He was referred to social services under govt's anti-terror prevent strategy, where teachers report suspicious activity.
London: An eight-year-old boy in the UK was questioned by authorities after teachers at his school became suspicious of his t-shirt slogan, mistaking a revered Islamic figure for ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The boy has been left traumatised by his run-in with social services after he wore a t-shirt which read -"I want to be like Abu Bakr al-Siddique-" a major Islamic figure comparable to St Peter in the Christian faith - to his East
London school, and is reluctant to go back. The teachers confused the name with the leader of ISIS Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Daily Express reported.
It is also claimed the boy told his friends his father had a -"secret job-", which was later discovered to be selling nail polish and he branded it -"secret-" because he sold the products on eBay and did not publicise it.
He was referred to social services under the government's anti-terror prevent strategy, where teachers report suspicious activity suggesting radicalisation.
The mother of the eight-year-old said social services had marked down the incident as a -"caution-" against her son despite there being no evidence he had been radicalised.
-"It is time for the government to acknowledge that the Prevent strategy is infringing the human rights of children across the UK, said Yasmine Ahmed, director of Rights Watch UK.
-"Children should be encouraged to learn and grow, to express their views and have them challenged, and to value the fundamental rights that allow them to do so,-" she said.
-"A strategy that undermines these rights and alienates vulnerable children is counter-productive and inconsistent with the very 'British values' that the Government is supposedly promoting.
-"It is time for the Prevent strategy to be abolished,-" Ahmed added.
The gaffe is not the first time Prevent has targeted children. In March a four-year-old was quizzed under the strategy after he mispronounced the word -"cucumber-" as -"cooker bomb-".
