The Council on American-Islamic Relations has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Fort Worth principal who was reassigned after backlash over old social media posts about the Black Lives Matter movement and Sharia law, the organization said in a news release Friday.
Shayma Alzubi is suing the Fort Worth Independent School District for allegedly violating her First Amendment and equal protection rights under the U.S. Constitution, according to the complaint. The 15-page lawsuit was filed Thursday in Tarrant County.
“This is the clearest violation of the First Amendment our organization has seen all year,” CAIR attorney Gadeir Abbas said in the release. “We call on the school district to realize the unlawful path it’s walking down, change course, and return our client to her school.”…