UK/Student 16, is disqualified for 'obscene comments' because she criticised halal meat

A GCSE pupil was disqualified after examiners mistook her vegetarian views on Halal meat for Islamophobia.

Abigail Ward, 16, who attends Gildredge House school in Eastbourne, East Sussex, was told by exam board OCR that she had made 'obscene racial comments' while answering her Religious Studies exam in June.

On the subject of halal butchers, the student had written, '...which I find absolutely disgusting.' [link to www.dailymail.co.uk (secure)]