Hashtag goes viral on Twitter in support a 10-year-old Muslim boy

16:33 - 21 January 2016

#IGrewUpInATerroristHouse: Hashtag goes viral on Twitter in support a 10-year-old Muslim boy

The 10-year-old Muslim boy, from Lancashire was suspended from school after he wrote that he lived in a 'terrorist house' instead of a 'terraced house'.

For most schoolchildren, spelling mistakes is normal because when you're encountering new words every day, errors are only natural.

Not in the case a 10-year old Muslim school boy and his family who recently felt the full wrath of the law after his teacher reported a spelling error he made.

Subsequently this error found him and his family probed by the police.

While the school have not yet issued a comment on the matter, twitter have rallied round to support the boy with satire.

See tweets below:

And this tweet just summed it up

Mirror UK reported that legislation has been in place since July obligating teachers to report any suspected extremist behaviour to the authorities, and the boy's innocent mistake comes at a time when the government's anti-extremist measures have been gathering traction.