This Muslim student was misidentified as 'Isis' in her high school yearbook

An inexcusable mistake.
(Image credit: Screenshot/Twitter/BayanZehlif)

Bayan Zehlif, a Muslim student at Los Osos High School in Rancho Cucamonga, California, was surprised to open her yearbook and find herself identified as "Isis Phillips," the Los Angeles Times reports.

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"I am extremely saddened, disgusted, hurt, and embarrassed that the Los Osos High School yearbook was able to get away with this,” Zehlif wrote Friday on Facebook. "Apparently, I am 'Isis' in the yearbook. 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."

Officials asked students to return their yearbooks, and are working on getting Zehlif's name fixed in a new version. The superintendent presiding over Los Osos High School called the Islamic State reference a "regrettable incident."

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.