You know, this is really getting old...

A SYDNEY couple has withdrawn their two children from a public primary school, claiming their 11-year-old son was bullied by Muslim students because he ate a salami sandwich during Ramadan. Andrew Grigoriou said yesterday he complained to the school and to police after his son Antonios was chased and later assaulted by Muslim students after a confrontation over the contents of his lunch, The Daily Telegraph reports.

Antonios, a Year 5 student of Greek-Australian background at Punchbowl Public School in Sydney's southwest, said he and a friend had to be locked inside the library for an hour after being chased by a group of Muslim boys offended by his choice of food while they were fasting. The Grigoriou family said the following exchange took place: Muslim student to Antonios: "Why are you eating ham, it's Ramadan?"

So a non-Muslim child can't eat the salami that his mother packed for him because it might offend a Muslim student? 

Maybe Antonios should have just shoved the sandwich in the Muslim student's face...then again, he would most likely have been suspended.  The Muslim student was suspended (a start) but will charges be filed or will they just make him attend sensitivity training.  Somehow I suspect the latter.