Scottish minister cries discrimination as kid is rejected from nursery over ethnic-sounding name but not everyones convinced
Scotlandâs health minister has reported a nursery school to watchdogs after claiming his daughterâs application was twice refused on the grounds that her name is Muslim. He says he is seeking legal advice.
Late on Sunday evening, Humza Yousaf, Scotlandâs outspoken health minister, took to Twitter to share his âangerâ after claiming that his two-year old daughter was being discriminated against by a local nursery school.
ð§µNot a step my wife & I have taken lightly. After our nursery application for our daughter was refused a 2nd time, my wife asked her White Scottish friend to put in an application for a Child the same age. Within 24hrs of refusing our application my wife's friend's was accepted. https://t.co/lnyME8Ezmi
â" Humza Yousaf (@HumzaYousaf) August 1, 2021He said his family and their white friends even submitted fake applications to test the theory.
âAfter our nursery application for our daughter was refused a 2nd time, my wife asked her White Scottish friend to put in an application for a Child the same age. Within 24hrs of refusing our application my wifeâs friendâs was accepted,â he wrote in the first of many tweets.
Creating their own sting, Yousaf and his wife also made a fake application with the name of a âWhite Scotâ and stated that the application was successful, leading the health minister to deduce that the nursery was discriminating against his daughter because of her Muslim name.
He also said he asked Scottish newspaper the Daily Record to repeat the experiment. Yousaf claimed the paper received the same response.
âWe are fooling ourselves if we believe discrimination doesn't exist in Scotland,â he added.
The health ministerâs tweets caused quite the stir, generating thousands of comments and prompting his name to trend on Twitter.
Many expressed their thanks to the Scottish National Party politician for calling out racism in Scotland, a country which has seen its fair share of religious and ethnic tensions.
Sadly this is prevalent in nurseries, schools, and job applications. We did a similar experiment with job applications, with similar results. We stand with you and your family.
â" David J Quinn (@djquinn_) August 1, 2021âAlso very angry that this happened to you. Glad you have exposed it !â one person wrote on Twitter, while others said they stood with him and his family, having witnessed similar things in the past.
However, many others werenât convinced, especially by the timing, suggesting the allegations were being used by the SNP as a distraction from other bad news.
âThereâs recently been a lot of negative headlines for the SNP...and itâs just a handy coincidence that this story has appeared,â one person wrote, seemingly referencing a shocking report on drug-related deaths released on Friday.
Many others directly mentioned said report, which showed narcotic-related deaths are rising again in Scotland, with far more fatalities than any other European nation.
Also on rt.com âOut of her depthâ: Calls for Sturgeon to resign as new data show Scotland boasts most drugs deaths in Europe, by a country mileâVery timely publication to head off news about record drug deaths etc. Stinks of the SNPâs media engine in full swing,â one chimed in.
Others called Yousafâs move âdesperate,â with many suggesting he was clearly just trying to âdeflectâ attention from his own record and the SNP following recent criticism.
Desperate stuff......really desperate
â" Sir Dickie O'Davis (@howudiddling) August 1, 2021Others were confused by the ministerâs methods, asking if it would have been better to seek a meeting with the nursery before blasting them as racists on Twitter.
The Little Scholars Day Nursery has refuted the ministerâs claims, stating that it has always been open to people from all backgrounds.
âIn addition to our owners being of Asian heritage, across more than a decade we have regularly welcomed both children and staff from a range of different religious, cultural, ethnic and racial backgrounds including two Muslim families currently,â the nursery told the Daily Record.
On Friday, Nicola Sturgeonâs SNP government came under intense scrutiny following the release of the official report on annual drug deaths in Scotland. The figures suggested that one in 3,000 people of all ages in Glasgow had died due to narcotics in 2020.
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