taking the matter seriously and would seek disciplinary action should it be discovered that the misprint was intentional.

"If there is a student that has responsibly and intentionally committed this, we will take the appropriate action that is necessary," Petrocelli told Islamic Monthly.

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