A Muslim civil rights group is suing Fairfax County Public Schools for suspending several students after they created a “kidnapping” video for social media to promote their chapter of the Muslim Student Association (MSA) last fall.
The video was intended to depict a “playful overreaction” in response to a “specific, viral comedy skit circulating nationwide,” according to a filing submitted by the CAIR Legal Defense Fund today (June 4) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria.
The lawsuit alleges that the school system suspended the Muslim students while allowing other student groups who performed similar skits to go unpunished, violating their rights under the First and Fourteenth amendments, as well as several federal civil rights statutes…