If you were expecting “Cool carrot, Aliya! Want to bring it to the White House?,” you would be disappointed. This story, however, is indeed strongly reminiscent of that of Ahmed Mohamed, the Muslim teen who became the darling of the political and media elites and got invited to the White House after he was arrested for bringing a clock that looked like a bomb to school.
When that story first broke, I wrote: “The key question here is, would Ahmed Mohamed have been arrested if he had been a non-Muslim student and had brought the same contraption to school? And the answer is without any doubt yes, he would have been.” This story is proof. If Aliya Nigro had been a Muslim, would she be facing assault charges for accidentally hitting her French teacher on the forehead with a carrot under two inches long? Almost certainly not: if she had been punished at all, she would by now be rivaling Ahmed Mohamed himself as the new poster child for “Islamophobia,” and would be lauded on talk shows as being a courageous young Muslim bearing up courageously under the “Islamophobic” onslaught.
“Teen faces assault charges for throwing carrot at teacher,” by Jason Grant, New York Post, October 23, 2015:
The weapon, a baby carrot, was just under 2 inches long.
A 13-year-old Virginia girl is facing juvenile assault-and-battery charges after tossing a baby carrot into the forehead of her ex-teacher as a school prank, according to school records and the girl.
Now 8th grader Aliya Nigro, of Henrico County, Va., is trying to lawyer up as she and her mother worry sick about whether she’ll land in a juvenile pokey – or get a record. An Honor Roll student at George Moody Middle School near Richmond, Nigro has also been suspended since the day after her ill-advised veggie toss on Sept. 21.
And her grandmother says Aliya has mostly holed up since the incident – embarrassed, afraid to return to the school and not wanting to spend much time with friends.
“I was actually having a pretty decent day,” Aliya told The Post about the terrible carrot-prank afternoon. “I was in the hall and saw my French teacher who I had last year. It looked like she was holding books or papers. I figured if I got the carrot near her or on the papers, it would have been funny for her to look down sand see it.”
Next thing she knew, though, Aliya said, an assistant principal yanked from Art class and told her the veggie-projectile stunt had been caught on camera.
“When I found out the carrot hit her in the forehead, I thought, ‘Wow,’” Aliya said of the meeting with the principal, adding that was fond [of] her old French teacher and thought they’d gotten along well. “I would have happily apologized to her and written a note and all of that.”
But she was suspended and soon charged with assault and battery with a weapon, she said.
A call to the Henrico County school district’s disciplinary board was not returned Friday. The school system has had no comment when asked by local media about the incident.
“I don’t even know how to combat the stupidity,” Karrie May, Aliya’s mother, told WTRV Channel 6 in Richmond this week. “I don’t understand this….. I can see a couple of days in school detention or even a couple days’ out-of-school suspension. But this goes way beyond that.”
Karrie May also told WRTV that the school-system disciplinary board recently sent her a letter trying to get Aliya to admit guilt. Mother and daughter declined.
“I think it is extrme to consider even the carrot a weapon,” Brenda May, Aliya’s grandmother, told The Post Friday. “A criminal charge with a weapon – I can [sic] even conceive it.”…

IQ al Rassooli says
The INSANITY that is exhibited by most American leaders in Academia, Clergy, Politicians & Media is so obscene that it would have been laughable under sane conditions
If a 2″ carrot is an assault weapon then those so called Palestinians who attack Israelis with stones, slingshots & knives should be considered Attempted Premeditated MURDER to be shot on sight!
As I have repeatedly asserted: the fault resides first and foremost with “We, the PEOPLE” who are tolerating so many abuses of Justice, Morality & Freedom by the leaders they elected and remain SILENT. The silence of those who are either brain dead or comatose.
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
EYESOPEN says
Absolutely agree. Stupid stunt. Get a lecture and/or detention. Write an apology to the teacher. That should have been the end of it.
Kepha says
As a teacher who would not tolerate such an action at all, I agree with EYESOPEN. Maybe we should also bring back that paddle that we used to call the “board of education”.
Dr. Divinity says
Yes Kepha…….Therein lies the problem….. No paddle at home and no paddle at school……Of course I am not condoning child beatings………….but discipline….YES!!!!! This is where our world has fallen into the cracks….No family unit no father at home No discipline at home or school… I felt the sting of the switch at home and at school and It made a better person of me
Pavelina says
Ah — the paddle! I remember it well. And the razor strap that hung on the kitchen door at home. But somehow most of us grew up to be responsible law-abiding citizens who loved our parents.
Jay Boo says
Kepha, Dr. Divinity and Pavelina
All this flogging talk praising of the paddle with hints of B&D subtext is reminding me of that old Pat Boone studded leather fiasco.
Y’all beginning to worry me just a tad.
Angemon says
What if it were a regular carrot? 25 to life with no chance of parole?
Katnis says
I heard that we will no longer be able to bring carrots onto planes. They will be confiscated at security checkpoints.
Tom W Harris says
When carrots are outlawed, only outlaws will have carrots.
Isabellathecrusader says
At least she doesn’t have to move to Qatar.
Tom W Harris says
Oops…I didn’t see Beagle’s comment below before I posted that.
A delete button would be nice.
Kepha says
HEY! I LIKE raw baby carrots as snack food (and I like carrots and other root vegetables cooked)!
No Fear says
I know a dog who got hit with a baby carrot. He looked at it and then ate it.
Katnis says
Good for the dog. He’s getting his Vitamin A.
EYESOPEN says
And he has more common sense than 90% of the idiots running the U.S. Dept. Of [Mis]Education’s indoctrination centers.
Arthur says
Let’s teach all our children that forgiveness is not part of our culture anymore–that should make for a much improved society, no?
CARROTS ARE THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL!!
Westman says
High-level Education Administrators doing what they do best; wasting the taxpayer’s money. Perhaps they could have a general assembly and explain carrot-gate to the students. That would be a super-efficient way to throw away more tax dollars without any redeeming benefit.
jewdog says
Only Muslims get carrots; non-Muslims get sticks.
Beagle says
“…charged with assault and battery with a weapon…”
— —
The prosecuter should have tossed this case when it hit his or her desk. I have no idea what is going on here, but I suspect nefarious anti-ginger racism. That makes more sense than the charges.
In the history of humanity, has a thrown carrot stick ever caused an injury?
If carrots are outlawed, only outlaws will have carrots.
From my cold, dead, beta carotene-stained hands.
EYESOPEN says
{;o)
somehistory says
Society has been turned up-side-down. Her mom should just home school her from this point forward.
A good lawyer should be able to argue lack of intent to injure.
Did it injure? What has happened to prosecutorial discretion? Do they not have more than enough real cases to take to trial? If there was no intent to cause injury, and no injury occurred, then where is the case? Hopefully, if there is a trial for this child, the jury will have more sense than the school and the prosecutor.
And if she had been moslim, she would be given honors and told that everyone should wear a scarf to class and throw vegetables at the French teacher. And sarsour could teach her how to pass go and collect hundreds of thousands from the citizens and always have a get-out-of- jail-free card.
Shmooviyet says
Was this carrot washed and peeled? Might have been even more dangerous with its skin intact!
Imagine the punishment for starting a food-fight at this school– wow.
BRAVO to both of them for refusing to ‘admit guilt’.
RCCA says
If she were a Muslim she’d be lauded as a future all star pitcher and invited to meet the Yankees, the Mets, visit Cooperstown, NY and/or invited to play darts with the President. Anything less would be racist, Islamophobic, and sexist!
RCCA says
BTW, just to underline the absurdity of the laudations Ahmed received for his scientific prowess: The 30 most impressive science fair projects in the country http://www.aol.com/article/2015/10/13/the-30-most-impressive-science-fair-projects-in-the-country/21248792/
Westman says
Great article. The Heinz 57 variety nation still creates some young people with bright futures for both themselves and the nation. Ten years ago, if you wanted to have American dream you could find it in Denmark. How things have changed.
Mo says
Ban carrots!
Linde Barrera says
This student is a spoiled brat, (and an honor student???) Her mom and grandmother are protecting her dysfunction. The punishment is also dysfunctional because it is too severe. It isn’t right to generalize, but certain personnel in our public school system are dysfunctional as well! For discipline, I would give this student independent lunch for a month, and make her write an essay on why what she did was wrong, and focus on how she will act in the future when she sees her former or current teachers in the hallway or anywhere else.
Lord Valve says
Obviously an Obama voter…
Shmooviyet says
If she’s a ‘spoiled brat’ ( why? ), what are students who beat bloody their teachers or classmates?
What should her essay on proper behaviour say, regarding her future reactions?
The admin bent way backward– and if the teacher used her sense she’d realize the girl had no intention to hurt her. Poor choice of vegetable if she meant to cause injury.
Now if she’d thrown a big Idaho baker…
BC says
As I have said before you Americans love to pour scorn on Europe. Stones and glass houses comes to mind.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
The steep and apparently irreversible decline of Europe also comes to mind. We Americans in here see EUrabia as a dire warning, and know that we are on the same course only maybe a decade or so behind, so the glasses houses thing is a mistaken criticism.
Budvarakbar says
“so the glasses houses thing is a mistaken criticism.”
But accurate – since no one seems to be ACTIVELY cleaning up our own backyard!
duh_swami says
When I wart to school I was assaulted by teachers on numerous occasion.
I have been punched in the stomach, hit across the rear and lower back with a board, and was once thrown into a bank of locker,…Some of this was done in front of the class a a lesson to them, and public humiliation for me. No one was ever arrested…They called it ‘;character development”..so when they punch me in the gut, or hit me with the ‘Bord of education”, it’s for my own good….
I susb’t see that then, but I do now…
Budvarakbar says
You musta been grown into a pretty fart smeller
“I susb’t see that then, but I do now…”
What the hell is that supposed to mean?
duh_swami says
It means I got fat fingers and make a lot of typo’s…what’s your excuse?
Mirren10 says
Duh-swami, as a retired teacher, I think that’s **appalling**. I remember when I first qualified, seeing a teacher hit a child on the back of the head with an exercise book, and that was bad enough.
I do think *official* corporal punishment has a place in schools, ( got the tawse myself, when a little girl in Scotland) but what you describe is vicious assault.
However, the pendulum has now not only swung back too far, but is rotating in insane circles. Just before I retired, I stopped a vicious cat fight between two girls, and the mother of one of them tried to get me charged with assault; luckily the union had my back, so nothing came of it.
This case is utterly insane, however, and the teacher involved is a wicked fool, The child should have been severely reprimanded, given detention, perhaps suspended for a few days, and that, in a sane world, would have been the end of it.
But we are no longer living in a sane world.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
So a kid who deliberately provokes his own arrest by bringing in a fake invention packaged like a bomb is hailed as a victim hero, while a kid who pulls a normal stupid middle school stunt gets criminal charges.
Notice that she’s an Infidel and a white person, while Clock Boy is a Moslem black.
Mirren10 says
”Notice that she’s an Infidel and a white person, while Clock Boy is a Moslem black.”
Indeed.
Mirren10 says
All American commenters should be contacting this school, and making their feelings known.
I can’t see an email address, but there is a phone and fax number.
http://schools.henrico.k12.va.us/moody/
FoJ says
This is a joke, right? A kids prank gets charges for a carrot? The teacher took this WAY too far…. Common sense has left the building….
Budvarakbar says
Probably not the teacher – but the candy-a$$ed administrators — paranoid as hell — too many women are in these admin positions — totally inable to make rational decisions – their ascendency has resulted in only metrosexual wimps masquerading as males to also be in the admin positions — exact opposite of when I was in school > 50-60 years ago!!! — Back then an incident such as this would most likely NEVER occur and if it did occur – would have been immediately resolved and 99% of the people in the school would never had known about it – let alone the whole dam world!
mach37 says
That sounds a tad bit misogynistic, Bud; but I agree with you. In this age of feminism women are lashing out at men in every possible way, as if trying to get payback for thousands of years of discrimination. Somehow that doesn’t seem Christian to me. But then the schools are not allowing Christian behavior these days, so we can expect more of these “assaults” on civilized reactions to the most minor of offenses.
mach37 says
Oops, I over-reacted, myself – this particular assault charge apparently did not involve any males. My apologies. Too bad there is no provision for editing my previous comments.
wallace says
First they came for my carrots, and i done nothing, then they came for my …..
BW022 says
The moment I started reading this story, I immediately thought it was a Monty Python skit gone wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piWCBOsJr-w
The teachers needs to watch the videos on how to defend themselves against bananas.
mach37 says
Doesn’t a charge of “assault” mean attack with something that can cause harm to a person? n fact, doesn’t a charge of assault require that harm or other physical damage has resulted from the actions of the perpetrator? Who was actually harmed in this incident?
Another consideration: was the assault charge made by the teacher who was struck by the carrot? Or was the charged filed by another party, such as someone watching a replay of the video? There seems to be a rash of incidents in which charges are being filed by persons other than the one supposedly harmed.
steve says
Darn! All she had to do was say she was rightfully angry and protesting that there weren’t enough islamist assignments in class and she’d be meeting o’dumber tomorrow as an example of national dhimmitude.
Peggy says
Throwing anything at a teacher is disrespectful even if you get along with that teacher but it’s not grounds for prosecution.
The only reaction I would expect from the teacher is a sermon on respecting teachers. That carrot could have ended up hitting her eye and probably causing some damager there and it was irresponsible of her to throw it but the teacher really took it too far.
Dacritic says
Aliya, are you Christian? Let’s start a Christianophobia campaign! LOL.
Ehem…seriously now…
1. You would never get anything close to such a campaign for the Christians under this Muslim president. Nor would you, I suspect, under Hillary.
2. There is a good reason why there is no Christianophobia or Buddhist-phobia, but only Islamophobia.
Chuckster says
Reminds me of an old Monty Python sketch, What to do if your ever attacked by a banana: