UK: 9-year-old commits suicide after bullying, threats from Muslim students

The Sun frames this exclusively as a racial issue, but "Asian" is the British media's euphemism for Muslim, and it appears from the knife threat that Aaron was targeted by budding young jihadis. And school authorities did nothing; to have acted against the Muslim students would have been "Islamophobic."

"Aaron, 9, ‘bullied to death for being white’: Family blames Asian yobs for suicide," by Andrew Parker and Felix Allen in the Sun, February 23 (thanks to all who sent this in):

THE devastated family of a nine-year-old boy who hanged himself say he took his life after racist taunts by Asian bullies.
Aaron Dugmore — thought to be one of Britain’s youngest suicides after bullying — was found in his bedroom after months of jibes at school, they claim.

His family say that Aaron was threatened with a plastic KNIFE by one Asian pupil — who warned him: “Next time it will be a real one.”

But despite complaints to the school, where 75 per cent of pupils come from ethnic backgrounds, they claim nothing was done to stop the bullying.

Heartbroken mum Kelly-Marie Dugmore is convinced the taunts led to her son killing himself two weeks ago. She sobbed: “We are not racist people. Aaron got on with all the children at his last school, and for him to have been bullied because of the colour of his skin makes me feel sick to my stomach.”

Aaron joined Erdington Hall primary in Birmingham last September after the family moved nearby. But Kelly-Marie, 30, and stepdad Paul Jones, 43, noticed a change in him from his first day.

Paul said: “He became argumentative with his brothers and sisters, which wasn’t like him at all. Eventually he told us that he was being bullied by a group of Asian children at school and had to hide from them in the playground at lunchtime. He said one kid even said to him, ‘My dad says all the white people should be dead’.”

Kelly-Marie claimed: “He was even threatened with a plastic knife by one boy. When Aaron stuck up for himself he said it’d be a real one next time.

“I went to see head Martin Collin a few times, but he only said, ‘You didn’t have to come to this school, you chose to come here’.”

A spokesman for Erdington Hall, labelled unsatisfactory by Ofsted, said Aaron had “settled in quickly”. West Midlands Police are investigating the causes of Aaron’s death.

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Paul Hoffman | February 24, 2013 4:13 PM | Reply

"West Midlands Police are investigating the causes of Aaron’s death".

Here is a clue for those detectives, who are in hot pursuit of solving this mystery.

A book called the Quran, might have something to do with it.

Just a guess.

Sherlock Holmes would take this and run...

Western Canadian | February 24, 2013 4:14 PM | Reply

Utterly disgraceful. A child murdered by bullying, and the 'authorities' miserable cowardice sanctioned it, before, during and after...

I once heard it suggested, that an external threat would be needed to bring the human race together... specifically, a threat of an ET invasion, with a foe so alien that NOTHING of their ideology would be compatible with the human race. While I would reject the basic premise of how to bring us all together, or if it is even desirable, it should be obvious to all of us:

The aliens have landed, they are incompatible with human decency and life, and we had better join together and defeat them, utterly and totally. And permanently.

You can all guess who the invaders are, I trust.

Salah | February 24, 2013 4:19 PM | Reply

That's weird. I thought children are venerated in Islam!!!

http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2012/03/grandpa-muhammad.html

Western Canadian | February 24, 2013 4:25 PM | Reply

No, that would be eviscerated.

gravenimage | February 24, 2013 4:27 PM | Reply

Appalling. And there will likely be many more.

Here's the clueless official response from Erdington Hall Primary School:

The teachers, support staff and Governors of Erdington Hall are deeply saddened by the news that one of our pupils, Aaron, died on Tuesday this week. Our thoughts and prayers are with Aaron's family at this difficult time. [You'd think Aaron died in a tragic traffic accident or something—not that he had been *hounded* to his death by Muslim students at the same school—GI]

We have spoken to all of our junior children today and shared this tragic news with them.

We have explained to the children that there are some things that they can do at this time if they feel upset:

- Tell people what helps me feel better and keeps me feeling safe.

- Ask for support and help whenever I need it. [Will this include help for other Infidel children threatened by Muslims? Probably not...]

- Ask questions about what happened even if people get upset about it. I need the facts to help me understand, and talking about it will help. [Does that mean it will be OK to ask about the role of bullying Muslim supremacist students in this boy's death? Or would that "upset" people just a bit too much?]

- Tell an adult if I feel helpless and hopeless about the future. They can talk to me about what might help.

- Ask for whatever extra help I may need in school. Talk to my teachers about my hopes for the future.

- Laugh and have fun without feeling guilty or bad about it. This does not mean I am 'over it', have 'forgotten' or 'couldn't care'. [What if some of these kids are the same Muslims who bullied Aaron? What if some of them not only don't care about his death, but are specifically laughing about that?]

http://www.erdhall.bham.sch.uk/

Over all, it never occurs to the school staff that some of their own students may well be celebrating Aaron's death—and using it to threaten other Infidel kids.

It either hasn't occurred to them—or else it has, but is too taboo for them to mention, despite the ongoing threat to other Infidel kids there.

duh_swami | February 24, 2013 6:01 PM | Reply

They learn how to act like that at home...

PJG | February 24, 2013 6:16 PM | Reply

All schools, certainly in Australia, have "anti-bullying programmes". I suspect the "programmes" exempt Muslims, especially as our governments are telling us in no uncertain terms that we must submit humbly to Islamic bullying.
And we are supposed to submit to being hounded to death. After all, we "choose" to live in proximity to them.

exposesithlords | February 24, 2013 6:43 PM | Reply

what sort of response is it to say to the parents of a bullied boy that they choose to send him to the school?

whatever school you send a child to you expect the school to protect said child.

I note that when moslems choose to go to schools that is not a reason to deny them their demands that follow for a prayer room, halal food, no mixed swimming lessons and so on. so for the head to use the choice arguement in this case is even more offensive to people of civilization.

I hope this 9 year old doesn't end up in hell because that would mean being surrounded by moslems for eternity

epistemology | February 24, 2013 7:11 PM | Reply

It's appalling. This poor little boy killed himself because he was bullied and saw no other issue. I can imagine he wasn't only bullied because of his white skin but because of his Jewish name, too. Muzzies hate Jews.

It's also appalling to call these perps "Asians". That's insulting all the peaceful Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Thai, Vietnamese people etc. We've got to call a spade a spade. The criminals are muzzies. Period. And Western converts to Islam are the worst. In Germany they call these criminals southerners, that's insulting all Italians, Spaniards, other southern Europeans, and people from southern countries in general.

WE have to keep in mind Islam is the enemy, adherents to the religion of peace(TM) are the perps and we've got to fight against that plague.

Kinana of Khaybar | February 24, 2013 8:17 PM | Reply

Not surprisingly, the mainstream media in the U.K. has not reported this story. The only major British "news" sources covering this are the popular tabloids the Daily Mail and the Sun, from what I can see thus far. This tactic of the mainstream media gives the illusion that the story is just sensationalist hype, even though it is all too real.

The British schools today show us what the future will be like for non-Muslims as adults.

Kinana of Khaybar | February 24, 2013 8:22 PM | Reply

..and I am of the view that many in the British non-Muslim adult population, including teachers, are responsible indirectly for this boy's suicide, for teaching non-Muslim kids a suicidal attitude instead of teaching appropriate ways of self-defense and of fighting back.

Kinana of Khaybar replied to comment from Kinana of Khaybar | February 24, 2013 9:10 PM | Reply

I've just searched every major mainstream (not tabloid) media news source in the U.K., and none have written anything on this story. At least one regional paper (online) in the U.K. has mentioned the incident, but they only mention that the boy was bullied; they say nothing of the allegations about the anti-white racist aspect or that the bullies were Muslims.

In fact, news media in far-flung places such as Nigeria, Kenya, and Zimbabwe (of all places) have picked up and republished this story, apparently based on a couple of the British tabloids (The Sun, and the Daily Mail), whilst the BBC, The Guardian, et al., have refused to even mention the incident at all.

Kinana of Khaybar replied to comment from Kinana of Khaybar | February 24, 2013 9:14 PM | Reply

correction: "...and none [has]..."

Davegreybeard | February 24, 2013 10:02 PM | Reply

Well, look right here in the good ole U S of A at the recent crusade against Whiteness. The teaching in our universities and high schools that it is unfair to be White.

Almost seems like a preparatory for dihimitude.

Sickening.

Acts17 | February 25, 2013 12:10 AM | Reply

Government statistics show that in the Aston district of Birmingham, Pakistanis are the largest ethnic group, and Islam is the most common religion:

http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2013/02/nine-year-old-british-student-aaron.html

Always On Watch | February 25, 2013 10:05 AM | Reply

Had a Muslim kid been tormented by infidels to the point of committing suicide, that story would be all over the media. 24/7 for weeks!

Always On Watch replied to comment from gravenimage | February 25, 2013 10:06 AM | Reply

Gravenimage,
I wonder if there are already more such cases -- or similar cases not ending so horribly -- and we're just not hearing about them. The agenda on the part of the media is Islamophila.

Pam M replied to comment from Paul Hoffman | February 25, 2013 11:37 AM | Reply

Sherlock Holmes might well run with the clue of the Quran, but the West Midlands Police are far more likely to run away from it. Their record of subservient dhimmitude is probably worse than any other poice force in Britain.

I'd put money on them totally failing to make any connection between this case and Islam.

Jan replied to comment from Pam M | February 26, 2013 10:58 AM | Reply

''I'd put money on them totally failing to make any connection between this case and Islam.''

They'll make the connection all right, they just won't mention it. It might damage their 'careers'.

Just like the muslim paedophile gangs in Rochdale were never mentioned, until the evidence got too much to contain.

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