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Muslim High Schooler Wrongly Named "Isis" in Yearbook

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    Muslim student who was wrongly named "Isis Phillips" in her yearbook. | Photo: Twitter

Published 9 May 2016
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"The school reached out to me and had the audacity to say that this was a typo. I beg to differ, let's be real," the student reportedly posted.

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A California student wearing a hijab in her high school yearbook picture was given the false name "Isis Phillips", a Muslim advocacy group said on Sunday.

The senior at Los Osos High School in Rancho Cucamonga, California and her parents were "embarrassed after seeing the picture in the yearbook and have suffered a great deal of emotional and psychological distress," according to an emailed statement by the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

"I am extremely saddened, disgusted, hurt and embarrassed that the Los Osos High School yearbook was able to get away with this," she reportedly posted.

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The school's principal has apologized for what she described as a "misprint," and CAIR said its legal team would meet Monday with the family and school officials and seek an investigation of the incident, a spokesman told Reuters. At least 200 yearbooks have been distributed, CAIR said.

"Los Osos High School is taking every step possible to correct and investigate a regrettable misprint discovered in the yearbook. We sincerely apologize," Petrocelli said in a statement on Twitter.

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ISIS is one way to refer to the Islamic State group, the militant group that has seized large swathes of Iraq and Syria and claimed responsibility for bombings in Europe.

A student who worked on the yearbook said the printing of the wrong name was a mistake and that a student named Isis Phillips had transferred from the school earlier in the year, according to a report in the New York Daily News. The student's real name is Bayan Zehlif.

"The school reached out to me and had the audacity to say that this was a typo. I beg to differ, let's be real," said the statement on what appears to be Zehlif's Facebook page.

Reuters was not able to independently verify that the page belongs to the Muslim student, or whether that is her real name.

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